The lesbians behind cable TV: suddenly, there's plenty on cable TV for dykes--and the creative forces behind this burgeoning LGBT programming are lesbians too.(Hollywood Extra)

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Publication Date: 01-OCT-05

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Before mainstream network executives decided the LGBT market was a profitable one, shows like In the Life and Dyke TV were disseminating our stories on public broadcast and access networks nationally. No one would dare air them on major network television. But now, The L Word creator Ilene Chaiken claims, "No straight man in a suit ever dares to tell me what to do or how lesbians live their lives. I'm always treated as the expert."

This deference is a recent phenomenon. Dasha Snyder, writer and creator of The D Word, a parody that pokes fun at The L Word, says her work came out of frustration over the marked absence of lesbians that used to characterize television. "I love The L Word, and it inspired me to represent my part of the world," she...

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