R.I.P., Gay TV: A Not-So-Sad Realy | HuffPost Voic

Contents:

• R.I.P., GAY TV: A NOT-SO-SAD REALY
• GAY AND LGBT+ LOGOS
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• MTV BUTS 'LOGO' BLE CHANNEL TARGETG GAY MARKET
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• THE FOTTEN GAY CABLE NETWORK THAT CHANGED LGBTQ HISTORY
• 'RUPL'S DRAG RACE' IS LEAVG TV'S BIGGT GAY NETWORK -- NOW WHAT?
• LOGO CHIEF CHRIS MCCARTHY ON HOW THE NETWORK RETURNED TO ITS GAY ROOTS; WHY BRAVO IS NOT COMPETN
• HOW CANADA’S GAY NETWORK RO TO THE RCUE OF LOGO’S DTLA ENSEMBLE DRAMA
• LOGO NETWORK UNVEILS 'BIG GAY SKETCH SHOW'
• UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS

R.I.P., GAY TV: A NOT-SO-SAD REALY

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Jt as MTV pulled the plug on mic programmg the '90s, the work's younger, swishier , Logo, has cid to say goodbye to s origal raison d'être: gay-foced televisn.

GAY AND LGBT+ LOGOS

But given the current state of Logo's programmg, the cisn jt may be a blsg disguise for the gay rights movement.

None of Logo's upg seri clu gay characters "lead" rol, acrdg to a prs release announcg g programmg chang, first revealed by Queerty. Instead, the work has opted to green-light only female-iendly, gayish knock-offs of the realy shows Toddlers & Tiaras and Mob Wiv, wh show tl like En Wood's World and Wiseguys. " Instead, we fe ourselv as electropop fans and Foursquare addicts and t eaks who jt happen to be gay.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

However, jt bee we don't lead wh "I'm gay" don't mean we don't want to see gays on realy shows upon a time, multidimensnal, jt-happen-to-be-gay characters did exist on realy TV. Before the days of Richard Hatch and RuPl, there was The Real World, the godfather of morn realy programmg and the first to dive ep to what meant to grow up gay.

MTV BUTS 'LOGO' BLE CHANNEL TARGETG GAY MARKET

Danny was one of the first mascule pictns of a gay male on realy TV, and the first whose inty wasn't tied to AIDS or beg disowned. Danny ma beg gay seem like was No Big Deal, and apparently I wasn't the only one who idolized him -- even Ameri's gay sweetheart, Neil Patrick Harris, has said Danny spired him to e out.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

But unfortunately, Danny is one of the few footnot the history of unrstated gay male realy stars. The Real World soon bid adi to the jt-happens-to-be-gay archetype, at the same time abandong s missn to create nversatn about sexualy, genr, and race.

Meanwhile, 2003, realy TV producers fally found a ratgs-iendly spot for gay men when Queer Eye for the Straight Guy h the scene on Bravo. Soon, every woman had herself a Gay Bt Friend, and her sikick often doubled as a stylist, makp artist, or terr signer. In 2009 Logo cid to take the Bravo template and turn on s head, pluckg out the gay bt iends and grantg them their own fabulo realy platform.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Wh "Fierce TV" as s new slogan, Logo abandoned s Suba-heavy, lbian-leang, activist roots and led wh gay -- a big, big way.

The A-List was Logo's attempt to recreate the soap opera of The Real Hoewiv but wh a supposedly aspiratnal set of New York gay problem?

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

Women apparently didn't tune to see their gay bt iends makg a fool of themselv on Logo -- and neher did gays. Gay viewers have likened the seri to a gay mstrel show, and s st members have been eviscerated by The New York Tim. To their cred, even the A-Listers themselv seemed unfortable wh the entire premise onscreen, dispassnately recg ttimonials bchy gayspeak likely fed to them by the show's producers.

