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Lez Dish It Out! The AfterEllen Weekly Round-Up

Hello again and welcome to your weekly dose of lesbian news! Whether you’ve had an amazing week or you really did run into your ex-girlfriend at that party (of course you did), I know you need this. So put down the hummus and lez get right to it. The Emmy’s were so beautifully gay! The Handmaid’s Tale won best drama. I can’t tell you how excited I am that Rory Gilmore I mean Alexis Bledel won an Emmy for playing a lesbian. I mean I’m almost exclusively against straight women playing lesbians because newsflash, there are a lot of lesbian actors. But if I were to make an exception, she’s it. Kate McKinnon won for supporting actress in a comedy series for the second year in a row and she appeared for the first time with her girlfriend, Jackie Abbott. She thanked Hillary Clinton in her speech and she was clearly emotional, as was I. San Junipero aka the one time lesbians didn’t die, won for best television movie and best writing in a limited series. I wonder if now that a story about lesbians having a literal happily ever after won an Emmy, TV writers will stop killing us! Or giving us crazy sperm donor storylines. Or better yet, maybe we’ll get to write our own stories! But who knows, I’m probably drunk on optimism. And of course, Lena Waithe made history, being the first African American woman to win for comedy writing for the Master Of None episode, Thanksgiving. I wrote about that in more detail here. But the gist of it is: your girl cried. Like a lot. Like she’s still crying. Getty Images

Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher’s Back To Back tour is starting! As someone who’s seen them do stand up both together and individually, I highly recommend it. The 23 stop bus tour is going all over the country and they’re giving away a pair of tickets for every show! Keep up with either of them on Twitter to find out more! Sarah Paulson was on Ellen! If you’re keeping up with American Horror Story: Cult, you probably already know that Paulson is not partial to scare tactics. But when she was on the talk show, she was very easily frightened by a knockoff Pennywise that popped out from behind her. It was hilarious and wholesome and goddamn it we need these little pockets of joy in our lives!

Gaby Dunn’s book is a New York Times Best Seller! The YA novel, I Hate Everyone But You, which she wrote with her comedy partner Allison Raskin, debut on the Best Seller’s List this week, which is fitting because it is Bisexual Awareness Week. The novel features a bisexual character and tackles issues like mental illness. You can check it out here, and consider this your way of supporting Bisexual Awareness this week! Battle of the Sexes Premiered this week in New York The film is based on King’s 1973 tennis match against Bobby Riggs. King is being played by Emma Stone and Riggs by Steve Carrell. It’s amazing that she’s being celebrated because her entire life has been a form activism for lesbian visibility. That’s all for this week. I just want to wrap up by saying how amazing it is that lesbians can see themselves in media. It makes me so happy that little baby dykes are growing up knowing there’s a world out there that accepts them. It truly warms my heart. On that note, have a wonderful weekend. Stay gay.

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