With Modern Family‘s gay kiss coming, it was only a matter of time before a newspaper of record updated America on The States of the Gays In Hollywood. That responsibility falls to USA Today‘s Maria Puente, who says, “Hollywood, which once routinely depicted gay people as miserable, dysfunctional or tragic, now produces movies and TV shows — such as this summer’s film The Kids Are All Right, ABC’s Modern Family and Fox’s Glee — in which gay relationships and gay families are portrayed as just like other families — normal, unremarkable, no big deal.” Well, no big deal unless you are trying to stay true to traditional families and Christian beliefs!
Not everybody is so comfortable with this assessment of Hollywood’s gay characters. Namely Focus on the Family’s family studies director Glenn Stanton — who once popped up on Dr. Phil to tell trans kids they’re deranged — who insists: “When actual gay and lesbian weddings are shown on TV (as in news coverage), we win. When they’re shown through the lens and creativity and artifice of Hollywood, we don’t. Hollywood is succeeding, but they’re doing so by not representing reality.”
That’s because the gay relationships you see on television are fake! Made up! Completely divorced from reality! And I have to agree: There’s no way, in real life, that the nelly gay kid from the glee club would score a quarterback.
Cam
Funny, I don’t see them complaining that the perfect straight relationships “Leave it to Beaver”, “The Brady Bunch”, “The Cosbys”, etc… that have been shown on TV for DECADES are a problem because they don’t show people the reality of marriage. The only enemy these bigots have is the truth, and thanks to the internet and to our community being more active and going after Hollywood and politicians more and more, groups like Focus on the Family are fighting a losing battle and they know it.
The Mormons fought a similar battle against letting blacks intot heir church, finally around 1980, they were getting so much bad P.R. and so much disgust from the rest of society that they had a “Revelation” and blacks were allowed in. Focus on the Family is aware enough that society is going the same way with gays, and that years from now their group will be viewed as just another hate group from history like the Klan.
James UK
Hooray for Hollywood!
Giovannidude
Does a nelly gay kid in the 1950s scoring an outfielder on the JV baseball team count?
alan brickman
Nellys don’t get quaterbacks…..except for bj’s….
Sean
@Cam – the issue with LDS was allowing blacks to be priesthood holders. They were welcome to join the wards and tithe their 10%.
Chris
Why does showing real gay weddings help them?
Gorbeh
I scored a quarterback. 😛
Chuck
Kurt didn’t score the QB. He was actually derided by Finn for his bedroom being too ‘faggy.’ The difference was, Kurt’s father defended Kurt and (rightly) threw Finn out of his house for using an epithet against his son.
I’m surprised straight people aren’t offended that focus on the family seems to be portraying all straight people as angry bigots who are obsessed with the intricacies of boy on boy relationships.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
@Chuck: Kurt’s BF for the upcomming season is rumored to be the new QB…………..
And while I loved the episode where Kurt came out to his Father and his Father replied “I knew when you were three and asked for sensible shoes”. The episode where Finn got all upset was kinda too drama overdrive via Ryan Murphy. Finn had been real supportive of Kurt and didn’t have a problem with him being Gay. He supported him and encouraged him to become the kicker for the football team. But Murpy got Kurt all weird like and stalkerish for a while there with the redecorating of the room without Finns approval and some of the comments Kurt made towards Finn. I am glad he ended that arc and made brought Kurt back from the edge. Although the comment of Finn telling Kurt “I have to put my underwear on in the bathroom” led to some nice images……. :p
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@Chuck: Kurt’s BF for the upcomming season is rumored to be the new QB…………..
And while I loved the episode where Kurt came out to his Father and his Father replied “I knew when you were three and asked for sensible shoes”. The episode where Finn got all upset was kinda too drama overdrive via R y a n M u r p h y. Finn had been real supportive of Kurt and didn’t have a problem with him being Gay. He supported him and encouraged him to become the kicker for the football team. But M u r p y got Kurt all weird like and stalkerish for a while there with the redecorating of the room without Finns approval and some of the comments Kurt made towards Finn. I am glad he ended that arc and made brought Kurt back from the edge. Although the comment of Finn telling Kurt “I have to put my underwear on in the bathroom” led to some nice images……. :p
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@Chuck: Kurt’s BF for the upcomming season is rumored to be the new QB…………..
