GLAAD finds movies lag behind TV in LGBT roles

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41 posted on 08/21/2013 12:25:38 PM PDT by Olog-hai

I was thinking of Corey Haim.

A friend says it chilled him that Michael had a “memory” for boys that interested him.

There was some project my friend worked on. Michael learned the man had a son and invited him over for something or other. They never went.

Around 2 years later, (and I forget the circumstances of the communication/encounter) but Michael remembered the name of the man’s son, asked how he was doing, and again extended an invite. He event sent a signed photo to the man (who kept it from his son at the time, and has mentioned it to the son now grown to adulthood, who does not want it).

42 posted on 08/21/2013 12:31:58 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)

homosexual TV
Below is a list of popular TV (network and cable) shows from 1975 to today which feature LGBTQ characters/ actors/ writers. It is an incomplete list. It is greatly exceeded by the number of shows featuring rampant heterosexual fornication, adultery, and divorce.

# TV Show Channel Start Finish
1 “Hot L Baltimore” ABC 1975 1975
2 “Barney Miller” ABC 1975 1982
3 “Soap” ABC 1977 1981
4 “The Kids in the Hall” HBO 1988 1995
5 “Roseanne” ABC 1988 1997
6 “In Loving Color” FOX 1990 1994
7 “The Real World” MTV 1992 current
8 “NYPD Blue ABC 1993 2005
9 “Ellen” ABC 1994 1998
10 “Friends” NBC 1994 2004
11 “ER” NBC 1994 2009
12 “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” WB, UPN 1997 2003
13 “South Park” Comedy Central 1997 current
14 “Dawson’s Creek” WB 1998 2003
15 “Sex and the City” HBO 1998 2004
16 “Will and Grace” NBC 1998 2006
17 “Family Guy” Fox 1999 current
18 “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” NBC 1999 current
19 “House Hunters” HGTV 1999 current
20 “TSG Presents … World’s Dumbest” truTV 1999 current
21 “Queer as Folk” Showtime 2000 2005
22 “Trading Spaces” TLC, Disc, Home 2000 2008
23 “Survivor” CBS 2000 current
24 “Big Brother” CBS 2000 current
25 “24” Fox 2001 2005
26 “Six Feet Under” HBO 2001 2005
27 “The Amazing Race: CBS 2001 current
28 “American Idol” Fox 2002 current
29 “Nip/Tuck” FX 2003 2010
30 “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” Bravo 2003 2007
31 “Lost” ABC 2004 2009
32 “Rescue Me” FX 2004 2011
33 “House M.D.” Fox 2004 2012
34 “Desperate Housewives” ABC 2004 current
35 “The Office” NBC 2005 current
36 “Grey’s Anatomy” ABC 2005 current
37 “American Dad” Fox 2005 current
38 “Iron Chef America” Food Network 2005 current
39 “Ugly Betty” ABC 2006 2010
40 “Brothers & Sisters” ABC 2006 2011
41 “30 Rock” NBC 2006 current
42 “HGTV Design Star” HGTV 2006 current
43 “The Bad Girls Club” Oxygen 2006 current
44 “Mad Men” AMC 2007 current
45 “Rules of Engagement” CBS 2007 current
46 “True Blood” HBO 2008 current
47 “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” ABC Family 2008 current
48 “90210” CW 2008 current
49 “Glee” Fox 2009 current
50 “Modern Family” ABC 2009 current
51 “Chopped” Food Network 2009 current
52 “Southland” NBC, TNT 2009 2013
53 “Archer” FX 2010 current
54 “Pretty Little Liars” ABC Family 2010 current
55 “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” Bravo 2010 current
56 “Happily Divorced” TV Land 2011 current
57 “My Cat from Hell” Animal Planet 2011 current
58 “American Horror Story” FX 2011 current
59 “Kathy” Bravo 2012 2013
60 “Anger Management” FX 2012 current
61 “The New Normal” NBC 2012 2013
62 “Partners CBS 2012 2013
63 “Smash NBC 2012 2013
64 “Go On, Don't Trust the B---- in Apt. 23” ABC 2012 2013
65 “Malibu Country” ABC 2012 2013
66 “Emily Owens, M.D.” CW 2012 2013
67 “The Carrie Diaries” CW 2013 current
68 “Sean Saves the World” NBC 2013 current
69 “Under the Dome” CBS 2013 current

43 posted on 08/21/2013 12:55:55 PM PDT by MacNaughton

He's also one of the greatest actors of his generation. Credit where it's due.

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Did you know that there are conservatives here?

Non sequitur.

44 posted on 08/21/2013 1:01:41 PM PDT by Kip Russell (Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)

The phrase “non sequitur” means “that does not follow”. In this website’s case, it most likely does.

