WHERE 'L' ISN'T JUST FOR LOSERS

Cashing in on the homosexual trend, Showtime is preparing to launch 'The L Word', a show featuring glam lesbians:

Comparing itself to "Sex and the City (search)," with the ad campaign "Same sex, different city," "The L Word" stars Jennifer Beals of "Flashdance" fame, whose character is trying to have a child with her partner. Their circle of beautiful, stylish lesbian friends often meets at the coffee shop to dish about career, family, friends, and of course, sex.

The show doesn't shy away from steamy scenes, one of which takes place between Marina, who is a lesbian, and a "bi-curious" Midwestern woman who moves to Los Angeles to live with her boyfriend.

Shockingly, viewers aren't going to see lesbians who look like, say, Rosie O'Donnell, but lesbians who look like, well, Jennifer Beals:

[Robert] Peters [of Morality in Media], however, said the look of the cast, who could give the “Sex and the City” gals a run for their money, sends a message to teenage girls that sexual experimentation is cool. He said the show is part of a "propaganda campaign" to change public opinion about homosexuality.

"These women are all knockouts," Peters said. "This is for heterosexual men who want to watch women having sex."

But Taylor [, a lesbian,] is unfazed by the "lipstick lesbian" look of the cast.

"Sex sells and I think it was a smart marketing strategy that they use that," she said. "Perhaps after they get people hooked they'll integrate some more realistic-looking lesbians."

And while homosexual groups are beside themselves with joy over the new show, perhaps the fundamental disagreement between lesbians and male homosexuals will be exposed. Lesbians argue that their homosexuality is a choice while male homosexuals insist that they're just genetically programmed to be that way. But the bottom line is, the show is just another effort to show homosexuality is "cool and sexy".