You can see the video below where Patti and her staff discuss the upcoming experience and dish about setting up single millionaires who are gay and lesbian.

Do you agree with what Patti Stanger had to say or do you disagree?

Perez Hilton was on CNN’s Larry King last night debating conservative talk radio host Dennis Prager about gay marriage.

It was a great debate with no side giving any sign of budging on the issue. Both men did well in keeping their cool, and not letting the debate turn ugly as most debates about gay marriage are prone to do, although it did get intense. I was especially proud of Perez Hilton for standing his ground on the fact that proponents of gay marriage are only asking for equality.

Here’s the video:

I can see where Dennis Prager could be convinced of his argument that men and women are fundamentally different, and that is why marriage is currently reserved just for them.

However, I think his argument overlooks the fact that reserving a basic fundamental right for one group and not another is unconstitutional. Following Prager’s line of thinking, marriage would be a separate but equal institution to civil unions, and fundamentally he is right. But constitutionally speaking offering any citizen a separate set of rights, even if they are “equal” on paper, is not true equality.

Dennis Prager’s main arguments stemming around children and family are really getting old as well.

Not everyone who gets married wants to have a family. In addition, not everyone is able to have a family. Marriage is a way to legally recognize your relationship, and is a great thing to do if you are considering raising children in the relationship. Your rights and responsibilities as a spouse and/or parent shouldn’t depend on whether you are gay or straight or whether you have/want children; your rights shouldn’t depend on anything – rights are rights.

Also consider when it comes to children that it is nobody’s business how those children were created as long as they have a loving and stable home environment.

Nobody goes around asking straight parents their whole conception story. When are anti-gays going to understand that we understand that it takes a man and a woman to make a baby. However, the parental relationship that particular man and woman have, just like in a hetero relationship, is none of your business. What we can agree on, is that the most important thing here is protecting our children. However, what those who are against gay marriage don’t get, is that they are keeping rights from our children too. What makes my children deserve any less in protections than their children?

I’d like to see Dennis Prager’s answer to that question.

And I would love to see him debate Perez Hilton again and give Perez some serious talk time to tell him like it really is.

Anyhow, good job Perez – way to stand up for the community and hold your own on the split-screen!

Julie Phineas is a work at home mom of 2 who lives in Southern California. You can find out more about her online by visiting her website at www.juliephineas.com.

Now Ms DeGeneres does not give up easily earlier this year she announced that it was her goal to get on the cover of O magazine! Last year her goal was to get actor George Clooney in “George watch 08″ when she did not however get him in 2008 She came back in 09 fighting! with a new slogan “George is mine in 09″ After catching George she went onto trying to get on O magazine.

Now that her task is complete I wonder what Ms. DeGeneres will be seen doing next?

Kayla Tate is a 19 year old high school graduate looking to attend Winnipeg Technical for Carpentry. Kayla had a 19 year old mid-life crisis and decided that her voice needs to be heard, so she writes to help the LGBT community.

The show focuses on Ted, the head of Research and Development at Veridian Dynamics. Veridian Dynamics is a large multinational corporation that loves a good profit without the morals. He is a single parent with a 7 year old daughter, Rose. When he’s at work, he watches over two scientists named Lem and Phil and a head tester named Linda, who he has very deep intimate romantic feelings for. Veronica, played by Portia is an emotionless, bold woman with no conscience and the boss of Ted, who she once had an affair with. Everything goes wrong when the company chronically freezes Phil the researcher. He begins to sit down and wonder about the moral of his company and what it’s all about.

The first episode of the new series was a hit!

Critics claim it was like watching “30 Rock” with some touches of absurdity from “Arrested Development.” In my opinion, this show was rather hilarious. It’s something different than what’s out there already and a comedy like no other. Sure, it’s another office-based show, but atleast this one’s funny. I guess we can all thank the director for that. I mean do we really need another reality show out there or a TV series that lacks in all aspects? This show is a must watch!!

“Better off Ted” ABC Wednesdays (8:30 pm)

Kayla Tate is a 19 year old high school graduate looking to attend Winnipeg Technical for Carpentry. She loves sports,being out doors and is happily dating. Kayla had a 19 year old mid-life crisis and decided that her voice needs to be heard, so she writes to help the LGBT community.

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As you can see by the video below, a version of the classic game was played with Ellen and her wife Portia as one of the couples participating in the game. You can clearly see on the front of the seating box for contestant couples that the proud sponsor of the segment is non other than eHarmony.com…

This raises eyebrows with any LGBT who knows what has transpired between eHarmony and non-inclusion of same-sex couples on their site. The mere presence of the eHarmony logo on a seating box that Ellen and Portia are sitting in just seems so wrong.

The end of the L word has a lot of people thinking what’s next. Is it me or does it feel like we’ve reached a turning point for the Lesbian community?

Prop 8 is up in the air, probably another battle ahead in 2010 whether it passes or not. There’s been this huge push the last few years. Shows like QAF and the L Word ushered us into the limelight, but what are we to do now that the moment of “breakthrough” has passed? MILK, Brokeback Mountain, Monster, Boys Don’t Cry, the Hours and all the other amazing films that shattered this cinematic glass ceiling, I fear are just leading to a fad like the flood of superhero films being made. The danger is that fads fade, and what are we going to be left with when that happens? Are we going to be resettled into obscurity?

I think there is a need for us to be able to see ourselves on television.

It helps me feel less hidden, less outside of the mainstream culture, I guess. Its nice to have something that brings us all together too. Once a week you knew you could find a bunch of lezzies around the tube. There was something for us all to be linked with, which is really highlighted by the dissolving of OurChart as well.

I’m very worried about the Lesbian community splintering further and further apart now.

We’re approaching a new decade, this one seeming like a bad nightmare threatening the next to be worse, its hard to try to plan what’s next. I don’t have a lot of hope for a show in the future with a focus on our lives, sure a superficial storyline or character, but a show? No. If that were the case I think 3way would have been picked up by now. I know, there’s supposedly an L Word spin off in the works… that takes place in prison… or something. Someone could maybe fill me in more on that.

How can we get more connected? How can we use these awful days to make a break for equal rights? Is this the crest of a powerful moment about to happen, or is this the crest of a wave that is crashing?

Jenime is an artist living in the SF bay area. You can watch her musings and ravings any time by visiting her channel on YouTube.

In the end we are led to believe that it was Nikki Stevens who killed Jenny, but the final episode “Last Word” really left more questions than it gave answers.

If you read my predictions for the final season you will know that I suspected that Molly was responsible for Jenny’s death because I thought her death would have something to do with her tumultuous relationship with Shane. I was right that it would have something to do with Shane, because Nikki mentioned that she say how Jenny had her on lock down and it got her upset to see Shane like that. Right up until the end I wasn’t sure who did it, and even though I said I didn’t think it could be Dylan, I almost thought it was! I thought it could have been Bette, Tina, Kit, Max, any one of them right up until the end.

Here is how the episode played out…

It starts off with Shane in the interrogation room. Right away she is saying “Listen I cant tell you I didn’t think about it. I was kidding, its not like i would ever do anything like that.” As time goes on she begins to talk about what bugs her about relationships, where one person says ‘we’ in speaking for both of them. Then she tells that the day of her death Jenny was recording a video for Bette and Tina who were going away to New York. She said she couldn’t get a word in edge wise because Jenny was saying ‘we’ through their segment. We then see Jenny and Shane taping the segment and what Jenny says at the end of their segment is that with Bette and Tina leaving it will be an adventure for them to take their place as the supreme couple. Shane is grinning and bearing the whole thing. Jenny ends their goodbye to Bette and Tina video segment with “I promise… we are going to make.” (Referring to herself and Shane.) Shane just smiles uncomfortably.

At the Planet, Alice is telling Jamie that she loves Tasha – Jamie and Tasha are on one side of the table and Alice is on the other.

Alice is asking Tasha and Jamie to be honest about what is going on. Jamie says that nothing has happened between them. Alice knows that nothing happened physically, and that they haven’t admitted it to themselves. It’s obvious to Alice that Jamie and Tasha are like minded (unlike Alice and Tasha) when Jamie and Tasha have ordered the same meal. Tasha hasn’t said much, and when Alice tells them to just admit their feelings and that it is out of their control Tasha says she’s not going to accept that. Alice is upset and says that all her military training cant make her control her feelings.

Jamie says “Ok I admit it. I am only speaking for myself, but I have think I have fallen in love with Tasha.”

Alice says “Thank you… and fuck you.” Jamie says she’s sorry and it was the last thing she wanted to happen, and she doesn’t even think that Tasha is… Alice says “Oh yes, she is.” Tasha just looks away. Alice tells Tasha “Go. You’re free.” Jamie says “Oh God do not break up over me.” Tasha says “We’re not. Don’t do this.” Alice replies “When we’re having sex I don’t close my eyes and imagine someone else naked in the shower.” Tasha tells her “Fuck you.”

Jamie is saying she is sorry and for them to just get her out of the equation and things will go back to how they were.

Alice tells Tasha just give it a try, try it. Tasha is giving attitude and saying “Try what, what the fuck does that mean”. Alice grabs her things and says “If you don’t call me by the same time tommorrow I will know you made up you mind about what you want.” Tasha replies “Alice this has never happened to me before. You know that I live a life of honor and duty.” Alice doesn’t want her to stay with her out of a sense of duty, or because it’s the right thing to do. She walks out.

The next thing we see, Alice is in the interrogation room.

She says the only person she only really loved as much as Tasha was Dana. Then we see Dylan on the balcony waving to Jenny who is approaching the front door. Helena comes out to tell Dylan Jenny is there. They have a brief argument about Dylan angling to move in with Helena, and Dylan is upset that Helena doesn’t trust her.

