Haaz Sleiman, the Nurse Jackie actor who plays Mo (Jackie’s main gay), has been cut from Season 2 of the show, which premieres March 22. That’s too bad, because he was The Awesome. Sleiman’s rep says the actor was “surprised” as the news. Read: It wasn’t planned. Moreover, TV gossip Michael Ausiello says: “Adding insult to injury, I just screened the first two episodes of Season 2 and Mo-Mo’s departure isn’t even addressed. Not even his best bud Jackie acknowledges his absence. It’s as if he never existed!” We’d love to be able to throw around accusations like, “Showtime is hating on the gays!,” but really, Showtime is gayer than LOGO these days.
AlanInSLCutah
He probably got a better job offer.
Sam
He’s purty.
Lady Ga-Gasp
Because 60 years ago they took away characters in Black Face. Its about time.
Cam
So basically now the show is just going to become some soap opera about some drugged up nurse cheating on her husband? Ugh, boring.
alan brickman
will probably stop watching….Edie Falco probably had him let go…actors do this to actors all the time…
GK
How sad, I loved him on the show.
Dana
I’ll miss Mo-Mo, but Nurse Jackie still has plenty of gay in it. Don’t forget that Nurse Jackie character Dr. Fitch “Coop” Cooper (Peter Facinelli) has lesbian moms, who were played by guest stars Swoosie Kurtz and Blythe Danner. There have been strong hints that they will return in some capacity.
There’s also still gay nurse Thor, who is played by Stephen Wallem, the real-life gay brother of show co-creator (and out lesbian herself), Linda Wallem.
drewbrown
Aw he was the best part of the show. That’s lame.
salty73
he was a good element for the show. now all the show is going to be about a cheating, drug addict with no one to talk to at work. really entertaining.
Lady Ga-Gasp
Maybe if they introduced a gay character that is as strong and high ranking as Dr. O’Hara, instead of a low level minstrel to Jackie… again, I like the actor, but the role was subordinated and belittling to the reality gay men and their important roles in the medical professions.
jason
Haven’t we gotten over the “best friend” stage yet? We’re either best friends or sterile mincers. Where is the real gay or bi man with relationships for the world to see? Even daytime soaps are better than Showtime.
mykey716
to Lady GaGasp…please! There was nothing wrong with the portrayal of Mo-Mo. And if you ARE gonna have a hissy, then you should complain about Thor, too…who was a big ol’ sissy boy!
I thought if nothing else, Mo-Mo was a bit more grounded than everyone else at that hospital! Kind of kept Nurse Jackie reined in (at least a little bit)
I am upset that the character has been discontinued and without
any sort of explanation….even the daytime soaps come up with some excuse!
Luxury
“…belittling to the reality gay men and their important roles in the medical professions.”
I 100% agree…
because everyone knows there’s not a single Gay male RN in the medical field… WTF???
AzzedineAliaFan
That sucks, maybe if the show gets an outpouring of support for him then they’ll bring him back. If anyone should go, it should be that ANNOYING chubby girl that Jackie has taken under her wings, UGH!!
Taylor Siluwé
I guess I’ll still watch, but he was my eye candy. And we don’t really know the reason behind his departure. Maybe it was his idea?
Michael Letterman
You ask why? I would think the answer obvious. As a nation we are sick and tired of the “gay agenda”. Little by little we are recognizing that the road to depravity is paved with the flaunting of homosexuality in our entertainment being deemed “acceptable”. It is not and will not ever be considered normal or accpetable for perversion to be considered an accpeted part of prime time entertainment.
yeahandalso
I only saw the first two episodes but Momo was the most likable character by far. Knowing he won’t be around after the first season I probably won’t even both renting season 1 to finish it when it’s on dvd
U3756
@MichaelLetterman
Why are you even wasting your time on a site called Queerty if you hate gay people so much? None of us bother on the right-wing and fundamentalist religious sites you probably post at.
