100 WOMEN WE LOVE 2008
Lily Tomlin’s extraordinary career as a funny lady bloomed on the TV show Laugh-In in 1969, the year of the Stonewall rebellion. Fittingly, she has woven feminism and LGBT life into her characters—the not-so-hardworking phone operator Ernestine, Violet Newstead in 9 to 5 and the numerous personas populating The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, the one-woman play written by Tomlin’s partner Jane Wagner, for which Tomlin won a Tony Award. She was also nominated for an Academy Award for her turn as Linnea Reese in Robert Altman’s Nashville, played recurring roles on TV shows from Murphy Brown to The West Wing, and has won six Emmys, a Grammy, and a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award in 1977. Tomlin, who has called Wagner the most influential person in her life and career, narrated 1995’s landmark LGBT documentary The Celluloid Closet. –KL
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Hats off to the 100 Women We Love, class of 2008 (in no particular order, ’cause we love ’em all!).
Diana Cage
Magazine editor turned Sirius radio talk show host Diana Cage makes politics sexy on her show Diana Cage, which airs Wednesdays at 10pm EST. Her goal is to give voice and visibility to queer women’s lives, which she does in part by talking openly about her personal life in her work. The media maven, who blogs for OurChart.com, has long spread the sex-queer-positive word in a very multi-media way. She’s written seven books, the latest of which is Girl Meets Girl: A Dating Survival Guide, as well as columns for Curve, Maxim, and GQ. She’s given sex advice on Sirius OutQ’s Derek and Romaine Show and has appeared in Showtime’s Family Business and in the here! TV documentary Lesbian Sex and Sexuality. “Yeah,” Cage says, “I’m about the queerest thing on the airwaves.” –JB
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