Lessons from Lindsay Lohan and her lady lover
My little Lindsay.
Picture from Harpar's Bazaar. Access Hollywood.
Out of rehab and straight to the mag racks revealing more details about her relationship with celebrity DJ Samantha Ronson in the November issue of Harper’s Bazaar magazine.
According to OMG’s report on the Harper’s article, American performer Lindsay Lohan “does not consider herself a lesbian, but as for whether she thinks of herself as bisexual, she told the magazine, “maybe.”
“I don’t want to classify myself,” she continued. “First of all, you never know what’s going to happen — tomorrow, in a month, a year from now, five years from now. I appreciate people, and it doesn’t matter who they are, and I feel blessed to be able to feel comfortable enough with myself that I can say that.”
She said that most of her family has been supportive. (Initially her dad gave Samantha a public verbal thrashing and her sister denied the whole thing altogether.)
Now I’ll be honest when the relationship first surfaced, I squinted one eye at the girl and I think I’m still squinting.
Reading the news about gay rights battles across the U.S., it would be sad if a publicity stunt played on the lives that people are fighting to just have the right to maintain. In the article, Lindsay’s ambiguous answers about her sexuality adds credibility to anti-gays arguments that homosexuality is a phase, fad, or funky-time fun that can be switched on or off with button.
On the other hand, her admittance without classifying herself supports a premise that human sexuality runs on a continuum and is neither completely north or south for many people.
We’ll have to read the full article when it hits newstands on November 18, but whatever Lindsay’s motivations the lesson is this: We have to make choices in life. Whether you’ve got A-List or Wait-list status, be ready to stand up and defend your choice, either in word or in deed. If you are true and honest with yourself, it doesn’t matter if everyone else thinks you’re a liar.
–Keysha Whitaker