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.
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The many years of working the emergency room in the bay area of Northern California taught me all I needed to know about the homosexual lifestyle.
These sugar coated television shows don’t even scratch the surface of the depravity and horrors that compose the reality of that lifestyle...
Yep, and I always thought HGTV was a channel of refuge fm the other PC crap...too sad.
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.
My nephew is one of them. He is making tons of money.
“If you formed your opinion only from TV shows...(and, especially, commercials and PSAs), you’d surmise that about 25-40% of the population is gay (and 70% of the population is Negro)”
Far too many Americans do, in fact, form their opinions from TV shows (and movies).
“What else can I say, everyone is gay.” - Kurt Cobain
Not my attitudes.
—It’s getting tougher and tougher to watch DIY shows on HGTV...—
That’s ok, they are made obsolete by youtube. I decided to put a metal roof on a shed I was making. I’ve never done one before. Youtube videos were all over the place telling me how to do it and even warning me of pitfalls that could make your roof leak. And being youtube it is “on demand”.
TV is sooooo 20th century.
Sorry about the double post. I got distracted! Oh, and I forgot Jodie on Soap.
I grew up there, too, and consider ANYONE who will tells the truth abt what really goes on a real gutsy hero. When AIDS broke out as a pandemic in SF and gays screamed bloody murder at the closing of bath houses...
Well, that said EVERYTHING!
Ernie Kovacs had a character named Percy Dovetonsils who was caricature of intellectual pantywaists and most certainly those with homosexual affectations.
And how about Tom Hanks in Bosom Buddies?
Yep. It's been slow conditioning. Like a frog being slowly boiled alive. I got out of the water in 1997 and have discovered it was already pretty darned hot by then. Many frogs have already been completely boiled and they don't even know it. Try arguing any subject rationally with them and you will experience what I mean, first hand.
I can honestly say I have never watched Glee and never will..
I thought maybe they were implying something about Rick Perry!
See my post #41.
True. His lyrics were often dismissed as silly, but they were actually on the money. I saw him in the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino in 1980. He was a great guitarist as well.
“Gay” is to homo
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“Glee” is to homo-erotica.
Its as if the gay ghost of Robert Mapplethorpe is running TV.
In any event...homosexuals, sodomites, queers...all three work for me. Gay? Hardly.
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