LiLo and Sam Really Do Mean Something

We spend a fair amount of time and space at Newser on the ever-continuing drama of LiLo and Sam's relationship. Behind the scenes at Newser, there is quite often an animated debate about why we're giving LiLo and Sam so much attention. Many of the other over-50 men at Newser (there are two of us) find our interest excessive -- but not me.

Or, after months of grousing, I've finally gotten their significance. LiLo and Sam are the first post-gay couple. We're gay-blind to LiLo and Sam. Nothing askance attaches to them. The word lesbian seems hardly ever -- even unconsciously -- to arise.

Nor do they seem merely part of the movement to turn gay couples invisible by making them as uninteresting and middle class as any other kind of couple. That is, after all, part of the meaning of the gay marriage issue -- we're ever so unsexy, too. But those gay couples still look gay -- as well as boring.

LiLo and Sam aren't trying to hide in plain sight by being ordinary.

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Comments

[peterg76]

I still think it's all the male sex being childishly jealous of Sam.

[William Bradley - Huffpost Blogger]

Aside from Lindsay Lohan making trouble for the filmmaking plans of my old friend Warren Beatty, I'm not sure what the relevance is beyond sheer 2-D tabloidism.

[AngryAmishJunior]

Lohan is the ultimate B.U.G.--Bi Until Graduation. Except, of course, she'll never graduate from anything. Except rehab. Several times. Oh, God, Sam-Ro bores us into a bed-wetting sleep because anyone who went to college after 1970 has seen this scenario play out before: young straight girl rebels against parents by doing drugs and bumping uglies with the James Dean-like lesbian on campus. Does anyone, straight or gay, really believe that Lohan prefers women over men?

Then again, as the writer points out, at least Sam-Ro aren't as fatally dull as the poster couples for the gay marriage movement. The PSAs alone are enough to make me reach for the Exacto knife. Where are the images of the slings? The poppers? The hot young landscaper invited into the "marital" bed for three years running???? Lies, contemptible lies!

[EmeraldWorld]

Um, are you serious? So many people on the net like to insult these two BECAUSE of their lesbian relationship.

[howcome]

do be naive.... ya gotta know lesbian couples are being stereotyped by their antics

[RobertHenryEller]

We're gay-blind because this couple is blindingly boring.