Summer Solstice

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Paul

I have no idea what this post has to do with the summer solstice, by the way …

I’m not above admitting I’m always a bit curious to see who tops Maxim’s Hot 100 list every year. Even though it’s basically the same list: Angelna, Halle, a bunch of chicks I never heard of from The O.C. and M.T.V. and another bunch Eli Roth will probably cut to pieces in his next gorno flick.

This year’s hottest of the hot Lindsay Lohan left me with mixed feelings.

On one hand, Lindsay Fucking Lohan?

She’s cute, okay, but not exactly the sexiest woman in the world. (Actually, those pictures of her with the knife gave new and sort of creepy-sexy new meaning to the words “Freaky Friday … but that’s a tangent.)

On the other hand, she’s a straight-up ginger, so I considered the choice a step in the right direction in a pigment-progressive sort of way.

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The list also caught the attention of AfterEllen, the “News, Reviews & Commentary on Lesbian and Bisexual women in Entertainment and the Media” website.

The freely admit that Maxim ain’t for lesbians, in fact, they say “it flies in the face of all that we hold dear, especially when it declares Lindsay Lohan the hottest of them all, as it did when it published The Maxim Hot 100 List last month.”

I’m not sure what that means, but they did create their own list.

Again, I must admit to a certain curiosity about which chicks chicks think are hot chicks.

Not sure why.

I just admit to it.

Clearly, what straight men and lesbians find sexy in a woman is a little bit different.

“Hot” for lesbians and bisexual women comes in all ages, sizes, colors and styles, as the diversity of women on our list demonstrates — from Tina Fey (No. 7) and Helen Mirren (No. 31), to Ellen DeGeneres (No. 50), America Ferrera (No. 30) and Queen Latifah (No. 55). There’s even a conservative Republican in the mix (Angie Harmon, No. 82), proving we can still find a women sexy even if we don’t agree with her alternative lifestyle choice.

The list also shows that we like women who like us — slightly over half the women on the AfterEllen.com Hot 100 List have played queer characters at one time or another. Eight of the women (nine, if you count Drew Barrymore) are openly lesbian or bisexual; they’re noted with an asterisk (*) next to their name.

But there is one thing all the women on the list have in common: They’re more than just pretty faces. Many of these women aren’t just women we like, they’re women we want to be like — women we admire as well as desire.

Here’s their Top Five:

1. Leisha Hailey