How are gays portrayed on TV? They're cast as clowns, and have been ever since the inception of TV. Remember Uncle Miltie dressed up in drag? How about Flip Wilson and his Geraldine character? America roared with laughter. Then Ellen Degeneres tried to turn her comedy show into a lesbo soap opera and her show and career nose dived.
That's why boycotting doesn't work--Americans have and will laugh at homos.
You're right. I'm just amazed that gays don't throw hissy fits at the way they are portrayed on network TV. Will and Grace? I asked a good friend of mine, a gay man, why the gay community would celebrate such repulsive stereotypes. His response was that just having a TV show about gays was enough, that there was a time you couldn't even say it and the movies that did come out where just horrible, like that stupid one with Al Pacino. I still don't get it. I do, however, have to tell you that I do watch Will & Grace, it's a funny adult comedy, although after watching it I always think to myself that this is not a good show for Gay people. It depicts gays as self-absorbed, sex-addicts who think of nothing but superficial and material things (and, of course, sex.)