It’s not pushing anything, it’s demanding to be understood and respected as human beings… something people like you just can’t comprehend because you’re so convinced you’re right. As long as there are attitudes like yours, gay people will remain militant. If you would just get out of the dark ages. As long as people like you choose to be morally offended by Adam Lambert, gays will continue to be pompous. If you learned to live and let live, gays would stop fighting so hard if we were just accepted and given the rights.
Michael Letterman
U3756: First of all I do not hate all gay people. I have friends, co-workers and neighbors who are gay and get along fine with them. What I am against is treating gay people in a special way, providing them special laws and privileges based solely on their sexual preference. I feel the same about any deviant group (defined as group other than what is the ‘norm’) looking for special treatment.
Why do I waste time on Queerty. Because the site I go to points out topics on various sites that point to some deviation or another trying to appear mainstream and therefore acceptable. It is then incumbent upon those who feel differently to be sure their opinions are heard equally and that opposing views are shared.
“understood” I do understand gays and their philosophy, “respected as human beings” some act like human beings others act like animals I respect the former and attempt to correct the latter, when possible. I am convinced I’m right and until someone can convince me that I’m not I’ll continue to believe that about myself and others who believe as I do.
As long as gays continue to be pompous we will continue to point that out, and hold such behaviour as example of why the above mentioned special treatments must not be given, as example the virtual removal of Mr. Lambert from prime time media.
I do believe in living and let living, so long as what I am ‘letting’ is not done in public or where it can impress upon young minds such as prime time television. As far as we are concerned gays can continue to ‘fight’ as long as they are comfortable with losing said fights. They shall never be accepted nor given rights based solely upon their sexual preference as long as we hold the majority and vote accordingly.
NineDaves
what’s logo?
FakeName
Michael, you clearly have no intention of ever participating in the sort of exchange that might possibly lead you to change your mind, so your bleating about believing what you believe until convinced otherwise is meaningless.
No gay person I know of asks for special treatment. They ask for equal treatment. Claiming that laws forbidding unequal treatment impart “special rights and privileges” is another lie. It’s the typical rote response from the typical bigot, who when pressed to list these “special rights” that are being sought are invariably unable to do so.
If you and your ilk truly believed in and practiced “live and let live” then you’d be unlikely to hear much of anything from the gays. But you don’t believe it and you certainly don’t practice it. you want to reserve equal treatment to yourselves. If you weren’t selfish, we’d have no beef.
Michael Letterman
Fake: Your first line is proof enough that you cannot defend against any argument I make. I have been participating in an exchange of ideas on these topics for a long time and much like yourself no one is able to separate the argument from personal attacks. This is a sign of a lack of the necessary tools needed to defend ones position. In addition what is meaningless to you may not be so to others.
Yes you ask for special treatment, you are not equal therefore you are asking for special treatment due to the particular deviation you have. Marriage, adoption, etc, laws which have been perfectly fine all along are now under attack by those who choose to live an alternate lifestyle. So yes live and let live, however do not let those choosing to deviate from what is normal alter laws and rights based solely on their perversion. If such were to happen the other perversions would also demand special laws and treatments on their behalf.
Do not expect to be treated as an equal when you select a deviate lifestyle. I do not consider you an equal and neither does others who think as I do. The more your kind act up the less equal they are. The more flamboyant their style the less credence is given to their agenda.
terrwill
No. 22 · Michael Letterman: because its the holidays I am going to be nice for once and say “please” go away. Your pathetic “reasoning” would have been the same crap that was used prior to the civil rights legislation. Substitue “black” for Gay and presto you are now a racist instead of a homophobe…
Republican
“What I am against is treating gay people in a special way, providing them special laws and privileges based solely on their sexual preference. ”
Except that’s not what is happening. If you’re talking about anti-discrimination laws, they usually cover “sexual orientation”, not “gays”. What that means, dumbass, is that you are protected by them, too. If you’re talking about marriage laws, it’s still not an example of special protection, since you are still able to get married.
scott ny'er
@No. 23 · terrwill
ummm. i bet he probably is a racist AND a homo-hater as well. misogyny. that can’t be far behind.
