Well it looks like Alaska Air has gotten some slack lately for offering a 10% air travel discount to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered travelers, in their own words “taking diversity to the sky.” People were a bit upset about it by saying that instead offering a discount to gays, lesbians, etc. it was in fact adding a 10% surcharge to heterosexual passengers. Personally, I don’t understand that logic. You can read up about the whole thing here, and also check out their gay travel page itself. But really what I understand even less is, how do you prove you’re gay in order to get the discount? That’s when the penis tatoo comes in handy, of course!
Along with Joanna Angel, Alexandra Silk, Mila Shegol, and probably others that I have missed, porn newcomer Savannah Jane (she entered the biz just a few months ago) is an Orthodox Jew, but there’s one other thing to note: she’s deaf. All the power to her I suppose; she seems to get by allright by either reading lips (no pun intended, I swear) and/or the use of a hearing aid but you can certainly tell she’s deaf in the interview below taken by Luke Ford outside Sardo’s in Burbank. You can read the transcript here. Now, I have and have had several deaf friends and I’m fully sensitive to people with disabilities but two things come to mind: one, hopefully she didn’t actually do any karaoke. Two, I suppose porn acting doesn’t require an ability to enunciate so I’m sure she’ll do fine. Three, this reminds me of the time Ed Sullivan introduced Jose Feliciano on television the first time and said “Not only is he blind, but he’s also Puerto Rican.”
A further internet search for “deaf porn star” revealed a certain Olivia Love, who is not only deaf, but a transsexual/shemale!