Flashback, The Castro, 1979
Look there’s Teri! Remember her from Episode One. She’s graduated from her vagina encounter group and moved to San Francisco. She’s also cut her long locks to sport a dyke do. Teri is hungerin’ for some women in The Castro. The resident gay boys point her in the right direction. Teri finds Toni, her lust match and back alley girl. Check out the lines on the screen, the connection, why it’s it’s the Chart!! Seems like Teri is kind of like Eve. Will Season Three detail all of these love connections and how our girls are intertwined through history and time? Tune in!!
On the Road Again
Jenny and Moira are headed to Los Angeles and what a wild, strange Kerouac trip this will be. (Does anyone remember Jenny’s mushroom trip of Season One? Of course, you do.) The adventure will include cocaine and razors—don’t do it, Jenny! — and a tasor incident in which Jenny zaps the small town, “I’m a real man” bigot. Moira pees standing up (prompting a lengthy discussion among friends about this art form and the book, ]How to Pee Standing Up: Tips for Hip Chicks, by Anna Skinner) and gets referred to as “fella,” revealing herself/himself as Max. At the “Lasso Lady,” (think rural) Jenny and Moira have a tense moment when Moira flirts with Katrina (think hurricane), forcing a discussion of feelings. Are Jenny and Moira together? What does Jenny want? (Think déjà vu.)(Think I have a therapist for you when you’re ready.)
Alan Cumming
How brilliant you are and what an amazing addition to the cast! Alan Cumming, known for Chicago and The Anniversary Party, plays Billie Blaikie a fabulous party promoter and would-be manager of The Planet. Definitely someone who will give Kit a run for her money. He sponsors an outrageous affair called “Vulva Las Vegas,” which celebrates the fluidity and creativity inherent in sexuality as well as benefits the AIDS Project Los Angeles. See Billie in drag, wagging his tongue and ass. How I wish there was a monthly event like this in every city! A Global Vulva! A chance to let the queer freak fly! And the events are charitable, for worthy causes, so really it’s altruism, a way of truly giving back.
OLA, Obsessive Love Addict
Oh, Alice. It’s so hard to be an OLA. I’ve been there sister. Alice has joined a Bisexual Love Addict’s group. 12 steps to a healthier bisexual you. Her best friend Helena picks her up after the first session, asks how it went, tells Alice she might need help in other areas of her life, for example in terms of cleaning her apartment. Helena hires a lesbian cleaning service—“Lez Clean Up.” (I giggle aloud.) A hilarious scene ensues in which the LCU maid finds Alice’s sex toys, the ones she shared with Dana, including a pink bondage mask. She also finds the shrine and life-size poster of Dana, which prompts Helena to utter in her sultry British accent, “Jesus, Bloody Christ, Alice! Have you completely lost your mind? It’s a fucking shrine, Alice! A bordering on psychotic serial killer obsessive type shrine.” (I think it’s bordering on psychotic how much I am lusting after Helena this season. Do I just forget what happened last season? I could try that. I think I can, I think I can.) Later in the scene, Alice takes the box of sex toys to The Planet and dumps them on the table shared by Dana and Lara. She says she has been cleaning house. You go Alice! Way to be a healthy bisexual!
