Might GLAAD reconsider their praise for Passions?

[Homoaffectional]

Not sure how many people still watch Passions. I long ago swore it off, and am only watching in July and August to make sure I can watch to put a steak in its (lack of) heart. I understand that they plan to continue making new episodes and air them using some web cast system, but I'm confident that once it's off NBC and isn't attracting TV advertising dollars any longer, they won't be able to support the production costs and it'll be cancelled for good.

Specifically, I'm not exactly sure when they revealed the identity of the weird blackmailer person who wears some weird mask and a girls' wig and clothes, but I find the entire storyline positively disgusting, now that they've revealed the identity as the DL guy Vincent.

I think that GLAAD might agree... so, now that GLAAD has had time to find out where the storyline that they decided deserved a few Media Awards last year has gone, do you think we might actually see GLAAD take a few jabs at what they've done with the Vincent character since?

 

[sethjj1975]

I love Passions....it'll be moving to DirecTV channel 101 as of September
11th...and I haven't found the storyline to be homophobic, just high camp. Between that storyline, and them finally bring Tabitha's witchcraft back to the forefront, Passions has actually been watchable the last few months. I'll be sad to see it leave the NBC lineup, especially just to make room for a 4th hour of the Today show.

This is just the same BS as some gay groups being upset over Sharon Stone's character's bisexuality, and possible homicidal psychosis, in the original Basic Instinct. It just seems thin-skinned to me.

 

[sethjj1975]

Here is one of the funniest scenes...the look on Ethan's face, during the dance, is priceless.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9MBoGVwGr3Q

 

[sfireboy]

Passions has actually been watchable the last few months

I SOOO agree, I've never really cared for or really liked the show but recently it has been so good.

 

[OTHFan]

but i did hear whitney say something like "i'm not exposing our kid to your deviant lifestyle" which is kinda a slap in the face of gay fathers but i still love the show.

 

[willsboy84]

Not sure how many people still watch Passions. I long ago swore it off, and am only watching in July and August to make sure I can watch to put a steak in its (lack of) heart. I understand that they plan to continue making new episodes and air them using some web cast system, but I'm confident that once it's off NBC and isn't attracting TV advertising dollars any longer, they won't be able to support the production costs and it'll be cancelled for good.

Specifically, I'm not exactly sure when they revealed the identity of the weird blackmailer person who wears some weird mask and a girls' wig and clothes, but I find the entire storyline positively disgusting, now that they've revealed the identity as the DL guy Vincent.

I think that GLAAD might agree... so, now that GLAAD has had time to find out where the storyline that they decided deserved a few Media Awards last year has gone, do you think we might actually see GLAAD take a few jabs at what they've done with the Vincent character since?

Is the blackmailer really supposed to be Vincent or is that just a red herring. I'd heard that it was gonna turn out to be Pretty Crane.

 

[sethjj1975]

but I did hear whitney say something like "I'm not exposing our kid to your deviant lifestyle" which is kinda a slap in the face of gay fathers but I still love the show.

Whitney has said that it's not that he's gay, but that he's a lying cheating bastard...especially after they had went through the whole incest scare. I wouldn't let him around my kids either, cuz he's a dick!!

 

[Homoaffectional]

Whitney has said that it's not that he's gay

No... she said last Thursday or Friday (probably Friday) that it was his "deviant lifestyle".

 

[Xenrai]

Here is one of the funniest scenes...the look on Ethan's face, during the dance, is priceless.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9MBoGVwGr3Q

He's dreamy! And a good dancer too!

 

[josher]

Whitney's sister Simone is a lesbian and Whitney supports her. She's also been shown to have gay male friends. She's just justifiably mad at her husband for sleeping with Vincent (who will turn out to also be Valerie.) And the serial killer (Vincent/Valerie) isn't gay, he's intersexed.

 

[J-23]

I get the feeling that GLAAD sort of blindly supports anything even remotely related to homosexuality.

 

[Homoaffectional]

I get the feeling that GLAAD sort of blindly supports anything even remotely related to homo--ality.

Sounds like the kind of feeling one would get without having done any research on which one speaks of one's feeling... but hardly the first time that's happened on JUB.... or outside of it.

 

[syntax]

This is the gayest show on television.

I watched it when it began and since I heard it was being canceled recently started a "death watch." It's so crazy and over the top, but the Chad/Vincent DL transexual sub-plot is subversive. I can't believe that the Traditional/Family values types haven't protested.

I won't watch it on cable/satellite, so I hope they end the stories on network TV

 

[J-23]

Sounds like the kind of feeling one would get without having done any research on which one speaks of one's feeling... but hardly the first time that's happened on JUB.... or outside of it.

Uh, I have three words: Will and Grace.