And while I loved the episode where Kurt came out to his Father and his Father replied “I knew when you were three and asked for sensible shoes”. The episode where Finn got all upset was kinda too drama overdrive. Finn had been real supportive of Kurt and didn’t have a problem with him being Gay. He supported him and encouraged him to become the kicker for the football team. But got Kurt all weird like and stalkerish for a while there with the redecorating of the room without Finns approval and some of the comments Kurt made towards Finn. I am glad he ended that arc and made brought Kurt back from the edge. Although the comment of Finn telling Kurt “I have to put my underwear on in the bathroom” led to some nice images……. :p
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Queerts: What was so flaggable about that post????????????
Ethan
Umm @Chuck Kurt’s room was to faggy… Finn never said Kurt was, but his taste in decorating certainly was over the top and well…ummm faggy…
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@Chuck: Kurts BF for new season in the new QB…….
@Ethan: He definately approached the stalkerish territory in those few episodes. Finn was supportive of him, encouraging and supporting him in his trying out for the kicker position on the football team. The room re-do and some of his comments to Finn were clearly over the top. That episode definatley portrayed Finn as a raving homophobe which he clearly is not…………..Only thing I liked in that episode was Finn stating that he had to put his underwear on in the bathroom……..nice image to coujur up :p
Fitz
There seems to be a real hatred for the nelly. What a shame. I’m pretty darn fluid in my expression of masculinity/queen. I would have never done so well in my work, love, or general life if I weren’t able to access both.
Steve
I don’t get why a group like “Focus on the Family” wants to see gay weddings in the news either. Does not compute
Tom
Once I turned 18, a coach from high school found me and we became very special friends.
PopSnap
I literally don’t understand the bigot guy’s comment. Huh? Are gay weddings all filled with strippers, orgies, and Jerry Springer-castoffs? Like every single last one?
I thought they didn’t want to see gay weddings at all?
The Swallower
They should call themselves “Focus On The Bigotry”
Giovannidude
Someone needs to remind Focus on the Family that that’s what their name is, not Focus on the Faggots.
Jeffree
Focus on the Family needs to focus on the real problems of str8 marriage; divorce and adultery. We LGB people are not ruining their marriages.
I’m not opposed to divorce, btw, but their rhetoric is just focused on the wrong problem.
Aaron in Honolulu
Actually, showing gay weddings on TV works in favor for the gay community. It’s called exposure. I learned that from Harvey Milk.
randy
Focus on Bigos really think that Americans find gays loathsome, disgusting, immoral and pathological, not to mention really really icky. So they believe that if Americans see real gay weddings on tv, they will be SO turned off that they will run from their tv set, screaming like little girls, and that in turn will build their anti-gay marriage voting block.
That just show you how out of touch with reality they are.
Dionte
Lol @ he wouldn’t score a quarterback, he could if he could keep a secret
Joe
someone needs to tell those bigots in Colorado to focus on their own damn families
Ian
I found both BBC’s Beautiful People & Canada’s Degrassi, not to mention Showtime’s United States of Tara, to all be superior in their gay storylines than the abysmally cardboard cut-out characters of Glee, which the title is a most definite oxymoron as whenever I see the logo for that show I most definitely feel dread.
Allen
being gay is not a choice of matter is who you are and how you were born, your parents don’t make you gay, your friends don’t make you gay, its your orientation, some guys like black women, some like Asian, some like white, some like fat women and some like guys. big deal if they bring more gay movies on it just means we need except. all you ant-gay are people dysfunctional, to except is to be strong, to prejudice is to be dysfunctional. little heterosexual kids wont change their opinion and i say i want to be gay because they have already liked a little girl by the age of 5 but they learn to except the gay society.
and by the way over 50% of male actors are hiddenly gay so next time you watch a movie you anti-gays remember your properly watching a gay actor. thanks for reading my gay friends and you to dysfunctional anti-gays.
Michael
@Cam: Ward was notorious for being hard on the Beaver. June called him out on camera in many episodes.
Matthew
Hey I was the nerdy kid who got the jock(MMA fighter, still counts as a jock) in high school.