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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Ever notice every main characters turns into a faggot? Just about ever sitcom is about a faggot. Faggot is funny to hollywierd.
I only watch the Sue bits. The rest is meaningless to me.
““And there’s no such thing as homophobia”
Respectfully disagree.
Homosexuals are homophobes. They insist on being called “gay” instead.”
Wow! I have just GOT to remember that one! So, I put it as my tagline.
Actually, Senator McCarthy never investigated Hollywood. His investigations were limited to Communist agents inside the government.
You're thinking of the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
'Surprise' was also finding out that Rock Hudson had no 'particular interest' in Doris Day...
This one has always seemed more like a sarcastic jab at the policial correctness that surrounds this issue. It's also a mechanism that allows the occasional, oblique reference to gays in a joke (a rarity since 1990 or so).
I remember it as a decent sitcom at most.
I was surprised too about Rock, but my mom told me at the time, that she knew about it for years.
LOL! Poor Doris . . .
Actually, I watched a few of those old movies lately and really was disgusted with the way the Rock Hudson/Doris Day characters were written in the films. He basically would bully, deceive and dominate her throughout, before they finally got together in the end.
That was!
Good insight, but it still gets the concept into our heads. 14 years after the final episode we still remember it!
The nice thing about a TV is that it has an "OFF" switch - press it and they go away. Too bad you can't do that with society.
All it took was one promo preview of that show to tell me I’d never want to watch it. I think the title was a give away that it was going to be a promo of all things liberal.
It also has a knob to increase the brightness, but it doesn't work.
And a tax to pay for the children their union does not produce. Children are the heterosexuals way of paying it forward. Paying for and nurturing the next generation of social security contributors.
Gays are the ultimate takers in the pleasures of life without having to give it back through raising a child from the marriage. Sure they can adopt a child, but I would be leery of motives.
Last word, Gay Marriage, yes, Tagged with a hefty Gay Marriage Tax and then sit back and watch the closets fill up again.
um... Ross’s ex wife was gay on friends...
and Will and Grace which was entirely about gay people started in 1998, almost 15 years ago.
oh! and I almost forgot about The Golden Girls, that takes this trend all the way back to the 80’s, which had several main characters including the black houseboy/cook.
OH! I just remembered MASH! with it’s cross dressing gay soldier.
which takes this back to the 1970’s
I never watched enough Friends to know that kind of detail. It certainly didn’t dominate the show, nor did it portray the character in a positive light. Yes, there was Will and Grace, but that was very easy to not turn on. Now it is on every single show, even the “family” shows... even the fricking Sopranos managed to build a gay storyline in it.
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