... time of the year. Thanksgiving is coming at us this Thursday just as surely as our weekly hot vampire fix, that night’s usual bite delight: The Vampire Diaries. Even if you’re a gay grinch, hopefully your heart warms a little at the notion of television’s holiday specials. A favorite of ours, the How I Met Your Mother “Slapsgiving” turkey day tradition, lives on in ...

... 's-eye, the imaginary G-spot of -- gay TV and movie producers and directors? Have you seen the giant ... -dressers are given communion in my parish. Does an employee ever get fired just for being gay? This is where discrimination comes in, admittedly. But can't this be prevented with a plain ... "normal"??! Well, you can go to ED hell. Gay lifestyle advocates actually enjoy wide legal ...

It's more colorful than than a GLAAD report, more enlightened than a Newsweek article, but not half as amusing as a That's Gay segment. Still, Mediaweek's new Gay TV web series is a pretty excellent refresher for gay characters and plotlines on the booby tooby. CONTINUED » Tagged: mediaweek

... , effeminate girly fag men. Early gay activists went out of their way to break down these stereotypes with counterexamples, such as having the ultra- ... quot;Bruno" movie and the TV show "Glee" both use gay stereotypes for entertainment ... put before the voters of any state, it has failed every time. Is TV to blame for this? . . The fey way extends to nonfiction, too, from the dozens of ...

... media messaging by including actual gay people in TV ads, the underlying foundation of the campaign ... show and talk about real gays. Of course, simply having the gay word in the group's name isn't enough for effective ... losses, intransigent commitment to doing the same old campaign and not enough new thinking from Gay Inc, there is the real probability of setbacks in the next batch of state ...

... to remember the '70s, when being gay was a personal choice, not a political identity. This idea that TV viewers don't have a right to decide for themselves what is or is not offensive -- an undemocratic impulse, wherein the ... it interesting. ROLL TIDE ROLL! -- rsmccain on Twitter @Auburnwareagles Are More Gay Than Adam Lambert NTTAWWT -- rsmccain on TwitterI must clarify that ...

I enjoyed this column in the latest Newsweek about gay images on TV. An excerpt: In the past year, however, the public- ... put before the voters of any state, it has failed every time. Is TV to blame for this? Of course not. The mission of popular culture is to entertain, ... dress the part. Is that a form of appeasement? Maybe. It's not that gay men and women should pretend to be straight, or file ...

... 8221; when I was in college. Maybe I shouldn’t have hung out all those nights at the gay bar behind my apartment. Maybe I shouldn’t have gone to Burning Man ... cut it, American Idol is reality TV. And anyone who comes from reality TV faces a tougher battle in the quest ... experienced for all those months on a top-rated reality TV show. Just like every idiot with tabloid notoriety and a fashion ...

... of another performer into his crotch. Complaints poured in to the ABC TV network that aired the show, and it canceled the Lambert’s ... obscene or indecent can leave U.S. TV networks open to fines. Some members of the gay community also scorned Lambert. ... editor in chief of website 365gay.com, said his performance hurt the cause of gay marriage in the eyes of mainstream Americans “who ...

... had legalized gay marriage. In fact, when gay marriage has been put before the voters of any state, it has failed every time. Is TV to blame for this? Of course not. The mission of popular culture is to entertain, not to ... you have to dress the part. Is that a form of appeasement? Maybe. It's not that gay men and women should pretend to be straight, or file down all their ...