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Gays In The Playboy Mansion, Buffy’s Back, My Two Gay Cartoon Dads And Much More!

By Dave White September 8, 2011 at 1:24pm · Updated on August 31, 2016
Looking at what’s coming to television this fall, you might think the gays have taken over. Not even counting returning favorites like Modern Family, Happy Endings, Glee or Southland, the TV grid has more queer, kitschy and campy shows debuting than your DVR can hold. Click through the next pages to see what’s new and gay on the small screen this season

UP FIRST: Blowhole strikes back in Penguins of Madagascar!

The Penguins of Madagascar: Blowhole Strikes Back Friday, September 9, at 8pm on Nickelodeon Didn’t know this was happening? That means you either don’t have children or don’t let them watch television (cringe). This special one-hour episode of the series (which features Madagascar‘s flightless waterfowl protecting their home in the Central Park Zoo) stars out dreamboat Neil Patrick Harris as a sinister singing bottlenose dolphin. It’s about time dolphins got their revenge.
NEXT: Garo Sparo is Unleashed
Unleashed By Garo Fridays at 9pm, Sundance (Sept 9) Garo Sparo, the eccentric New York designer famed for dolling up Lady Gaga, Amanda Lepore and Daphne Guinness in (literally) breathtaking corsets, uses his reality show to make over clients in desperate need of serious life change. It’s like Intervention without all the syringes and vomit.
NEXT: Sarah Michelle Gellar is a dead Ringer
Ringer Tuesdays at 9pm on the CW (Sept 13) Sarah Michelle Gellar plays identical twin sisters in this dark, twist-filled drama that gives the word “convoluted” new meaning. Eric C. Charmelo, Ringer‘s out co-creator, says we can expect a gay character to appear in later episodes (a recurring theme this fall) but anything else we could say is a potential spoiler, so that’s all you get here. Like, you might not even want to watch the trailer if you’re that touchy about it. Buffy cultists, the squealing begins now.

NEXT: Top Model also-rans return

America’s Next Top Model: All-Stars Wednesdays at 9pm on the CW (Sept 14) Quibble over the meaning of the word “star” if you like—especially since the contenders of this 17th go-round are past contestants who didn’t make the cut—but it’s transgender ANTM alum Isis King and lesbian model Kayla Ferrel we have our eyes on.

NEXT: Kevin Williamson conjures up The Secret Circle

Secret Circle Thursdays at 9pm on the CW (Sept 15) From the witchy, gay brain of The Vampire Diaries’ Kevin Williamson comes this supernatural series— about a girl’s involvement with a coven of young, hot witches and warlocks—that co- stars gay-face Thomas Dekker (Heroes, Kaboom) and Brian Kinney Gale Harold (Queer as Folk). If it’s even half as awesome as The Craft then the fact that it’s yet another dunk into the nearly dry well of unearthly teen hotties is fine by us.

UP NEXT: Are there gay bunnies in The Playboy Club?

The Playboy Club Mondays at 10pm on NBC (Sept 19) Think Mad Men, but with less clinical depression and all Joan Holloways all the time. Word is there will also be a closeted gay guy (Firefly‘s Sean Maher) and a closeted lesbian bunny, both of whom are involved with the real-world gay-rights group the Mattachine Society. Quit giggling, it could too happen.

NEXT: The X-Factor marks the spot

The X-Factor Wednesdays at 8pm on Fox (Sept 21) It’s a singing competition, so there will surely be LGBT contestants (and hey, some might even be out). The Pussycat Doll’s Nicole Scherzinger is an interesting addition (and presenter Steve Jones makes much better eye candy than Seacrest) but we’re really watching to enjoy the mysterious chemistry between Paula Abdul and the man with one of the world’s worst haircuts.

NEXT: Christina Ricci takes off with Pan Am

Pan Am Sundays at 10pm on ABC (Sept 25) Another Mad Men, but with higher altitude and sexy, smartly-tailored stewardess uniforms. Budding gay icon Christina Ricci could be perfect as head flight attendant Maggie, and we’d certainly join the Mile High Club with co-stars Mike Vogel (The Help) and Michael Mosley (Scrubs). But if the historical revisionism makes the series too bland (there will be no smoking, apparently) they can always crash on a supernatural island.

NEXT: The View + Rachal Ray + Top Chef = Chew

The Chew Mondays at 1pm on ABC (Sept 26) Clinton Kelly, the gay from What Not To Wear, joins Mario Batali and Top Chef fave Carla Hall for a talk/eat/cook show about food and… stuff? It’s a little vague, actually. To make it really work they’ll need technology that can deliver fresh-baked cookies right through the screen. So we’ll see.

NEXT: It’s Bedlam over at BBC America

Bedlam Saturdays at 10pm on BBC America (Oct 1) Gay singer Will Young was the first man to win Pop Idol in his native England. Now he’s on a show about people who move into a haunted apartment building that used to be a mental hospital. It’s Melrose Place, if Melrose Place had bleeding walls and agonized shrieks in the night.