Jenny is there to shoot their segment for the tribute video to Bette and Tina’s goodbye party so they get started on that.

Next we see Max being interrogated, talking about the girls and calling them more than friends less than family. We move over to Kit cleaning up out back for the party and up walks Kit. They are talking, Bette says they need to fix the railing on the second floor, and they talk about the process Bette and Tina have to go through to adopt a baby. Kit mentions that they might consider adopting Max’s baby. Bette says she thinks Max is ready to be a mom and they move on. Kit asks Bette why are they really moving since they just opened the fallery and remodeled their home. Bette confides that she is ready to get out of their because Jenny is all up in her business. She tells her that Kelly made a pass at her but she didn’t tell Tina. And she can’t tell her now because it would be a mess, but Jenny is saying she saw her and Kelly together. Kit asks her what she was doing, and Bette says nothing.

Kit is being interrogated now telling the police how loving this group of friends are, and how loyal they are.

Now we are back in time again and Shane is at Alice’s house talking about the situation with Tasha and Jamie, and Jenny. Shane says she is pretty much with Jenny because she feels responsible for her. Alice doesn’t understand why she would pick her, and then goes on to say she knows Jenny stole her idea and can prove it. Shane says it’s not about that.

We see Alice being interrogated and telling us that women drive her crazy.

Back in Alice’s room, Shane says if she walks away Jenny would go off the deep end, it either Jenny’s happiness or hers. We then see Dylan on the phone and when Helena walks by Dylan quickly hangs up. Helena is suspicious and Dylan is mad about that. Then Helena is being interrogated and says being rich is a curse. She never knows if anyone really cares for her if they are just with her for the money.

Back at their argument, Helena chases Dylan and apologizes.

She says trust is hard for her. Helena and Dylan make out and wind up on the kitchen counter. Dylan asks Helena if she trusts her, and Helena says yes. Dylan grabs a knife – yikes! She puts it next to Helena’s neck, and then slices off her shirt strap. Whew! That was kinda hott, but scary. They commence to making love.

Next we see Jenny editing the video to Bette and Tina with Phylis and Joyce talking.

Then we see Bette and Tina making love, and Tina notices they have to fix the second floor railing. They kiss a bit and then Bette says that when they get to New York she would like for them to get married. More intimacy now, but this time to a Sade song “By Your Side”. ;o)

Now Bette’s in interrogation, telling us Tina is the love of her life.

Then we see Shane walking up to her house in the morning, and she sees Bette and Tina outside. They are talking about Jenny using Shane’s studio, and about the situation with Alice and Tasha. Bette thinks that Jenny gave Shane the studio so she would have something else to take away from her. Tina says Jenny’s heart is in the right place and that was harsh. Bette says “Yeah her heart is in the right place but she’s misplaced her meds.”

Interrogating Tina, she says she was jealous of Kelly Wentworth, Bette’s business partner.

Helena sees Dylan on the phone out the window again and sees Dylan leave. Alice is on the phone with Shane saying that Tasha and Jamie are probably having a good time having everything in common. She says they are so the same they can masturbate and it would be the same thing. Jenny comes home and is freaking out so Shane gets off the phone with Alice.

Jenny has to finish her tribute video but has lots of other things to do. Shane offers to do a few things for her to help her out and Jenny calms down.

Bette and Tina are cooking and Kit comes by with Sunny bringing home Angelica from the zoo. Sunny has to change for work and Bette offers him to use the powder room because she doesn’t like men in her bathroom. Tina offers the new bathroom and Bette is peeved a bit.

Shane brings Jenny all the things that they need and then is off to get her gift to Bette and Tina.

Right when she leaves Dylan walks up. Shane calls Alice back like she promised.

Back at Bette and Tina’s house everyone is chatting and when sunny comes out to leave angelica says to him “bye daddy”. It was a bit awkward but Tina says its normal.

Helena and Alice are talking on the phone now and mentions that Shane saw Dylan at the studio with Jenny.

We see Dylan telling Jenny not to tell Helena about something she confided in her about. Jenny said Dylan hasn’t come clean to Helena when she promised she would. jenny tells her to just tell her the truth. Dylan says that if Helena finds out that she knew that Nikki Stevens was a set up before she walked into Hit she would… “So your liar” says Helena from downstairs! All three get into a loud conversation about Dylan being a con artist and relationships being based on trust. Jenny tries to smooth things over a bit and says she should have never been involved in any of it. Helena tells Jenny “Fuck you Shechter you’ve been getting involved in my life for far too long now.” and then walks out. Dylan follows her and they talk more on the street. Helena will never know for sure if Dylan would have passed on Nikki Stevens and she can’t trust her – thanks to Jenny.

Shane is buying the gift for Bette and Tina when she sees Molly in the store.

She is happy to see her, but Molly tells her that she heard and Shane and Jenny and it was weird to hear that after she had seen how upset Jenny was the night she dropped off Shane’s jacket with a letter in it. Shane doesn’t have any idea what she is talking about, but since Molly is with someone and seems to be happy Shane doesn’t say anything to Molly except for small talk.

Alice shows up to Bette and Tina’s party, and Max and Helena are already there. They start talking about Jenny and nobody has anything nice to say.

Then we see Max being interrogated, and he says that Jenny was the only one who could see him for who he was and help him accept it. He said Jenny could see a person’s innermost desires and thoughts, and it was kind scary actually. Back at the party Alice says she has decided to make up with Jenny this evening for Shane’s sake and Bette mentions that they should all give it a try. They all agree. We see another interrogation and Helena is talking about how special all the friends are. She says all of their names one by one… except for Jenny.

Now we see Jenny and Kit going into the room she is using to show the video tribute.

She closes the curtain to the window with the view of the pool. Kit asks her about the situation with Bette and Kelly, saying Bette said nothing happened. Jenny says she doesn’t want to hurt Bette and Tina, and the she can see her friends want her to shut up and go away. Kit asks her for proof, and Jenny says she doesn’t want to show her. Kit says “If you have proof, I want you to show me.” Jenny plugs her cell phone into the TV and tells her she can press play.

We see the cell phone video and it looks like Bette has her head in between Kelly’s legs.

Next interrogation we are seeing is Bette’s. She is describing Jenny Schecter saying shes is talented but very complicated and complex. Then we see Shane and she is looking through Jenny’s closet for the jacket and letter. She pulls down the ladder to the attic and goes up. She looks around a bit and then finds the jacket, with the letter in it. She sits down to read the letter. After she is done she gets up to leave and accidentally pulls a sheet with her foot – which reveals the negatives to the movie ‘Lez Girls’. During her interogation Tina is asked about the movie.

Bette leads everyone upstairs to gives them a tour of the new second story (Tina stays downstairs).

Tasha is being interrogated telling them Alice has one of the biggest hearts of anybody she knows. At the party, the others are looking at the second story Kit walks in and asks to talk to Bette privately. Everyone goes downstairs and Kit tells Bette about the video. Bette denies it and doesn’t know what she is talking about and they start yelling. Kit is saying “Don’t lie I saw it; you fucked up.” Shane comes over and tells Tina to go with her somewhere.

Nikki is being interrogated and asks for a lawyer.The sergeant mentions that nobody else has asked for a lawyer.

At the party Jenny comes out and asks everyone to come to the media room to see the movie. Jenny goes upstairs to look for Bette and Tina while everyone else goes to the media room. Shane is showing Tina the negatives next door. Tina is shocked and mad.

Jenny finds Bette upstairs, and they are on the back balcony where the railing is broken.

Bette says “Jenny. Look I just want you to know something. My family and the life that I have worked so hard to rebuild for them means everything in the world to me. And there isn’t anything that I wouldn’t do to preserve or protect them.” Jenny says “I would never do anything to hurt your family. Bette I love you and I love Tina.”  Bette says “Well I’m glad to hear that because you know what? I don’t really care if you think that I fucked Kelly. All I really care about is that you know that I will not abide anyone who threatens my family.”

We see the part of Bette’s interrogation where she describes Jenny again.

Bette says Jenny is “complex, complicated, talented. Very talented. Self destructive, sometimes very generous, but complicated and complex.” The video is playing in the media room, with Jenny’s ex boyfriend Tim talking. Tina looks for Jenny in there. She says to herself “How could you do that to me? I’m just going to put her out of her fucking misery.” Alice and Shane are on the porch talking. Alice tells Shane she has decided to forgive jenny and make peace with her. Shane asks why. Alice says she is alone now and she needs her friends and since they are going to be together… at which point Shane says they aren’t together.

In the interrogation room Alice is saying “What does this have to do with who killed Jenny”. The sergeant replies “So you think someone killed Jenny.”

Bette runs into Tina, and says she was looking in on Angie. Tina said she was getting a sweater from upstairs. Tina says they need to talk and asks if Bette has seen Jenny. Max rushes in and he says he just went to get his sweater. He says he felt a kick for the first time and they all hug. Tina asks if Max has seen Jenny he says no.

Jenny’s dog is around the pool whining and sniffing

In the media room Max, Kit Shane, Alice, Helena, Bette and Tina  are watching the video and all of the old characters saying bye, and Kit says its a parade of all her exes. We see Helena’s mom and Jody and Marina from France. They wonder where Jenny is. They see Carmen on the video wishing Bette and Tina the best. They wonder if they should pause the movie. Alice says she is supposed to be her friend tonight so she’ll go find her. We see Kit talk on the video, then Shane, then Alice, then everybody together. The main girls and Max are saying “We love you Bette and Tina. We are gonna miss you Tina and Bette.”  Then Shane and Jenny give the final segment. Then Alice comes in… she is freaked out and all she can say is “Jenny, Jenny” and they all run out to see whats going on. There are splashes into the pool and next we the police pulling up, and the sergeant getting out.

