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How TV Brought Gay People Into Our Homes
NPR ^ | May 12, 2012 | NPR Staff

Posted on 05/14/2012 5:10:55 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

In one of the most talked-about moments from the hit TV show Glee, Blaine declared his love for Kurt and then — they kissed.

Glee is just one of many popular shows on television right now that feature gay characters. Those characters aren't just entertaining us, they're changing Americans' attitudes toward homosexuality.

In five separate studies, professor Edward Schiappa and his colleagues at the University of Minnesota have found that the presence of gay characters on television programs decreases prejudices among viewers.

"These attitude changes are not huge," he says. "They don't change bigots into saints. But they can snowball."

Schiappa tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz that indeed, as Vice President Joe Biden said last Sunday, the hit TV show Will and Grace really did help America get to know gay people.

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: culturewars; hollywood; homosexualagenda
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To: wolfman23601

I have heard it said that it began with “Three’s Company” which first aired in 1976. The John Ritter character, although not gay in fact, pretended he was so as to be able to share the apartment with the two women. I rarely watched the show, so I couldn’t tell you too much about it. This was 36 years ago!


41 posted on 05/14/2012 6:36:09 AM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of kittens modifying your posts.)
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To: tcrlaf

“Today, Gay is the the only ‘Minority’ you can CHOOSE to be a part of”

Unless your are running for Senator in Massachussetts


42 posted on 05/14/2012 6:36:28 AM PDT by RonnG
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To: tcrlaf

“Today, Gay is the the only ‘Minority’ you can CHOOSE to be a part of”

Unless you are running for Senator in Massachussetts


43 posted on 05/14/2012 6:36:49 AM PDT by RonnG
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
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44 posted on 05/14/2012 6:38:11 AM PDT by baddog 219
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
If you formed your opinion only from TV shows like that, you’d surmise that about 25-40% of the population is gay.

No kidding! These types of shows were my last refuge!

45 posted on 05/14/2012 6:39:44 AM PDT by CAluvdubya (I just try to stay out of the fray...)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

More like how the tv/movie industry shoots itself in the foot again.

Remember way back when, when the entire family could sit down and watch a show or go to a movie together and it contained humor/entertainment for all ages?

On Sunday nights, my dad would move the big tv set around so we could watch “Wonderful world of disney” during dinner.

That was back before Disney corp went they way they have gone.


46 posted on 05/14/2012 6:40:04 AM PDT by Texas resident (November 6 - Vote Against obama)
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To: spankalib

“Homosexuals are homophobes. They insist on being called “gay” instead.”

I remember in the early 80’s Andrew Dice Clay said “I call them C***suckers, cause that’s what they do! They walk around for a week with $h— on their D**** then the wonder why they got AIDS”


47 posted on 05/14/2012 6:41:40 AM PDT by jimmyo57
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To: wolfman23601

Seinfeld—”Not that there’s anything wrong with that!” Friends— The mother of Ross’s child leaves him for a woman.
It really started in the 60s, when there were people on tv who were not openly gay, but were definitely “flamboyant.” I think of Alan Sues on Laugh-In, Charles Nelson Reilly, Paul Lynde, Jonathan Harris on “Lost In Space,” and others. In the 80s there was Jim J Bullock on “Too Close For Comfort,” and it has gone downhill from there. I’m sure that I’m missing some, but those are the ones I remember. Heck, even Gilligan may have been a little light in the loafers, as he constantly spurned Ginger’s advances. Robert Reed was a surprise.


48 posted on 05/14/2012 6:42:16 AM PDT by Freestate316
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To: PLD
In Glee right now there are literally 6 Gay characters. Curt, Blaine, The bad gay that wants to break them up, Santana, Brittney, and the jock that kiss-attacked Curt and made him cry. Every single episode is exactly the same dialog, just repeated by a different homosexual kid. I “watch” it on Hulu where I can skip to the music. I love a good mash-up. Shame they don't even do that great.
49 posted on 05/14/2012 6:42:36 AM PDT by Casie
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To: wolfman23601

“I wouldn’t say 15 years. The garbage on today was not on when I was growing up. We had our own garbage, but it wasn’t this bad. I don’t recall any gay agenda on the more successful shows like Seinfeld or Friends... though definitely some metrosexual pimping.”

It started with Three’s Company.


50 posted on 05/14/2012 6:45:36 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Would you rather eat dog food or cat food? Guess it's Romney 2012.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

haven’t owned a TV for years


51 posted on 05/14/2012 6:46:27 AM PDT by tommix2 (,)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

haven’t owned a TV for years


52 posted on 05/14/2012 6:46:40 AM PDT by tommix2 (,)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

TV hasn’t changed since Zappa wrote that in the ‘70s.

I’ve always regretted that he passed away in 1993. So much has taken place since then that would have been precisely and eloquently skewered by his lyrical genius.


53 posted on 05/14/2012 6:46:57 AM PDT by DickBrannigan (When did logic become reversed, and right became wrong, and wrong became right?)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

The gay mafia targeted the entertainment industry for this very reason....now they dominate it to the point where if you want to work anywhere in the industry you’d better toe the Party Line.

And don’t think that there isn’t a casting couch for guys.


54 posted on 05/14/2012 6:49:04 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: Vaduz

Communist goal #26: “Present homosexuality and promiscuity as normal and natural...”

Senator McCarthy was absolutely right. Hollywood was (and is) filled with marxist/socialists intent on destroying America.

And now they’ve got their own man in the White House.


55 posted on 05/14/2012 6:49:55 AM PDT by Walrus (Barack Obama --- fomenting race wars since 2008)
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To: stayathomemom

I’d say it started with Liberace and Paul Lynde. Innocuous enough back then, but everybody knew what they were.


56 posted on 05/14/2012 6:52:32 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: DickBrannigan

Zappa’s main target was Conservatism, I hate to say. He was a leftist with some libertarian leanings.


57 posted on 05/14/2012 6:54:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: homegroan

There’s probably billions $ to be made on good quality TV and movies, but I honestly think Hollyweird would rather push its agenda than make a buck. How else can one explain the shows that get made these days?


58 posted on 05/14/2012 6:55:12 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: mkjessup
Within the next 5 years, we will see a fictional character in one of these sh*t-coms or night time dramas who is a pedophile, however they will be portrayed sympathetically.

A sit com based on the Penn State Athletic department. It will be called "Rhythmic Slapping"

59 posted on 05/14/2012 6:55:18 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: homegroan
My 7 yr old nephew turned me on to Phineas and Ferb last summer and it is one of my favorite shows in the Tri State Area!
Has anyone seen Perry?


60 posted on 05/14/2012 6:55:18 AM PDT by whd23 (Every time a link is de-blogged an angel gets its wings.)
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