Queen Latifah Is Writing a Show About 3 Women’s Love Lives. That’s The Joke
It’s called Single Ladies, and it’ll star the beauties Stacey Dash, LisaRaye, and Lauren London, any of whom I’d go straight for. It’s VH1′s first-ever scripted series, is supposed fill the void that Girlfriends‘ cancellation left, and truly better not license that Beyonce song unless it wants to jump the shark from Day One. But with Queen Latifah in the writer’s room, is there any chance these gals might sway sapphic?
Silly child.
“My character is very similar to my own life because I’ve never been single. Literally, since I’ve been 17 years old. She’s never been married, the character than I’m playing, whereas I’ve been married three times, so that’s the difference,” Dash says. “It’s a really good script.” [Ed: Uh, WHAT?]
McCoy’s character, a video vixen, is a bit more experienced than Dash’s. “She doesn’t have one of anything nor does she believe in having one man. She believes in dating and being able to explore her possibilities. She’s much like Samantha of Sex in the City,” explains the Player’s Club star. “Very straight up and honest. She’s the one that has that spunk, I’d like to say that she’s the slut of the three.”
McCoy, currently starring in her own reality show, TV One’s The Real McCoy, also mentioned to VIBE that London plays a younger, semi-shy character married to an NBA player. Although London will be a recurring character in the show, her rep confirms that the role is small.
Oh c’mon, throw us a token L Word bone.
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I’ll check it out just because I love Queen Latifah, Stacy Dash, and Lauren London.
Seems weird to have Lauren cast as friends with two women twice her age though and I’m really tired of LisaRaye playing the same character over and over again.
@Viral: Noah’s Arc, Get on the Bus, and Brother to Brother immediately come to mind.
On the other hand when there’s a black man cast in a white gay show/movie he’s usually the campiest queen on the block. And that’s if a black man is even lucky enough to be cast. You can be sure he’ll be single from beginning to end, used to make a white guy jealous, and/or extremely feminine to the level of a caricature.
So is it really just black people or does everyone fuck these things up regardless of skin color?
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@Hilarious: Noah’s Arc is the only example I’ve heard of, but considering it’s limited viewing zone (on Logo, like two years ago) and it’s lack of actual big-name stars, for all the good the show might of done, only people “in the know” would’ve gotten to see it.
And it’s kinda of a black thing, our community is the most closed and intolerant when it comes to anything outside it’s “normal” culture. So everything from being gay, to being “too smart” (or not being street/hood/hard enough), to even being in polytheistic religion makes you fodder for ridicule.
True Blood’s Lafeyette would be the only shining example of a “good” black gay character, and he’s a mass of weird stereotypes himself (although they all work in his favor ^^)
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@Viral: You can find sheep of any color. There are plenty of white guys who are homophobic, don’t like “nerds”, and want you to be rough or “hard”.
It’s not a black thing, it’s an overly masculine compensation thing.
Most straight men of every color do everything you just listed and many straight women of every color expect men to act that way.
The Game(a black show) also featured a masculine white gay male who was partner to a black gay male football star in one of their episodes.
So like I said it’s not color that’s the issue. Having brown skin doesn’t mean we all think alike, just like having white skin doesn’t mean all white people think alike.
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You’re expecting something progressively gay in a black show… don’t hold your breath. There may be a gay guy, but he prob won’t be black and be the campiest queen on the block (pretty much Alex Mapa in every role he’s every played. Hell… they may even cast him for this show)