Neda Ulaby looks at the current landspe of gay characters on televisn, om the hight brows of Downton Abbey to the surprisgly welg world of realy shows.
Contents:
- WHO'S GAY ON TV? DADS, JOURNALISTS, INVTIGATORS AND FOOTMEN
- ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'
- TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
- THE GAYG OF FOX NEWS
WHO'S GAY ON TV? DADS, JOURNALISTS, INVTIGATORS AND FOOTMEN
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If I wasn’t gay, I probably wouldn’t be a ic. The pop culture gay flavor of the mute? Whe gay dads.
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" It's a mi-boomlet, says real-life whe gay dad and soclogy profsor Joshua Gamson. Not too long ago, he says, pop culture maly fed gay men as promiscuo and viant, rather than monogamo and voted to their fai. "It do seem like a strong unter-stereotype of how gay men have been portrayed over the past, whatever, 50 years, " he says.
"Morn Fay troduced to the whole world of gaybi, " he noted. Mutchnik's latt show, lled Partners, also gay-themed, was recently nceled. But Mutchnick says any show wh openly gay characters should reflect people dienc uld know their real liv.
So we see gay men and lbians real life wh babi — or "gaybi, " if you will. Meanwhile, gay TV pneer Ellen DeGener is a face of the multibilln-dollar smetic pany Cover Girl, and televisn overflows wh gay and lbian characters, om the pudgy bro Max on the ABC show Happy Endgs to the csadg lbian journalist on the ble h Amerin Horror Story.
THE GAYG OF FOX NEWS
"I was a ltle sad gay boy growg up Indiana, " he rells. "And my visns of what was gay were what I saw on TV.
" Gay dienc clung to what they had — signifiers and stereotyp — says Dave Kohan, Mutchnick's non-gay llaborator. " he says, referrg to an early 1980s s starrg Tony Randall as a wealthy gay man livg wh a ltle girl and her mom. "He wasn't gay, he was shy, " Kohan wryly observed.