[Kieri]

Sorry if this has been posted before, but it seems important, at least to me!

[George W. Bush]

Tonight is the premiere of Bravo's Boy Meets Boy gay reality show. They have a sodomite play the dating game with a bunch of other sodomites and a few normal men in the mix. The usual reality show format otherwise, it seems.

So this might be a good time to hit on Bravo if you want to stop sodomy TV.

From MSNBC:

July 21 issue — You’re watching that old standby of all reality-TV matchmaking shows, the “group date,” and the star and his suitors are line-dancing in tight jeans. But there’s the de rigueur twist: this is Bravo’s “Boy Meets Boy,” a gay variant of “The Bachelor,” and all the dancers are guys. And a further twist: the star doesn’t know it, but some of these guys aren’t gay at all.

IF A STRAIGHT MAN can get the star to fall for him, he stands to make $25,000. Now at least one guy is having second thoughts. “We’re all partnered up,” a heterosexual suitor recalls, “and I’m crotch to crotch with this 6-foot-4 guy—who also turned out to be straight. I’m thinking, ‘Is my mother gonna see this?’ ”

Sorry. Yes. Bravo expects “Boy Meets Boy,” which debuts July 29, will draw not only a gay audience—the channel’s also premiering the terrific gay makeover show “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” this week—but straight audiences who might get caught up in the guessing games. (Viewers won’t know a suitor’s sexual orientation until he’s eliminated.) Douglas Ross, the show’s executive producer, says he “wanted to test boundaries between gay and straight, and create a world where the straight people were in the closet.” But the show may even prove divisive among gays—especially when they learn that the leading man himself is still smarting from the experience. “I felt betrayed,” says James, a California human-resources executive, perhaps the first reality star ever to speak a bad word about his own series. James was finally let in on the big secret when he’d narrowed his suitors down to three—we won’t give away their orientation—and he was livid. “They told me they put the twist in there because they wanted straight people to watch,” he says. “I said to them, ‘Well, you’ve played gay people as entertainment for straight people. Of course they’re going to watch’.”

I like the part where the straight guy is complaining that he hustled another straight guy crotch-to-crotch and worried that his mother might see him doing that with another straight guy. But, of course, it would all be okay with Mom if he'd managed to lure the sodomite star under false pretences and won the $25,000 for doing the same thing.

Obviously, it's more Must-See-TV.

[El Conservador]

Seeing most of the replies, I've come with a conclusion:

1) The best way to make this chow go away is by ignoring it. Sending emails of the tune of "I'll block Bravo 'cause you're showing gay sutff" is only a way to prop this show, because everyone will want to find out what the fuss is all about. If we could only silently ignore it, we'd be doing more. Gays hate being ignored, and that's a lot. Making a freaking scandal out of it will just prop them up.

2) In-your-face, agenda gays won't be anything more than a minority. This type of gays won't do any good to their group, and they alienate even gays who are not vocal about their sexual preference, so this show won't be more than a temporary fad that'll go away eventually.

3) Either you like it or not, gays are a part of human life. No matter how much you invoke the Bible or how many apocalyptical you get against them, they won't change their ways. So the best you can do is deal with them ignoring their sexuality.

4) Finally, for those that want to give up TV, newspapers and the Internet, here's a piece of advice: go move with the Amish!!!
The world unfortunately is neither perfect nor fair, and that's unavoidable, and no matter how far we run away from it, it'll catch up with us (even the Amish use cell phones). A lot of things you'll see in the media could be not appealing to your moral views, but the whole world won't appeal to them. The best thing you can do is hold steady and do the best to live a morally correct life, set an example and be true to yourself.

My 2 cents.

[OPS4]

Once the program starts, I would suggest we all post the list of advertisers, and boycott them with a huge campaign and carbon copy all retailers who carry the products.

Ops4 God Bless America!

[sakic]

Bravo for you for taking a stand. Let the people in charge know what you think. It's exactly what the homosexuals did to Dr. Laura Schlesinger.

They were free to exercise their opinions and opponents of portraying homosexuals on television are free to express their opinions. The system works.

Keep in mind, that in the final analysis, whatever makes money will remain on the air. Whatever doesn't won't.

That's also the way it should be.

[eleni121]

It is important to millions of us who find the homo shows offensive and part of the normalization process of homosexuality. I think that the most effective way to get these shows "unfunded" and "unproducable" is to boycott their sponsors as well as writing effective notes to the sponsors and the Bravo corporation.

Thanks for the update.

[Redcloak]

Two words: Don't watch.

[HitmanLV]

I have Tivo, which lets you select what channels appear in your lineup very easily. Within an hour of setting it up, I purged MTV, VH1, CNN, CNNFn, CNN Headline NEws, MSNBC, all the home shopping network channels, and some otehrs from my lineup. Now I don't even cross them while channel surfing!

TIVO!

[longtermmemmory]

shouldn't this be directed to SPONSORS? It does not matter if you have the good show, it only matters if you have sponsors.

