The AfterEllen.com Hot 100 List
admin June 15th, 2007
Let’s face it: Maxim doesn’t cater to lesbians. In fact, you could say it flies in the face of all that we hold dear, especially when it declares Lindsay Lohan the hottest of them all, as it did when it published The Maxim Hot 100 List last month. So we asked you, our readers, to create your own list of hotties, and you came out in droves to nominate the women you think deserve to be on the AfterEllen.com Hot 100 List. Thousands of votes later, we have the results.
How is our list different from Maxim’s? Eight of the top 10 women on our list aren’t mentioned anywhere on the Maxim list (Angelina Jolie and Lena Headey are the exceptions), and only four of the women who made Maxim’s top 10 (Jessica Alba, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel and Lindsay Lohan) appear somewhere on the AfterEllen.com list.
Clearly, what straight men and lesbians find sexy in a woman is a little bit different.
“Hot” for lesbians and bisexual women comes in all ages, sizes, colors and styles, as the diversity of women on our list demonstrates — from Tina Fey (No. 7) and Helen Mirren (No. 31), to Ellen DeGeneres (No. 50), America Ferrera (No. 30) and Queen Latifah (No. 55). There’s even a conservative Republican in the mix (Angie Harmon, No. 82), proving we can still find a women sexy even if we don’t agree with her alternative lifestyle choice.
The list also shows that we like women who like us — slightly over half the women on the AfterEllen.com Hot 100 List have played queer characters at one time or another. Eight of the women (nine, if you count Drew Barrymore) are openly lesbian or bisexual; they’re noted with an asterisk (*) next to their name.
But there is one thing all the women on the list have in common: They’re more than just pretty faces. Many of these women aren’t just women we like, they’re women we want to be like — women we admire as well as desire.
On our list, heat has depth. And Leisha (No. 1) beats Lindsay (No. 79) by a mile.
Now, on to the AfterEllen.com Hot 100 List! The women are listed in ascending order according to your votes. We’ve provided photos and descriptions for the first 20 women, and after that, just names and photos. At the end, you can add your comments telling us what you think about the women who ended up on the list. Enjoy!
1. Leisha Hailey*
As Alice on The L Word, Leisha gets more beautiful every season, and her acting skills have flourished too. Nobody has better comic timing, but she can also make us cry. And before she became our Sunday-night crush, she Murmur-ed in our ears as a pink-haired rocker who dated k.d. lang. Leisha makes it official: You’re even hotter when you’re out. (Editor’s Note: see Leisha’s response to being number one on our list here.)
2. Angelina Jolie*
Ever since she caught our eye as the tattoo-bearing tomboy in Foxfire (1996), Angelina has been an undeniable lesbian favorite. It doesn’t hurt that she played gay in Gia and publicly admits to her attraction to women. So what if she’s shacked up with Brad Pitt? She’s still the hottest bisexual actress — and mom — around.
3. Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet is practically perfect. A brilliant actress who picks great roles. A beautiful woman who believes you should never skip dessert. A class act who still fancies a dirty joke. Funny. Smart. English. Just go ahead and swoon now and get it over with already.
4. Lena Headey
According to the MTV Movie Awards, she gave a “breakthrough performance” in 300, but we’ve known since Imagine Me & You that Lena is hot stuff. Is it that slow smile, the sexy walk or the hair that can handle any style? Yes — and let’s not forget the accent (there’s a reason two British charmers made our top five). Watching Lena take down the bad guys in Fox’s The Sarah Connor Chronicles next season will just be icing on the cake.
5. Sarah Shahi
With an Iranian father, a Spanish mother and a Texas childhood, The L Word’s Sarah Shahi is one of the finest examples (and we do mean finest) of multiculturalism we can think of. Shahi is not only a kick-ass hottie, she can kick your ass — she holds a brown belt in karate. Sarah’s mother discouraged body self-consciousness in her daughter early on, saying, “Your boob is the same as your hand.” Thanks, Mom.
It’s no secret i’m excited for this film. I’m a big proponent of Zack Snyders, I think he did a great job with the ‘Dawn of the Dead’ remake, and the small glimpses of footage we’ve seen from ‘300′ look amazing, slow motion blood splatter, and kids fighting giant wolves (
Shaun of the Dead is probably in my top five favourite comedy films of all time, and it probably even edges into my top ten horrors. I was also a big fan of Spaced before SOTD came along. Edgar Wright is one of us, a fanboy that makes fanboy films.
Batman and Wolverine in a magic fight to the death. Nothing could be awesom-e-r….Christopher Nolan after making ‘Memento’ has just launched himself into the stratosphere, and become one of my favourite directors. Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale play rival magicians, but then Bale’s character performs ‘the ultimate trick’ and we see a little supernatural edge thrown into the mix. It’s best explained by 
Daniel Craig will be a great James Bond, The guy is more english than a very english thing. He can drink tea and then headbutt you in the face and garot you with a piece of wire coming out of his watch.
Everytime we get to see a new clip or a new batch of stills from ‘The Science of Sleep’ I start raving about it. Gondry is one of the most creative directors (I hesitate to call him that, as I have a feeling he does a lot more than just direct actors) working in movies today. The film looks to contain heaps of Gondry’s typically weird style; sets made out of cardboard and tinfoil, and skiing down mountains made from cotton wool(those could be lyrics to a Beatles song).
What is the fountain about? I have no fucking idea… something to do with time travel and lost love and the search for the fountain of youth/eternal life, either way it looks incredible. Darren Aronofsky has made some good films, depressing yes, but he manages to always keep me enthralled while driving me into that hole in the ground.
Alfonso Cuaron hit the international scene hard with ‘Y tu Mama Tambien’, not his first film, but the film that made people sit up and notice. How he got appointed to direct the third (and best) Harry Potter film i’ll never know, maybe someone saw something very ‘Potter’ in the group sex scenes in ‘Tambien’.
Death Proof/Planet Terror
Alejandro González Iñárritu brings another ‘multiple story line’ film to the big screen. Three intertwining stories set in Morocco, Tunisia, Mexico and Japan.
The first David Fincher film for 5 years, and it’s been too long.
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One of the most surprising scenes in the new Harry Potter book occurs in the chapter “The Bribe” (pages 210-215)–a scene which reflects our sharply anti-father political environment. (As an aside, even though J.K. Rowling is an avowed single mother advocate, in the Harry Potter series she mercifully spares us any nonsense on the glories of single motherhood.)
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How am I not surprised.
Comment by Ryan 04.20.07 @ 12:38 am