Lesbians too much for bus riders.

Images of naked lesbians were apparently too much for one state lawmaker in Brooklyn, N.Y., who succeeded in getting a poster for Showtime's The L Word removed from a local bus stop. Republican state senator Marry Golden said a number of residents and merchants complained about the ad, which featured the program's cast in the buff. Golden added that its proximity to a school was also inappropriate. "The placement of an advertisement, so sexual in nature, should not be what local schoolchildren should be subjected to," he wrote in a March 1 letter to the city transportation department.

Gary Parker, president of Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn accused Golden of being homophobic: "It is unfortunate that the senator's views are not more aligned with the majority of Brooklynites, who pride themselves on the diversity of the greatest city in the world," he said.