Lesbian: February 2009 Archives

I love writing about French tennis star Amelie Mauresmo because she is the pro game's most high-profile lesbian since Martina Navratilova and has played just about her entire career out and proud. She's a former number one player who's won Wimbledon and the Australian Open but hit hard times after her career year in 2006.

On Sunday, Amelie won her first tournament in two years when she beat Russian player Elena Dementieva in the finals of a tournament in Paris 7-6 (7), 2-6, 6-4. She last won a tournament in Feb. 2007 in Antwerp, Belgium.

Congrats to Amelie!!!

Sealed with a kiss.

The folks at ABC sent me these two images from a landmark storyline on "All My Children" featuring daytime television's first lesbian wedding between Bianca Montgomery (Eden Riegel) and Reese Williams (Tamara Braun). Bianca's mother is the one and ionly Erica Kane who is played by the legendary Susan Lucci.

The wedding will begin on today's episide and continues on Monday.

Cherry Jones, the Tony Award winning actress who is currently playing the President of the United States on "24," was asked about gay marriage and her relationship with actress Sarah Paulson with whom she has been with for five years.

On Prop. 8: "i hope it will be repleased because I don't think the majority should be allowed to take away the rights of the minority. I originally wanted the movement to be about civil unions, because to me, "marriage" is more of a religious bond and civil union is about the state. But I now appreciate that they went for broke, and I do believe that in another four or five years, the majority of those who voted for Prop. 8 will be ashamed of themselves."

Would she ever want marriage with Paulson who she met on the set of the film "Swimmers"?

"Never," she said. "I'm not the marrying type. I was in an 18-year relationship (with architect Mary O'Connor) and we discussed it, but it wasn;t something we felt we needed to do. And in my current relationship with Sarah, we feel similarly about it."