100 Women We Love 2014

From professors, to musicians, to activists, we present to you 2014’s 100 Women We Love.

Dara Nai

Dara Nai´s first attempt at professional humor writing, ″Ryder Trucks Launches New Ad Campaign to Win More Lesbian Second Date Business,″ led to a regular gig at AfterEllen.com. The Internet proved the perfect platform for combining Nai´s dry, knowing wit and obsession with lezzie media. Between posting scores of articles, Nai starred with Karman Kregloe and Jill Bennett in ″We´re Getting Nowhere,″ AfterEllen´s most-viewed web series. ″WGN was lightning in a bottle,″ Nai remembers. ″Lesbian audiences seemed ready for something new. We were just playing around, mocking The L Word with sock puppets. I had no idea the show would resonate the way it did.″ After a two-year run on LOGO in her subsequent series, ″Dara & Karman´s Hit List,″ Nai turned to writing for scripted TV. So far, she´s worked on a sitcom for Cedric the Entertainer, a new 40-episode comedy series developed for Chinese television, and a ″Weekend Update″-style pilot for BET airing in July. She´s also the head writer on Second Shot, an independent LGBT comedy about a quirky gay bar in rural Ohio. ″I´d love to see ´Second Shot´ go to series, and we´re definitely working on that. Writing a grown-up, LGBT sitcom would be incredibly rewarding. And I would get to write girl-on-girl sex scenes, which wouldn´t suck, either.″ -KL


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