February 14, 2003
GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE
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Buffy's Willow finally has a new lover: Liberty
by John Graves
Buffy the Vampire Slayer's lesbian witch Willow (Alyson Hannigan) finally has a new lover, Liberty, a slayer-in-training played by actress Iyari Limon.
Although the chemistry has been developing for two weeks, the pair sealed their love with a couple of intense kisses on a new episode that aired last week.
Prior to this, Willow found herself attracted to Liberty but did not fully respond to her overtures. Willow was still burdened by the death of Tara (Amber Benson), who had been her first and greatest love, and her own revenge killing of Warren for her murder.
On the February 4 episode, Liberty finally got Willow out to a club and pulled out all the stops to let Willow know she was falling for her. After talking about how Liberty knew she was gay and about how she herself came out, Willow finally gave in to the intense attraction she felt for Liberty. It took two kisses for the two women to seal their love, however, because in typical Buffy style, Willow was under a revenge spell that morphed her into the body of the slain killer Warren.
After Willow was unable to reverse the transformation herself, it took a second kiss from the ever faithful Liberty to make Willow realize she had been haunted by guilt over the death of Tara and her vengeance on Warren and transform her back to the woman Liberty fell in love with.
Finally free of the demons that haunted her past, Willow and her new love headed home with their arms around each other.
Nightlife is stranger than fiction
Union Station in Cleveland will have a special Will & Grace viewing party on Thursday, February 20 to benefit the Northern Ohio Steering Committee of the Human Rights Campaign.
In the episode, the title characters attend an HRC dinner, so the Cleveland committee decided to mirror the fictional events.
The show starts at 9 pm, but Union Station will give a 20% discount on dinner to anyone who signs up for HRC membership that evening. The club and café is located at West 28th St. and Detroit Ave.
John, Blige, Manson in AIDS ads
The Elton John AIDS Foundation is joining with the Mac AIDS Fund to develop a safe-sex campaign targeting young people.
Mary J. Blige, Shirley Manson of the band Garbage and Elton John have taped a number of 30-second messages that will begin airing on MTV and VH-1 February 17. The ads will also soon appear on BET.
The public service announcements are shot in a stark room with a white bed and intercut pictures of 100 New York teenagers with the three stars. The three PSAs end with the message, "AIDS Ain't Over.”
The three artists will also participate in Mac's Viva Glam lipstick campaign and will appear in ads in Vanity Fair, Elle, Vogue, In Style, Essence and other fashion and lifestyle magazines in April and May. All sales proceeds from Viva Glam lipstick go to the Mac AIDS Fund, which USA Today reports has raised $25 million since 1994.
Rosemary Chicken? Sounds good
The producers of All My Children are casting for a new character by the name of Rosemary Chicken, described as drag artist and sex worker in their late 20s.
Fans are still upset with the show's new crop of writers for not developing the romance between Bianca and Maggie and other storylines, according to Soap Opera Weekly. Not coming to the local cineplex
Hedwig and the Angry Inch filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell is expected to raise eyebrows with his next film The Sex Film Project, described as a narrative film with explicit sex scenes.
"I've never seen a film that has powerful performances and has real sex in it," Mitchell told Entertainment Weekly. He said he came up with the idea because, "I was bored with the stuff I was being presented with after Hedwig.
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Mitchell is soliciting actors for the film thorough his web site, thesexfilmproject.com.
New ensemble bears fruit
Kathleen Maki, Magdalen Donnelly, Laura Wittenberg and Jenna Messina, from left, star in Never Said, a one-act play about bisexual women's fantasies.
The play is one of three one-acts being performed by the fledgling Wild Plum Theater Company, a new LGBT ensemble. Performances will be on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 14 and 15, at 8 pm, and Sunday at 3 pm as part of Cleveland Public Theater's Big Box Series.
The theater is at 6415 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, and can be reached at 216631-2727.
"The main characters will be gay young men, but I want a secondary relationship that is straight or a lesbian couple," he said.
Mitchell will remain behind the camera for the film. He told EW he was looking for "people who are mixed in with this New York, downtown, bohemian, pansexual world that I live in.”
He went to the web to cast his film because "I was pretty sure nobody with an agent would be interested because they're worried
Amanda Bearse and other cast members from the long-running sitcom.
After Married With Children ended its run, Bearse, who played Bundy neighbor Marcy Rhoades and directed many episodes, went on to direct a number of other TV shows.
She also hosted and performed in a couple of all-lesbigay comedy specials that aired on Comedy Central several years ago.
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Raymond."
"In my film," Mitchell added, "everybody will love Raymond."
Queer as Folk begins third season
Good news for Queer as Folk fans: Showtime will begin airing 14 new episodes as the third season begins on Sunday, March 2 at 10 pm.
Showtime will air new episodes with returning stars Michelle Clunie, Robert Gant, Thea Gill, Gale Harold, Randy Harrison, Scott Lowell, Peter Paige, Hal Sparks and Sharon Gless every Sunday, repeating on Tuesdays at 11 pm and on Showtime 2 at other times during the week. Amanda Bearse is back
On Sunday, February 16 at 9 pm, Fox will air a Married With Children reunion special featuring interviews with lesbian actress
Absolutely Fabulous has returned in a special that began airing on Comedy Central February 1.
In it, Patsy and Edina head off to New York for Fashion Week and join up with Eddie's never-before-seen son Serge and his "fashion victim" boyfriend. They also meet a lesbian minister played by Whoopi Goldberg.
Although Absolutely Fabulous in New York was a special, Comedy Central will probably re-air it a number of times.
John Graves is the producer and host of Gaywaves, a lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender public affairs show on Cleveland's WRUW 91.1 FM Fridays at 7:30 pm, and at www.wruw.org. See what's coming on TV in the Couch Potato Report, under "Entertainment" at www.lgcsc.org. Dave Haskell, Jim McGrattan and Kim Jones also contribute to this column.
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