Xena and Gabrielle are the standard bearers of lesbian badassery. Every other lesbian and bisexual badass in the world should aspire to their greatness. They should place Xena and Gabrielle’s badass photos beside their beds and worship Xena and Gabrielle’s badass DVDs on an alter each morning while eating Xena and Gabrielle’s badass cereal for breakfast each morning out of Xena and Garbrielle’s badass collectible bowls. Xena and Gabrielle will never be out-badassed. Ever.

Thank you, Heather Hogan!

Full article: 16 Lesbian and Bisexual Badasses We Love

Why doesn’t YouTube allow uploaders to enter in the video copyright holder and enter in the audio copyright holder? Then those copyright holders could be notified and approve or disapprove the use of their material. If they approve, they get a portion of the Google ads proceeds from the video or can place in their own ad eg “buy this video here” or “watch more of this here”.

YouTube sort of does this by automagically detecting songs and putting in the iTunes link (I was quite impressed that it correctly identified my soundtrack) but why not give the uploaders the opportunity to do the right thing and the copyright owners the chance to make some money and promote their products in new ways?

Just a thought… and now the cheesy video!

Here’s the lucky lesbians of the days so far:

Meredith Baxter

Amelie Mauresmo

Portia de Rossi

Mary Renault

Mary Glasspool

So great to see the fight for marriage equality get started in Australia in earnest. There is a march on Saturday August 1st in all Aus capital cities which I have written on the calendar. Everyone, come along!

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P.S. Here is another one:

Here are my top 20 most gorgeous female celebrities for 2009:

1. Jennifer Beals

2. Elizabeth Mitchell

3. Laurel Holloman

4. Emily Blunt

5. Lindsay Lohan

6. Famke Jansen

7. Katee Sackhoff

8. P!nk

9. Amber Benson

10. Sheetal Sheth

11. Tricia Helfer

12. Sara Ramirez

13. Beyonce

14. Anne Hathaway

15. Kristen Stewart

16. Lucy Lawless

17. Rachel Shelley

18. Lisa Ray

19. Kate Winslet

20. Dichen Lachman

The Unborn looks like a truly freaky horror movie of old, has that Exorcist or Omen vibe, but with some lovely modern effects thrown in. Also it has Stringer Bell, aka Idris Elba, in it, though I only recognised his voice and not his face.

Also there’s a new lesbo romcom to look forward to (or is it more of a drama?) with the imaginative title I Can’t Think Straight. I had a bumper sticker with that once. Anyway it sounds interesting as the lead characters are a London-based Jordanian who’s about to be married, and a young British Indian Muslim woman. And they have great chemistry! Hoping this will be on at the Mardi Gras Film Fest early next year.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince won’t be out for a few more months but another trailer has just been released online and it looks awesome! Especially love the scene at the end, ha ha. These movies just seem to get better and better.

And lastly, Wendy and Lucy, a character piece about a woman and her dog, and her life falling apart, which sounds kind of grim, but seems to be an amazing performance from Michelle Williams, and I have it on good authority that the dog survives! Which is a bonus.

So… here they are! NB: Jan would of course automatically top this list, but I am restricting it to famous people. Sorry Jan.

10. Famke Janssen

She was gorgeous as troubled heroine Jean Grey in X-Men.

9. Eliza Dushku

Mad, bad and dangerous to know on Buffy – no wonder I can’t resist!

8. Sarah Shahi

Ah, Carmen de la Pica Morales! No woman would ever really leave a brick house like you at the altar as Shane did in the L Word.

7. Jackie Warner

Star of reality tv show Work Out, she may be the fittest lesbian in the world. What’s the difference between a straight girl and a lesbian? Jackie Warner.

6. Amber Benson

As shy witch Tara on Buffy, she seemed like she has a lot of hidden depths, and absolutely gorgeous lips!

5. Gillian Anderson

The only woman who could ever make performing an autopsy seem sexy. Plus power suits. Mmm, power suits.

4. Katee Sackhoff

As Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica, she outguns, outsmokes and out-attitudes all the guys. Plus she wears sexy tanktops.

3. Jennifer Beals

Forget that Flashdance stuff, she steams up the screen as alpha-dyke Bette Porter on The L Word. Nice power-suits.

2. Simone Lahbib

As Helen on Bad Girls, she singlehandedly made Scottish accents eternally sexy for me. And it’s those power suits again!

1. Renee O’Connor

As Gabrielle on Xena Warrior Princess, she evolved to become one of the most powerful yet downright cute women on television. She’s still my number one!

So there you have it. That was a very good excuse to look at photos of beautiful women. Looks like my fetish for power-suits and tank tops has been exposed however.

To celebrate, here is the Which South of Nowhere character are you? quiz!

Family insanity? Dramatic relationships? You’ve been through it all, and now you’ve stopped letting that stuff get to you. Your ultimate life goal, for this week at least, is to find people who appreciate you for you, not for who you’ve dated or how you dress. You’ll wear the mini-est of mini skirts without feeling self-conscious, but the thought of attending a school function gives you nightmares. You use sarcastic criticism as a way to keep people distant, because if they get close, they might discover you’re not as certain about everything as you pretend to be.

We’ve got some people coming over for lunch today who are the only other lesbians in the world* with a child with Down Syndrome – and they live 40mins drive away! What are the chances? Their little girl is 9 months younger than Archie. Should be fun.

*as far as we have been able to ascertain without putting any great effort into looking