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...porn), music videos, celebrity-gossip shows and serious current-affairs programs, all designed to give homosexual audiences a familiar voice but also get straight viewers to tune in. It's an increasingly popular formula on both sides of the Atlantic. The runaway hit of American television is Queer Eye for the Straight Guy - a series in which style-challenged heterosexuals have their looks and lives overhauled by a squad of gay advisers. Starting this week, Queer Eye will air in the U.K., and a British version of the show is set to launch early next year. And in January, France...
...obvious mistake is that the Fab 5 of “Queer Eye” weren’t just meth-snorting drifters some casting agent stumbled across at a trashy disco in Chelsea. Each has attained an enviable degree of success within his respective field: Jai appeared on Broadway in Rent, Thom was named one of America’s top 100 designers by House Beautiful magazine, and the list goes on. So be honest, friend: it’s the “so-called stereotypical” behaviors that are leaving you and countless gays across...
Let’s face it: shows like “Queer Eye” and “Queer as Folk” weren’t created to represent Joe Homosexual in Fargo. They’re intended to entertain, to be fabulous, much like “Sex and the City” and “Friends.” Do we honestly believe that Carrie Bradshaw or Rachel Green represent the average heterosexual woman? Where’s the outrage there? I have a sneaking suspicion the genuine concern is related to image. What...
Perhaps more worrisome, however, is the dissension that shows like “Queer Eye” have engendered within the gay community. In August, one Boston Globe reader lashed out against “Queer Eye” in a letter to the editor, stating that “The blond, nasty, catty, tacky, queeny thing does not represent me or my friends and is offensive. We need shows like “Will and Grace” with characters like Will, who has a real job, stability, and none of those so-called stereotypical behaviors...
...let’s not forget that there are gaggles of gay men for whom “Queer Eye” is fairly representative. The truth is, the “Queer Eye” controversy reflects the larger struggle of “straight acting” gays to distance themselves from their more flamboyant counterparts. I have to ask, to what end? Are they afraid of being seen as another Jack McFarland...