She gets briefed as she walks into the house, and we see the body pulled out of the water.

Next we see the cops pull their weapons out around the pool pointing towards the bushes and shouting “Come out with your hands over your head!” and we see Nikki come out of the bushes. As the police took her through the house in handcuffs Shane says “Nikki what are you doing here?” Nikki says “I just came to talk to Jenny. I saw what was going on at the dance marathon and how she was keeping you like a prisoner and I just wanted to tell her that…” Shane says”Nikki shut up. Just shut up”

Outside Tasha walks up and seeing the police and such she is worried. she shows her police academy badge to the officer outside to get in.

She goes into the living room and says “Alice come, here are you okay? I’m here.  I’m not going anywhere. They hug and Alice is surprised. The sergeant says “I think this is going to take a bit longer than we thought.” They say “We’ll do whatever you need for us to do. “We’re a very tight knit group.” “We take care of each other.” “We don’t know what happened out there. “You probably just want us to come down to the station.”

The video finishes in the room with Jenny saying that Bette and Tina changed her life and she will never forget them so thank you for everything.

The last thing we see is all the girls nice rides pulling up and parking next to each other in front of the police station. They all get out and walk up looking sexy as hell and we get to see each of the girls (and Max too) one by one as they strut their stuff on their way to the interrogation into who killed Jenny Schechter.

After the show, Leisha Haley comes on to tell us that starting this week they are now doing The L Word as a webisode and you can watch things like the interrogation tapes and more online.

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Way back in episode 1 “Long Night’s Journey Into Day”, we saw Jenny’s body pulled out of Bette and Tina’s pool. The police were asking her friends questions in connection with her death. Then we got to go back in time and see the events that led up to that night and try to come to our own conclusion about what’s going to happen in the final episode which airs on Showtime Sunday March 8th, and then re-airs all week.

At the start of each episode throughout the season, the intro clip includes a character ranting in some way about Jenny, saying they are going to kill her for a variety of reasons.

In episode 2 “Least Likely” Niki Stevens has a rant about Jenny calling her a ’showmance’. She says Jenny is a liar and a user and she is “dead meat”.

In episode 3 “LMFAO” the negative to the movie was stolen and Aaron thinks Jenny took it. Since Jenny is Tina’s friend he is holding her personally responsible. Tina says to herself “Jenny I am going to fucking kill you”.

In episode 4 “Leaving Los Angeles”, Max is there with Tom and a few of the girls when Jenny comes to the table she tells Max that he is a beautiful mother. Jenny goes on and on about his breasts and hips, and Max gets up and leaves. In the restroom Max breaks down crying, saying that he hates the hormones, his tits, his hips, and Jenny Schechter.

In episode 5 “Litmus Test”, After getting off the phone Tina mentions that Jenny sold a new script for half a million dollars. Alice is listening closely when Tina tells the girls that the plot of the story is a talk show host who meets a cop and it turns into a murder mystery – the exact same plot as the treatment Alice had talked about with Jenny. Alice says “You guys that’s my story!” She storms off saying “Shechter is so fucking dead”.

In episode 6 “Lactose Intolerant”, everybody is at Jenny’s house, decorating for Max’s baby shower with a Willy Wonka theme. Helena and Dylan arrived at the baby shower, and Jenny tells her congratulations for passing the test. She tells Dylan about the test and how everyone watched her on the screen with Nikki Stevens.

In episode 7 “Last Couple Standing” the girls are at the fundraiser dance off that Jamie, Alice and Tasha put together at the Hit club. Jenny confronts Bette in private about what she saw and Bette tells Jenny she was wrong about what she thinks she saw. Jenny mentions that she is going to tell Tina if Bette doesn’t.

When the Seargant arrived at Bette an Tina’s house in episode 1, the girls that were there sitting in the living room were from left to right Shane, Bette, Tina (with Angelica on her lap), Alice, Helena, Max and Kit.

Although having had problems with Jenny before, Nikki and Dylan were not present in this scene so I am ruling them out as possible suspects in my book. One other person besides all who were on the couch that I would consider a suspect would be Shane’s ex girlfriend Molly. I don’t think that Max’s ex, Tom, or Bette’s ex Kelly (or Jody) would be suspects in Jenny’s death in my book. One thing to note is that Shane had a towel wrapped around her in the episode where we learned of Jenny’s death, and Bette is in her robe with wet hair.

There were plenty of motives to kill Jenny Schechter, but some of the people I have talked to think Jenny might have killed herself, or her death was an accident.

There was so much drama swirling around Jenny though, that I believe someone did have a hand in her death. Some of the more emotionally charged situations in Jenny’s life included her troubled relationship with Shane, and the pictures on her cell phone of Bette. I think that it’s possible Shane would snap on Jenny in some way, maybe bump her head in a scuffle or something like that since she has been aggressive in their arguments and told Jenny blatantly to back off. Jenny seemed to be in psycho love with Shane since the speech she made at the Les Girls wrap party. Bette, however, is not one in my book that would jeopardize her life and since her and Tina were thinking about going to New York there was an out there for that situation.

Now, about Molly. We never really got a resolution to that situation.

Molly came to the door, and Jenny told her about Shane and Nikki to purposely drive her away from Shane since Jenny was in love with her. Shane mentioned to Jenny that she was distraught over Molly and that was why she messed around with Nikki in the first place. I think Jenny made a mental note of that, and when Molly came around she told her things that would make her stay away from Shane forever. Then there was the jacket she hid in the attic that Molly left for Shane, and the photo of Molly that Shane was developing in the dark room at the photography studio. Plus, in every episode when Shane and Jenny were together there was this dismal sad music. This leads me to believe that Jenny’s death has something to do with Shane, although I am not sure it would have been Shane directly so that is why Molly comes to mind also.

Yes there are lots of ideas about who it could be and what could have happened, but the only way to truly find out is to tune in and watch the season finale of the hit lesbian show on Showtime March 8th.

We’ll find out for sure whodunit then but in the meantime you can case your vote on who you think killed Jenny at sho.com/lword.

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Jenny confronts Bette in private about what she saw and Bette tells Jenny she was wrong about what she thinks she saw. Jenny mentions that she is going to tell Tina if Bette doesn’t.

Backstage, Bette and Tina are talking and Tina was offered a job, but it is in New York.

Alice overhears and now they are talking about Bette and Tina moving. Then they start talking about the baby’s mama that they are moving in. Alice says it’s a bad idea and that one of them could wind up cheating on the other with the baby’s mama and other ideas where it might not work out.

Tina and Helena meet up while watching the show from the side and Tina tells her she is sorry about Dylan.

Tina says that Dylan really loves Helena, and Helena says “Then where is she?” The Hit club DJ announces Jamie who takes the floor to talk about the LGBT people who are living on the streets of Los Angeles. She announces Alice who thanks the girl who wrote the letter that she read on The Look, Marie.

The goal for the fundraiser is $250,000.

Alice opens the floor for donations, and when Jenny makes a move to come and talk to Tina, Bette pulls Tina up on stage to make the first pledge. Kit asks the DJ to be her dance partner, Jamie offers to dance with Helena, and when Alice takes Helena to get her dance number Tasha and Jamie have a small ‘moment’. Kit and the DJ have great chemistry on the stage as they banter back and forth and then the dancing is under way. Even Jody shows up for the dance off.

While Bette and Tina are dancing, Bette is trying to tell Tina about what Jenny said to her earlier but Alice kept interrupting and asking if they thought Jamie was being weird.

During the first break, Bette runs into Jody in the bathroom. Jody tries to ignore Bette, but Jody said Jenny told her about Bette and Kelly. Bette said she saw something and it didn’t really happen like how she is saying, but Jody said Kelly told her it really did happen. Bette asks if Kelly said they slept together, and Jody said she was glad she dodged a bullet with Bette but she felt sorry for Tina then walks away. Bette calls her a bitch under her breath.

The next dance round begins and its a line dance so the girls are talking to each other from across the line.

Shane asks Bette and Tina if they are moving to New York, Jenny asks Bette if she told Tina yet, Jamie asks Tasha if she feels inspired, Alice asks Helena if she thinks there is something going on between Tasha and Jamie. Alice asks Helena if she should be worried and Helena says “Honestly, yes.”

Nikki Stevens shows up and is talking to Shane. She is hitting up on her hard, but Shane resists – a little bit.

The competition round begins and backstage Alice is dressed in hip hop gear. Shane is getting ready because her and Jenny are dancing too. Shane and Alice have a competition about being happy. Shane and Jenny dance a Spanish style romantic number and do really well. Alice, Jamie, and Tasha are dressed up like Salt n Pepa. Bette and Tina have costumes too.

Alice kind of freaks out and doesn’t want to do the show.

Tasha pumps her up and they are on their way. They perform the really look like the group while performing. Bette and Tina are worried, but one judge gives a low score. Then Shane and Nikki have sex in the bathroom! Bette and Tina perform, and during the performance Dylan shows up to apologize to Helena for walking out. Bette and Tina’s performance is a sensual couples dance which was really good, and they got a better score than the trio did. Jody dances in the competition too and does great, which surprises and worries the other girls competing.

Alice can see that things have ‘tipped’ between her Jamie and Tasha.

Bette and Tina sense it too and Bette puts her arm around Alice. Jenny approaches Nikki and tells her that she thinks she should auction off a date for herself to raise a ton of money for the shelter. Nikki says she’ll think about it. Dylan and Helena are together and happy, and they decide that they are going to start things new.

Nikki goes onto the stage to announce her donation.

She announces that she is auctioning a date with herself as her donation. Jenny bids $25,000 dollars for the date, and everybody is shocked.

