WSGKSG: Erin McCarley Reading Playboy

In the realm of Ways the Straight Girl Knows She's Gay (WSGKSG), it doesn't get much clearer than reading Playboy. (Maybe watching lesbian porn?)

Thank you for making my day Erin McCarley! I wish I could have made it to the Madison show, I heard it was amazing.

Boys That Wear Makeup

And the girls that love them. If you haven't guessed, this is an edition of Ways the Straight Girl Knows She's Gay (WSGKSG for not so short). And liking boys in makeup/drag? Probably a good sign.

I was always a sucker for a guy in eyeliner. Maybe I should have make the connection to girls in eyeliner earlier. Better late than never!

PS. Vote for Adam Lambert (the boy wearing makeup) for American Idol. He's got amazing pipes and it would be cool to have a gay/bi idol.

Why Cosmo is for Lesbians

I've become a fan of Curve magazine since beginning to embrace my sapphic side, and I adore the many aspects it brings together that define my life. Long before I was savvy enough to discover my love of Curve - and discover my love of, ahem, curves - I spent countless hours leafing through "mainstream" women's mags. And still do for that matter. Cosmo is a staple as are Elle, Vogue, Allure, and Glamour. To a lipstick lesbian (and in the words of Elle Woods), Cosmo is the Bible.

It wasn't just the stilettos and couture duds that drew me in though, which brings me to the second installment of Ways the Straight Girl Knows She's Gay (WSGKSG). Sure, most women's magazines contain a requisite amount of male nudity, but even more so they feature quite a bit of female nudity. Everything from advertisements to swimsuit and lingerie spreads. And to a girl who may not realize she's gay yet, eyes lingering a little too long on certain pages should give pause.

She's not even a little nude (sad, I know), but my the first time I can remember looking a little too long and too often at a girl in a magazine was Selma Blair in the August 2002 issue of Seventeen when I was 16.



There was just something so adorably androgynous about her. I put the page up on my wall, and when my mom inquired I told her I was "thinking about getting my hair cut like that." Right.

Fast forward nearly eight years and it's a lot harder to use that line for Adriana Lima in this one:



Finally, there's the article that prompted this trip down memory lane:



Holy Hell. That's all I could say when I noticed this on Huffington Post while at work today, hoping my co-workers didn't notice me go into conniptions. This is for a feature article for Allure's Nude Issue. This is the epitome of what I'm taking about. If Padma Lakshmi doesn't make you question things just a little bit, I don't know what would. Oh, maybe this:



Eliza. Dusku. For real. Am I the only one who's Cosmo sometimes induced induces naughty feelings? I doubt it.

**Update** Last night I was watching But I'm a Cheerleader. How could I have forgotten the lines:
"Everyone reads Cosmo. Everyone looks at other girls, all the time!"
"But you only assume they're thinking what you're thinking when they look, but they're not"
"I thought everybody had those thoughts..."

Marry Me, Juliet

I don't listen to a lot of Top 40, but this song caught my attention. Only hearing bits of the lyrics on the radio, the song sounded a little bit, well, gay. What can I say? The line "My daddy said 'Stay away from Juliet'" sung by a girl evokes forbidden love of the sapphic kind.

Upon further inspection, the song is about as heteronormative as it gets. But I'm always a sucker for a Romeo and Juliet re-imagining...



... and I'm definitely a sucker for a cute blonde with southern drawl.


So, I'll keep listening to it, just ignoring the pronouns.

This post can also serve as the first installment of Ways the Straight Girl Knows She's Gay (WSGKSG). Pretty self-explanatory.

WSGKSG #23 (the numbers mean nothing - there's no method to this madness): Upon reading Romeo and Juliet, she identifies more with Romeo than Juliet. Not necessary in an I-want-to-be-a-boy kind of way, but in a way where she gets to be the one to climb up to the balcony - gets to be the one to fight for love (literally). To be explored further.