45 posted on 08/21/2013 1:25:17 PM PDT by Olog-hai

GLAAD finds movies lag behind TV in LGBT roles

Wow. These perverts are really sharp!
Apparently they haven't noticed that every otherwise entertaining TV series in the last few years which chose to show protracted and in your face gratuitous explicit gay activity which added nothing to the plot met a quick rejection and slow death.

A few come to mind...

Torchwood.
Revenge.
Stargate Universe.
Several more which, after I erased them from my hard drives, I try not to think about again.

Clueless, these producers. ay

46 posted on 08/21/2013 1:28:51 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)

I strongly suspect that movie studios are still normal businesses, not propaganda arms for every deviant who slithers by.
So pressure by the perverts, unless they have money to throw at their propaganda, will go nowhere.

Fortunately, the deviants have yet to achieve legislation to force me to buy a ticket to see a pervert movie.

47 posted on 08/21/2013 1:33:09 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)

The phrase “non sequitur” means “that does not follow”. In this website’s case, it most likely does.

How does it follow that I shouldn't comment on the talents of an actor (who, in this case, happens to be gay) because I'm doing so on a conservative forum?

48 posted on 08/21/2013 1:36:15 PM PDT by Kip Russell (Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)

To: a fool in paradise

The actor who portrayed Spider-Man wanted the reboot “Mary Jane” to be a guy.

The clueless little fag killed the Spiderman franchise all by himself.

I suspect a very large number of people who profited from the series are not amused...

49 posted on 08/21/2013 1:39:07 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)

Are you trying to put words in my mouth, so to speak? I never tried to tell you not to comment.

50 posted on 08/21/2013 1:39:50 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Are you trying to put words in my mouth, so to speak? I never tried to tell you not to comment.

Perhaps I misinterpreted your comment when you said, "Did you know that there are conservatives here?". Could you be more explicit? I'm honestly confused as to why I'm being jumped on (it seems that way, at least) for simply pointing out that Ian McKellen is an extraordinarily gifted actor.

51 posted on 08/21/2013 1:48:09 PM PDT by Kip Russell (Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)

He's also one of the greatest actors of his generation. Credit where it's due.

Fortunately, that's still a deeply personal individual assessment and choice.
Jeffrey Dahmer might have been a great actor too.

52 posted on 08/21/2013 1:51:48 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)

Posting about the fellow after someone else posted about him, in a thread about said actor’s personal lifestyle (although not about him personally) versus his career. That can be interpreted by some as a defense of said lifestyle.

53 posted on 08/21/2013 1:59:04 PM PDT by Olog-hai

I'm honestly confused as to why I'm being jumped on (it seems that way, at least) for simply pointing out that Ian McKellen is an extraordinarily gifted actor.

I suppose that activity does affect the brain...
You were celebrating the fact that being a great actor, somehow rendered his flaming gayness invisible to conservatives.
It's not the epitome of mental health to mutilate hotel room bibles. Some might say it's a pathology. "Sicko" to you; great actor or not.

54 posted on 08/21/2013 2:05:02 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)

I'm certainly not defending the man's lifestyle; I'm just a fan of some of his film work (hence my comment). The fact that he's a gay activist simply doesn't have any impact on my enjoyment of the Lord Of The Rings films, or any other movies in which I've seen him perform.

55 posted on 08/21/2013 2:06:33 PM PDT by Kip Russell (Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)

To: Albion Wilde

There were always prissy closet cases in old movies, “gigolos”, floor walkers, pansies and sissies. Actors like Franklin Pangborn made a career out of roles like these. Audiences were sophisticated and got the joke.

56 posted on 08/21/2013 4:56:53 PM PDT by Argus

Assistant DA Serena Southerlyn was a lesbian on the original Law & Order (1990-2010). You missed that.

57 posted on 08/21/2013 6:38:48 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Drone strike on Michael Grunwald: you know it makes sense)

Welcone to FR. You will learn that one definition of conservative is to think way too much about homosexuals (not that there's anything wrong with that)

Let it pass, after a while it just becomes background noise

58 posted on 08/21/2013 10:24:24 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Drone strike on Michael Grunwald: you know it makes sense)

To: Oztrich Boy; MacNaughton

Assistant DA Serena Southerlyn was a lesbian on the original Law & Order (1990-2010). You missed that.

Another one: Commander Susan Ivanova in Babylon 5 (1994-1998) was bisexual, the first portrayal of such in television science fiction.

59 posted on 08/21/2013 11:59:05 PM PDT by Kip Russell (Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)

Welcome to FR.

Thanks!

60 posted on 08/21/2013 11:59:47 PM PDT by Kip Russell (Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)

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