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Network Axes Fall Hard on Gay Characters
movies.yahoo.com ^ | 5/12/13 | Lesley Goldberg

Posted on 05/12/2013 4:20:13 AM PDT by central_va

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

After a 2012-13 season that featured a record number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender characters on TV, this past week's wave of cancellations may drastically alter those statistics.

Gone are shows that featured prominent gay story lines including NBC's The New Normal and CBS' Partners. Both were semi-autobiographical series about the lives of its nearly all openly gay creators -- Ryan Murphy and Ali Adler on the former, David Kohan (who's not) and Max Mutchnik for the latter -- and featured two happy, committed gay couples. Worth noting, half of both couples were played by openly gay actors -- New Normal's Andrew Rannells (opposite Justin Bartha) and Partners' Michael Urie (opposite Brandon Routh).

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To: VanDeKoik

Every time someone use the term “gay” in reference to some homosexual, they are buying into the queer propaganda that homos are just nice, innocent and REALLY happy with their unnatural extravagance.


21 posted on 05/12/2013 5:10:56 AM PDT by X-spurt (Republic of Texas, Come and Take It!)
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To: central_va

It had to happen, sooner or later.

It’s not so much the gay themed shows that offer a reality we all know is false, it’s the seeming inability of Hollywood to air a drama, suspense, or mystery show that dosn’t include the gratuitous gay interlude.

It’s become tedious. We now know we’re being preached to, and we don’t like it.

These shows seem to simultaneously malign religion, you know-the ubiquitous cleric who in the end becomes the perp, or the perps who are portrayed as justifying their evil with Christianity.


22 posted on 05/12/2013 5:12:46 AM PDT by wayoverontheright
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To: central_va
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23 posted on 05/12/2013 5:15:27 AM PDT by baddog 219
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To: pepsionice

I would offer this analysis...the History Channel is killing network TV show options. No weird shows, no gay characters, just plain historical themes. I suspect the networks are in desperation mode right now and trying to figure an angle out to trip up the situation. At present time, you could bring the Beverley Hillbillies, and actually have a four-star hit on your hands.


There could be some truth to this but I’d beware of the History Channel soon becoming the Re-Write History Channel.


24 posted on 05/12/2013 5:16:08 AM PDT by PaleoBob
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To: central_va

Diversity = indroctrination


25 posted on 05/12/2013 5:16:28 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: central_va

I would guess that most of us have friends or family who are gay, and we love and accept them. In some cases, we may know that they are gay, and in others, it may be a closely-guarded secret.

But their sexuality and/or bedroom practices aren’t the topic continually on-display in our everyday interactions, nor are we preached at that we are intolerant haters and bigots because we happen to believe in the traditional definition of marriage.

I don’t mind if a TV show character exhibits stereotypical gay affectations in a believable fashion, but I don’t want an agenda shoved down my throat every week.

Hope these idiots are learning a lesson about what most Americans want and don’t want to see as ‘entertainment’. (unlikely...)


26 posted on 05/12/2013 5:16:52 AM PDT by DJ Frisat ((optional, printed after my name on post))
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To: central_va

To be fair, any drama featuring a small minority (blacks, homosexuals) goes into the tank. The American public (majority white and white-hispanic) don’t want to see a bunch of queens and drama queens hoking it up on the TV.


27 posted on 05/12/2013 5:17:23 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Nothing is more savage and brutal than justifiably angry Americans. DonÂ’t believe me? Ask the Germa)
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To: SoFloFreeper
it is being shoved down our throats.

Interesting choice of words. It is like the whole country is being sodomized daily..

28 posted on 05/12/2013 5:18:16 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: PaleoBob

@PaleoBob:

Enjoyed your thoughtful post and agree with the sentiments expressed.


29 posted on 05/12/2013 5:18:37 AM PDT by DJ Frisat ((optional, printed after my name on post))
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To: DJ Frisat
most of us have friends or family who are gay, and we love and accept them.

You love and accept disease-ridden boy-raping whackjobs?

Problem right there; buying the propaganda, enabling the predators.

30 posted on 05/12/2013 5:26:15 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Hey RATs! Control your murdering freaks.)
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To: pepsionice

The History Channel’s agenda is more subtle, particularly in its representation of Biblical events. Their aim is to use ‘science’ to plant seeds of doubt into nominal believers who are not fully grounded in their faith.


31 posted on 05/12/2013 5:27:31 AM PDT by patriotsblood
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To: BlueStateRightist

If Modern Family and Glee are highly rated programs then they are good television; they obtain and keep an audience - no more, no less. Good television wins the day every time it’s tried.


32 posted on 05/12/2013 5:29:09 AM PDT by jimfree (In November 2016 my 12 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: Joe Boucher; All

Just disconnect the TV. No cable, no satellite, no network. It’s all trash, monies going to people who spread perversion. I’ve not had outside TV in over 6 years and do not miss it. I find I have more time.


33 posted on 05/12/2013 5:30:46 AM PDT by RoadGumby (This is not where I belong, Take this world and give me Jesus.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
"You love and accept disease-ridden boy-raping whackjobs?"

Nope.

I love my family, who was given to me by God.

And I love my friends, who are chosen very carefully by me, based upon their personalities, the love and consideration they show their contemporaries, and how they treat me.

Based upon the words you use in dealing with someone you've never met and talked to, it's unlikely that I'd choose you to have as a friend.

Crawl back under your rock, lobster...

34 posted on 05/12/2013 5:34:01 AM PDT by DJ Frisat ((optional, printed after my name on post))
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To: SoFloFreeper
Sodomy DOESN’T appeal to most Americans...it is being shoved down our throats.

As FReeper JohnO says, gays can't reproduce, so they recruit.

Hollywood is trying to change the perception of reality to portray that gay is everywhere and a large percentage of people are gay. Reality tells us it about 1.5 percent of the population.

The sodomites are not just pushing a new normal to be accepted. They are laying the ground work for recruitment.

35 posted on 05/12/2013 5:35:54 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Cyprus - the beginning)
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To: central_va

How many times were the words “queer/homosexual” used in these comments? Is it no longer legal to do so? Just asking.


36 posted on 05/12/2013 5:36:20 AM PDT by Rannug ("God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware.")
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To: central_va

Homophilia is just not that rampant around the nation, as the Homophiles want us to believe.

The over-air networks are getting hammered by the Spanish networks in many cities....and the Spanish networks aren’t pushing Homophilia. More like HottiePhilia with those Latina gals


37 posted on 05/12/2013 5:39:40 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (GOP - Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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To: central_va

It’s that bad Capitalism again. No money to support it? Soooooo sorry to see the sodomists go/s.


38 posted on 05/12/2013 5:46:45 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: DJ Frisat

Sounds like you’re over-run with packer/munchers. Most of the ones I knew died from their chosen deathstyle before they were 50.

God didn’t make those choices, they did...and Satan helped.

Next thing you’ll be telling me is they’re not a bunch of atheists.


39 posted on 05/12/2013 5:47:25 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Hey RATs! Control your murdering freaks.)
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To: central_va

Has Ellen Barkin been heard from yet?


40 posted on 05/12/2013 5:47:26 AM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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