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Oh Tila Tequila, how can we gays ever thank you enough?

Love / Shove post by Debbie Rasmussen on June 12, 2008 - 12:57pm; tagged assclowns, gay marriage, genderqueer, mtv, Myspace, queer, reality tv, Tila Tequila, WTF?.

Apparently all y'all gay folks in California who can now get married have Myspace/MTV reality assclown Tila Tequila to thank. From Us Magazine's website:

"It is because of me — I definitely think [my show] has helped the movement," she told Usmagazine.com at the Hollywood premiere of The Love Guru on Wednesday.

"Before it 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, [gay marriage] is legal."

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Amazon Women on the Moon

Article by Andi Zeisler, appeared in issue Premiere; published in 1995; filed under Broadcast; tagged androgyny, gender, gender bending, mtv, music videos, rock, sex objects, sexualization, stereotypes, women in rock.

Images of Femininity in the Video Age

Premiere

Like some grizzled old-timer sitting on the porch of the homestead talking about the good old days, I think back to the first time I saw MTV and pity the prepubescents of today who didn’t have the luck to see, as I did, the wonder of MTV when it first aired. I was eight years old, alone in my living room, and somehow I knew that I was witnessing a tremendous event: a connection with something that just wasn’t accessible through after-school cartoons or Gilligan’s Island reruns.

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