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The L Word’s Guinevere Turner at Opening Night Party of LGBTQ Cinema - San Francisco April 15, 2008

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Guinevere Turner
‘In a gala evening celebrating the achievements of women filmmakers
specializing in lesbian-gay-bisexual-transperson-queer cinema, the 2007 San
Francisco Women’s Film Festival fills up 12 Galaxies with outstanding
films, Q&As with directors, dancing, catering from High Art Catering and
a live DJ. Special guest Guinevere Turner has appeared in films “Go
Fish,” “Chasing Amy,” “Dogma” and more, and co-wrote “American Psycho,”
“The Notorious Bettie Page,” and the television series, “The L Word.”‘ - SF Women’s Film Fest Blog

Sigh….Guinevere Turner. She is one of my heroes in queer filmmaking and acting. And she’s beautiful. She did an artist talk this past Saturday at the SF LGBT center and shared tidbits about her newest project; a TV series from writer-director Amber Sharp that captures the lives of several people in a Los Angeles apartment complex. Kinda sounds like Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City or Beverly Hills 90210. But now they’re all hella gay! Yay.

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This is a still from her newest short film Hung. I wanted to share the trailer for her other short film Hummer with you as well. But I can’t seem to find trailers for them. Excuse me, Guinevere Turner, I met you at the Lexington Club this last year and I was hoping you would put up some of the trailers for your short films on youtube so I can blog about how amazing you are. I was the girl with the big curly fro, thanks. I’ll be looking out for them.

 
 

Lynne T. from Lesbians on Ecstasy DJ’s Hot Pants - San Francisco April 12, 2008

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Lesbians on Ecstasy DJ, originally uploaded by shaevoyuer.

When I asked Chelsea Starr how she would describe her club Hot Pants in one sentence, she didn’t even use the whole sentence. “Sexy,” she says. Hot Situation Travel partied at Hot Pants last night with Chelsea Starr, Lynne T. from Lesbians on Ecstasy, DJ Cari Campbell, and danced it up with Jenna Riot. I’m not going to give away too much - you’ll have to wait to for the video to come out. But I will drop one little secret I found out in our interview with Chelsea - Starr is not really her last name. But there’s a lot more to it than that.

Hot Pants - Cat Club SF

 

 
 

One More Lesbian - New Lez Media website and the queer film Spiderlilies from Taiwan April 9, 2008

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In San Francisco, the Lesbian filmmaker community is quite small. We all know everyone. Which is not true about the queer community in general. This last week I’ve been out and about and I’ve seen so many cute new faces. There was this one couple in a restaurant the other day that rode up together on a motorcycle looking so hot. I wanted to walk over to their table and ask, “where did you come from?” I held back though.

One of my queer filmmaker friends heard through the grapevine about this new website for lesbian and queer media called One More Lesbian. I checked it out and give it my thumbs up. I might call it a lesbian media filtering site or a collection agency or your one stop shop to all the queer media online today. It’s user run primarily, where you the user embed a lesbian/queer video into one of their four categories being film, TV, music video, and vlog that you dig up from video hosting companies out there today like youtube etc. There’s only one video in the vlog category - here’s your chance for your 15 minutes of fame!

One of my favorite films this year, Spiderlilies, was highlighted on the sight in the “Most popular videos” section. “Behind Every Tattoo, There’s A Secret,” might be the tag line. It’s a coming of age story primarily, with sexuality, tattoos, webcamming, undercover cops, and it offers an interesting cultural lens of Taiwan.

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Juno the movie - Was I the only one who wondered about the pro-life message of the film? April 7, 2008

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I’m flying back from New York on an airline that offers me movies right in front of my face for five dollars. I’m so excited to see Juno and see what this Ellen Page fiasco is all about, never mind to help me endure an 8 hour plane sit. I’m immediately charmed and in love with Juno; I’m sure if I saw this when I was 16 I would have a new star crush even though she’s pregnant half the film. Not that being pregnant isn’t beautiful and all that jazz, but I could imagine it might be hard to hold onto a 16 year old lesbo crush when the crush is pregnant. Although, maybe a 16 year old lesbo and a 16 year old pregnant girl have a lot in common; I might have identified with how she is othered, feels different, and is isolated. A reviewer at www.slashfilm.com describes Juno as “more about the girl’s journey to find herself,”and I can agree with that. He feels women might relate to it better than other films tackling similar themes. And Micheal Cera’s legs are really cute in the short yellow shorts. He is playing the same character as in the TV series Arrested Development. I don’t mind though, it works for both.

Even though I’m charmed, I still feel like some pro-life messages are being thrown our way. It is almost the most comedic part of the film when her classmate just happens to be demonstrating in front of the clinic all by herself, “Your baby has fingernails already.” Then she’s in the clinic with people that ‘are not of her usual surroundings’ making it look like abortions are for freaks, poor people, scum of the earth types, and maybe I saw some people of color? Am I painting the right picture here? Help me out. Are there people with an agenda that funded this film? Hmmm.

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BTW Diablo Cody is an amazing writer. Pant pant pant. Read about her rise to success from office job, to stripper, to writing a blog, to writing a book, to writing her first screen play in this NY Times article.

 
 

New Video sharing site Dailymotion has a LGBT channel ie. Daniela Sea would like gay marriage rights April 4, 2008

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I never really paid attention to who Daniella Sea was dating, but today while checking out this new video sharing site Dailymotion I watched a Logo video about Daniella Sea’s coming out story. I learned she has a gay dad, has been dating Bitch (of the band Bitch and Animal) for 4.5 years, and would like the right to marry Bitch if that is something they decide down the line. And this was on the cable channel Logo? Yes.
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Logo is considered “Official content” on Dailymotion’s site, while there is also viewer created content I think they call “Creative Content.” One “Creative” series that stood out is a production group from LA called 3waytv. It’s campy LA lesbians doing their comedic thang with Elizabeth Keener and other special guests. They claim to be the ‘hottest lesbian comedy not on TV!’ But if you read a bit into their site, they would love to get picked up by Logo and ask the viewers to write letters of support.
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The most interesting part of Dailymotion is that they are the first video sharing site that has a themed LGBT channel; I was also impressed by the Latino channel and raised my eyebrows at the college channel. I think they are based in Paris, France too which is peculiar. Is that why they are so conscious of the ‘other?’ They at least have an office there - that I’m sure of.

P.s. The embed feature wasn’t working for me.  And so for eye candy, check out this Bright Eyes music video that features Daniela Sea and Bitch.  (Bitch’s musical partner Animal emailed me once about a job - wouldn’t you like to know what for…)

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