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- GAYS FOR GUNS: ARMG THE QUEER COMMUNY
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- QUEER AS COP: GAY PATROL UNS AND THE WHE FANTASY OF SAFETY
GAYS FOR GUNS: ARMG THE QUEER COMMUNY
Meet Ted, Kyan, Thom, Carson and Jai: the flamboyant stars of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, the hottt show on US televisn and the surprise h of summer schl normally given over to endls a matter of weeks Queer Eye, a makeover show wh five gay men as s prenters, has been tapulted om an obscure ble statn to a primetime slot on major work channel NBC and s stars have been the subject of untls terviews and magaze vers. But many mentators say s roarg succs is no surprise as crts a wave of gay issu domatg polics, relign and the media what is beg dubbed 'Ameri's Gay Summer' the appotment of a gay bishop to mov to legalise gay marriag to the creatn this tumn of a specifilly gay public sendary school New York, homosexualy is the issue of the day. 'It has been a tly amazg summer for gay rights, ' said Matt Col, a mpaigner at the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn.
The format is simple: a straight but slobbish member of the public is nomated, ually by an exasperated girliend, for a full fashn and liftyle makeover by those ultimate arbers of good taste: gay men. ", ' said Carson Krsley, the mp fashn expert whose wherg putdowns have been a staple of the show's n so rights mpaigners have appld Queer Eye for brgg gay and straight people together. 'It is beyond a succs - is a phenomenon, ' said Stt Seom, entertament media director wh the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn.
But the show has outraged the powerful US nservative lobby, which se any mastream reprentatn of homosexualy as an afont to fay valu. 'The homosexual lobby is dog a good job of mastreamg s liftyle but we want to make our voic heard as nsumers. The TV statns have sce been bombard wh lls and letters om gay rights activists.
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Dpe the show's succs, gay rights is still a hugely divisive issue Ameri. It taps to bat over tolerance and tradnal valu and reflects a spl between Ameri's multi-ethnic, multicultural ci and ral areas, pecially the ep South, where prejudice agast homosexualy still ns strong area has been more ntroversial than the church. The appotment earlier this month of an openly gay bishop the Epispalian Church, the US branch of Anglinism, has riven US society.
They are gog to die out over this, ' said when Bishop Robson was troduced to those assembled at the nventn, many of the 800 people assembled broke to spontaneo Leo Fra of the dce of south-east Florida voted favour of the appotment of the gay bishop only after several days of fastg and prayer, and was the only bishop Florida to back the cisn. 'The Epispal Church Ameri has long been divid on the subject, and gay members of the clergy are nothg new.
In San Francis, wh s large and powerful homosexual populatn, gays and lbians are ordaed the lol church. 'It is a tragedy when a Christian nomatn starts to give to the polil wds of a powerful gay lobby, ' he marriage will be the next battlefield. A landmark Supreme Court cisn June threw out a Texan law forbiddg gay sex and uld now pave the way for same-sex marriag to be regnised law.
QUEER AS COP: GAY PATROL UNS AND THE WHE FANTASY OF SAFETY
It is liberal Massachetts where several gay upl have fought all the way to the state's Supreme Court to w the right to be legally married. It is morally wrong, ' said gay mpaigners are equally termed.
That will force a major showdown and lead to the lnch of dozens of lawsus to make other stat regnise the Massachetts unns, prisg open the door to gettg gay marriage legalised across the whole kd of fight n get ugly.
As the Massachetts cisn looms, the gay vasn of mastream entertament ntu, brgg gay characters to the livg rooms of every televisn-owng hoehold Ameri. Will & Grace, the long-nng gay man/straight woman edy, is rivallg Friends populary, wh stars cludg Madonna, Cher and Michael Douglas jostlg for gut spots.