Bisexual Issues: June 2008 Archives

Bisexual video vixen Tila Tequila tells Us Magazine.com that her hit MTV series, A Shot at Love, played a part in helping gays and lesbians marry in California.

"Before [my show] came out, everyone was still a little apprehensive about [same sex relationships]," she said. "Then they realized, 'Wow, everyone is really into this stuff, and it is fine.' The next thing you know, [marriage] is legal."

Tila Tequila: Changing hearts and minds, one alcohol-drenched episode at a time.

Watch the season finale of A Shot at Love II on Tuesday, June 17 at 10 PM to see if Tila chooses Bo, Brittany or Kristy as her true love.

ABC News has turned speculation about Lindsay Lohan coming out as bi into an interesting take: “Bisexual in Hollywood: OK for Girls, Not Guys,” which examines the level of comfort in openness between male and female bisexuals.

Reporter Sheila Marikar observes, “Female stars, including Angelina Jolie and Drew Barrymore, have revealed past relationships with women and haven't seen their careers hurt in the least because of it. But among male actors, owning up to experimentation is all but verboten. Why the double standard?”

Marikar notes how bisexual love scenes between Denise Richards and Neve Campbell in Wild Things, and Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz in Woody Allen’s upcoming Vicky Cristina Barcelona are found to be “titillating” by industry and audience alike. The same blanket statement, she says, cannot be made about the love scenes in Brokeback Mountain.

While the reporter cites actors whose careers have not been adversely affected since coming out (T.R. Knight, Neil Patrick Harris, David Hyde Pierce) she quotes E! online gossip columnist Ted Casablanca’s claims that A-list male actors "absolutely" engage in sexual activity with both men and women equally. "The public just doesn't know about it," he says, "It's still Hollywood's biggest, dirtiest secret."

"In Lohan's case," Marikar writes, "revealing a relationship with a woman probably wouldn't affect her career one way or another. She's made so many headlines over the past year and a half that coming out as bisexual would just be another drop in the bucket."