Jenny puts Nikki and Shane on blast and grabs the microphone to say:

Shane, you don’t have to fuck her in a bathroom anymore. You don’t have to sneak around. I don’t want you to do that so I bought her for you. So you can have her whenever you want. Thank you.

Nikki walks away and the DJ is chuckling while everyone gasps. The DJ says turn up the music.

Jenny tells Shane, she doesn’t care she can fuck whoever she wants whenever she wants and takes off. Everyone is looking at Shane. The next morning everybody is wiped out. Bette congratulates Jody and says she was great. Bette says “I promise you I haven’t cheated on Tina. I don’t know why Kelly would say that.” Jody says she wishes her and Tina the best.

Alice approaches Jamie and asks her if she has feelings for Tasha.

Jamie says “Alice, I would never do anything.” Alice is upset and walks away.

Bette and Tina are on their way to pick up the birth mother now and wonder if they should tell Marcy about New York. They talk about what it would mean to move, discussing the gallery and their friends. Bette says just because they leave LA doesn’t mean they are leaving them.

The gentleman from the art gallery is on the stage and Kit is asking him to get down.

Over the mic he announces that he is the DJ Sunset Boulevard, and his real name is Sunny Benson. He said he is a straight man who loves his gay and lesbian family and hopes they can still accept him. Kit was upset and saying he lied to her. Sunny said he tried to tell her and he didn’t lie that she assumed things. She said she told him things she would never tell a man. He said the dress didn’t change the fact that he was a man and that she trusted him as a person. Sunny tells her she si the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, he would like to get to know her better, and take her to dinner. She is overwhelmed and walks away.

Bette and Tina are waiting at the bus stop for Marcy to come but she doesn’t get off of the bus.

Tina checks the but Marcy is a no show. Bette and Tina are sad and disappointed. Alice and Tasha are still at the Hit club dancing slow. Alice tells Tasha she’s never loved her more and she wants her to be happy. She asks Tasha if she wants to be wit Jamie. Tasha mumbles a bit and then says “I’m not ready to let you go.”

For the dance off… Tasha and Alice are the winners – the last couple standing.

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Jenny asks who Jamie is and how she knows Max. Helena and Dylan arrived at the baby shower, and Jenny tells her congratulations for passing the test. She tells Dylan about the test and how everyone watched her on the screen with Nikki Stevens. She is mad as hell at Helena and storms out, while Max is walking in. The girls yell “Suprise!”

Jenny gives Max a seat on the throne with a golden ticket, hat, and a balloon.

Jamie introduces herself to Max and Jenny makes a snide remark “She’s the only non-friend here.” Shane says to Alice, Tasha, Bette and Tina “She’s just so in appropriate.” Helena comes back and she is upset that Dylan is gone. Kit tries to console her and tells her to try to call her. Bette Tina and Alice talk about how evil Jenny is and how Shane should make a run for it.

They play baby shower games such as measuring Maxs belly and ‘chocolate in a diaper’.

Max is a good sport. They ask Max some questions, about Tom and such. The girls call him an asshole and they talk about him liberally while Max says Tom is just scared. Shane and Jamie have a smoke in the kitchen and talk about Alice. Jenny walks in to tell Shane it’s her turn for the games and then tells Jamie in a bitchy way that smoking pot is not good for Max. Jamie leaves to play the games, and Jenny and Shane talk about Shane’s flirting with Jamie.

They go in the living room to cut the cake and Max opens his presents for the baby.

Bette and Tina got him a stroller that turns into a car seat and other good features. Max is a bit uneasy about talking about all the baby stuff, the birthing process and other topics the girls are bringing up. Jenny got Max a breast pump and they start talking about breastfeeding at which point Jenny says that she knows Max identifies as a man but not breastfeeding would be selfish. All the girls weigh in but Max gets upset and says its her choice whether she breastfeeds or not. Helena speaks up and asks Jenny what does she know about family, kids or anything like that.

Alice interrupts to make a speech and lighten the mood.

She talks about how Max has experienced love as both sexes and it will make him be a better parent. Max seems uncomfortable, and as Alice goes on and on about how being a single parent is good and other things like that (and takes a dig at Jenny in the process) Max starts to breathe heavily.

He kneels in front of Bette and Tina and asks them to adopt his baby.

They tell her she doesn’t know what she is talking about and how they are already adopting another baby. She hyperventilates, and freaks out the guests who start saying call 911, give her some lexapro, etc. Jenny yells out “She is pregnant you can’t give her drugs”, and Max yells at her “HE is pregnant. HE.” Jenny corrects herself, but Max in inconsolable and he yells out I don’t want to do this. Max goes home… and shaves his beard off.

Bette and Tina see Phylis’s girlfriend about the legalities of the adoption they are planning.

She announces to the couple that Phyllis accepted her proposal and they are going to get married by Gavin Newsom. When Bette and Tina say they have one more trip to Nevada, Joyce tells her that gay couples are not allowed to adopt in Nevada. She asks if they would consider one of them adopting the baby and then when they get home doing a second parent adoption. Bette doesn’t want to, Tina agrees and Joyce offers a second option – have the birth mother come to live with them and have the baby in California.

Alice, Jamie and Tasha come home from the gym.

They are all getting along real well. Jamie is going to go home, take a shower and meet them later for dinner. Alice tells her to just take a shower there and Tasha offers her some clothes to wear since they seem to be the same size. When Tasha takes Jamie the clothes she is topless in her underwear only and Tasha gets a pretty good view of what Jamie’s got to offer. Tasha walks right out, climbs on top of Alice and puts her hand down Alice’s pants. They start having sex and try to be quiet but Jamie hears them anyway. She comes into the living room when they are finished and then Tasha goes off to take a shower. After a second Alice goes after her and leaves Jamie alone in the living room.

Bette and Tina talk about having Marcy come to live with them.

They talk to their contractor about the plans for the house and wonder about her sexuality behind her back. Jenny surprises Shane with her own photography studio and Shane is blown away. She says she doesn’t deserve it and hasn’t even been taking pictures. Jenny says she should, and that she should have her own space. Shane says “Thank you”.

Tina is leaving to New York, and Bette is staying behind to keep on top of the construction.

The contractor is listening in on them from the stairs. When Tina leaves she asks Bette if she is ok. The contractor asks Bette if Tina is her sister, and Bette tells her she is her partner. The contractor says “I know that but is she your sister?” as if she were a business partner. She asks about Bette’s gallery show and tells her she is going because she heard it is a good place to pick up men. Bette is amused because she thinks the woman is a ‘dyke’ but doesn’t know it.

Helena is getting drunk at the Hit club, and Kit tells her she has had too much to drink.

Helena gets a bit rough and tells Kits she’s not her fucking mother. The DJ sees Helena being aggressive with Kit and when they talk about it she says she wants to see Helena and Dylan work it out. The DJ is confused, and says I thought you were partners why would you want to push her into the arms of someone else? Kit is surprised. She makes it clear that she is not a lesbian, saying her body doesn’t respond to her own kind.

Bette is at the gallery getting things together, and Kelly is still flirty with her.

Bette is oblivious to it, but when Kelly asks her to get off the phone with Alice for a minor thing, Bette makes it clear that her relationship with Tina is solid and deserves respect.

Tasha and Alice go over to Jamie’s place and while waiting for her to change she has the door open and Tasha catches another glimpse of Jamie in her underwear and this time looks a couple more times on purpose. When Alice is zipping up Jamie’s dress Tasha sneaks a glance at the moment.

Kit and Helena show up to the art show and have a quick chat with Kelly and Bette.

Helena goes off to get a drink and Kit goes off to look at art where a gentleman makes a comment to her about the beautiful art dealers with puts her off.

Jenny and Shane are at the art show too, Shane is eating oysters and the two are having a good time.

Tasha, Alice, and Jamie show up to the art show, and Nikki Stevens does, too. She runs right into Shane after she takes some pictures with Bette and Kelly. Nikki invites Shane to leave the place right away, and they do – they walk right back past Bette, Kelly and the cameras and make a dash.

Kit is looking at art and the same gentleman approaches her.

He says something to her that is provocative and she splashes her drink in his face before walking away. She doesn’t realize its the DC from Hit club who was trying to be romantic.

Jamie, Tasha, and Alice are watching Bette and Kelly and having a conversation.

Jamie notes that Bette and Kelly make a good couple, and finish each others sentences and things. Jenny asks them if they have seen Shane but they haven’t. Tasha and Jamie agree on certain things and have a similar background, but Alice can’t relate. Alice mentions that Tasha has never opened up like that before.

Shane is at her photography studio with Nikki in the dark room working on photos.

Shane develops a picture of Molly. Nikki thinks it’s beautiful. She says maybe Shane can shoot her and she kisses her – but Shane throws up… in the bin with Molly’s picture.

Bette is paying the babysitter when Kelly shows up at the front door with a bottle of champagne.

Jenny is calling Shane and looking all over the place for her. She finally gets a hold of her and finds out she is at the photo studio. Jenny starts to take care of her, it looks like Shane ate something bad. Kelly is hyped up and being loud drinking champagne and excited that their show just about sold out. Jenny gets Shane home and in bed, but she is still sick.

Kelly makes her move on Bette and tells her she wants to cash in on a raincheck.

Bette says that coupon expired 15 years ago. Kelly tries to kiss Bette and Bette pushes her off, making her drop and break her glass. Jenny tucks Shane in and when Shane says thanks she says she will always be there for her. Jenny is going next door to tell Bette about Shane getting sick when she sees Kelly sitting down from behind and Bette knelt down in front of her.

From her perspective, it looked like Bette was cheating on Tina with Kelly, so she took a picture on her cell phone.

