A gay kiss is not a kiss when it ends up on the editing room floor. On a recent episode of "Law & Order SUV," comedian Kathy Griffin played a militant lesbian who in one scene with Olivia (Mariska Hargitay, daughter of Jayne Mansfield) planted a hot kiss on the Emmy winning star's lips. For reasons passed understanding, the kiss was cut, but at show's end Kathy also planted a kiss on the male star, Stabler, played by Christopher Meloni. (At right: Meloni, while not gay, is on many gay lists of hot men.)

Having Kathy (herself a very pro gay rights activist) kissing both the male and female stars has a symmetric theme. After Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock's famous public lip lock kiss, the world is used to women kissing.

But Streep and Bullock are apparently straight, whereas the lesbian community thinks that Miss Hargitay may belong to their club.* If so, it makes sense, in the convoluted thinking of the entertaining world, that it may not be good to have a real lesbian kiss on film. Let straight people kiss for them.

In the words of the old adage: "The truth must not be spoken" -or shown on television.

*Not outing Miss Hargitay here, just reporting what is believed by some, along with the caveat that frequently some gay people confuse reality with wishes and would out Donald Duck on a good day.