Michael Letterman
Terrwill: Using the same flawed logic you are we can make all kinds of statements, how about, ‘if you substitue a child for your current male sex partner your a pedofile’. ‘Substitue a grown woman for your current male sex partner and your a normal male’. So how about because it’s your holiday I will be nice, yet again, and ask you to ‘please’ turn away from your lifestyle choice of perversion and become a ‘real’ man.
Republican: They don’t cover my sexual orientation you see since I’m a heterosexual male there are no laws being proposed that protect me at all. So ‘dumb-ass’ it seems you too have flawed logic. What your kind is asking, to put it simply, is special laws which would allow you to marry, adopt etc. In addition your kind wants laws which make it a “special case” when someone attacks you based on your perversion. If someone rapes a woman and a gay male one is an assault case and one becomes a hate crime. That is blatantly unfair and utterly wrong. So yes I, along with others will defend the laws as written and fight tooth and nail against changing them in any ways based solely on your sexual preference.
Republican
“They don’t cover my sexual orientation you see since I’m a heterosexual male”
Uh, if a law refers to sexual orientation, it covers heterosexuals, as well as homosexuals. That was my point.
For example, if a law banning sexual orientation discrimination in the workplace existed, you could not be fired for being a ‘breeder,’ and I could not be fired for being a ‘fruit’. (Use of slurs is just to prove a point. I don’t approve of calling straight people ‘breeders’ or gay people ‘fruits’. We’re all just people.)
You can certainly oppose such employee-protection laws involving private businesses and situations on libertarian grounds, but the claim that they don’t cover you doesn’t work.
Taylor Siluwé
I just want to thank all the hetero guys who find us so ceaselessly fascinating, that they drool and sniff us out like we’re Paula Deene’s gumbo simmering on the stove.
::muah:: Back atcha fellas ….
Michael Letterman
Scott: I am many things to many people however, racist, hater and misogynist isn’t on the list. So that would make you O for 3.
Republican: What law are you referring to? The laws I’m speaking of are specific for homosexuals IE marriage and hate crime. If you are talking about any other law then we are on different pages. Your point though is well made if it is this, all laws should be applied equally with no regard as to a persons sexual orientation. This is something I believe. However to alter said laws, such as to change the meaning of marriage, as in being one man and one woman, then that I oppose.
Republican
Michael Letterman,
The recent ‘hate crime’ law that Congress passed refers to sexual orientation, not gays. Here is the relevant part of the text:
“Whoever, whether or not acting under color of law, in any circumstance described in subparagraph (B) or paragraph (3), willfully causes bodily injury to any person or, through the use of fire, a firearm, a dangerous weapon, or an explosive or incendiary device, attempts to cause bodily injury to any person, because of the actual or perceived religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of any person”
There may be other objections to hate crime laws that are worthy of more debate (I’m not saying I agree or disagree with those objections, just that I’m willing to consider them), but it seems clear to me that the special protection argument doesn’t have any merit.
james_cambridge
I’ve figured Ms. Michael Letterman out. She’s lonely….the other kids won’t play with her ’cause she has glasses and ugly ponytails so she’s here bothering the cool kids.
Either that or she bores the shit out of her friends and family. Man, I feel for that poor wife of yours. She must be ready to end it all.
Michael Letterman
Taylor: Speaking for myself, I find the gay community to be no more or less fascinating then a car wreck I may pass on the road. You know the kind, a mixture of horror and revulsion tinged with a quick prayer that the wreck you see does not involve yourself or a loved one. Some of us offer our words in the hopes that if we reach just one of you and set them on a road to normalcy then it was time well spent.
Republican: OK so based on that description alone, all acts of rape are hate crimes due to the fact that the victim was (obviously) selected based on their gender identity and/or sexual orientation. Yet you and I both know this was not the purpose of the hate crime bill and as we can see from the name of the bill itself it was designed to “protect” homosexuals.
James: I’d say your batting zero but I fear the baseball analogy would be lost on your sorry ass. You can feel for my wife all you want (I know I need not fear you actually ‘feeling’ her) she is quite happy and currently thrilled at the bounty she’s received during the holidays. All women should be as well treated as my wife is as this would eliminate divorce and greatly increase happiness in this world.
