In addition to boycotting Arizona, here are a couple protest-worthy items for thought. These totally relate to Jane Lych, we promise.

First, Jane Lynch teams up with PETA – not to throw red paint at humans wearing other animals’ coats (so rude), but to encourage all of us to spay and neuter our dogs and cats. It’s true, spay or neuter ‘em, people.  We love love love love love love love heart love love heart our dog Idgie, but the Idgie family line starts and stops with the Idgster.

Jane Lynch for PETA.

Second and a little more tangentially, Newsweek.  A few tipsters, including our BFF, sent us news about Glee creator Ryan Murphy’s call to boycott Newsweek over this article by (gay columnist) Ramin Setoodeh.  Setoodeh essays – inartfully – why it is hard to believe openly gay actors in straight roles.  He then tries to clarify his points here.  Now, from our reading of both articles, Setoodeh seems to be saying: (A) that the current crop of gay actors woefully lack talent and can’t act their way out of a lavender paper bag; (B) that regardless of acting talent, he personally will never believe that a gay actor can actually play straight, because he always will find something too gay about their acting; or (C) that Hollywood is so afraid of audiences not believing that a gay actor could play straight that they don’t give gays a chance.

The level of internalized homophobia in the article is not quite as high as hyped; by that same token, there is enough there that makes us think that the answer is (D) all of the above.  Notably, though he singles out the actor who plays Rachel’s boyfriend in Glee as a shining example of a gay man who can’t play straight, he overlooks/ignores the glaringly obvious example of our Jane Lynch.  She can play straight, she can play gay, she can play arrogant, she can play bashful – to paraphrase her character in Role Models, she can play the entire organization.  His greater point about the difficulty of being a gay actor in Hollywood because of the confluence of (A)-(C) is well-taken.  Yet, the last thing we need are gays telling other gays that they simply can’t be both a lead and a a gay. That’s like a bad mom telling her daughter that she can’t be anything more than a housewife.  Acceptance is slow and steady, but it will happen.  One gay at a time.