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After getting off the phone Tina mentions that Jenny sold a new script for half a million dollars. Alice is intrigued because Tina mentions that Jenny just cranked it out, and Jenny told her before that you can’t just crank out a screenplay like Alice tried to do. Helena wonders what it is about and laughs. Bette asks Tina if she should be worried, if Jenny made lies about their relationship. Alice is listening closely when Tina tells the girls that the plot of the story is a talk show host who meets a cop and it turns into a murder mystery – the exact same plot as the treatment Alice had talked about with Jenny. Alice says “You guys that’s my story!”

She storms off saying “Shechter is so fucking dead”.

Alice shows up at Jenny’s house and confronts her. She says “Jenny you stole my idea!” Jenny acts like she doesn’t know what she is talking about and calls what Alice was doing a jumble of ideas and pure coincidence if her script had any resemblance. Shane walks in with no idea what is going on. Alice tells Shane that Jenny has crossed the line, and tells her if she is going to continue to sleep with Jenny she is not going to be friends with her anymore then storms out. When Shane asks Jenny what is going on she tells her about Alice accusing her of stealing her idea. Jenny says Alice will just have to get over it.

Alice calls Tina on her cell phone and talks about how Jenny stole the script.

She walks into the Planet where Tina and Bette are still working because the house is being worked on and Tina doesn’t want to go to the office with all the drama over the negative. Alice gets a text message and announces she is going to Hit club with Tasha and Jamie. Alice starts raving about Jamie and , Bette closes her laptop for this one. She tells Alice that she is having a third wheel crush. Alice is skeptical. Bette explains that it happens when a couple has been dating for a while and stating to grow bored and then they start fighting all the time.

Tina continues saying the couple will meet a new person and start hanging out all the time the 3 of you and it’s great.

And this new person the new person revitalizes the relationship pouring all this energy and excitement into it. They talk about couples who had this happen and how long it lasted. They say things are okay as long as things don’t ‘tip’, and one member of the couple falls in love with the third wheel and decides to act on it. Alice says that they are wrong but Bette says she should check herself before she wrecks herself. Helena and Kit have sat down at the table towards the end of the conversation and want to know what is going on.

Tina explains that Alice and Tasha are having a third wheel crush on Jamie.

The girls heckle Alice over it a bit. Kit says that’s dangerous business and speaking of dangerous business points out Helena. Helena announces that she is having dinner with Dylan and the girls are against it. They suggest that Helena does some sort of test to prove if she is a gold digger or just misunderstood. They brainstorm a bit and decide to test Dylan with Nikki Stevens to see if Dylan is loyal to Helena. Helena is a bit nervous about the whole thing, but she does give the okay in the spirit of curiosity. The girls put a plan in action.

Shane sees Nikki and asks her to do the favor.

Alice has Jenny impersonate Nikki Stevens manager to Dylan over the phone and set up a meeting at Hit club. Dylan calls Helena to ask if it is okay and Helena says yes its fine.

Shane and Jenny, are both home after a long day and are talking about the scheme.

Jenny didn’t know Shane was in on it and when she finds out that Shane saw Nikki she tells her she can’t do that. She says she forbids it because Nikki betrayed them. Shane is not cool with that, and they have a spat over it. Jenny says out of loyalty to Jenny she should hate her. Jenny says Nikki is getting between them. She doesn’t want Shane to speak to her ever again. Shane says she doesn’t have any feelings for Nikki and that Jenny needs to back off. Jenny tells Shane “Ok, I’m wrong and I should trust you.” Shane is surprised but happy. They agree no more fighting.

Bette and Tina, plus Kelly and a gentleman named Caleb are having dinner.

Bette takes a phone call for a minute and Kelly admits that Bette was the one that got away. She asks Tina if she minds her flirting with Bette, and Tina says no. Tina says that Bette knows if she cheats on her it would be the end of them, so if it makes her feel scandalous and sexy have at it.

William and Aaron walk into the restaurant with a group, and because Tina wasn’t invited she knows she’s been fired.

Over at the Hit club, Alice, Helena, and Kit are looking at the club through the security monitors. Jenny and Shane show up and there is a brief argument between Alice and Jenny over the script. Jenny pretty much blows Alice off and Alice tells Helena to keep Jenny away from her or she’s gonna kill her. Dylan and Nikki show up at the club separately, as everyone can see on the security monitor. Nikki calls Shane on her cell phone to ask her if it’s a go. Jenny wonders why Nikki has Shane’s cell phone number, and after thinking about it a second Helena gives the green light and Nikki is going in to meet with Dylan.

Nikki meets with Dylan in a VIP gazebo and is flirty with Dylan but doesnt remember the name of her film.

The girls are eating popcorn and watching the whole thing. Tina tells her table she needs to get some air, at which point Bette walks over to the table where Aaron and William are sitting. She starts to go off on them when Tina comes up and asks her what she is doing. She said she is defending her and Tina says she is capable of defending herself.

Aaron tells his table that he is “so happy to be done with dykes”.

Tina goes off on him this time! At the same time she tells the writers he is wining and dining (who were hers) that he called them talentless hacks. She loudly accuses William of stealing the negative to the film for insurance money, and of forging her signature.

Nikki is telling Dylan what she thinks the “film” should be about.

Dylan doesn’t agree, and tries to explain her creative vision; but Nikki is clearly not on the same level as Dylan. The girls watching think that Dylan is acting appropriately, but Shane says give it a second she knows Nikki will make her move – at which point they see Nikki move from her seat next to Dylan on her seat.

Right when Nikki says she is attracted to older women, Alice sets down her popcorn bowl on the keyboard and the screen goes blank.

They scramble to fix it and when it is back on Nikki is wooing Dylan and tells her directly if she wants to direct the movie she has to go home with her (as she put her hand on her knee). Dylan’s response: “Then I guess I’m not going to be directing this movie.” The girls in the room cheer!

Alice says she passed the test and Helena seems to be in shock, then she leaves the room.

Everyone else leaves the room except for Alice who sees Tasha and Jamie walking through the club together, and then goes down to join them.

Helena approaches Dylan and asks her how her meeting went.

Dylan says she wasn’t what Nikki was looking for. Dylan says she came back to LA after all this time because she could never stop thinking about Helena and has always been madly in love with her. Helena invites her to talk somewhere else because that location is not private.

Jenny watches Nikki dance. Alice Tasha and Jamie dance together.

Then Shane caught Jenny checking her text messages. She is pissed and tells Alice to “watch” Jenny for her for five minutes and to call her if Jenny comes looking for her. Shane tells Jenny someone told her the headlights were on and she would be back in five minutes.

Helena is back at Dylan’s place, but doesn’t know what she is doing there.

Dylan says they can just talk. They have a cup of tea and Helena is not interested in what Dylan is talking about – so she tells her so. Then she starts to caress her hand, and they kiss. Then do a lot more than just kiss… for a long time, and very, very slowly.

Shane is outside smoking a cigarette.

Nikki is outside too and bums a cigarette from her. They talk about the scheme against Dylan, and smoke their cigarettes. Nikki says “What you’re not going to talk to me?” Shane tells her it’s not a good idea because her and Jenny are together. she said maybe if her and Jenny weren’t together it would be different. Nikki tells Shane if it doesn’t work out to find her. Shane walks away and Nikki is pissed after she leaves.

Inside Jamie and Tasha are defending Alice over the screenplay and let Jenny know how they feel.

Jenny says Alice did not have an original idea and she is letting this affect their friendship. Jenny asks Shane to tell Alice she is wrong, and they are asking Shane to pick a side.

Shane won’t pick a side and then Jenny and Shane begin to fight – in the middle of the dance floor.

Jenny wants to know where Shane was, and asks if she was fucking Nikki in the bathroom. Shane tells her she needs to “lay the fuck off”. They yell back and forth, and Shane says she would choose the friendship over the relationship. Jenny says that they only thing that will get in the friendship is if something gets in the way of their romantic relationship. They kiss and makeup. Jenny says “I love you.” Shane says “Me too.”

Helena and Dylan are still slowly having a roll around the living room, when Helena starts crying. She says she is scared. Dylan says she is scared too. Then they do some more slow stuff. ;o)

Tasha, Jamie and Alice continue to dance with each other happily.

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Max is there with his baby daddy and a few of the girls when Jenny comes to the table she tells Max that he is a beautiful mother. This upsets Max, and when Jenny goes on and on about his breasts and hips, Max gets up and leaves. In the restroom Max breaks down crying, saying that he hates the hormones, his tits, his hips, and Jenny Schechter.

Out at the table, Alice and Tasha, Bette and Tina, plus Jenny and Shane are talking about the situation.

Shane says she can’t believe Max is going to have that baby. Tasha says a couple months from now all people are going to see are two gay dads. Jenny has an epiphany and thinks she knows who stole the negative – William. She said she heard a conversation about making a false insurance claim before. Bette and Tina announce that they are going to Laughlin, Nevada to meet the birth mother of a baby they might adopt.

Bette’s old friend Kelly Wentworth shows up and they go off to a table to talk.

The other girls ask who is that and keep their eyes on them. Tina keeps telling them about the birth mother and that the father is African American when Kit comes over and asks what Kelly was doing there. The girls ask if anything ever happened between Kelly and Bette. Tina said no, but Kit said “Excuse me my sister almost killed herself over that B I T C H”

Just then Dylan walks in. Everybody is tripped out, and says Dylan is insane.

Kit says that Dylan says she has a meeting with Tina. Tina says no – she a meeting with… a… filmmaker. She realizes she’s been set up and walks over to see what Dylan has to say.

Max and Tom go to a Lamaze class.

The teacher keeps referring to Max as a her, but tries to change it to say “the legs” instead of “her legs”. It’s pretty uncomfortable for them when she starts to demonstrate how to “prep the perineum” on a mock vagina.

Bette and Kelly are eating at the Planet and talking about their careers and such.

