Retro Reviewing: Pride special

This week, an understaffed Retro Reviewing crew took it upon themselves to review their Pride 2009 experience.

This episode is complete with a full do's and don'ts list on how to have a happy pride, and a slightly more serious discussion on the evolution of Pride itself.

Next time around, the two D's (that's Danielle and Denae) will take on music videos from '90s Eurotrash outfit Army of Lovers and the newest bisexual diva on the block, Lady Gaga.

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From the Cheap Seats: Moans and Groans (Episode 51)

This week on From the Cheap Seats, Becca flies solo as Michelle's voice still has not returned from last week's Pride festivities. The lone vlogger gives an update on the power rankings for the week and laments the difficult season facing the Liberty and the Monarchs.

Candace Wiggins of the Minnesota Lynx

Beyond the WNBA, Becca takes the tennis world to task for the current debate about whether or not women can scream, shriek, or make other not-so-lady-like noises on the courts.

This is a vlog by fans for fans, so please leave plenty of comments, questions, rants and raves, or anything else that comes to mind. And check back next weekend for another episode!

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Rumer Willis to guest on "90210" as a a "punky cute lesbian"

If anyone was born to be on 90210, it’s Rumer Willis.

The CW has confirmed to Access Hollywood that Willis will play a lesbian in at least one episode of the show’s upcoming season, which starts September 8.

Her character, Gia, is “a punky cute lesbian who isn’t afraid to speak her mind.”

Gia will be a part of the Blaze News crew with 90210 regulars Navid (Michael Steger), Adrianna (Jessica Lowndes) and Silver (Jessica Stroup).

Andrea Zuckerman would be so proud.

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Piper Perabo joins the CIA in USA's "Covert Affairs"

Since winning our lesbian hearts over in films like Imagine Me and You (and possibly farther back, if you loved the dramatics of Lost and Delirious or the bar dancing in Coyote Ugly), Piper Perabo hasn't always made the best career choices.

There was that awful waste of a great cast, Because I Said So, where she starred as one of Diane Keaton's daughters, alongside Mandy Moore and Lauren Graham. (Yes, it still sucked.)

Then there was Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Enough said.

But now I'm feeling as if Piper is back on the right track, as The Hollywood Reporter writes that she's been cast as the lead in the new show Covert Affairs. She'll play Annie Walker, as an ass-kicking CIA trainee who speaks six languages and "excels at any endeavor she undertakes." Yes, that sounds like a great role her.

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Really?! REALLY?! Dan Choi's coming out and "More to Love"

In this episode of Really?! REALLY?!, Michelle covers topics ranging from incredibly important to incredibly silly, beginning with the discharging of gay military activist Dan Choi.

Then she takes on Fox's new reality show, More to Love, and asks your opinion on shoes that are created to improve balance.

Learn out more about Michelle at MySpace.com/anythingsarcastic, follow her on Twitter and check back next Friday for another episode of Really?! REALLY?!

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Puzzle Over This: A friend in need

Solve the puzzle and see if you can identify the characters involved in this scene of a lesbian helping her straight friend take down the bad guys by pretending to be a couple.

If you solve the puzzle and still don't know the answer, click here.

Move the puzzle pieces around with your mouse.

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FEED: Season 2, Episode 3 "The Plan"

Maura (Amanda Deibert) and Mike (Daniel Miller) make it back to the underground location within minutes of each other and the group reacts to the deaths of Joanie (Dana Pacheco) and Bobby (Jon Gormley).

As the group begins to realize that they may be next, Maura and company start acting on their plan in an attempt to get the truth out before it’s too late.

Stay tuned for more FEED, airing every Friday on AfterEllen.com and www.feedseries.tv.

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Tina Fey, Cate Blanchett and Lily Tomlin give their voices to "Ponyo"

The trailer for renowned Japanese artist Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo hit theaters this weekend, and it's as surreal (and Disney-fied) as American anime fans hoped (and feared) it would be.

Ponyo (originally Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea) tells the tale of young fish/mermaid whose longing to live on land leads her into an unlikely friendship with a five-year-old human, Sōsuke . The film was released in Japan last year to critical acclaim, prompting at least one advertising agency to say it was Japan's best export in 2008, behind the Nintendo Wii.

Hayao Miyazaki is a god among Japanese animators. His 2001 film, Spirited Away, was the first anime movie to win an Academy Award, which is almost as impressive as the fact that it beat out Titanic for the highest grossing film in Japanese history. So it's no surprise that he had his choice of actors for the American retelling of Ponyo.

Sōsuke's mother is voiced by Tina Fey.

Cate Blanchett voices Ponyo's mom.

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Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker play elderly lesbians in love

Brenda Fricker — who you may remember as Central Park Pigeon Lady from the much-lauded Home Alone 2 — and Olympia Dukakis are set to star in the forthcoming film Cloudburst, about a lesbian couple that decides to bust out of a nursing home to take a road trip to Canada.

Cloudburst is being billed as a comedy, but there's a poignant undertone: The women, who have been together for 30 years, plot their escape and subsequent trip to Canada because they want to be married before either of them dies.

See how I'm already weeping? There's no way I'll be able to sit through this movie.

Well played on the gender-bender tux, Brenda Fricker. Congratulations, you're ready to play a dyke!

On their way to Canada, the women pick up a young hitchhiker, which of course make me thing the alternate title of Cloudburst could be Thelma and Louise: What If They Survived The Fall?

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"Big Brother 11" casts a bisexual make-up artist

The cast for Big Brother 11 has just been revealed, and it includes the first queer woman since 2005, when the Cuban-American contestant Ivette was part of Big Brother 6. This season, 24-year-old, tattooed bisexual Lydia Tavera joins the house, which has apparently been systematically divided into cliques. (Thanks to Jam13 for the tip!)

The show's executive producer Allison Grodner said in a recent interview:

We have cast people in groups or cliques from the popular kids to the brainiacs to the athletes to the off-beat. ... You may have graduated, but the truth is we never leave high school and this summer we are going to prove it.

Let's take a guess which category the young, hip make-up artist Lydia is supposed to fall under.

The Torrance, California native has the pleasure of being the only queer woman on Big Brother in the U.S., while the U.K. version currently has three (Lisa, Angel and Saffia). Unfair!

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