Comments on: Ellen’s Dream Comes True: Oprah Let the Lez Lady on the Cover of Her Magazine

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:58:05 +0000

Oprah made Nate Berkus (an openly gay man) host of her reality show “The Big Give”. He was the first openly gay reality show host.

By: dontblamemeivotedforhillary

dontblamemeivotedforhillary — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:27:34 +0000

I was blinded by the white on the cover of ‘O’ magazine. Ellen is a cute pixie and a class act. Oprah should retire and start her network before her eyes glaze over and leave it up to a new generation. I’d like to see both promote openly gay men more though I’ve seen rare glimpses, Oprah with the flaming Mariah Carey fans and Ellen with her early ardent support for Adam Lambert on the rigged season of American Idol. As a gay man, I just chalk it up to the general gross-ness that women, America, straights, lesbians, blacks, employers, “the whole planet” have for Gay men and the physical act of our love. It’s still the most shocking image to some people, even liberals! It’s not so much that Gay is the New Black because black has always been visible, but like Domestic Abuse – people just want us to hide our “business” hence the struggle in urban Pride Parades between gyrating hustler floats and gays seeking normalization. We are the cake left out in the rain!

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:52:35 +0000

I love Oprah. According to the book FREAK TALK BACK by Yale sociologist Joshua Gamson, it was the tabloid talk show craze of the 1980s & early 1990s that did more to make gays mainstream than any other 20th century development. It was really the blockbuster success of Oprah’s show (back in her her trashy days) & her unique confessional style that popularized the tabloid talk show genre before the likes of Jerry Springer took it to sleazy extremes. That’s why Ellen had Oprah play the therapist on her coming out show.