The L Word

Its creators set out to big up lesbian life on the small screen, so why are the stars of The L Word so coy about their sexuality? wonders TIM TEEMAN Previously on The L Word: Bette and Tina were going to have a baby. Then Tina miscarried, and Bette left her for Candace the carpenter. Dreary Jenny f...

LOTTE JEFFS went to a hotel in Heathrow for the first UK L Word convention, and spent the night fending off rampant fans Stars of The L Word at a three-day fan convention in a budget Heathrow hotel? Well, it all seemed highly unlikely. As I was driving in circles round Terminal 4, deep in a dark w...

The BBC is failing lesbian and gay viewers, according to a recent report by Stonewall. But are they watching the same telly as us? LOUISE CAROLIN hops channels There's no denying that television has a massive influence on social attitudes. Even in this age of increasingly diverse entertai...

The L Word may be fluffy nonsense but it's sexy, well-dressed, well-made fluffy nonsense says DONNA MCPHAIL It seems to be an intrinsic part of the British psyche to build something up just in order to tear it down five minutes later (see Millennium Dome, Tim Henman, etc). This is a mean-spi...

On screen they're hot, sassy and uninhibited. But what are they like in the flesh? JOANNA WALTERS catches up with the cast of The L Word on-set in Vancouver. Even in silhouette she is unmistakable. With her lithe swagger and scarecrow hair, Katherine Moennig, alias bad-grrrl Shane, walks fr...

It's billed by its creators as a drama about the lives of a circle of lesbians and bisexual women, but, asks LOUISE CAROLIN, does The L Word sell bi women short? There's a moment in the third series of The L Word when Alice turns to her lesbian friend and former lover, Dana, and says, "You're ri...

LA has a spiritual life, author AM Homes tells ERICA ROBERTS - and it's to be found in her new novel, rather than in The L Word. 'You're just making pretty girls talk,' says 44-year-old bisexual writer AM Homes, laughing away her achievements as The L Word writer (Series 2) and producer (Seri...

She walks a neat tightrope between trans boi Max and stone butch Moira. But is The L Word's Daniela Sea selling out to big-time fame or keeping it real? JOANNA WALTERS finds out The scene was quite something: a large synagogue on New York's Lower East Side converted into an arts centre, and a p...