This post was submitted by Amelie

Right now, there seems to be three main types of lesbians in Hollywood: the closeted kind, the ones that seem to have their lives together, and the ones that are just plain batshit crazy.

Recently, Casey Johnson (the heiress of the Johnson & Johnson fortune) and Tila Tequila, the star of “A Shot of Love with Tila Tequila” (everyone’s favorite bisexual dating show) got engaged. About two weeks before they announced their engagement, they both showcased some pretty bizarro behavior. Johnson apparently broke into her ex’s house, stole some of her possessions and then left a used vibrator in her bed. Tila Tequila came out as a lesbian in an all-caps Twitter rant, and then developed some sort of bizarre alter ego. Why does it matter that two crazypants lesbians got engaged? Because the media keeps referring to them as being “engaged.” With the quotations.

Now, I follow my fair share of celebrity gossip. And by fair share, I mean I follow a lot of it. And I’ve never seen a straight couple, no matter how crazy either of them maybe, referred to being “engaged.” I realize that the main reason for the quotations here is because of the fact that both women appear to be so out of it, and that it seems odd that so soon after Johnson’s vibrator-gate, they are engaged with a 10 caret diamond ring on Tequila’s finger. And while that’s true, the quotations still seem unnecessary.

The usage of the parentheses in the New York Post’s Page Six was probably the most egregious–the validity of the engagement didn’t seem to reside on the fact that both of them are crazypants, thus their behavior is suspect–but that it is an “engagement” because gay marriage isn’t legal. Putting engagement in quotations takes any sort of validity from the relationship and thus makes homosexuality and gay marriage suspect, not their behavior.

Do I think that the relationship with Tila Tequila and Casey Johnson will last? No, not at all. Do I really respect them or their relationship? No, but I didn’t really respect the relationship between Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman either. But when you put a word like “engaged” in quotation marks just because it’s a couple of crazy lesbians are together, that’s not okay. I’m not going to tell gossip columnists to start respecting the loony pseudo-celebrities they are forced to cover–but at least respect their sexuality.

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