Lynne Cheney wrote a romance novel about hot lesbian sex

[Lucille]

It's been made into an off-broadway play.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/171998p-150026c.html
Gay time with Cheney book

Lynne Cheney's still-remembered 1981 lesbian romance novel, "Sisters," was feted Monday night in a special performance by the "Lynne Cheney Players" - to the delight of an audience of liberal East Village types.
The performance at the New York Theatre Workshop was part of a celebration of left-leaning radio personality Laura Flanders' new book, "Bushwomen: Tale of a Cynical Species."

Yesterday, Flanders told Lowdown that Cheney's novel "is a breathy, gothic romance, horribly written. It's celebrating lesbian love and promotes the value of preventative devices, condoms, to women who want to remain free. It features a woman who has unmarried sex with the widow of her sister - all this by Lynne Cheney, the culture warrior of the right."

Monday's crowd of 200 - which included actress Janeane Garofalo - laughed throughout the satirical staging.

Choice scenes adapted from "Sisters" included one in which two female characters write to each other: "Let us go away together, away from the anger and the imperatives of men. We shall find ourselves a secluded bower where they dare not venture. There will be only the two of us, and we shall linger through long afternoons of sweet retirement."

One of Cheney's characters swoons to a Sapphic love letter: "How well her words describe our love - or the way it would be if we could remove all impediments, leave this place, and join together ... Then our union would be complete. Our lives would flow together, twin streams merging into a single river."

Vice President Cheney's wife has been silent on the hot-button issue of gay marriage, although their 34-year-old daughter, Mary Cheney, is openly gay. President Bush has come out in a support of a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage.

"Here's a whole book where she gloried in lesbian love affairs," Flanders said. "The hypocrisy is rank."

Lynne Cheney's spokeswoman didn't respond to Lowdown's request for comment
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[latebloomer]

1. If I were married to Dick

I'd be a lesbian too!

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Sounds like Newt Gingrich's stuff

He wrote a couple of semi-torrid low-intensity dominance-and-submission love scenes into 1945. If I recall correctly, one critic called the main one "the most humiliating love scene ever left in a book by an editor."

--bkl

[Bridget Burke]

3. Then there's "The Body Politic"

In which the vice-president dies of a heart attack & the news is suppressed. Then his wife takes over his job.

www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312979630/ref=cm_cr_dp_2_1/002-1208742-4744033?v=glance&s=books&vi=customer-reviews

One Austin reader says: "If you really want to get inside the mind of Lynne Cheney, to really understand her values, her ambitions, and her view of the world, then you must read this book! Few women in politics today would dare pen so vivid a blueprint for her future as Mrs. Cheney has here. Audacious, gripping, and the best snapshot one can have of this prominent woman of our times! Read it now!"

Lynn's co-author angrily informs us (at Amazon) that the story was based on Rockefeller, not a Republican!!!

You, too can buy the book for $.01.

[Lucille]

7. er, Rockefeller was a Republican, nt

nt

[Bridget Burke]

18. Sorry....

But he was a "Liberal" Republican, wasn't he?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. $.01? That's too overpriced.

[grannylib]

4. She apparently was named to some position or other on the basis

of being a published author, but on her official resume now the fact that she wrote the book has been removed...hmmmm....

[Luvpurp]

5. Is this serious?

If this is serious, it is freaking hilarious. Ranks right up with Bill O-Reilly's book where cunnilingus is prominently featured. FYI for a hilarious send up of O'Reilly's book you must read Al Frankens's Lies and Lying Liars Who Tell Them.

[deutsey]

6. It's serious

Laura Flanders obtained a copy of the book and writes about it in her new book, Bushwomen.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/09/1518241

Scroll down toward the bottom.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. I consider myself a male lesbian.

[seabeyond]

9. oh the liberals, contributing to decadence

the ruination of this country

well hey wait a minute. she be republican. and feed this crap to the people,. oh, she needs to confess her sins

[Dr Fate]

10. Their daughter is a gay lady too-right?

I dont understand why Cheney is so evil that would not allow HIS OWN FLESH & BLOOD to have rights.

This is BIZZARE- did she KNOW her DAUGHTER was gay when she wrote this???- strange, strange...

[TahitiNut]

12. The wealthy are NEVER deprived of 'rights'.

Before Roe v. Wade (and even after), the wealthy could afford travel to other countries where whatever services they wanted were available. There is NOTHING they deprive themselves ... only those who cannot purchase freedoms and liberties. It's human rights for sale. It's votes for sale. It's the dollar as "speech." Profiting from the labor of others isn't enough for the plantation class -- too many people whose only sense of well-being comes from the comparative misery of others.

[Dr Fate]

13. It's unsettling that she writes lesbian porn, AND has a gay daughter

Is this a tad bizzare, or I am just weird?

[KC21304]

15. My guess would be she did not know her daughter was gay

when she wrote the book. If it was published in 1981, she probably started it in 1980 and Mary could not have been over 11 at that time, if she is 34 now.

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[slinkerwink]

14. I've read and written much better lesbian porn than this

*shakes head*

[Cooley Hurd]

19. And you've not shared it with US????

Damn you, Slinkerwink! Damn you... :D

To paraphrase Ed Helms on last night's Daily Show:
"Your porn doesn't rub me the wrong way, but makes me rub myself the wrong way..." (not a direct quote, but the gist of what he said)

[slinkerwink]

20. lol! never! never!

[plcdude]

28. you can always

pm me your writings.

[slinkerwink]

31. nope, never.

[Minstrel Boy]

16. "We shall find ourselves a secluded bower where they dare not venture."

Goodness, what a wordsmith.

[WoodrowFan]

21. can YOU imagine sex with Dick Cheney?

seeing that smirk on his face while he's on top!! UGH

[eissa]

22. I ALMOST feel sorry for Lynne

Dick's "fuck you, I've got mine" attitude probably reveals a lot about his intimate side as well.

[donsu]

24. please don't even "almost" feel sorry for the she Cheney

she has been totally dangerous toward universities. wreaked much havoc.

she probably wrote that novel as a joke or a bet. (like: can you write a hot gay novel and get it published? some hacks do that; see if they can write say a horror novel or a romance novel and see if it can be published. I've read articles where they will give an outline of how to write one of these novels.)

[eissa]

25. Make no mistake

I loathe this woman, and her husband equally. I simply think this novel of hers was an "oulet" of sorts.

[otohara]

23. Laura Flannders was Funny on Democracy Now

she spoke about the book on yesterday's show - check it out at democracynow.org

[grannylib]

26. Saw that, I love that channel....one thing I really like about Dish, we

didn't get that on DirectTv

[K8-EEE]

27. They Act Out Scenes Of This At Laura Flanders' Book Tour

GOING!! I'm so going to that -- they are here in L.A. in April, her tour schedule is on lauraflanders.com

[noiretextatique]

29. great idea!

i'm going to check it out in SF on March 23rd.

[derby378]

30. Maybe Howard Stern should book Lynne Cheney?

While he still has a radio show?

[historian]

32. ah but wait

She wrote the book in order to "enlighten" the populace about the dangers of lesbianism - if any of us had written it, we would be classified as smut spreaders and pornographers.