The Emmy’s last night were all about Archie and Glee for this Gaelick writer. Was I disappointed? Or did our bisexual character (Kalinda in The Good Wife) and lesbian actress (Jane Lynch) do the do? Plus, what about the gay guys, Neil Patrick Harris and everything else in Glee? Read on if you want to know, or wait until this evening and it’ll be on RTE 2 at 9.30pm.

This year, Glee has been nominated in most Primetime Emmy award categories, but insiders agree that they probably won’t win any of the big ones. Glee is an Emmy anomaly in that it’s youth-led; based in high-school with unknown actors. Most of the acting nominees have been around for years.

I don’t know about you but when I heard that there was going to be a Scottish L word, I squealed. Hands up if you’re into the ladies and you didn’t get wee kneeed every time Simone Labib aka Helen Steward opened her mouth to speak in Bad Girls. There’s something about that accent. Well the wait is almost over.

I heard someone during the week describe The Really Hellish Turd as “car crash TV”. I’ve always wondered about that phrase. I mean, who in the right mind watches a car crash? Maybe that’s my problem, if I could only become more interested in pile-ups, this show would be a blast.

The gorgeous Angie Harmon is in a new show that is causing all sorts of murmurings on t’internet. Rizzoli and Isles is a cop show. So far so meh, but it’s a cop show in which the two main characters are women. “Oooh, tell me more Hal”, I hear you say.

Being the type of person who lies in bed for hours thinking about who won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1988 (Jodie for The Accused), or why Q is always followed by U (it isn’t always, however it comes from the ‘QU’ figure in old Latin), or how to construct a sentence without using the letter E (good luck), inevitably my mind wanders to The Real L Word. Or, as I shall now be calling it, the Really Hellish Turd.

I am so far behind that I promise, with the help of bottles of beer, to get through two of these piles of muck in one sitting. The things I do for my community. This week we learn that Rose is a bitch, Whitless is a gobshite, Jilliki are boring and …. wait you knew these things? Why are you still watching?

We catch up with the group of lesbians who were, for some reason, chosen to represent us on The Real L Word. We need to sack our PR agency. I know! I’m way overdue, sorry ladies. I will endeavor to catch up asap. It’s just such tripe, that I’m putting these recaps on the world’s longest finger. Ooo-er…

We catch up with six real lesbians living in Hollywood. What are up-herself Rose, free-love Jill, richer than god Nikki, worthless Whitney, maybe-nice Mikey and the lovely Tracy up to this week? Whatever it is you can be sure it’s not a bit entertaining.

So where were we with our sextuplets? Self-obsessed, Sapphic saps with more money and tattoos than sense; oh yeah, there we are.

Youtube. Is it possible to dip in for a minute without looking up at the clock and realising you’ve lost hours of your life? It all started with me looking up Las Aparicio, a Mexican telly show that I heard tell had some lady-loving-ladies. Next I look up and it’s 1.30am. You have been warned.

British soap, Hollyoaks, is introducing a young trans character to the show. According to the makers, we’ll get to follow Jason’s journey from closeted transsexual through to coming out to his parents, friends and family all the way to hormonal treatment. And he’s just 15.

The Real L Word, it has arrived on the shores of America. And may it stay there. The opening is our introduction to the six LA lesbians who have agreed to be followed around by a crew, showing how they live in their natural habitat. Sapphic Safari if you will.

Tomorrow night there’ll be a lesbian on the telly! A real live lezzie! The excitement is palpable in Gaelick Towers. It’s been too long since we’ve had any lady-loving on the tube. Anne Lister is, for some reason, known as “the first modern lesbian”, a phrase I’d love to have explained to me. Is it because she was independently wealthy and unashamed of her ‘attractions’? Answers on a postcard…

I have a question. Where are all The Good Wife shippers? Can this well of female sexual tension have passed so many by? The Good Wife stars Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, the wife of a disgraced state’s attorney, who is back to work and trying to build her life while surrounded by gossip. Also employed in the law firm in which she gets a job is one Kalinda Sharma, played by Archie Panjabi. Let the hotness commence.

June see’s Showtime air their L Word replacement and what better than the Real L word? Six women have signed up to be filmed in this reality TV show, but I have to say I find it hard not to worry about it having seen the poster and trailer. Visibility is visibility however

Last week the first part of the gay youth documentary, Growing Up Gay, aired on RTÉ. The second half aired last night.
It featured the stories of a handful of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth and their parents and explored how they have coped in school and in family life while they were coming out. [...]