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Couch potatoes, newscasts, The Ed Sullivan Show, MTV, VCRs, camcorders, reality TV, Queer Eye for the Straight...
...apparent effort to atone for the years of homophobia, EMINEM out-Chered the Queer Eye guys at the MTV video awards, sporting four different outfits, though we sadly have room to show you only three. (The fourth was a fabulous cerulean blue.) Each ensemble is from his Shady label, soon to join every other rapper's tracksuit line at a mall near...
...upcoming spin-off of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, to be called Straight Eye for the Queer Guy, will be cast with an FBI agent, a lumberjack, an NFL linebacker...
Sullivan wrote that the TV reality show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy provides "a wonderful example of straight men and gay men communicating, laughing and getting along." I don't think the show is a step forward at all. In fact, it just reinforces existing gay stereotypes--the notion that gay men can be nothing more than fashion designers, hair stylists and interior decorators. I assure you, there are many straight people who can give a guy a complete makeover. This show widens the rift between "us" and "them." The program is just another attempt at exploiting a subculture...
...than this. Stores pay nothing for being featured on the show; they simply agree to let cameras in and provide merchandise for free. So will the producers wise up and start charging for the valuable airtime? "They're giving me a location, and they're giving us product," says Queer Eye's coordinating producer, Marcia Turner. "Why would I charge them? That would be horrible." --By Sora Song