Network Axes Fall Hard on Gay Characters

The Hollywood Reporter ^ | May 11, 2013 | Lesley Goldberg

[murron]

It's been a rough end to what started out as a record-breaking season for openly gay characters on the small screen.

[ConservativeStatement]

Were they gay or unhappy when they received the news?

[SamAdams76]

You mean no more Alec Baldwin?

[Tzimisce]

Most TV shows fail.

So I guess when all of them feature gay characters, we truly can write “axes fall hard on gay characters”....

[RoosterRedux]

Check this out if you are unsure about where this queer stuff came from...Judaism's Sexual Revolution: Why Judaism Rejected Homosexuality (2nd posting)"

[martin_fierro]

Gimme my rainbow back.

[Oratam]

Love, Sidney

[immadashell]

I guess a lot of people felt The New Normal wasn't.

[dfwgator]

[muawiyah]

Or, if you've seen one gay character you've seen them all ~ it's such a narrow range of emotional content ~ sole focus on ones sex organs.

GAD!

[BenLurkin]

And it never will be normal.

[Moonman62]

First JC Penney, now this. May the politicians making a big deal about the gay basketball player be next.

[Billthedrill]

Good to see that somebody at the networks is admitting that they are actively involved in social engineering under the guise of entertainment. It isn't anything we poor ignorant lumpenproletariat hadn't figured out by now - let's face it, the very title of The New Normal sort of let the gay tomcat out of the heteronormative bag. Should they come up with a cheery, Norman Rockwell Islamic fundamentalist who stops schoolyard bullying of gay kiddies by blowing up their evil heterosexual oppressors I might even start watching TV again. If Disney picks up that plot line I'll be rich.

[Cicero]

I would guess that a fair number of people think something like, “Well, if gay people want to do this or that . . . it’s their business.” Maybe not a majority, but a pretty good percentage.

But that’s a long way from wanting to sit down and watch gay people doing their thing on a TV show.

In other words, if the TV moguls want to run a TV show about a gay couple, OK, fine. They shrug. But they don’t have any interest in watching it. And there isn’t a lot of profit in a TV show that hardly anyone wants to watch.

[dfwgator]

But they want to make it our business, by shoving it in our faces....as has been quoted many times here, “The love that dare not speak its’ name, is now the love that won’t shut the hell up.”

[cva66snipe]

Please tell me that waiting rooms will no longer be bombarded with “Ellen” on the TV screens.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Good to see that somebody at the networks is admitting that they are actively involved in social engineering under the guise of entertainment.

Maybe they'll wise up and bring back Mayberry RFD and Petticoat Junction. :-)

[GenXteacher]

If there are any left, the axe didn’t fall hard enough.

[Billthedrill]

And Dobie Gillis. I thought Bob Denver was hilarious as Maynard G. Krebs. Too bad he never got another gig...

[RetiredTexasVet]

“axes fall hard on gay characters”.

Sounds like a creative idea for a new kinky show for next year. First, a little whip me, beat me and then the axe falls. Yes, very possible from Hollywood.