I love the ridiculous hypocrisy of Guiliani's statement: "It's clear that the broadcast networks have a long way to go before they accurately reflect the diversity of their audience and our society." Take a good whiff of the homogeneity of what the Gay(tm) media churns when it has a chance: Logo, Queer Eye. Gimme a break! Thank you for providing a voice outside the arena of the circuit queen, the wispy fairy, and the equally shallow and monolithic bear culture. Y'all are always a good read and provoke a good bit of meaningful discussion. In fact, I think it's odd that no one has applauded you or taken you to task on this post. Heh.

At any rate, keep up the good work.

but i thought queerty LIKED minstrel shows!

RSL, I have no idea who you are, but THANK YOU! Thank you for pointing out that the bear culture is equally as shallow and monolithic as many of the other subcultures of gaydom. I've been saying this for years, but all I get in return is grief. Glad someone else agrees.

isn't that funny that glaad wants more gays on tv. they had three networks full of them last year, yet when they had an awards show, they gave 95% of them to straight people. almost everyone one the award show was straight.
glaad's in bed with logo, logo's in bed with the advocate, the advocate own most majore gay websites, so you can trust you will never read a bad review of any logo series in any gay publication that is owned by the viacom corporation.

so perhaps if glaad wants to see more positive gay role models, they should chat it up with logo. however, if they are just bummed that the glaad awards will no longer be the WILL AND GRACE AWARDS and sean hayes is off the scene, then they should do something about it.

am i bitter? yes. am i jaded? yes.
did i find it disturbing that LOGO does not allow the airing of two men kissing? Yes. Do I find it hypocritical that GLAAD does not have a problem with this or that LOGO failed to air a pro gay church ad? YES.

maybe they own this site too. if so, this posting will never see the light of day.

who watching the watchdog?

jack e. jett
www.jackejett.com

What "lack of gay TV"???

There are more gay stereotypes (err...I mean "characters") in the first five minutes of "Project Runway" than there are in all of San Francisco!!!

Can we please just have good gay TV shows?

(who am I kiddin'? They can't even make good STRAIGHT TV shows!)

dude what channel are you watching? i see guys making out on logo all the time (and more). why so bitter. if you want to hate the channel then hate it - whatever, but what's with the conspiracy wackiness.

I haven't turned on the tube in a loooooooong time because of the lack of good shows (i.e. I'd rather read a book). Is there any monogamous same-sex couple on prime-time television that is not being hit upon with ridicule, yet?

As far as I remember looking back about a year ago, all gay guys on tv remained single... or usually had a trick to keep them busy for a few hours or at most, a week.

Your sentence: "Okay, so no gays on network."

Did you really mean that? To see gays in any significant way, you have to subscribe to basic cable. That's okay?

I'm surprised. I think when the most famous gay show on television is on Bravo (Queer Eye), and Logo charges a fee on top of what we pay for MTV, then that means there's still a problem.

dear said:

since you seem to see a different logo that i do, i will allow you the benefit of the doubt and just say that i am bitter because i want to be, and that there is no wacky conspiricy, only reality.
remember jebus lobes you and ur network

jack jett

Bernie, I think what's going on is that gays [even on cable] aren't shown in any "significant way", to use your own term. Gay(tm) is visible but Gay(tm) is a joke to everyone who isn't part of it. I can't point fingers at the media alone [they're in the business of putting up simplified, one-dimensional images of EVERY group/topic/whatever] but must call gay culture to the stand as well for concentrating so hard on non-issues [Gay marriage? Marriage isn't even working for straights! Don't let me get started] that we fail to accomplish the basics.

Since when does GLAAD have a mandate from the "gay community" to even exist?

I think there are definitely gay representatives in pop culture nowadays, the example you gave of the Sunsilk Hairapy trio was spot on.. I actually am amused by the over-the-top gayness of these guys, esp. with Mario Cantone leading the pack--

The real stink that nobody smells is that these annual reports from GLAAD are FIRST a report on THEIR failure to do anything to see that there are more LGBT characters in the media, and I hasten to add postive ones—which would not include your late, unlamented freak show on QTV, Ms. Jett.

None of the studios, networks, production companies have listened to GLAAD for years—except to accept awards at their three annual circle jerks. From the "20/20" smear of Matthew Shepard two years ago to MSNBC simply smile fucking GLAAD this year about the repeated homophobic remarks of Don Imus and Ann Coulter, they are a paper tiger with a multimillion dollar budget provided by the gay fools who still think they're something more. Add to that their whoring for Coors and I say: FUCK GLAAD and not in the good way.

leland
i can't agree with you more. and yes my show was a freak show. and you are right on about glaad and qtn. we did continue a bashing of ms. vargas for the hatchet job she did with matthew sheppard. the strange thing is that i agree with 100% of what you say, i just don't understand your anger at me. it's cool that you don't like the show.

and you can only call me ms. jett if your nasty.

i love you leland. please love me back.
i love to love you leland. please love to love me back.

tell me what i can do to be a better person. i'm not on tv anymore so that should make you happy.

jack jett
www.jackejett.com