Taylor Siluwé
Oh, Letterman, all this flattery is gonna turn my head. *blush*
I’ve been compared to some cuddly things over the years, puppies, kittens, one dude even called me his “Tweety Bird” (don’t ask) – but you win the prize with smokey car wreck. Do you habitually pull over, set up camp, dazzle first responders from the sidelines with your all-knowing wit, then linger to direct the clean up team on how to better do their job, only to lord over the oily stain on the asphalt for days and weeks ’til another unfortunate soul spins off the road?
Well, with such dedication, I’m gonna have to marry you. You’re a rare man, my friend. You do David’s name proud. 😉
:muah:
Michael Letterman
Taylor: It seems to me your head is already turned. I’m quite sure you’ve been compared to quite a few things which you haven’t mentioned, over the years.
Thank you for the laugh though, you wouldn’t believe how close you are on the first responder comment, while I have never really had to give input on the clean up aspect (trust me the rules for that change so fast that it amazes even I) but I have on many occasions in the course of my work had to be a first responder and due to my rank had to direct the procedure.
Alas, I not only would never marry a man, even if I was not already married to the most wonderful woman in the world, I would also never allow a man to marry a man in any area where my input could deter such actions.
As for David, all I can say is I’m more a Leno watcher.
james_cambridge
Of course you watch Leno. His insipid “comedy” was made for the trailer park dwellers. And sorry to piss all over your stereotype of me but I do love Baseball & Football…I am from Boston after all. Go Sox and as always, fuck you very much!!
Michael Letterman
James: I’m sure you would find some banal statement to make about whatever TV shows I would enjoy. I do not expect you to have the viewing tastes of a normal male and therefore am not surprised. As for what you piss on (or piss off for that matter) I do not care much like who you have sex with so long as you do your pissing away from my view it is none of my business, if you force me to see it then we will have a problem, well you will have a problem, I will have a solution.
As my wife points out there is a huge difference between enjoying a sports game and watching one for athletic men in tight uniforms.
BTW the Sox suck, but since that is one of your main methods of sexual gratification no wonder that attracts you, oh and yes I do fuck very much but with a woman you sick douchefag.
Jay
@Letterman
And religionists and their churches don’t demand and get “special rights”???? They pay no taxes and bilk the credulous out of billions to build empires that only want to oppress people and control the masses.
Queers are the reason for the trillion dollar American entertainment business built over the last 100 years. If heteros were in charge of it it would look like Univision and Telemundo and no one outside of America would be interested in it at all.
If all the queers left America would grind to a halt and the arts would implode to the point of no more high culture left. To me that is at minimum worth “special rights” on par with the haters in the houses of superstition.
Michael Letterman
Jay: Yes I suppose religionists and churches demand special rights such as freedom from taxes however that is something that the government decided to do and makes sense from the stand that to ensure a separation of church and state the state cannot examine the books of a church or treat one church differently than another.
To say homosexuals are the reason for the entertainment industry is as ludacris as the old standard that the Jews ran the entertainment industry. There are both homosexuals in entertainment and non homosexuals and frankly the non homosexual entertainment or where the homosexuals involved are of the closeted variety or able to separate that aspect of their life from their performance (I’m thinking Neil Patrick Harris) then the entertainment is not only better but more lucrative as well.
If all the homosexuals left this country it would prosper and grow free from this argument. There was culture before and will be long after the last homosexual is gone. I for one would be happier however I do not feel it is necessary. I and many of my friends and relatives look for entertainment that does not contain homosexual characters and have discontinued watching shows that include or add a homosexual character to their lineup. Yes we have had to stop watching some very popular shows but are none the worse for it. Our policy is to notify the producers of such shows of our discontinuation and in a few, not as many as I’d like, we have had our dissatisfaction rewarded by a change.