Dylan and Tina are talking at the same time, and Tina wants to know what she wants. Dylan says she’s sorry for betraying her as a director. She says she is here because she has nothing to lose and that Helena is her life and she would give anything to have another chance with her. She wants Tina to help her and Tina says she can’t.

Bette and Kelly are talking about the art industry, and Kelly wants Bette’s advice on how to make her gallery big.

Bette suggests the way to do that is for her to go and work there. Kelly is stunned and asks about her current position, and Bette tells her she resigned because she wanted to get back in the trenches. She offers to become her partner. Tina is in the background keeping a watchful eye.

Back at the table Alice tells Helena that Dylan said she was the love of her life.

Jenny offers Helena protection. Helena says she is fine and appreciates the concern. She wants to know more, and Tina tells her that Dylan is a gay filmmaker now and they pass around Dylan’s business card and scoff at it. They talk about setting up Helena with somebody. Jody comes up and, then they mention Jamie the woman from the LA Gay and Lesbian Center. They call her on the phone, without asking Helena what she thinks. As they are talking on the phone Helena pours herself a drink. She says she will go out on a double date with Jamie and then puts Dylans business card in her bra.

Jenny and Shane are at their house doing what is called Clutter Clearing.

Jenny says its a good thing to do when starting a new project or a new relationship. They start in Jenny’s closet. Jenny says its symbolic and all about making choices. As they go through the clothes, Jenny asks Shane to help choose which pieces of her personality she should move on from and leave in the past by choosing things from her closet to get rid of. When Shane starts picking things out, Jenny wants to keep everything she picks so Shane just walks away.

Meanwhile Bette and Tina are packing to go to Laughlin but arguing about Kelly at the same time.

Tina says Bette was flirting with Kelly, and she doesn’t want Bette going back into the gallery business when her job is not that secure. Bette says if she doesn’t like it come up with something better.

Shane and Jenny go through Shane’s closet… well Jenny does.

She takes out clothes from Shane’s exes, and when Carmen’s clothes come out Shane says she wants a small remembrance of her. Jenny says that’s the old Shane, but Shane says she’s not throwing her away. Jenny is okay with it and they kiss.

Bette and Tina are at the airport, talking about Tina starting her own gallery and Bette says it would be too expensive so Kelly is a Godsend. Tina brings up what Kit said about Bette wanting to kill herself over Kelly. Bette says its a complete exaggeration. Wasn’t there someone Tina wanted to kill herself over when she was younger? They kiss then get in the taxi with Angelica on their way to meet the birth mother.

Alice and Shane are eating at the cafe and talk about Jamie and Helena. Alice seems infatuated with her friend Jamie. Jenny shows up and joins them. It’s awkward for Alice, she seems like a third wheel.

Bette and Tina meet the birth mother of the child they wanted to adopt.

The young mother has two children already and lives with her mother and stepfather. The mother and stepfather arrive a bit after some small talk between the birth mother and lesbian couple. The birth mother’s mother asks which one of them is Angelica’s mother. Bette tries to explain that Tina carried her, yet she adopted her and so they are both her mother. The stepfather points out that he would have thought that Bette was the mother and the conversation keeps going down a slippery slope until the birth mother tells her parents that Tina and Bette are together as a couple. The mother is not okay with that and the stepfather asks them to leave.

Alice and Jamie (not Tasha) are making dinner for their double date and talking about making a difference.

Jamie invites Alice to work at the center, lead a workshop or help with fundraising. Jamie teaches Alice some new tricks with food and Jamie admits she is nervous to meet Helena. (for a second Alice thought she meant she was nervous around her)

At the Hit club, Kit is talking to the DJ, a drag queen she chats with from time to time about men, women and past relationships. When asked where Helena was, she mentions that Dylan Moreland is trouble and her friend tells her she’s got her back.

Helena shows up to dinner with Alice, Tasha, and Jamie.

Helena and Jamie are introduced, all seems well, Alice recommends the nut loaf. Back at the Hit club, Max walks up on Tom getting a phone number from some random guy. Kit walks up and hears them fighting about it. Tom runs off and Kit tells Max it’s just a few more months and to hang in there. Max apologizes to Tom saying he is scared and things are happening with his body. He says he knows Tom is going to be a great dad and they hug.

Alice is showing Jamie her baby pictures, and they all start talking about how many kids they want to have.

It comes up that Helena has two kids, and that her ex has custody. Jamie says it must be hard to only see them every few months. Helena starts talking about her custody case and such at which point Alice and Tasha change the subject and propose a board game. Helena says she has to go. When Alice walks her out, Jamie and Tasha look at her and Jamie shakes her head “no”, as in no she is not interested in Helena. Tasha laughs and says ‘We tried’.

Helena drives to the place on the business card and sees Dylan come out of her house.

She approaches her as she goes to her car. Dylan just starts to say she is sorry and she doesn’t know what to do. Helena says have dinner with me I’ll let you know when and walks away. As she walks always she is saying to herself ‘fuuuuck’.

In the meantime Jenny surprises Shane when she turns her bedroom into an office.

She said she doesn’t want to type in the kitchen anymore and since they are sleeping together she thought it would be perfect. Shane is not happy about it and says no, and asks Jenny if she is testing her. She asks Jenny, “Are you putting on the crazy jenny show to see how far you can push things with me… is that what this is?” Jenny starts to put things back the way they were, and Shane says don’t get melodramatic. Jenny asks Shane “Do you hate me” Shane says “No”. Jenny asks “Do you love me?” Shane says “I do. I love you. I do.”

Tasha and Jamie are doing dishes and getting along well, and Alice comes in and sees Jamie touch Tasha’s shoulder so she kisses her other shoulder.

Alice and Tasha seem to be competing for attention from Jamie, and during the conversation Alice has a good fundraiser idea and Jamie asks them both to help with it. She gives them both hugs and there is a chemistry between Tasha and Jamie as well as Alice and Jamie.

Kit is back at Hit club talking to her dj friend about men again and fantasizes about a man walking up to her in the grocery store and saying she is beautiful; and that he wants to wake up with her legs and arms wrapped around him.

Max and Tom are home talking about things, and Tom tells Max to stop talking down about himself.

He watches max undress from the reflection in the window, seeing his female pregnant body completely. Max settles into bed with Tom and they go to sleep after Max says he will stop talking down about himself.

Bette and Tina are back at the hotel and are trying not to be discouraged.

Bette is stunned by the ignorance and says maybe they dodged a bullet because she is having second thoughts about the adoption. She thinks that maybe the baby would have had a genetic imprint which included the families way of thinking, and she said she didn’t think she would want that around Angelica.

Someone knocks on the door.

It is Marcy. She says she is sorry about them. They are against alot of things, but she doesn’t care. They are the family that she wants her baby to go to.

Tina and Bette look at each other considering what they were just talking about.

Tina asks Marcy if she met the other two couples. She said they weren’t as interesting as Bette and Tina, and she didn’t like them as much as she liked them. She says “This baby, he is going to have an interesting life.” Bette says “he?”, and Marcy says “yes it’s a boy”. She said that was another reason she wanted them to be his parents; because this world needs boys who are going to do things different. Marcy said she wanted her baby to have a chance and to make the world a little better, and she thinks he will have that with Bette and Tina as his parents. Bette is on the verge of tears. Tina hugs Marcy and then Marcy hugs Bette.

When she leaves, Bette and Tina hug.

The next morning, they wake up and Bette says she is happy, and that what she said about having second thoughts was a momentary thing. They grab each others hands and Bette say “We’re gonna have a baby.”

Meanwhile, Max wakes up alone.

He looks in the closet and Tom’s stuff is gone. Max has been abandoned.

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She goes to his office and he is angry with her and yelling. She has no idea what he is talking about, and he reveals that the negative to their movie was stolen from their lab – they have no more film. Aaron thinks Jenny took it and since she is Tina’s friend he is holding Tina personally responsible.

Tina says to herself “Jenny I am going to fucking kill you”.

Shane and Jenny wake up naked, and we get to see the girls in all their glory. Shane doesn’t know what to say and Jenny says “I’m happy we fucked.” Shane asks if she is sure, then commences to more of what they were doing the night before – until the doorbell rings.

Jenny forgot she was supposed to look over Alice’s treatment. Jenny wonders if they made a mistake, Shane says no and answers the door.

Alice knows the you’ve had sex all night look and asks Alice if it’s someone she knows. Shane try’s to play it off, and Alice asks a bunch of questions. Jenny comes in and Alice sees them talking and can tell they’ve been sleeping together. When they go in the room, she silently freaks out. The girls come back in the room Shane tells her they will talk later, Alice goes into the bathroom and texts all the other girls – “OOOMMMGG!!!!! JENNY AND SHANE HAD SEX LAST NIGHT!!!” She sends another text right after that says “WITH EACH OTHER!!”

All of the girls have funny reactions to the message.

Helena is running on the treadmill and falls off, Bette is at a meeting and laughs out loud, and Kit doesn’t know why her cell phone keeps buzzing because she doesn’t know what a text message is.

Jenny tells Shane she doesn’t want to put any expectations on their relationship, while Alice listens from the other side of the door with Helena on the phone. Jenny wants boundaries, and she wants things to be different. Alice and Helena are grossed out.

Jenny would appreciate it if Alice didn’t mention it to anyone.

Bette has a meeting with Jody at work. She tells Jody that working together has become uncomfortable and asks her to resign. Jody says no, that she loves her job. Bette tells her is she doesn’t resign she will have to fire her and Jody says go ahead. Alice is working with Jenny, and keeps getting phone calls from everyone since she sent out the text. Jenny lays into Alice about what she wrote, tells her writing a screenplay is a craft and Alice has to take things seriously if she wants to work with her.

