Friday is pride day

If I had to pick my favorite gay man, it might just be Wilson “Enrique Vasquez” Cruz. And not just for this interesting shot from Logo’s NewNowNext Awards:
With a blow-up doll representing Tila Tequila (who could tell the difference!) and the woman who caused me to put a fourth slot on the imaginary girlfriend list, Bridget McManus.

Because almost fourteen years ago (when I was ten!), he played the best teenaged gay character in the history of television, Rickie Vasquez, on My So-Called Life, and I will never, ever forget how awesome he was—or how sick I felt when his uncle gay-bashed him. He popped up on Ally McBeal as a transvestite hooker, and I was, like, “Mom! Rickie!” My mom and I used to watch My So-Called Life together—and Ally McBeal, before it got too retarded to handle. But of course he died on Ally McBeal, and that was crap. Then I heard he played Angel in a run of Rent, which is fun, and he is just lovely. I want to see this damn awards show, because I am now very interested to see how he interacts with Bridget. Because I love both of them. If I were to ever want children, I’d want Rickie—er, Wilson—to donate the sperm. (If I double up on the gay gene, I’ll be more likely to have gay kids, right?)

Wilson is obviously my favorite gay man celebrity. My favorite gay man in real life is Mike.

Runner up to my favorite gay man celebrity? Rufus Wainwright.
In lesbianish news, how pretty is Sara Ramirez?
Nearly pretty enough to knock someone off the imaginary girlfriend list, I’d say.

Well, now that I’ve brought that up, I suppose I should talk about Grey’s.

Can I do it?

Okay, lesbos, last night was the greatest thing to ever happen on television in the history of lesbians. Seriously, the only other kiss that ever made my heart catch like that was the one between Jessie Sammler and Katie Singer on Once & Again, which I think I already said was a big help in my realizing I was gay. Now, since that has been marred by Evan Rachel Wood growing up to date Marilyn Manson and Mischa Barton growing up to…be Mischa Barton, I am so glad I have this one. (Both of these shows are/were ABC shows. Are there any lesbians kissing on networks that aren’t ABC?)

I will also freely admit that I kind of squealed when they cut back to Callie and Hahn (I will never be able to call her Erica) still making out. Seriously. Girls never get to kiss for that long! It was awesome.

Jess keeps telling me she doesn’t think Hahn is hot, and I was wondering if I would have if they hadn’t taken her in the gay direction, but she is hot irregardless! I totally loved her when she was just the heart surgeon trying to get the heart that Izzie and Burke were trying to STEAL for Denny (and look how well that turned out, you halfwits!), even though I think you were supposed to hate her? She’s just kinda badass, like Callie was before she got mixed up in all this marrying George bananas. And last night, when she was all flustered, because the chief had called her on being a turd to Cristina, and she couldn’t find her keys, and her hair was just a little bit messy, oy.
I swooned a little bit. Let’s just add Brooke Smith to the “I’m a liar when I say I don’t go for blondes” list. (Also, since I’ve been, uh, watching this over and over again, I’ve come to notice that I love the way she says “keys” in this instance.)

Of course, Sara Ramirez is still way, way, way hotter.
But you know what’s the hottest of all? Brooke Smith and Sara Ramirez.
All right, now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk about some other things. First of all, as awesome as this was, it just isn’t gonna last, is it? Two reasons: relationships between women never last on network television, and relationships between anyone never last on Grey’s Anatomy. So. Let’s just hope they don’t fuck it up too fast.

Next! I am still confused about Hahn. I think it’s pretty clear Callie is bisexual, because we’ve seen that she enjoys the mens. All Hahn has ever done is claim she enjoys the mens. She told Cristina she only dates men, and she told Sloane she’d sleep with him if they didn’t work together. I wrote a blog post many moons before I even suspected she could be at least a little gay about how that was gross. Now. Is Hahn a liar? Is she also bisexual? Or did the writers just forget about all of that?

Hmm. Oh who cares? She’s making out with Callie, and that is all that matters.

I also really like Sloane a lot. He’s sleazy, but once Addison left, I really liked his redeveloping friendship with Derek (the only scenes I could stand Derek in were the ones with Sloane), and I liked how he created the “dirty mistresses” club for him and Meredith and how their friendship developed, and now I like him even more for kicking Callie in the pants and telling her to do it with Hahn already, even though it has become pretty clear that he’s growing fond of Callie.

Seventh. Lexie’s hot for George? Well. Let’s just hope George doesn’t have painfully awkward sex set to “Throw It All Away” with this Grey.

I thought about complaining the heavy-handed the parallel they drew between Lola’s feelings for cement boy and Callie’s for Hahn, but I don’t feel like it. Let’s focus on the good times.

And finally, in conclusion, the best character on Grey’s Anatomy remains Dr. Miranda Bailey. It’s just the truth.

I’m also kind of obsessed with the song they set the making out montage to, “Quest,” by Bryn Christopher, which is of course not available on iTunes. Curse you and your musical selection, Grey’s Anatomy. He kind of sounds like the male Amy Winehouse.

Oh! The other thing I wanted to talk about was Alex and Izzie. Back before this Denny crap, I really liked Alex and Izzie together, although I think half of that might be because when Katherine Heigl played another character named Isobel—Isabel, really, to be anal-retentively accurate—she dated a character named Alex, and that pairing was my effing favorite on the show (Roswell, for those of you keeping score at home). But I also think I liked them just for them, until Alex gave everyone syphilis? I forget how that ended. Anyway. This is just fucked. But I think maybe Alex knows he can trust Izzie? I hope so. I hope Izzie stops sucking so hard—hating her is such an engery suck.
Now. That is the woman who made me gay, people. I remember why.

Postscript!

I just realized that Callie has been basically homeless for her entire time on the show. Here's hopin' she doesn't move in with Hahn! Nothing would kill the relationship faster.