Glaad Awards 2008

Euh, meuh bien sûr Shep ! Et puis tu sais, il y a aussi une marmotte dans la caravane d'IC qui met du chocolat dans du papier alu..........

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Tibette Addict

non non la marmotte met plein du choco dans le papier alu t'as pas entendu ca existe plus le papier alu
mais dans un papier fraîcheur!
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In Tibette We Trust (ITWT)

nouvelle photo! Une nouvelle histoire vient de naître:
IC GARDE TES DISTANCES!!!!
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In Tibette We Trust (ITWT)

Sur ourchart, le discours d'IC à San Francisco, waoouuu, IC semble
beaucoup apprécier JB...et elle est très remontée politiquement
parlant, c'est une vraie militante qui ne désarme jamais, même si elle
semble
un peu désabusée par moment ....euh j'espère que personne ne l'a déjà
posté car c'est un peu long mais très intéressant...

May 11, 2008 - 1:01pm — ilene

Fresh
off the red carpet at the LA GLAAD Media Awards, Ilene Chaiken and
Jennifer Beals turned out last night for the San Francisco Media
Awards. It was a special occasion as Jennifer presented Ilene with the
Davidson/Valentini Award, GLAAD's annual tribute to an openly LGBT
individual who has made a significant difference in promoting equal
rights for the LGBT community. For all of us who couldn't be at the
ceremony, we've posted the text of Ilene's speech (what she likes to
call her "rant") below. And stay tuned for exclusive video from the
evening!

Before I begin ranting – because that’s what I’m going to do tonight;
I’m going to rant a little – let me just take a moment to catch my
breath. Jennifer Beals is breathtaking, right? But not just for the
obvious reasons. Rather, for the reason that her talent and her
intelligence and her convictions all at once run so deep; and I feel so
blessed to have had the privilege of working closely with her these
last six years, of calling her my friend, and of having been
represented by her – not as the writer and producer of The L Word,
but as a gay woman who never before saw herself, or anyone very like
herself, portrayed in such a complex, powerful, uplifting, intriguing,
ongoing way in the popular media.

Now for the rant…

I had imagined that when we announced that The L Word was
coming to an end there would be another show – or maybe another two or
three shows – poised to take up where we’re leaving off. I thought
maybe we would have our lesbian cop show on CBS. You know, a latter day
Cagney & Lacey in which the prettier cop is a svelte,
stylish lezzie and her ostensibly straight partner is one of those
big-boned, handsome, vaguely homophobic gals…? Or, I don’t know,
where’s our doctor show in which Patrick Dempsey stars – stars being
the operative concept – as the egotistical head of surgery with a slew
of boyfriend problems but no issues about being comfortably and
demonstratively out of the closet? And while we’re at it, give me a
comic book superhero movie in which the pithy one-liners and snarky
asides are believably uttered by a homosexual billionaire industrialist
who likes to fight evil while showing off his exquisite muscles in a
tight-fitting costume. As an aside, I’m willing to bet you that if that
movie were to be made with the same skill and resources and budget of,
say, Ironman, it would be no less successful at the box
office. I know… far-flung. We’re not there yet. But we need to get
there. Because the same old stories are getting old and tired, and
we’ve got a lot of great, moving, entertaining, powerful stories to
tell that haven’t yet been told.

So it’s not okay that when The L Word goes off the air
sometime in 2009, we stand to be cast back into the desert in terms of
primary representation of our lives and our stories in mainstream
popular media. We’re hardly better represented right now than we were
ten, even twenty years ago, and, bizarrely and inexplicably, less well
represented than we were just a few years back when at least we had Will & Grace and Queer Eye and Queer As Folk.
We’re relegated, once again, to minor roles as recurring secondary
characters, or cute but oddly asexual best friends, and sometimes on
procedurals we get to be murder victims. And it’s not enough.

It’s not enough when GLAAD – and don’t get me wrong; I’m a devotee
of GLAAD; without GLAAD there would be no accountability and no
presence and no mindful, vigilant advocacy on behalf of LGBT visibility
and fair and accurate representation – but it’s not enough when GLAAD
has to honor programs among the media awards nominees that don’t even
feature any LGBT characters as series regulars.

It’s not enough that on broadcast television, we still have to wait
until the third year of some popular ensemble drama for the
introduction of a gay or lesbian storyline that was originally intended
for one of the series leads but, after reconsideration, was relegated
to a less beloved minor and more dispensable character.

It’s not enough that three years ago James Shamus produced a big
budget Hollywood movie that should have won the Academy Award for best
picture, and that no major motion picture since then has featured gay
themes or a gay character in any significant way until the intrepid Mr.
Shamus brings us Sean Penn as Harvey Milk.

It’s not enough that Showtime is the only mainstream network ever
to have produced and aired and supported a scripted drama series about
LGBT characters. Twice. And, by the way, aren’t they being touted as
the best, hottest network on television?

It’s really not enough that LGBT people historically have written
and directed and produced so many of the world’s greatest movies and
television shows while hiding behind veiled portrayals of our real,
true selves. We’ve given it up, given away our gifts to the dominant
heterosexual culture – and we’ll keep on doing it for them because
we’re that generous and talented and prolific – but I’d like to think
that we won’t do it any longer at the expense of seeing our own selves
fully visible and gloriously, complexly, glamorously and heroically
represented right alongside of them.

I am hopeful right now as we find ourselves in a relatively progressive
political moment, with (technically still two) imperfect but educable
Democratic candidates who embrace most of our LGBT issues. Two
candidates, both of whom stand a better-than-fighting chance of routing
this morally bankrupt and socially backward Republican regime that’s
desiccated our world these last eight years. And I’m proud, very proud,
of the role that many of the artists and activists here in this room
tonight have played in moving forward that progressive change. I
envision a moment in the not too distant future when my kids are going
to say to me, “What? You mean there used to be a time when gay people
couldn’t get married to one another? That’s crazy, mama.” It’s just as
crazy to me that at sometime in the very near future we might look
around at our movie and TV screens and find ourselves all but invisible
again. I’m baffled and perturbed by the way in which our Hollywood
entertainment culture seems to lag behind the culture at large. When I
first pitched The L Word
to Showtime – back in the dark ages – I went out on a limb and said to
them, If you let me make a smart, sexy TV show about lesbians and you
give me as much money and support as you give to any other aspiring
prime time drama (and you let me cast Jennifer Beals in the lead), I’m
willing to bet you it will be a hit. I’ll put that same bet on the
table again right now – to every network, every studio, every
production company and every creative artist. It’s no riskier than any
other risk you take. The opportunity is there for you to make a killing
telling our stories. And for those of us in the LGBT community, I say,
if history is indeed written by the victors, let’s make ourselves
victorious by writing our own history… and directing it and producing
it and starring in it.

J'suis sûre qu'IC en pince secrètement pour JB...

(on la comprend) Elle voulait tellement que JB ait le premier rôle dans sa série...
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Tibette Addict

Waaa mais ca c'est un superbe discours ! Elle a totalement raison !
Elle s'exprime vraiment bien !

merci pour le discours lolVstein !

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surprise

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf8mDEtqZBs

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=YIN7LUmkMX0
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In Tibette We Trust (ITWT)

Merci Sheperd !!! J'avais pas vu ces vidéos !!!!
Elle est magnifique, elle est craquante, elle est........
J'adore quand elle dit " I'nice to meet you" en fait j'aimerai qu'elle me dise à moi !!!!!
pfffff je suis toute.......pffffffff