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Outsourced‘s Parvesh Cheena Is Over This Whole ‘Gay Representations On TV’ Thing

Gay, gay, gay. Gay people are so 2003. Obama’s in office. We can fight in the military now. Well soon. Um, I think. I hope. Gay people of color. It sounds like a a recipe. I’ll be serving Gay People of Color as an apertif tonight at my Moscow Mule Cocktail Party. Oprah is attending.

—Parvesh Cheena, the gay actor playing flamboyant Gupta on NBC’s Outsourced, on whether his character has “impacted” gay people of color [via]

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By: JD
On: Mar 22, 2011
Tagged: NBC, outsourced, Parvesh Cheena, Television

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No. 1 · Cam
How nice for him that he apparently lives somewhere where he can’t be fired for being gay and he can choose to marry who he wants to…oh wait a second……

Mar 22, 2011 at 10:03 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 2 · JusticeontheRocks
The person asking that question deserved to be bitch-slapped.

Mar 22, 2011 at 10:09 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 3 · Harbo
@JusticeontheRocks: Well, maybe not bitch-slapped, but certainly spoken to sternly.
I’m a journalist and interview people frequently. That was a stupid question. What’s he going to say? There is no way he could know that at this point.

Mar 22, 2011 at 10:17 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 4 · JusticeontheRocks [Different person #1 using similar name]
@Harbo:

Fuck you!

Mar 22, 2011 at 10:20 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 5 · Pete n SFO
Why do we have to make everything about “race” and/or “homosexuality” in the USA?

Besides, this guy is an ACTOR portraying a character… If you want to ask the question, ask it of the writers.

Mar 22, 2011 at 10:26 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 6 · JusticeontheRocks
@Harbo: Good point. Needless to say, post #4 is not from me. Jeffree Soupy and I seem to have a Russian fan club and the owners of the blog find it amusing to let them borrow screen names. I find it so unamusing I may quit reading Queerty.

Mar 22, 2011 at 10:30 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 7 · JusticeontheRocks [Different person #1 using similar name]
I like lesbians and crap. Bec I fat donkey.

Mar 22, 2011 at 10:36 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 8 · tazz602 · Member · 115 comments
It’s a comedy where he is playing to a stereotype – he’ll have as much impact as Jack did on Will and Grace. It was a stupid question that was obviously asked by a straight white person.

Mar 22, 2011 at 10:36 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 9 · Cam
The question was actually a follow up to this one…

A lot of times with shows featuring people of color, we’ve had to endure certain stereotypical behavior from the characters just to get them greenlit. For example such 70′s black sitcoms as Good Times and The Jeffersons. Do you think Outsourced, when looked back on, will be considered groundbreaking in terms of showcasing diversity for Indian American performers?

PC: I think those are great examples of shows. All Americal Girl with Margaret Cho gets a lot of credit in my book, as does The Cosby Show. Groundbreaking. The latter changed my life. I wanted to be a Cosby kid. Parvesh Huxtable. Beat it Rudy. I think further, Outsourced will be, for better or worse, known as giving people the Dancing Bear known as….Parvesh Cheena.

Mar 22, 2011 at 11:11 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 10 · Craig Anderton
I think he might have been making a joke guys, given the content of the whole article. I could be wrong but I think he was making a funny.

Mar 22, 2011 at 2:15 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 11 · Tori
@Pete n SFO: Because bigots make everything about them.

Mar 23, 2011 at 4:12 am · @Reply · Flag