4:57 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities · Comments Off
6 Oct 2008
So, either the common people are so unused to a Spanish accent or so unused to Lebanese as a reference point, that when a Mexican born woman of Lebanese descent speaks, she must be outing her queer self.
ITV talk show presenter Eamon Holmes made a gaffe while the actress was present to discuss her campaign to wipe out Tetanus, reports The Sun.
Holmes asked Salma, Hayek doesn’t sound very Mexican”. To which the actress replied that’s because she’s half Lebanese.
He didn’t understand what she said and mistakenly asked: “You’re a lesbian?”
Salma clarified that she was a Lebanese.
Eamon asked her to forgive him and admitted he’d thought she’d said she was “half lesbian”.
You know what is really amusing to me? That even though this dude is talking to a woman with such a thick accent he can’t understand her, he still has the audacity to question her Mexican identity! It’s so much fun to be mestiz@ some times.
5:17 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Fashion| GLBT| Internet · 1 Comment
9 Dec 2005
I came across this by chance as a result of a Google AdSense ad for the keyword “Latino”. MarcaEres, which looks to me to be a pretty small company, got my attention because I don’t think anyone else in the U.S. (I’m assuming they are in the U.S. as the site is in English) is doing t-shirts and accessories for the gay Latino market.
It makes sense. Here in San Francisco, in the Castro District, you see lots of t-shirts with gay themes and clever comments on them (granted, only gay tourists buy and wear these), but I’ve never seen one in Spanish.
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