NEXT: Same gays, different city, in The A-List: Dallas

Mad Fashion Tuesdays at 10pm on Bravo (Oct 4) Chris March—the lovable, nap-taking, super-bearish Project Runway contestant who got voted off and brought back and voted off again but still wound up designing an Oscars dress for Meryl Streep—is back with his own show. We can only hope there will be giant headgear, drag queens and dresses made of hair.

NEXT: The Amityville Horror + Desperate Housewives = American Horror Story

American Horror Story Wednesdays at 10pm on FX (Oct 5) It’s already been announced that Zachary Quinto and Teddy Sears will play a gay couple on this hotly anticipated horror-suspense series—and that True Blood‘s out bloodsucker Denis O’Hare will pop up, too. But with Glee’s queer producers Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk at the helm, the crossover potential is undeniable. How about Lea Michele as a teenage banshee whose wailing terrifies the Harmon family. You’re seeing it now, aren’t you?

NEXT: Mike White and Laura Dern get Enlightened

Enlightened Mondays at 9:30pm on HBO (Oct 10) The criminally under-appreciated Laura Dern stars as a woman who suffers a breakdown and emerges from it full of answers for everyone else’s problems. (Don’t you love those people?) It also stars—and was produced by—the excellently weird and bisexual Mike White (Chuck & Buck, Year of The Dog). File under: Appointment TV.

NEXT: Family Guy + My Two Dads = Jonah Hill’s Allen Gregory

Allen Gregory Sundays at 8:30pm on Fox (Oct 30) Jonah Hill created and provides voices for this animated series about an extremely precocious seven-year-old (he’s written novels, composed operas and dated Chloë Sevigny), with two gay fathers, an adopted Cambodian sister and a unbending superiority complex. Expect the anti-gays to go ballistic.

NEXT: Fairy tales do come true (sort of) in Once Upon a Time

Once Upon a Time
Sundays at 8pm on ABC  (Oct 23)

One of two fairy-tale-inspired series debuting this season (the other is the lesser Grimm on NBC), OUAT is a contemporary fantasy about an wicked witch who has trapped characters from the Enchanted Forest in a small town in the real world, with only a young boy and Snow White’s daughter to free them. If the show’s creators (who include Buffy alum Jane Espenson) don’t play up the camp potential, they might as well swallow a poisoned apple now.

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11 Comments*

  • Mike

    first

  • jason

    The Playboy Club looks horrible. Keep in mind that Playboy is a homophobic organization. It is an example of liberal homophobia.

    Liberal homophobia stems from the desire of liberals to make bisexuality socially acceptable for women but not for men. This bisexual double standard is the foundation of liberalism and its offshoots like the sexual revolution. Women have been willing participants in Playboý’s attempt to promote this bisexual double standard. They’ve been paid to promote it.

    The last thing that we in the GBT movement need is a show which promotes discrimination against male-male sexuality. Playboy can fuck off – this includes any male or female associated with it.

  • verybookish

    I’ll be watching the Secret Circle to see Brian Kinney, I mean Gale Harold once again play devilish and delicious. Thomas Dekkar looks weird to me, but the blond guy is hot.

    I’ll tune in to see Sean Maher, though I’d be ashamed if anyone knew I was watching it.

  • andreusdwm

    Not gonna read it.

    Put the whole article on one page, dammit!

  • jron

    “It’s housewives with balls, yall”! Wow. Shoot me in the face.

  • MileHighJoe

    Too many pages. Just skipped it.

  • fern

    I agree Jason. The straight male perspective of sexuality is very tiring, especially in regard to male bisexuality and actually any sexualization of males as objects of beauty and desire. Further, Playboy treats women like disposable commodities and tries to pass it off as female liberation by claiming they “allowed women to be sexual”. No they have attempted to control women’s sexuality by promoting the straight male perspective as the only version sexuality can be expressed and then calling that freedom. Freedom for women comes in defining their own sexuality, not being told they are only allowed to express themselves in the manner Hefner dictates.

  • jason

    fern,

    So true, so utterly true.

  • fredo777

    Mike Vogel. Yes, yes, yes! I was very much fixated on him during ‘The Help’. Beef.

    Chris March getting his own show. Yes!

    A-List Dallas. Couple of qts spotted in the preview, but…enh.

    Will Young in Bedlam? I don’t know if I’ll watch, but Will is cute + out. So, I hope it succeeds.

    Jonah Hill’s Allen Gregory? Yesssss. Have you seen Jonah since the weight loss, btw? He presented on the VMAs this year. Cute.

  • Michael

    The Secret Circle looks great and Ive always loved Sarah Michelle Gellar.Shes said some very gay friendly comments as well in the past.Including one where she said on gay marriage] I have good friends, gay couples, who’ve been together for 18 years. It drives me crazy that in the eyes of the law, their love isn’t acknowledged when I have girlfriends who have married four times by the age of 25.

    Love her.

  • Red Meat

    I’m surprised Hugh Hefner doesn’t hire gay men only in order to keep all the pussy to himself and the place looking good.

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