Linda Riley
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lilykestrel
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It's a crime if this isn't the end plate of the film
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Or if we're being hifalutin
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Or if we're being hifalutin
Boogs
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That would be ace. She would wear different coloured ill fitting baggy suits for each character. Bless her, she’s a legend in her own head
Baby Reindeer 2
SarcasticEllis
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Spotted this on insta. The hair is…interesting. It’s like a vileda flat cap.
Mr Krabs
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Is she trying to do the Gen Z broccoli haircut? Is she going around saying fr fr no cap?
lilykestrel
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(via @hoopdedoo on our Jack threads, posting here for posterity)
diva-magazine.com
Linda Riley added: “If you had told me last year when the filming started, that my life would be broadcast on a British television channel, I would not have believed you. But it’s been an incredible adventure and I’m simply delighted!”
Sure, Lin
My5 acquires Linda Riley’s new documentary about her extraordinary life
You can watch Life Of Riley: Head Lesbian Of The World now
diva-magazine.com
Linda Riley added: “If you had told me last year when the filming started, that my life would be broadcast on a British television channel, I would not have believed you. But it’s been an incredible adventure and I’m simply delighted!”
Sure, Lin
VeniVidiVicki
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Honestly don’t want to give her the stream but also Head Lesbian of the World is just such an amazing title that I’m really torn
Boogs
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I spent most of my life thinking I was straight, then I spent 8 years thinking I was later in life lesbian before I realised I was still attracted to some men. Do you think the Head Lesbian of the World might be able to help me understand my fluctuating sexuality? After all her mate Jack is a proper butch lesbian who jumps on cock whenever a man looks her direction.
lilykestrel
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How long til we get Linda Riley: The Musical
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hopefully soon as I am in London next month. I would give the ripper thing a go but have heard it is problematic. Probs just go to the pub.
VeniVidiVicki
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I live in a bit of backwater and my local community radio station is giving away 4 tickets to Tina the Musical. They must be really desperate
lilykestrel
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OK lads, we've got workmen in so the endless drilling means I am unable to focus on the work I have to do that requires concentration, so I'm going in while I keep one eye on my emails. Don't know if I'll make the full 90 minutes.
Already howling at the 'Head Lesbian of the World' subtitle in quotes, as if somebody else bestowed it upon Linda and not the 'Editor of Diva magazine' aka Linda
Already howling at the 'Head Lesbian of the World' subtitle in quotes, as if somebody else bestowed it upon Linda and not the 'Editor of Diva magazine' aka Linda
lilykestrel
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Right, I made it about half an hour
Linda goes to her former council flat in London with Dawn Butler. Felt a lot of compassion for her at this point, her Mum was a Bollywood actress and then was a single mother with four kids. Mum is Armenian, her Mum's family moved to India to escape the Armenian genocide. Linda and family got evicted from their flat because mum was a compulsive gambler. Linda came out to her Mum who reacted very badly, eventually suggested she take Linda to a psychiatrist to get electroshock therapy to 'cure' her. Linda moved out and got a job. So I imagine ode Linda has got a pretty hefty dose of generational / subsequent trauma on top of the trauma incurred in being an out lesbian in that time period, with a hostile parent.
I cracked up at one bit because there was a talking head with a brother and his subtitle on the screen was [Name] Former airline steward and Linda's brother ... which was bizarre.
Linda comes into an office fuming. It's Day 1 of Lesbian Visibility Week, they've got an 8 page spread in Diva, the Diva power list and Diva has done a big survey. She's got people calling her up asking why they're not in the power list, it's all crazy. She's got three meetings one after the other with activists in the community talking about how Diva can amplify their work and what Diva needs to do more of.
"And this is just day one, so, for all those people constantly sending me emails and sending me like IG or Twitter messages basically saying all I do is party, I hope this documentary shows I do do some work cos it really is starting, I don't just turn up at parties without working all day long. I get quite angry about that. And now I'm off to a party" [I was hooting at this bit because her face was literally
]
Linda gives a speech at a fancy dinner for Day 1 of Lesbian Visibility Week. It's thrown by Charlotte Weatherall (Director of Marketing at Corinthia - London (swish hotel)) for 18 lesbians [that's eighteen celebrity lesbians, not like, an organisation or anything]. Charlotte says that supporting the cause is important and they've modified their practice so when a woman comes down to breakfast the staff don't say "is your husband joining you". They pay attention to who is in a room and modify their addresses accordingly to be inclusive. [Wow, much radical] Then there was something at the London Stock Exchange.