Jenny tells Alice to pitch her idea to her, and after she does she tells her its boring and won’t sell.

Jenny tells Alice she should go into cartoon voice overs, and then Tina drops by. Tina approaches Jenny about the stolen negative and asks her if she stole it. Jenny is upset and tells her to ask Adele. Jenny is adamant that she did not steal the negative and that Tina needs to find it or her whole life is over.

Shane and Alice have a bite to eat together at the Planet and discuss the situation of Jenny.

Shane says they are not going to add water and have an instant relationship, but that she wouldn’t mind if it happened again (them having sex). Bette approaches her boss Phylis about Jody, and finds that Jody is already in her office. Phylis tells her she is allowing dyke drama to interfere with her job, and the way she is treating her is sexual harassment.

Shane and Jenny have sex again, even though Shane told Alice they wouldn’t.

On the show The Look, Alice is supposed to share secrets, but instead shares a letter from a girl whose brother was a victim of a hate crime. Alice goes out on a limb and talks about how outing people can sometimes be deadly.

Everybody is looking at Tina like she is responsible for the film being gone.

Aaron wants to see her again. He shows her a letter with her signature releasing the negative for the film to a messenger service. Tina is outraged and doesn’t know who wrote the letter.

Phylis and Bette have a drink together, where Phylis asks Bette to resign instead of Jody.

She goes over her history, pointing out that she has had similar problems in the past. Phylis also confesses to Jody that she has had a crush on her for years, and it has been difficult not to act on. Phylis tells Bette “You are and will always be the woman of my dreams.”

Dylan sends Helena flowers at the Planet while Alice is worried about getting fired for reading the letter she wrote on the air.

While she is getting ready for the meeting where she is expected to be fired, she gets a call from the LA gay and lesbian center. Alice and Tasha go down to the center, where the girl who wrote the letter is out on the ledge and won’t come inside. Alice goes on the ledge to talk to the girl, whose name is Marie. They have a heart to heart talk, and Alice tells her how her letter is helping to change the world.

Over at the Hit club, the girls toast Alice and Tasha says she is proud of her.

Kit sees Jenny and Shane kissing, and runs to tell the other girls. They all laugh at her, because she didn’t know how to check her text messages. When Shane and Jenny walk up they all try to act normal. They both make excuses to check out the second floor, and all the girl laugh when they leave. They are all having a good time at the club, and see Shane and Jenny up on the balcony.

The new couple kiss officially in public at the top of the balcony in front of everyone.

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She has her entourage google it for her, then screams at everyone to get out. She says Jenny is a liar and a user and she is dead meat. Kit and Helena are working on the nightclub together, and Shane is continuously trying to get Jenny to forgive her. Jenny finds out that Alice is writing a treatment for a screenplay and is a bit irritated by it. Tasha and Alice aren’t seeing eye to eye on a lot of things, and Bette and Tina are caught in the middle of the Jenny and Shane feud. Alice tells Jenny that her and Shane need to “work their shit out”.

Bette and Tina announce that they have high hopes of adopting a baby, which is prompting them to remodel their house.

Jenny is concerned since she is looking for a new roommate and makes it clear to Shane that she won’t forgive her. The Lez Girls movie title is changed to The Girls and when Tina objects she is told “Get on board, the train is no going to Lezzy Town.” Jody is doing an art exhibit with the piece she did about Bette, and of course Bette is upset. She isn’t able to talk to Phyllis about it because Joyce shows up naked in Phylis’ office. She proposes to Phyllis that they get married while gay marriage is legal in California; and offers to marry her on the front steps of city hall in San Francisco, being married by ‘Gavin’. Phyllis says yes and they are excited. Max goes to his final consult for his female to male transition surgery and all looks well except for one problem. Max is pregnant. He thought taking the testosterone would stop his female reproductive system from working but apparently not. Max is extremely disappointed that he will have to postpone his surgery.

Alice and Tasha go to see a therapist and just when they think they are doing good he tells them that they have nothing in common and shouldn’t be together.

They are upset by the diagnosis and denying that it could be true. They wind up having sex in the parking garage immediately after the appointment. Meanwhile, Max goes to his appointment at the OB-GYN to see about having an abortion. The receptionist thinks he is joking, and threatens to call security. The waiting room gasps when he yells out “I’m a female to male trans-sexual. I’m a man and I’m pregnant. Don’t you read the fucking tabloids.” Classic. Even more classic is when Max and Tom meet up in the hallway after finding out he is 4 months and too far along to abort, and Max (with full beard) angrily yells at Tom “You got me pregnant!” That was indeed a classic TV moment. Back at home, Tasha and Alice come up with a pros and cons list to further evaluate their relationship.

Bette and Tina run into Bette’s old college friend at an art show who is flirty flirty with Bette right in front of Tina.

Before they leave, Bette also gets into it with Jody. When Bette and Tina get home they have a heated discussion about Bette’s flirting, and their lesbian bed-death ends when Bette says Tina’s the only one for her and they fall passionately into bed together. I wonder who was babysitting Angelica? Couldn’t have been Helena, Kit, Tasha or Alice because they were at the night club when Helena’s ex(tortionist) Dylan shows up! (Yes, at the gay club!) Of course you know its drama and Dylan says she’s sorry. Helena let’s it slide but when she sees Dylan leave she can’t help but follow her out and get in her face. Helena is hotttt in this scene.

Max and Tom make up and talk about being two “West Hollywood Fag Dads”.

Max is going to think about having the baby, meanwhile Shane has given up on trying to win Jenny over. Jenny tells Shane that it was her she was talking to when she said ‘You broke my heart’. She said she realized that her heart was broken because she is in love with Shane. Whaaat?? Yes. That’s what she said!! She said she is in love with Shane and feels like one of the sorry girls who Shane has hurt in the past. Shane commences to kissing Jenny, and they seem to be headed down that path together…

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We start things off with police activity and the Sergeant arriving at Bette and Tina’s house. We learn that one of the girl’s died in the pool. In the house all of the L Word main characters are sitting in the living room on the couch, as they pull the body from the pool, then bring it out through the living room. Jenny Schechter lays dead on the gurney.

3 months earlier….

We are taken to the night of the wrap party for Les Gurlz when Jenny is speaking. Tina finds out the ending has been changed by the marketing department. They think the movie is too gay, and they want the movie to end with the main character Jesse going back to Jim. We then see Jenny and Shane arguing when she finds Shane in a compromising situation with Nikki. A high speed car chase back to their house ensues, with Shane chasing Jenny, and Nikki chasing Shane only she has a driver.

Meanwhile, Tasha and Alice are having relationship issues, and when Alice takes Helena’s call while they were talking Tasha starts packing.

Alice doesn’t want to break up, but she did want to after she had talked to Shane. Now that Shane messed around with Nikki, Alice was thinking twice about taking her advice. Tasha doesn’t think it’s right that Alice even thought about breaking up.

Shane is still trying to get into the house while Jenny holds the door closed and then locks Shane out.

Bette and Tina are having a conversation about what’s going on with the film when they hear the yelling next door between Jenny and Shane. Bette says “poor Shane”, her and Tina begin to debate the issue, and then decide they shouldn’t talk about it.

Nikki gets the keys and her and Shane get in the house.

Shane appeals to Jenny, apologizes, grovels, offers to be her slave. Nikki doesn’t help as she continues to interrupt with idiotic comments. Jenny winds up throwing a lamp and something else and storming into her room.

Alice and Tasha are trying to talk things out, but Tasha says they don’t have anything in common.

Tasha says things were hot when she was a lesbian in uniform, but they have to have more in common than just sex.

Shane is worried about the situation with Jenny, but Nikki just blows it off and invites Shane back to her hotel room. Shane is not interested, and Jenny throws some of Shane’s things out essentially kicking her out.

Bette and Tina are worried about Angelica because she has a fever.

Shane comes knocking and needs a place to stay. Bette and Shane have a chat, and Shane reveals that she loves Molly. She says she knows because she was faithful to her. Bette says “it must have been hard.” Tina says “how fucking hard is it to stay faithful to someone you love.” Tina is wound up about what’s going on with the movie, and decides to call William but he winds up hanging up on her.

All the while Helena and Kit are working on a new name for their nightclub, and put their names together to call it the Hit club.

Back at the house, Tina is giving Shane a hard time for not thinking. Bette jumps in and says she’s being judgmental, and the conversation becomes a bit more about what’s going on between Tina and Bette than Jenny and Shane. Angelica calls for Mommy and Mama and is coughing badly.

Alice and Tasha are still talking about things but it’s not going well.

Alice blurts out that she “didn’t even really kiss her” right when Shane comes by to ask if she can stay. Tasha leaves, she is mad at Alice and Shane.

Tina and Bette having to take the baby to the hospital, her fever is 104 degrees.

Next door Molly comes looking for Shane, and Jenny answers the door. Molly is insistent on looking for Shane, and Jenny tells her she’s at the hotel with Nikki. She tells her that she doesn’t know how long it’s been going on. Molly is upset, and leaves Shane’s jacket for her with a letter in the pocket. Jenny reads the letter.

In your eyes
I see things I know I cannot touch
I know not to reach for them
I let them touch me
and I cherish these moments
that we’re able to share
however fleeting they may be

Jenny puts the jacket up in the attic.

At the hospital, the nurse tells them to put one name as the mother or she cant process their paperwork and Bette goes off.

She tells the nurse:

“Are you kidding me? This is Los Angeles. There’s same-sex families on every fucking street corner. She was born in this fucking hospital and both our names are on the fucking birth certificate so why don’t you just give us a break you bueracratic maggot and get our daughter in to see a God damn doctor! Please.”

Shane runs into Nikki, and Nikki is all over her.

