07/15/2005
First-of-its-kind low-income gay retirement home breaks ground in Hollywood. Gay and Lesbian Elder Housing Director: "What has had to happen for many older adults is that they've had to go back into the closet to get the care they need," he said. "This would be an environment of tolerance and acceptance." (thanks Zach)
Slate ingests the new homo programming: I Want my Gay TV! "Logo's main problem may be not that it ghettoizes itself with overly sexy programming that offends audiences and advertisers, but that, on the contrary, it tries to please so broad and diverse an audience (from bull dykes and leather daddies to middle-class gay families and curious straights) that it never emerges with a clear voice of its own."
Not a surprise: Catholic church will not baptize the child of a same-sex couple if both parents want to sign Baptism certificate.
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The parents who want to baptize their child in the Catholic Church should thank the church for not letting them proceed. I'm surprised they want their child to be part of an institution that persecutes them.
Posted by: Ron | Jul 15, 2005 11:44:19 AM
54 years together, wow...just...wow. That seems like some kind of record.
Posted by: Michael | Jul 15, 2005 11:46:37 AM
I've never really taken Slate seriously. There seems to be an agenda with them I don't quite get and the article about Logo TV seems to presuppose there is a problem with the channel which has yet to really launch.
Right now it's in sort of a preview mode with a few programs and a handful of movies they seem to cycle through over and over (though I've yet to actually get to watch Psycho Beach Party). Let them launch their programming before calling it a failure.
Posted by: Jamison | Jul 15, 2005 12:28:50 PM
I, too, have never been as impressed with "Slate" as they are with themselves, and this piece is pedestrian in the extreme, and, worse, ignorant and indifferent.
1. "The Brandon Teena Story" is not "gay-themed" but about someone transgender.
2. "hard to imagine even Anita Bryant not getting a little choked up" reveals juvenile, cavalier ignorance of what a vicious homophobe Anita Bryant was and how much damage she and her group did, and its still active members still are doing.
3. "convince the remaining queasy homophobes out there" seems to imply that Ms. Stevens thinks they are a count-on-one-hand endangered species instead of a rapidly multiplying, rabid hoard whose destroying power far outweighs their actual numbers.
4. "gorgeous misfits of Queer as Folk or The L Word, nor the crowd-pleasing minstrels of Will & Grace" -- those characterizations MIGHT be accurate but it is not the place of someone nongay, as Ms. Stevens posits herself, to judge. At most, she's a pseudointellectual fag hag spending too much time with more-liberated-than-thou fags, safe within their SF, WEHO, or SOHO ghetto, from whom she has stolen the facile descriptions.
One can be concerned about a potentially too bland LOGO, disappointed in aspects of "QAF," "L," and "W&G" and STILL understand that the Holy War against the gay community is both real and dangerous, and not, as the greasy smell of this article would suggest, just some minor irritant like missing last call at The Abbey or finding the night you want to take your Aunt Smegma to see "La Cage" sold out.
Posted by: Leland | Jul 15, 2005 5:13:07 PM
It's nice to read that our population is fortified for retirement age living.
Posted by: Patrick | Jul 15, 2005 9:22:53 PM
You've got it wrong. Anyone can baptize a child, with the formula "I baptize you in the name of the Father, of the Son, of the Holy Ghost". A certificate merely says it was done.
Posted by: Chris | Jan 4, 2006 6:38:44 PM