wanted : funny and interesting and pretty.

[burntcopper]

Out there, there has to be a decent media site for gay and bi women. There are plenty of media sites for gay and bi women. But all the ones I've come across? They read like the bloody gay women's magazines.

To iterate : I long ago gave up reading magazines aimed at gay and bi women, and this is reinforced every time I go back to them. They're bloody boring. Not just boring. 'meh' levels of boring. So boring they're not even Moneybox and Any Answers levels of background boring, actively 'let me shoot myself so I am less BORED'. For a description : Gay Times is going through a very boring, earnest phase, but at least it's vaguely readable and the pictures are pretty. Attitude and Out and their ilk are fun and pretty and bitchy and shallow and a good read. All the gay womens' mags? They're more boring than Gay Times, with added Rhona Cameron. Trying to be perky but it's forced and horribly earnest and immensely irritating. Like being force-fed carob and constantly being preached that 'no really, it's just as tasty as chocolate!'.

Gay and bi mens' media sites? http://out.com and http://afterelton.com may be sometimes completely wrongheaded and shallow, but they're fun to read. http://afterellen.com is like being being made to read Rhona Cameron and Julie Burchill at once. ARGH.

Maybe I should learn. Never go anywhere near women's gay and bi media sites that have that much organisation and sponsorship. Stay with lj. Stay with blogs. Stay with webcomics. They're fun and insightful and pretty, after all. It's just that I'd really like to find a gay and bi womens' media site on the level of afterellen that's on the same level of the mens' ones. I want it. We deserve it. WE DESERVE SANDI TOKSVIG, DAMMIT.

Sandi Toksvig in a waistcoat and smoking jacket and a moustache with a pipe. Dammit.

Comments

[cynicalcylon.livejournal.com]

As a never-really-knew-there-was-a-closet bi woman, I've always been ashamed by the complete & utter rubbish that is published in the name of gay women.

Surely there're some decent writers out there, plying their trade for gay-women kind...apparently not in the public sector (aka newspapers, magazines, online stuff that's not slash - I've never actually found a femslash writer that's really held my attention for very long - whatever).
I've come across some fantastic novelists, but they're always hidden away or uber hard to find.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

god yes. and then you think of the sheer amount of fandom that is bi or gay and...

All the really good or funny female gay/bi professional writers and comedians all seem to be radio 4 or theatre bods. :sulk:

And everytime I wonder where they get the birkenstocks and over-earnest image, you only have to pick up Diva. I don't want those people to represent me. I want Portia de Rossi. I want Sandi Toksvig. I want Fiona Shaw. I want Saffron Burrows. I want funny, glamourous intelligent people. Is that too much to ask?

[cynicalcylon.livejournal.com]

Don't be silly, of course it's too much to ask.

I mean, the men have all the pretty so of course there's none let for the women to use...

[ladydchaos.livejournal.com]

i'll get myself really well famouse n you can have me ^_^...hey what about Angelina don't we have her.....

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

yeah, but she's not contributing articles to a decent media site or magazine for gay and bi women.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

:muses: perhaps we can start begging Katie West and Dita von Teese and all the photographers and art-makers Warren links to for our pretty.

[transtempts.livejournal.com]

Here, here. The magazine selection in general is somewhat distressing recently. I've pared down my subscriptions gradually, (I used to get three or four magazines) and now get Rolling Stone and Weird Tales. A magazine that caters to gay and bi women? Tell me if you find such a thing, and if it has Sandi Toksvig in a waistcoat and smoking jacket and a moustache with a pipe., for I shall be thrilled.

[random-c.livejournal.com]

I'm more-or-less straight, but *I* want the Toksvig mag, damnit.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

It would be erudite, funny and topical and nothing like Red or Cosmo or Harpers or Womens' own all those other things stuffed under 'Women's mags'. never mind the sexuality issues, just something that caters to our brains would be good. I'd just like to pick up a mag that was non-specific. Even the film and sci-fi and web ones and specialist stuff all seem to be horribly male skewed.