The Week of Bi-Bi’s — My Latest Article, Now on Bilerico

I published an article on Bilerico earlier this week. Check it out here. Titling it “The Week of Bi-Bi’s,” I wrote about my recent observations on biracial and bisexual representations in movies and on tv. Seems like there’s a lot of bi-bi going on lately, and I thought I would put in my two cents.

Here’s a snip:
“I’ve noticed a lot of LGBT content in unlikely places in the media lately. Earlier this week, Lindsay Lohan was a guest judge on Project Runway, and she was, to my knowledge, the first out female judge they’ve had on the show. She commented that one of the dresses looked “sexy” on the model wearing it, and I realized she’s probably been the only judge ever on the show who actually has sex with women and is therefore speaking from a very personal perspective. (I think the other judges, who are straight women and gay men, are qualified to describe dresses as sexy, which they often do; the difference is that they don’t desire women, and are therefore just using the term somewhat benignly, based on what they think is culturally sexy, but not necessarily what they themselves consider sexy.) It was a hot moment, and I was delighted to see Lindsay Lohan on the show, to interject that woman-desiring-woman viewpoint…”

Read the rest here.

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