Gaga’s Telephone and other lesbian euphemisms

I did my homework.

  • Dancing in the prison hallway in studded panties.
  • Butch prison guards strip her down looking for Gaga’s dick, then one of them trolls for sex on Plenty of Fish
  • Beyoncé in the car with a snack: lesbians do everything in their cars.
  • Don’t the car scenes remind you of Death Proof or lesbian exploitation films?
  • Fatalistic, devoted to each other & dedicated to the dream
  • Pussy Wagon!

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