Jay
Letterman you are short-sighted but at least you recognize that the government gives special rights to groups it wants to, e.g. churches, blacks, hetero-marriage. I was not referring to queer characters or actors. I am referring to the “industry”, which is all the creative people who comprise it over the spectrum of media and arts. If they were gone it would look like the Taliban “entertainment” you might see on Afghani TV. Read Richard Florida’s book on the creative class, who are the engine of innovation. You want to live in the 18th century where government schools pumped out compliant production factory workers, where life was horrible and short. I want to live in the 21st century where freedom fosters progress, liberty, technology and long life. Your attitude is anti-American and corrosive to our culture, unless that is, Roy Cohn is your hero. I think you protest too much, Roy. Queers have always been with humanity making life better even while under pain of death by people like you. It’s time to give us the freedom we deserve.
Michael Letterman
Jay: Yes the government gives special rights to decent and upstanding groups and organizations I fully agree. As to being shortsighted I’ll reserve the right to disagree with your assessment.
There are many people involved in the entertainment industry and to say there are a preponderance of gays involved well I’ll agree in some fields yes such as dance and Broadway, that is well offset by the number of non homosexuals involved in other aspects of entertainment. If the gays were gone from entertainment it would look just fine.
The assertion that homosexuals are necessary to maintain any aspect of society is ridiculous. Homosexuality has led to the downfall of the Roman Empire and is an indication of a society going astray. You want freedom, you got it living in America. However homosexuality is not an ideal. It is an aberration, a lifestyle choice that leads to the end of civilization. I will not quote source as I propose this as my own belief and ideas I need not look toward others to find what I feel is correct. And I do not claim to speak on anyone else’s behalf.
Jay
Roy, I really feel you need to ask yourself why you are trolling around on a queer news site’s message board. As I said, the people who yell the loudest and persecute the strongest have an affinity for that which they hate. Maybe I should call you Ted Haggard instead of Roy Cohn, just to be more contemporary.
Why would Billy-bad-ass man with a shield and authority be slumming with the queers when he could be on some fantasy football website whooping it up with the “real” boys? I doubt it’s a mission from god or an academic exercise in equal time as you claim. You are a closet homo, face it, Ted. When you are fucking your wife you are really thinking about all the hot dudes’ pictures on Queerty or whatever gay porn site you frequent. But we understand the insidious nature of self-hatred. People like you taught us how to do that. Just know you are among friends here. We love you anyway and understand how hard it is to be in the closet.
Michael Letterman
Jay: Awww and I was beginning to have some respect for you and then you fall into the muck and like most perverts start peppering your post with insults and foul language.
First off how big an idiot do you have to be to not know my name its right there above each of my posts. So maybe you should call me Sir. I also do not find myself slumming with the queers I find myself doing exactly what I told you I was doing, nothing more nothing less.
If I was like you I would have self hatred and self doubt too but since I’m not like you I have self esteem and full confidence. Lastly, I do not ‘fuck’ my wife, I make love with her, I know you do not understand that but I felt it needed to be said.
I don’t want you to love me I would have settled for respect which I would also show you but that is beyond you. So Jay enjoy the closet, put in a nice lamp and a cozy chair because it is where you should stay, society is much better off without you.
salty73
hello everyone. i have been following the discussion about the Nurse Jackie getting rid of “Mo” controversy. the conversation was entertaining and witty until people began to respond to a Mr. Micheal Letterman, a straight guy with allot to say about gay people, gay morality and everything else gay that he can think of to post. this guy is obviously someone who hang out with the reverend felps and does not have any wish to grow as a human being. why do i say this? because he is on a gay-themed website arguing with gay people. now most straight folks who frequent gay-themed sites are gay friendly–to say the least. this guy is a humongous jackass who gets off pissing other people off by saying the most irritating stuff. if Mickey believes in and feels what he is writing… why is he on the site allot and why is he debating everyone. hey Mickey, if you do not like gay people that’s OK. but i believe the bard said it best,”i doth think SHE protests to much”
drewbrown
@SALTY73: First of all, I am still SO sad that MoMo will be gone next season. It just sucks big time, and not in a good way. Second, I, too, have been following with great interest and dismay. It was scary and sad watching Mr. Letterman go from initial conviviality such as this: “First of all I do not hate all gay people. I have friends, co-workers and neighbors who lare gay and get along fine with them.” to this: “However homosexuality is not an ideal. It is an aberration, a lifestyle choice that leads to the end of civiization.”