Linda goes to NYC for an undisclosed reason, there's a clearly acted out bit with her Ops Manager where the Ops manager is pretending to have kittens about what if Linda doesn't get back in time for the Diva awards? And Linda asks if she can get a private jet if there's delays and the Ops manager does an "OH YOU"
Linda goes to the airport and says she has a special visa for 'VIP Services to Lesbian' and then she makes a joke about how it's not for servicing lesbians, it's for her service to lesbians.
The narrative jumps about a bit - at one point Linda lived in San Francisco, she played in a women's football team, then it jumped back to her being in the UK (I think), she ran a food truck outside a gay nightclub until local heavies demanded protection money off her, and when she told them to duck off she found the van 'blown up' one day, she was a pool player at national level and won competitions and made everybody envious because she could have a chat while she made perfect shots
Then it went into her work on normalising same-sex parenting and the alternative parenting events she put on.
Then I got bored and switched off because a lot of it is talking heads of people saying how amazing she is.
Linda goes to her former council flat in London with Dawn Butler. Felt a lot of compassion for her at this point, her Mum was a Bollywood actress and then was a single mother with four kids. Mum is Armenian, her Mum's family moved to India to escape the Armenian genocide. Linda and family got evicted from their flat because mum was a compulsive gambler. Linda came out to her Mum who reacted very badly, eventually suggested she take Linda to a psychiatrist to get electroshock therapy to 'cure' her. Linda moved out and got a job. So I imagine ode Linda has got a pretty hefty dose of generational / subsequent trauma on top of the trauma incurred in being an out lesbian in that time period, with a hostile parent.
I cracked up at one bit because there was a talking head with a brother and his subtitle on the screen was [Name] Former airline steward and Linda's brother ... which was bizarre.
Linda comes into an office fuming. It's Day 1 of Lesbian Visibility Week, they've got an 8 page spread in Diva, the Diva power list and Diva has done a big survey. She's got people calling her up asking why they're not in the power list, it's all crazy. She's got three meetings one after the other with activists in the community talking about how Diva can amplify their work and what Diva needs to do more of.
"And this is just day one, so, for all those people constantly sending me emails and sending me like IG or Twitter messages basically saying all I do is party, I hope this documentary shows I do do some work cos it really is starting, I don't just turn up at parties without working all day long. I get quite angry about that. And now I'm off to a party" [I was hooting at this bit because her face was literally
]Linda gives a speech at a fancy dinner for Day 1 of Lesbian Visibility Week. It's thrown by Charlotte Weatherall (Director of Marketing at Corinthia - London (swish hotel)) for 18 lesbians [that's eighteen celebrity lesbians, not like, an organisation or anything]. Charlotte says that supporting the cause is important and they've modified their practice so when a woman comes down to breakfast the staff don't say "is your husband joining you". They pay attention to who is in a room and modify their addresses accordingly to be inclusive. [Wow, much radical] Then there was something at the London Stock Exchange.
Linda goes to NYC for an undisclosed reason, there's a clearly acted out bit with her Ops Manager where the Ops manager is pretending to have kittens about what if Linda doesn't get back in time for the Diva awards? And Linda asks if she can get a private jet if there's delays and the Ops manager does an "OH YOU"
Linda goes to the airport and says she has a special visa for 'VIP Services to Lesbian' and then she makes a joke about how it's not for servicing lesbians, it's for her service to lesbians.
The narrative jumps about a bit - at one point Linda lived in San Francisco, she played in a women's football team, then it jumped back to her being in the UK (I think), she ran a food truck outside a gay nightclub until local heavies demanded protection money off her, and when she told them to duck off she found the van 'blown up' one day, she was a pool player at national level and won competitions and made everybody envious because she could have a chat while she made perfect shots
Then it went into her work on normalising same-sex parenting and the alternative parenting events she put on.
Then I got bored and switched off because a lot of it is talking heads of people saying how amazing she is.
CrackingOwlSanctuary
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Thanks for your service, tender one.
lilykestrel
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Oh duck me I actually only made it 25 minutes in
I'm going back in
I'm going back in