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...seems like only yesterday that Will and Grace was called daring. Bravo's reality show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, in which gay style specialists make over grooming-challenged straight men, is shaping up as the surprise hit of the summer. Picked up by NBC, which aired a half-hour rerun last Thursday (after Will and Grace, naturally), the show is the latest highlight in what has turned out to be a grand old, gay old summer. --By Harriet Barovick...
...mitts, TLC doubled What Not into a bloated, tedious hour, and hosts Wayne Scot Lukas and Stacy London deliver showy put-downs ("She looks hip-py, not hippie!") and lack their British forebears' acuity. If there's a real candidate for the American What Not, it's Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, which makes its debut July 15 at 10 p.m. E.T. It is also shameless, but in a more original, less creepy way. In each episode, a heterosexual man is schooled in fashion, design, culture, grooming and fine dining by five gay guys. Its unspoken premise...
CAMBRIDGE—I wasn’t there, across the Charles, when the yearly Gay Pride Parade descended on Boston on June 15. I was here in Cambridge—queer, but sleeping...
...Gaypril, ran just one opinion piece in The Crimson during the month: a preemptive defense of the group’s highly-debated “Kiss-in.” A month or so later, three students representing the “recently reformed” Queer Resistance Front responded on this page by eviscerating nearly everything the BGLTSA had done in April. They called Gaypril events “decontextualized performances of politics,” but didn’t offer a hint of what their own—presumably...
...juggle multiple roles that often demand different and even conflicting actions. They must attempt to create comfortable social spaces, to aid individuals coming to terms with their sexuality and to mediate spirited theoretical debates among students who feel themselves newly-empowered, intellectually, by recent course offerings in queer studies. To do all this while also attempting traditional issues-based awareness-raising and activism in the political realm is admittedly a formidable challenge. But the task cannot be forfeited: too much lies in the balance...