Amanda Palmer is Coming to Town

Amanda Palmer is going to be performing at the Magic Bag (Ferndale, MI) on December 2. For those of you who are not familiar with this amazing woman, she is a truly inventive and unique musician. She is part of the dynamic duo that is the Dresden Dolls, but has just released her first solo album, Who Killed Amanda Palmer. She has also revolutionized a movement known as Punk Cabaret. And she keeps a very candid intriguing blog.

If you don’t know her I’m sure you are probably wondering why I’m spending so much time on this one musician. The answer is that she identifies as bisexual. She toured last year with the True Colors tour, and was just recently listed in Out Magazine as one of their Hot 100. Here is a quote from her taken from Wikipedia, “I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about…I've slept with girls; I've slept with guys, so I guess that's what they call it! I'm not anti trying to use language to simplify our lives…I actually tend to like really femmey girls… You can deconstruct this with armchair psychology and really nail me, but I like girls about my body type and about my mix of masculine and feminine."

If you ever get the chance to see her perform live it is an experience worth having.

Here is Amanda Palmer (second from the right) along with Tegan and Sara Quin, and Amy Cook in their photo shoot from Out Magazine.

Here are some more links if you are interested in finding out more:

Her Wikipedia Page

Her Blog

Ticketmaster link to her show

A music video from the Dresden Dolls

A music video from Who Kill Amanda Palmer?

Wanda Comes Out

Wanda Sykes, a comedian, just came out and announced that she got married to a woman. She has said she is a gay woman. However as the member who passed on the article mentioned, she was married to a man before. You can read about her coming out here. It could be that she is bi and is just not announcing that or she is a lesbian, it’s up to her. Either way Congratulations to her on her marriage and for her courage to come out!

What is Lindsay Lohan?

So it’s been a poorly kept secret for some time that Lindsay Lohan was dating Samantha Ronson. Recently Lindsay has opened up a bit, and admitted that she is indeed dating Samantha. In an article today Lindsay opens up a little more and talks about her relationship. Lindsay does not consider herself a lesbian, and only said “maybe” when asked if she is bisexual. You can read the article here.

Lindsay is an interesting topic because she raises the issue of who is representing bisexual and other non-monosexuals to the public. For good or bad Lindsay has not classified herself as anything. It gives us a little more time to decide if she’s helping or hurting.

Also on another site, AfterEllen.com, they also mentioned Lindsay. They bring up the point that most people are classified by the public as either gay/lesbian or straight, and forget that there is something else! You can read this article here.