When the original L Word launched, “which of these actresses are gay in real life” was a common question asked of the cast members at press junkets and interviews. It was a different time, then.
Leisha Hailey was the only out lesbian in the main cast. 'The L Word' stars Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig are 'So Gay for You' in joint memoir The actors and queer icons discuss their real-life friendship and found family and that groundbreaking series. One of the cast members from The Real L Word 's third season which split its time between L.A. and New York, Kiyomi McCloskey is still killing it in NYC.
Cast members Leisha Hayley and Alexandra Hedison are lesbians and Laurel Holloman is bisexual. Mia Kirshner, Karina Lombard, Katherine Moenning, and Sarah Shahi have all been rumored to be gay or bi but have not officially stated their sexuality. Jennifer Beals, Erin Daniels, Rachel Shelley and Pam Grier are all straight.
Created by writer/producer Ilene Chaiken (Barb Wire, Empire), The L Word was the early aughts’ lesbionic answer to Showtime’s gay male drama, Queer as Folk. The cast featured a combination of. Visibility starts in our homes and our communities. To say a series about glamorous and successful Los Angeles lesbians was groundbreaking at the time would be, inarguably, an understatement.
Since the series wrapped 16 years ago, Hailey and Moennig have also kept busy with professional projects. She's Jewish. That was so sad! Riese has written articles for us. Anyway, give that kid a milkshake!! But she'd ask herself why she just didn't care about them and their relationships. Please keep in mind that comments are moderated by the guidelines laid out in our comment policy. But his character also made some weird problematic and aggressive choices, including many of his lines at that lunch with Max and Jenny in Season Three.
Is this progress? ABC News Live. Jean-Pierre also relayed a personal story of going to watch the taping of an episode of "The L Word: Generation Q" last year in which two of the main characters get married, a moment she said "meant so much to queer women across the country. The series centered on a group of eight friends, mostly lesbians, who were living, loving and working in Los Angeles.
She's since talked at length about her own experience coming out as gay to her family and has used her platform to criticize Republican policies she says target the LGBTQ community. Good riddance!
Carmen: I gave bonus points for any affiliation with Tasha. Moennig added that the show provided its audience with a more nuanced understanding of the lesbian experience, one that went beyond the butch-femme binary. According to Showtime, 1 million viewers tuned in for the series premiere. Hm, I was really rooting for James as 1.
That's fantastic. Jul 6, PM. She had a very popular personal blog once upon a time, and then she recapped The L Word , and then she had the idea to make this place, and now here we all are! View full post on X. No room for Marcus Allenwood on this list? Drew: People were so weird about Alice actually having a boyfriend. Even the men the main cast see as trustworthy pop up and reveal themselves to have been infiltrators or monsters.
Riese: That fight with Phyllis in her office where he asks her if she wants to flush their life down the toilet is some of the worst dialogue in L Word history. Kayla: I feel like people hated him but he was literally just a child? Riese is the year-old Co-Founder of Autostraddle.
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