A-List st member Reichen Lehmkuhl, once a jt-happens-to-be-gay cult hero who won The Amazg Race 4 wh his then-partner Chip, was rced to fendg himself agast var unsubstantiated mors and venomo plotl. Evintly, Fierce TV stggled not jt to draw ratgs but also to make over-the-top gay stereotyp seem Bravo, which has taken a more rtraed approach to tegratg the gay muny s realy programmg, has had varied succs elevatg a gay male to a succsful lead role.

THE FOTTEN GAY CABLE NETWORK THAT CHANGED LGBTQ HISTORY

The show has gotten slammed by gay viewers and crics alike, wh The New York Daily News scribg Brad as "unpleasantly narcissistic. At this juncture Ameri, realy-show leads are bt left to the tried-and-tted bchy straight woman, and Logo is dog the gay muny a favor by takg out of the spotlight.

'RUPL'S DRAG RACE' IS LEAVG TV'S BIGGT GAY NETWORK -- NOW WHAT?

Sure, most people are smart enough to make the distctn that all gays aren't like those gays on Logo, jt as Italians aren't all table-flippers like those ladi on The Real Hoewiv of New Jersey. But when down to , we live a untry where the vast majory of gay Amerins n't marry legally, and there's a real threat of an anti-gay ndidate beg print. Get dozens of profsnal, ctom gay logo optns om our muny of eelance signers, and experience next-level creative directn.

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LOGO CHIEF CHRIS MCCARTHY ON HOW THE NETWORK RETURNED TO ITS GAY ROOTS; WHY BRAVO IS NOT COMPETN

Amics at the Universy of Sydney pared the voic of gay, straight and bisexual men a study volvg 160 the rearch led by clil psychologist Jam Morandi, people were reced to analyse the voic of 60 men, 20 of whom were gay, 20 straight and 20 bisexual.

They were then asked to rate the men on their sexual orientatn g a sle om zero (exclively heterosexual) to 10 (exclively homosexual).

HOW CANADA’S GAY NETWORK RO TO THE RCUE OF LOGO’S DTLA ENSEMBLE DRAMA

Rults om the study showed listeners uld distguish between gay and straight men’s voic wh an accuracy of 62 per cent, apparently nsistent wh prev rearch. The thors said their rearch showed bisexual men’s voic were perceived as beg more exclively attracted to women pared wh both gay and straight men’s voic.

Bisexual men’s voic were rated as more mascule than both gay and straight men’s voic. ‘Voice may unter visibily many bisexuals feel’An abstract of the study, tled Can listeners tect if a man is bisexual om his voice alone, reads: “The prent study examed whether bisexual men n be intified om their voic ak to how gay men n be intified on their voice alone. “The fdgs may also she light on whether bisexual male voic, like gay male voic, differ om straight voic terms of their genr non-nformy – a qutn that to date has not been examed.

LOGO NETWORK UNVEILS 'BIG GAY SKETCH SHOW'

”But amics noted the rearch was limed on the grounds all men who participated the study are Atralian, which may not be reflected among wir the thors nced the study did not ntrol for the rerdg environment or microphone-to-mouth distance, which uld have affected the qualy of the voice thors said the fdgs suggted that while the voic of bisexual men the sample were perceived as more mascule and attracted to femal, listeners did not associate this imprsn wh a rult, while bisexual men may appear to be at lower risk of facg voice-based intifitn and discrimatn than gay men, they may often be mistaken as beg study was published the Journal of Sex Rearch.

MTV Networks lnched a new ble channel to 10 ln hom Thursday featurg movi, documentari and origal programmg targetg the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr dience beg the first 24-hour digal ble work offered the Uned Stat on several ble provirs and satelle systems. Logo will prent origal seri, documentari and specials as well as a library of over 200 lbian and gay films. The ble channel is also teamg up wh CBS News to ver lbian and gay stori and headl.

UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS

Advertisers will clu Orbz, Tylenol, Motorola, Miller Le, Lns Gate Films and Suba wishg to market to the veted 25-to-49 age range providg an opportuny to reach out to the lbian and gay market. C., llg Logo "another example of an asslt on children's nocence, a means of legimizg a homosexual liftyle, mastreamg homosexualy a posive and appealg way. The Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) hails the lnch of Logo.