And while it’s definitely time to stop feeding this guy with ammo, enabling him to vent his deep personal issues at us, I do want to say one thing: Happy, fulfilled people do not generally go around telling other people how horrible people different from themselves are. And because happy, fulfilled people are content within their own lives, they aren’t usually so extremely disturbed and agitated, as Mr. Letterman is, by the sexual and romantic lives of other people. He might come back and tell us how amazing and wonderful his life is, but I also find that happy people don’t have to go around telling everyone else how amazingly happy they are, how great their marriage is, how hot the sex is, etc. I just needed to write this out to put this whole sad discussion in perspective for myself, and for anyone else who may find some insight in it. End of story.
P.S. To the reference above about the end of civilization: Dude, get a clue, we’re so ridiculously overpopulated that the only thing that will destroy our civilization is that there are WAY TOO MANY of us… you should be THANKING gay people for maybe, possibly slowing humankind’s rate of reproduction. I for one have a weird belief that maybe homosexuality is a useful mutation (in the genetic sense, not that we’re mutants) designed to help us slow our population growth while still find fulfilling relationships. Maybe I’m crazy but I kind of like that idea.
Jay
@salty
Our friend Ted has also said,
“Do not expect to be treated as an equal when you select a deviate lifestyle. I do not consider you an equal and neither does others who think as I do. The more your kind act up the less equal they are. The more flamboyant their style the less credence is given to their agenda.”
He would have been in good company saying this back in the 20th century while having a meeting in his church prior to donning the white sheets and crosses for the big negro lynching. Or even in the 21st century as a Talibani blowing up a HMMWV full of US Marines in Afghanistan with an IED. Ted thinks freedom is flamboyant.
Yes, reports of death of western civilization have been greatly exaggerated. The heteros, especially the Islamo-Fascist and Christiano-Fascist haters have been doing a great job to kill it all by themselves for centuries.
And yes I watch Nurse Jackie and I will miss Mo.
Michael Letterman
salty: Say what you want but from our point I’ve gathered so much information and copied so many posts to use in my meetings that I’ve had to buy ink and paper three times since we began our project.
I don’t dislike gay people I dislike (intensely) some people with no regard to their sexual orientation or preference if these people happen to be gay and are willing to post the most vile and disgusting things that can be then used as examples of why they should not be granted special treatment or have laws passed on their behalf, well that is just the gravy on the plate.
drew: I’m sure there were ancient Romans who thought just like you are… they should be thanking us. Sorry but what I see is people who think perversely and act that way. I expect to find different thinking here but what I found exceeded our imagination in so many ways. So for that I thank you all.
Michael Letterman
Jay: Dunno who Ted is but I like the way he thinks.
The Hetero’s what a lovely title. Us hetero’s will defend this nation as we have since it began. I’m sorry you will miss Mo but like other television shows we need move away from portraying deviancy as if it was acceptable. Put it on that gay channel where decent folk can just delete the channel and not have such nonsense beamed into their homes.
Jay
LOL, a research project Roy? Really? I can imagine the title now: “Why Opus Dei should bring back the Auto Da Fe against the Faggots, by Michael Letterman, Grand Wizard of The Family International.” You have just enough education to be dangerous to yourself and others. Excuse me, but I have to go to work now and protect assholes like you from terrorists and criminals.
Michael Letterman
Jay: I thought we identified all the queers in the agency already. I know I got a clear pass. Who is Roy and why do you confuse Michael with Roy are you another public school dropout? BTW the Opus Dei is still around just in a greatly reduced number. But I can understand why any religious based organization would want an Auto Da Fe to rid the world of perversion. I just do not feel that is the means to an ends I can approve of.
As for protecting me I suppose you work for the TSA and frankly you and yours are doing a pretty good job of ridding the world of nail clippers and pocket knifes. Bravo and with a bit of bile in the throat I’d pat you on the back.