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So You Think You Can Dance eighth season runner-up Sasha Mallory is an out lesbian, but didn’t reveal her sexual orientation on the show, and her rationale is disturbingly close to Nigel Lythgoe’s moronic and homophobic arguments about why no one ever comes out on his shows, which is far more glaring than competitions series where gay contestants are out. In an interview with After Ellen , Sasha talks about being one of the few gay women she knows in dance, and explained why she didn’t come out on the show: “It’s not important for America to know that personal side of me. They just needed to know if I could dance and if I had a personality. They didn’t really need to know if I was gay or straight. Who I’m sleeping with is not important. This is my craft, my art, it’s what I do and who I sleep with doesn’t really change that, I don’t think. I’m not afraid to tell people I’m gay. I’m proud all over the place. Ask anyone! [laughs] It’s just something that never needed to come up because...

The Biggest Loser has diversity in sexual orientation among its trainers, and I’m not even talking about cast members’ suggestions that Bob Harper is gay . The NBC reality series now has two female trainers who are gay, or at the very least, not straight: Jillian Michaels, who came out as bisexual last year without actually calling herself bisexual, and new trainer Cara Castronuova has been in a significant relationship with a woman, MC God-des, part of the dup God-des & She: In 2008, GQ said called God-des “her partner of two years.” But NBC “has turned down several interview requests from AfterEllen.com, and not just with Jillian, but their new trainer this season, Cara Castronuova,” the lesbian and bisexual pop culture news web site reported . Its headline asked, “Is ‘The Biggest Loser’ trying to keep their trainers in the closet?” NBC responded via a statement to Zap2it , in which the network said that its cast members get to decide what interviews they do. “What interviews ...

Home > Soaps > Coronation Street: Michelle Keegan wouldn’t mind Tina becoming a lesbian April 2nd, 2011 by Lisa McGarry. No comments Michelle Keegan says she wouldn’t mind Coronation Street bosses writing some lesbian storylines for her character. The stunning actress plays feisty Tina McIntyre in the ITV1 soap and while she is currently dating Graeme Proctor – who is set to marry Chinese immigrant Xin Chiang to help her stay in the country in a scheme organised by Tina – she wouldn’t be adverse to the brunette bombshell getting into a relationship with another woman. When asked if she handle it if her character came out as being gay, as Sophie Webster and Sian Powers did, Michelle replied: “If the storyline required it, then you just do it. Everyone is so close on set and all the cast get on really well, so it wouldn’t be a problem. It would definitely be a different side to Tina!” While she loves her character, Michelle isn’t impressed with Tina’s plan with Graeme and Xin as...

Thanks to AfterEllen.com reader Anna, we now know that one of the favorites in this year's Sweden Idol competition is 26-year-old Mariette Hansson from Harpline outside Halmstad. She has performed songs like Pink 's "Dear Mr. President," singing and playing the guitar and, just this week, she came out to Sweden's gay newspaper, QX . I've roughly translated the interview, in which she talks about finding herself and why she chose Piper Perabo as one of the actresses she'd love to play her in a movie of her life. QX: How gay are you on a scale from 1-10? Mariette Hansson: Wow, what shall I answer it? I live with a girl so it's at least 10 then. I'm completely open and you are actually the first I'm telling ... You should stand up for who you are and that we now have a responsibility towards young people who are confused — as confused as you were when you were younger. QX: What fun, because there are so very few girls who like girls who are...

As 2009 comes to a close, we take a look back at some of the people and events that made this the Best. Lesbian. Decade. Ever. in pop culture. Luckily for all of us, there was far more information to have mentioned from the last ten years than we could have included in this brief survey. That's why our lists for each year are not intended to be exhaustive, but are instead snapshots of different memorable moments that included the representation of lesbians and bisexual women in film, television, music, literature, comics, sports and the Internet since the year 2000.  Chavela Vargas comes out Mexican ranchera music legend Chavela Vargas publicly came out as a lesbian at the tender age of 81. Angelina Jolie wins Best Supporting Actress Oscar Angelina Jolie won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Girl, Interrupted and told Talk Magazine, "I only play women I would date." Rosie O'Donnell launches Rosie magazine Taking a note from the Oprah Winfrey manua...

Cycle 15 of America's Next Top Model will have aspiring catwalkers vying for the cover of Italian Vogue come September, meaning this season is all about high fashion and the competition is fierce. The contestants have just been announced and one of them is gay Hooters waitress Kayla . Here's her introduction interview: As you can see, Kayla has done some modeling in Chicago ("mostly small runways at clubs") and is also recovering from a loose disc (a soccer injury — she's played the sport for nine years). She says she loves wearing heels and thinks that gives her an advantage over some of the other girls who might not be used to it. 19-year-old Kayla has a live-in-girlfriend and is totally out, but tells Us Magazine she wasn't sure how the other girls in the house would receive her. (For a larger version of the image above, click here.) The only other info we have on her so far is that she's 5'9", she'd "never wear overalls," and...

Cycle 15 of America's Next Top Model will have aspiring catwalkers vying for the cover of Italian Vogue come September, meaning this season is all about high fashion and the competition is fierce. The contestants have just been announced and one of them is gay Hooters waitress Kayla . Here's her introduction interview: As you can see, Kayla has done some modeling in Chicago ("mostly small runways at clubs") and is also recovering from a loose disc (a soccer injury — she's played the sport for nine years). She says she loves wearing heels and thinks that gives her an advantage over some of the other girls who might not be used to it. 19-year-old Kayla has a live-in-girlfriend and is totally out, but tells Us Magazine she wasn't sure how the other girls in the house would receive her. (For a larger version of the image above, click here.) The only other info we have on her so far is that she's 5'9", she'd "never wear overalls," and...

As 2009 comes to a close, we take a look back at some of the people and events that made this the Best. Lesbian. Decade. Ever. in pop culture. Luckily for all of us, there was far more information to have mentioned from the last ten years than we could have included in this brief survey. That's why our lists for each year are not intended to be exhaustive, but are instead snapshots of different memorable moments that included the representation of lesbians and bisexual women in film, television, music, literature, comics, sports and the Internet since the year 2000.  Chavela Vargas comes out Mexican ranchera music legend Chavela Vargas publicly came out as a lesbian at the tender age of 81. Angelina Jolie wins Best Supporting Actress Oscar Angelina Jolie won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Girl, Interrupted and told Talk Magazine, "I only play women I would date." Rosie O'Donnell launches Rosie magazine Taking a note from the Oprah Winfrey manua...