Oh, and seven more words: I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.

Yeah, those are simply glowing representations of the gay community, and guess which organization (hint: rhymes with GLAAD) adored both of them?

 

[sethjj1975]

No... she said last Thursday or Friday (probably Friday) that it was his "deviant lifestyle".

Meaning he's on the "Down Low" which is just a polite way to say cheating, manipulative bastard...be it with a man or a woman. Any woman put into that situation deserves to vent, and in my opinion, unleash her full wrath upon him.

 

[Homoaffectional]

Uh, I have three words: Will and Grace.

Oh, and seven more words: I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.

Yeah, those are simply glowing representations of the gay community, and guess which organization (hint: rhymes with GLAAD) adored both of them?

That doesn't prove that GLAAD "supports anything even remotely related to homo[----]ality". It only goes to show that they supported two things, whose plots were quite centered on gay themes.

If anything is true about GLAAD, is that they don't condemn everything on mainstream media worth condemning, and usually ignore stuff that doesn't come close to their particular ideal, unless they calculate that there's some PR value towards jumping on something. For starters, they simply ignored the scene in Rescue Me where a gay person was asked in a court of law if his father "supports his 'choice' and his 'lifestyle' " despite my repeated calls to their offices telling them they ought to make a statement of protest. If they did "support anything even remotely related to homo[----]ality", as your feeling suggests, they would have supported Rescue Me, which was "remotely" related to homo"sexu"ality (as opposed to centered on homoaffectional themes, which was the case with the two things you cited).

Besides, you need to be careful, or sethjj1975 might start to think you're just being "thin-skinned". And speaking of...

Meaning he's on the "Down Low" which is just a polite way to say cheating, manipulative bastard...be it with a man or a woman. Any woman put into that situation deserves to vent, and in my opinion, unleash her full wrath upon him.

I'm sure Terry McMillan would agree with you, but I certainly don't agree with her, nor her conduct towards her ex-husband. Do you know who Terry is?

 

[J-23]

That doesn't prove that GLAAD "supports anything even remotely related to homo[----]ality". It only goes to show that they supported two things, whose plots were quite centered on gay themes.

If anything is true about GLAAD, is that they don't condemn everything on mainstream media worth condemning, and usually ignore stuff that doesn't come close to their particular ideal, unless they calculate that there's some PR value towards jumping on something. For starters, they simply ignored the scene in Rescue Me where a gay person was asked in a court of law if his father "supports his 'choice' and his 'lifestyle' " despite my repeated calls to their offices telling them they ought to make a statement of protest. If they did "support anything even remotely related to homo[----]ality", as your feeling suggests, they would have supported Rescue Me, which was "remotely" related to homo"sexu"ality (as opposed to centered on homoaffectional themes, which was the case with the two things you cited).

Besides, you need to be careful, or sethjj1975 might start to think you're just being "thin-skinned".

I'm not saying that they need to condemn anything. Nor am I seriously offended by these TV shows or films. I just think it's pathetic that GLAAD's idea of a fantastic gay-themed show is one in which the gay characters consist of an uptight, cranky, obsessive-compulsive guy and a bitchy, flamboyant, catty guy, both of whom are superficial and promiscuous, and neither of whom can be seen without their sassy female counterpart. What a step forward for the gay community.

That's why I don't put much stock in what GLAAD has to say.

 

[Homoaffectional]

I just think it's pathetic that GLAAD's idea of a fantastic gay-themed show is one in which the gay characters consist of an uptight, cranky, obsessive-compulsive guy and a bitchy, flamboyant, catty guy, both of whom are superficial and promiscuous, and neither of whom can be seen without their sassy female counterpart. What a step forward for the gay community.

I actually tend to agree with the part about promiscuous, et al. (GLAAD was using Queer As Folk to make money for their organization), although I totally disagree with you on another point; I think they *SHOULD* condemn certain things. Generally, I just think you should have chosen your words more carefully when making your statement.

 

[Homoaffectional]

And the serial killer (Vincent/Valerie) isn't gay, he's intersexed.

Yeah, that's reassuring... you think there's any difference at all where middle America is concerned? And I don't support stereotyping intersexed people as serial killers, either.

 

[J-23]

I actually tend to agree with the part about promiscuous, et al. (GLAAD was using Queer As Folk to make money for their organization), although I totally disagree with you on another point; I think they *SHOULD* condemn certain things. Generally, I just think you should have chosen your words more carefully when making your statement.

Well, it doesn't take a genius to understand that when I say that GLAAD doesn't need to condemn anything I'm saying "anything" as far as the shows and films we were discussing. Not "anything" as in "anything in the world." But you're obviously trying quite hard to instigate an argument, so I'll end it there.