High profile lesbian weddings!

[Gurm]

Well, it's in the news - Melissa Etheridge is engaged again.

Well, not really engaged, since you can't actually MARRY another woman, at least not in most states. But you know what I mean.

Let's just hope that this time her partner doesn't "go straight" again on her after a couple years.

I find it amusing (to say the least) that there seems to be a trend in Hollywood... butch lesbian types keep losing their "spouses" to ... well ... guys.

Take Ellen Degeneres and Anne Heche. Now, Annie has been around. They hook up, they're all happy. I can understand it - Ellen is a pretty good looker... for a guy.

But pretty soon, Anne starts flirting with guys, and then one day BAM! she's out the door and in the space of 6 months shacks up with a half dozen guys, finally marrying one of them. Hot Damn!

Then you get Melissa Etheridge. She swipes Lou Diamond Philips' wife (ALWAYS a bad idea to swipe some guy's wife, honestly). They have a kid together. Well, let's be honest... Julie Cypher has David Crosby's kid. And then one day Julie says "you know, I like guys" and bails out. Oops! I wonder if Lou will have her back?

I'm waiting for news on Rosie's impending breakup, except that both she AND her "spouse" seem pretty butch, so it might work out.

Comments and thoughts on this? Despite my glibness and sarcasm, I'm not opposed to homosexuals in any way. I just find it interesting that there seems to be this trend of lesbian celebrities "turning" previously straight celebrity types who then "revert" in just a short time.

- Gurm

[az]

I think some people just don't know if they're straight or gay (does one say gay when one means lesbians, too? And is "gay" an erm... "unfriendly" word?) or bi, and many celebrities think "being lesbian is in", so they live out their fantasies/insecurities - with all the world knowing, of course. They then decide it's not their thing, and are straight again. Or they are just bi, and the women they've been with weren't the right ones for them (hollywood marriages tend to be quite short anyway, with a few exceptions).

Or maybe they just live out their curiosity, and then learn they're straight.

AZ

[Gurm]

I tend to agree with you, Az.

I think that a lot more of the population is bisexual than we would care to admit...

In other times with more open societies there was a predominance towards bisexuality and/or homosexuality. Take ancient Rome and Greece for example.

But yes, I think that these celebrity women flirt with the idea of bisexuality or lesbianism, and sadly they end up involved in this high-profile lesbian relationship. Then when the novelty wears off and/or the relationship starts to turn sour, they decide that they really kinda miss... at the risk of being crass... a nice stiff one now and again.

*shrug*

Reportedly this particular time around, Etheridge's gal-pal is a tried-and-true lesbian as opposed to a "borrowed bisexual", so maybe it'll work out.

Then again, part of me thinks that sleeping with her or Ellen Degeneres would make ANYONE prefer men.

- Gurm

[GNEP]

Yup. Sexuality is, IMHO, a sliding scale. Some of us are more at the straight end, some at the bent end... and some somewhere in the middle. (maybe it's more a "sliding walking-stick" than "scale" then...).

But here I think the song "dedicated follower of fashion" comes to mind

[Maggi]

ever thought about the possibility that it wasn't love in first place, but rather an oppurtunity to "go out with a celebrity" ???

[Gurm]

Nah. These other people are celebrities in their own rights. Anne Heche is a decent actress, with no shortage of gigs in tinseltown. Julie Cypher made a decent name for herself, not just as "the wife of Lou Diamond Philips" or "the Significant Other of Melissa Etheridge".

*shrug*

- Gurm

[Maggi]

thanx Gurm, those other names didn'T sound familiar to me and hence my presumption ...

[SpiralDragon]

to be honest ... i am all out of words at the moment..... to tierd to realy post something worthwile ... so this apology.... no i am NOT gay

[KvHagedorn]

You certainly spend a lot of time telling us that you are not gay, Spiral.

[Technoid]

hehe, in a deleted scene from "back to the future",
Doc brown says
"Whats wrong with being GAY???"

[KRSESQ]

"Gay" used to mean simply, "filled with, expressing,inclined to, joy and lively feeling; merry, light-hearted, cheerful; conveying sense of gaiety and liveliness."

You used to be able to call someone "gay" and simply mean he or she was happy and carefree. Now you don't dare say it unless you know. Its been appropriated by a political/social movement.

Dammit, I want the word "Gay" back!

Kevin

[az]

Who invented the current usage of the word gay anyway? The homosexuals or homophobics? And in which context is it used more often now, friendly to homosexuals, or unfriendly?

AZ

[KvHagedorn]

Actually it is now the common teen slang word for umm.. what's the closest meaning now? Lame? That's how it is most commonly used now.

It was adopted by gays themselves to "describe their outlook", I think.

What's sad now is there are people stuck with the word "Gay" as a surname. If you watch the movie "Midway", you will see a US navy officer who observed the whole battle while stuck in the ocean in a life vest. His name is Ensign George Gay.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-g/g-gay.htm

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Off topic

hmm... the topics on MURC used to be...

1) Bananas
2) BBQ
3) Beer

now its...

1) Gay
2) Lesbian
3) Communist

[KvHagedorn]

You forgot Cheese.. actually the cheese has never gone out of the MURC.