Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Lynda Carter's opinion on gay people...

(click on the image for a Wonder Woman wallpaper!)

...or at least why gay guys relate so well to Wonder Woman (I'm copying this from the DC Comics Message Boards, where someone else copied it from MySpace):

by Randy Shulman
Published on 08/25/2005

Nobody spins better, or with more superheroic grace, than Lynda Carter.

Indeed, for her latest role in Sky High, Carter -- forever revered as the Amazonian goddess of good, Wonder Woman -- plays Principal Powers, the headmaster of a school for superteens. She makes her entrance with a glorious hyper-spin.

As for Wonder Woman, the role for which she's most beloved, Carter marvels, ''I can't even begin to fathom how much it has impacted my life. I have always embraced Wonder Woman. I even read the comic books as a kid.''

She feels that gay men in particular identified with Wonder Woman because of ''the combination of a woman being a woman but also having a masculine side. She could be strong and beautiful like they can be strong and beautiful.

''I think there's such a strong archetype there for gay people,'' she continues, ''that secret self. It's that hidden self that's not about being defined by secrets or by sexuality, but being defined by your heart. So many of us have to hide our lives in order to make other people comfortable. And when you stop hiding your life to make other people comfortable, you begin to love yourself.''

She rocks! :) I've always told folks I would "turn" for her! (No no, not like spin around really fast and have sparklies and a loud bang and then suddenly appear with my hair let down and be in a really tight one-piece swim suit....nothing crazy like that!)

(She's having too much fun here!)

(This one's borderline naughty!)

2 comments:

Jeph said...

Poor Lynda has gotten NO comments! Should I have posted one of the pics of her in the scuba suit!?

Jeph said...

While I haven't caved in and gotten them for myself, it's an EXTREME possibility! ;-)