Lizzy the Lezzy

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Lizzy the Lezzy
Genre Animation
Stand-up comedy
Created byRuth Selwyn
Original languagesEnglish, German, Spanish and Hebrew

Lizzy the Lezzy is an animated stand-up comedy series about a woman called Lizzy who talks mostly about lesbian interests. [1] The sketches contain graphical sexual material but not graphic imagery.

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Lizzy the Lezzy was created in October 2006 by the Israeli cartoonist Ruth Selwyn. This is the first animated stand-up material of its kind, [2] and the videos have had over 4 million views online. [3] The first episode was uploaded to Myspace and was soon spotted by Arlan Hamilton [4] who writes one of the most popular lesbian blogs on the internet. The publicity from Hamilton's article led to The L Word Online suggesting to Selwyn that she make a funny stand-up video about The L Word . Lizzy then made fun of other lesbians and the resulting video was posted on AfterEllen. [5]

In 2007, Logo TV acquired the first ten Lizzy stand-up comedy videos and broadcast them on its gay/lesbian animation show, Alien Boot Camp. Curve magazine included Lizzy in an article entitled "Networking Lesbians", and Lesbians on the Loose International featured Selwyn and Lizzy as well. Lizzy's stand-up "comedy" videos were also covered on The Bilerico Project's "Sunday Funnies" and on Jewcy where she was described as "the funniest lesbian on Myspace". [6]

Lizzy videos were shown in many gay-themed film festivals, such as the 2008 Israeli Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, [7] and the 2008 Lethal Lesbian 3 film event. [8]

Content

Each Lizzy video has a different theme. One has no sound (for deaf people); one praises abortion and tells viewers to get pregnant merely to have more abortions;[ citation needed ] one has almost no visuals (for blind people) and there are episodes in French, German, Spanish and Hebrew, all of which contain English subtitles. [9] Most of the videos on YouTube now also have closed captions in English and Spanish.

Selwyn decided to make a special Lizzy stand-up video for National Coming Out Day, which was shown on Lovegirls with Lizzy's funny "Coming Out Guide", and was seen by the Human Rights Campaign which subsequently asked her to create a special video for the L Word season five premier parties across the United States. In June 2009, Tegan[ who? ] and Selwyn posted a link to Lizzy's website on their Twitter page.

Lizzy is sometimes joined by her best friend Gary the Gay and they often talk to each other about the problems they have with being homosexuals. Lizzy also has friends called Kate the Straight, Nic the Bi-Chick and Stan the Macho Man, and these characters all appear in a book written and produced by Selwyn entitled Lizzy the Lezzy Gets Laid. The book contains a similar style of humour to the animated cartoons.

Reception

Lizzy's lesbian comedy videos have been seen by more than 2 million people. [10]

In 2015, activists Haneen Maikey and Mikki Stelder criticised the series for "pinkwashing" Israel's treatment of Palestinians, eroticising "colonial power dynamics", and argued that the series offers insight as to how the "Israeli LGBT community advances Israel's Zionist logic". [11]

In late August 2018, the official Lizzy the Lezzy Facebook page was hacked by a troll who uploaded videos and images of transsexual pornography as well as images that contain the word "faggot". [12] The page had over 2 million likes.

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References

  1. ↑ Farber, Alona (October 4, 2018). "'The Mideast's Biggest Lesbian' Battles the Homophobes, One Facebook Like at a Time". Haaretz . Archived from the original on July 10, 2020. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
  2. ↑ Raphael Ahren, "Lizzy the Lezzy invites you to sing with her", Haaretz, August 29, 2008
  3. ↑ "Lizzy the Lezzy - Lesbian Stand up Comedy Animation", TubeMogul statistics Archived 2010-05-07 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Your Daily Lesbian Moment website
  5. ↑ "Best. Lesbian. Week. Ever". AfterEllen. January 12, 2007. Archived from the original on March 25, 2010. Retrieved March 26, 2010.
  6. ↑ "Lizzy the Lezzy Is The Funniest Lesbian on MySpace". Jewcy. February 28, 2008. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
  7. ↑ Ynet (in Hebrew)
  8. ↑ "Blossoms the cultural wasteland", Mouse (in Hebrew) Archived 2013-01-21 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ↑ Sam Ser (September 3, 2009). "Look who's talking". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved August 27, 2009.
  10. ↑ "Lesbian Animation", LOTL International Archived March 26, 2010, at the Wayback Machine .
  11. ↑ Maikey, Haneen; Stelder, Mikki (2015). "Dismantling the Pink Door in the Apartheid Wall: Towards a Decolonized Palestinian Queer Politics". In Tellis, Ashley; Bala, Sruti (eds.). The Global Trajectories of Queerness: Re-thinking Same-Sex Politics in the Global South. Leiden: Brill Publishers. pp. 96–97. ISBN   978-9004309333.
  12. ↑ "Facebook" . Retrieved 2024-07-02– via Facebook. Hello Y'all Yesterday, this FB page was hacked. The hacker posted a lot of porn alongside anti-gay and anti-trans messages. Just wanted to make it very clear that this a PRO-LGBTQ page. And that we're very sorry that many of you were subjected to the hackers vile post. Love you all! Pride on! - Lizzy
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