[robjna]

WE , in america are given the abilty to choose. You can choose not to watch. it the liberal left who is trying to tell us how to live our lives and what is best for us and our children. While the homosexual lifestyle is a deviant lifestyle, we do not have to watch Bravo. Bravo hasa right to earn a profit and if grabbing onto gays does it, its the American way.

[george wythe]

When I was a kid, I was allowed to watch only 4 or 5 hours of television a week, always with one of my parents sitting next to me.

At first, I would watch cartoons, and then when I became older, I was allowed to watch football with my dad.

On the other hand, I always had a lot of time to do my homework, to build tree houses and my own toys, to learn to pull apart a whole car and put it back together again, etc.

Now I'm raising a little girl, and she watches Sponge Bob sometimes with me and nothing else, and I do not expect her to be allowed to watch any unsupervised television until she leaves home for college.

Any parent who uses television as a babysitter must be responsible for the filth fed to his child.

[Republic]

I wrote to um. This whole exercise in shows that make light of depravity is sickening. I thought Bravo was going to be a station dedicated to the interests of men. Real men.

[wzlboy]

You should run thru the whole DirecTv dial (1-999+) and let us know which channels YOU f'ing approve. Mo ron.

[YoungKentuckyConservative]

I sent a similar letter and also sent one to DirecTV letting them know that if this type of programming permeates their line-up, I'll be terminating my contract.

For now, I'll block Bravo.

[CarmelValleyite]

Thanks for the link! Now I'll write BRAVO and tell them what a hilarious hit they have on their hands with Queer Eye for the Straight Guy!

Get a grip!

[lilylangtree]

Freeped. Took part of your message and rewrote my own. Thanks.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

Thanks for the link.. here is what I submitted. I doubt it will do ANY good, but I submitted it. I will let you know if I get any REAL response. Vets
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We have our grandchildren over to spend the night all the time. They are 6 and 8.

Not only are we going to have to block Bravo, but NBC as well as they advertise your show DURING PRIMETIME when our grandchildren are up!! They are old enough to ask question and they are. We tell them there are some sick people in this world.

We will be writing letters to the advertisers regarding your programing of Queer Eye and Boy meets Boy. Why not be fair and have Hetero meets Hetero.. and Missionairy style meets Missionary style? Or Virgin meets Virgin?

For crying out loud!!!! Why are you trying to shove this down our throats? How sick is this?? Trust me,... we are definetly not alone in feeling this way.

[appalachian_dweller]

Thought I'd put my 2 cents in. Just sent the following email:

To whom it may concern:

Your choice of programming is anti-American. Pushing the homosexual agenda falls right in line with a congressional report on communist goals. This report was issued 1/10/1963. Below are the 28 goals set out by communists to bring about the destruction of the United States of America. Please see item 20.

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
9. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If it's charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.
10. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
11. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts forsocialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
12. Gain control of all student newspapers.
13. Use student riots to ferment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
14. Infiltrate the Press.
15. Gain control of key positions in radio, T.V., and motion pictures.
16. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.
17. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.
18. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
19. Break down culture standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and T.V.
20. Present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity, as "normal, natural, healthy."
21. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
22. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
23. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
24. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
25. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the cultural education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
26. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrist can understand or treat.
27. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
28. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

Hen. A.S. Herlong, Jr. of Florida in H.R., Congressional Record-Appendix, Jan. 10, 1963, pp. a34-35

[Hildy]

I'm glad this was posted because I am LIVID right now. I run an art camp for kids in the morning. I always have it tuned to a station called KYXY, it's a soft rock/pop station and it has always promoted itself as the network you'll never have to be embarrassed to have your children listen to, or something like that. Well, this morning, it seemed like every 15 minutes there was a commercial for some new gay show on BRAVO. Bravo must have bought some air time. A few little kids in my class started to giggle and I immediately turned the station. I'm outraged. I'm going to write them a letter right now, and I'm going to try to recruit some San Diego Freepers to help me.

[narses]

Ping.

[sockmonkey]

I could care less about Boy Meets Boy-it's boring, and I find nothing about it interesting. Queer Eye for the Straight guy I find very entertaining. The guys on the show are very good in their areas of expertise regardless of their sexual orientation-Carson Kressly is the only catty/raunchy one on the show.

I know Bravo is selling the show with the title, but I would watch it even if Bravo's selling point wasn't their Queerness.

Thom Felicio, the interior decorator is certainly more creative than the guy on hgtv's Decorating Cents who makes stuff out of found objects.

I have read the bio's of the Fab 5, and they are all accomplished in their fields-I don't think that has anything to do with their gayness. I think it has to do with Bravo's marketing the show. And actually, if I hadn't heard about it on FR, I wouldn't have known about Queer Eye. I've never watched Bravo before, and I thought it was a premium channel. Imagine my surprise when I found out that I get Bravo on the tier. Imagine my surprise when I decided to check out the evil that is Queer Eye, and found it funny, and full of cooking/decorating/fashion tips.

There are no children in my house, btw.