Then Jenny texts her and tells her if she wants to see her to go over. Shane tells her to go. Bette read the thermometer wrong and Angelica is fine. Tina and Bette share a kiss in the car. Alice follows Tasha to her friends house. Nikki goes to Jenny’s house, and Jenny is all over her.

Jenny and Nikki have a hott sex session, and Nikki keeps saying she is sorry and other things the whole time while Jenny just says Shhhh.

Shane doesn’t have anywhere to go, and Alice and Tasha are now having their problem conversation at Tasha’s friends house. Helena is keeping things cool at the Hit club, and Shane winds up there. They proceed to do shots together. Bette apologizes to Tina for taking Shane’s side earlier. She promises to Tina that she shares her values about family and faithfulness, and that she will never ever cheat on her, again.

Tasha and Alice leave the friends house after sex noises from the room become too much.

Jenny and Nikki finish having sex, and Shane is drunk at the Hit club, winding up going home with Kit. Back at home Tasha and Alice are not supposed to have sex, yet Alice squirms her way into bed with Tasha. Tasha wants to be sure that they are going to stay together, and they talk about going to therapy. Kit gives Shane advice, and tells her to fight for Jenny and fight for the friendship.

When Jenny and Nikki wake up the next day, Nikki is happy things are ok between them, telling Jenny she is so sexy and she loves her.

Jenny tells Nikki “You didn’t break my hear. Your nothing but a self absorbed self indulgent little brat. that affair on set was nothing but a showmance and when i said that you broke my heart I wasn’t talking about you darling. It’s time for you to go.”

The next day at the Planet, they are all there, but Jenny doesn’t want Shane to sit next to her so they split into separate tables.

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LezGurlz.com is a new a lesbian entertainment site, where you can find the latest lesbian movie trailers, a forum, chat box and more.

The site is still very new and yet has a very good variety of video clips and new release trailers for lesbian movies that keep you coming back for more. Some of the videos they show can be found on their YouTube channel, but for the most part you can find video trailers on their main site here. Aside from video trailers and a discussion forum for ‘women who love women’, you can also find book reviews, posters and art, plus show information for your favorite lesbian TV shows, short films, and documentaries as well. Follow lesbian story lines on LezGurlz.com and shop for lesbian movies direct from their site as well. If you are a lesbian looking for the latest in lesbian entertainment, be sure to check out the LezGurlz.com website and let them know that LezGetReal sent ya.

Julie Phineas is a work at home mom of 2 who lives in Southern California. You can find out more about her online by visiting her website at www.juliephineas.com.

You can find Michelle Paradise videos on her website where you will find that she has had the acting bug since she was four; and ultimately did what many in the entertainment industry consider impossible when she created, executive produced, wrote, and starred in her own television series. She also managed to develop, produce, and sell her series without an agent. In 2007, POWER UP named Michelle Paradise one of its “10 Amazing Gay Women in Showbiz”.

I first saw Bump! on the LOGO channel with lesbian host Shannon McDonough in Valencia and I was hooked, plus I liked the show too. *wink* Shannon took us through many features of the area that you wouldn’t be able to find on your own, so if you are a lesbian traveler you’ll want to be sure to take a look around the Bump! website and catch the show if you can. You shouldn’t have a problem because Bump! is shown around the world! Along with LOGO here in the U.S., you can find Bump! being aired in Canada on OUT TV, in France and Belgium on pink TV, and in Israel on Ananey. In Europe, use your mobile phone to watch Bump! anywhere Mango TV is available.

I never wanted to go to Spain before, but now it’s on my list. Thanks Shannon! Anyhow, there are two other hosts you’ll find on Bump! – Charlie David and J.R. Anderson. You can find out more about all three on the Bump! website here. The website also features fun stuff and helpful links for travelers so be sure to visit the website at
BumpTV.com.

You can also find Bump! podcasts iTunes Store Home Page, or find previous episodes on DVD at Amazon:

Newer episodes of Bump! can also be found on the LOGO website. Enjoy!

Julie Phineas is a work at home mom of 2 who lives in Southern California. You can find out more about her online by visiting her website at www.juliephineas.com.
]]> http://lezgetreal.com/2009/01/lez-travel-bump-tv/feed/ 0 http://lezgetreal.com/2008/10/two-mommy-media/ http://lezgetreal.com/2008/10/two-mommy-media/#comments Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0000 ~Julie Phineas~ http://lezgetreal.com/?p=107 If you have children you might find yourself becoming more of a pro in the area of multimedia. Do you ever stop and think about the ideas you are endorsing?

Children today are constantly exposed to various ideas through the media, and I myself have had to activate my ‘watchful eye’. It’s hard to keep an eye on every single thing that your child ever lays their eyes on! Honestly, it’s just not possible, but really mothers have to tackle this issue from the moment their child enters their life. Every single thing – and I mean everything – that your child is exposed to needs to be questioned, evaluated, and decided upon. What they eat, what they wear, what they see, what people say, the list goes on and on. The bottom line here is that the choices you make for your child affect their perception of the world and how they are going to interact with it in the future. If you have children you probably have had this realization hit home at one point or another. What I want to focus on here today is the choices that parents have to make in regards to multimedia. Parents seriously have to ask themselves what perceptions are being reinforced in the media that their kids are exposed to. What it comes down to here is that when we buy a product or service, we are also buying into an idea.

For example, let’s talk about the Disney Princesses.

These fictional women were put into the spotlight without any regards to the fact that they would become role models to millions of girls who would one day grow up to be women. One of the underlying messages of the stories involving the Disney Princesses is that in order for a girl to “live happily ever after” she has to marry the prince and become a princess. (You can read more about this in the New York Times article What’s Wrong With Cinderella?.) Disney is going to debut their first African American princess in 2009, and it will be interesting to see what the story line is there. Maybe one day they’ll evolve to where the Disney Princess lineup includes a Lesbian Princess!

I try to stay aware of the underlying messages that my children are exposed to through the many different forms of media that are available today.

There are songs on the radio, programs on TV, movies in the theaters, websites online, magazines and books in print, etc. Anything that has an image imprinted should definitely be evaluated, whether it’s an image in a book, a picture on a magazine cover, or a graphic on a t-shirt. Also, any book or song that uses hateful or racist words should be avoided. More than that however, anything produced with the intent of spreading ignorant or derogatory messages should be boycotted. I don’t purchase video games with guns and violence, or magazines with suggestive pictures or racy words on the cover. Any magazines, etc. that my wife and I might have with mature images or suggestive words on it is kept out of the eyes of our children. Music with adult language is also best kept for times when the children aren’t with us.

Because I am a lesbian mom, I am especially concerned with media that is anti-gay or that is ignorant of gay families.

Two-mom families, like any other family, need access to media that provides ideas and messages that they can identify with and support as mentioned in this article. We need prime time television shows with real live lesbians in them. We need mainstream magazines with gay and lesbian couples on the cover; and we need games, books, cartoons, and coloring pages for our kids too. I’d like to see a cooking show hosted by two-moms combining their knowledge to feed their family. I’d like to see a sitcom with a two-mom family, something like the show Everybody Loves Raymond. It would be nice to see lesbian fashion on the cover of Cosmo; or listen to a love song on the radio sung by a lesbian with the lyrics I love her. One day maybe the kids will even play a video game with lesbian characters saving the day, LOL.

My point here is that there is a definite need for Two-Mommy Media!

Here is a relevant quote from an article I wrote before on lesbophobia where I address the importance of endorsing companies that share your values:

…every dollar you spend, every website you click on, every radio station or TV channel you tune into lines somebody’s pockets. BE CONSCIOUS of whose pockets you are lining! Avoid endorsing media networks, websites, products, radio shows, and anything else that is produced by people or companies known for gay-bashing or otherwise supporting anyone or anything that is anti-gay. When musical artists like JaRule make negative statements towards the gay lifestyle (article)I refuse to further support their music. Companies like Gannett and General Electric offer health insurance for domestic partners of their employees and I will purchase and endorse their products as long as they continue to do so. –

More so than avoiding anti-gay media, it’s most important to support pro-gay media.

You’ll find that more and more gay and lesbian role models are emerging through the media, and the mainstream perspective is becoming more diverse despite anti-gay protest. You can show your support for the ideas that you personally endorse through the media that you choose, and which types of media you expose your children to if you are a parent. As a lesbian mom, it is important to me that gay families get more exposure in the mainstream media. (Especially when the mainstream media wants my lesbian money!) It would be nice for my children to turn on the TV and see families like theirs – and let’s face it we can’t watch The L Word with the kiddos. *wink

Here is a short list with links of ‘Two-Mommy Media’ available online:

Women In Love: Portraits of Lesbian Mothers & Their Families

Amazon Listmania! of Lesbian Family Books Compiled by Author Kaitlyn T. Considine of TwoMomBooks.com

Dottie’s Magic Pockets on DVD and Video Brought To You By Pink Pea Production Company

Two-Moms T-shirts and Gifts on CafePress

Calendars and Coloring Books from the Families Like Yours and Mine Website

And Buddy G: My Two Moms and Me has free coloring pages online.

Of course these are just a few examples of the types of media that send a pro-gay message.

You can also find a list of about a hundred different items for pro-gay families at FamilyEquality.org. If you are a lesbian mom like me, you are definitely going to want to take some time to browse these items and see what is available to you. You can also keep an eye on lesbian and bisexual women in the media and entertainment industry at the website AfterEllen.com which is brought to us by LOGO. I am looking forward to the day when media like this is available mainstream, and gay families are regarded with the same perspective as any other family in society.

I hope that this post has helped to shed some light on the needs of families like mine and the need for more Two-Mommy Media. Thank you for reading!

Julie Phineas is a work at home mom of 2 who lives in Southern California. You can find out more about her online by visiting her website at www.juliephineas.com.
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