Exodus: Live Out Loud

Pride and Prejudice: Montel Williams Style

By Alan Chambers:

So, Montel Williams has a temper.

While in Savannah to promote a program offering free prescriptions to those with low incomes, the talk-show host blew up at Courtney Scott, a high school intern at the Savannah Morning News, when she asked him, "Do you think pharmaceutical companies would be discouraged from research and development if their profits were restricted?" Williams terminated the interview and later said to Scott, "Do you know who I am? I'm a big star, and I can look you up, find where you live and blow you up." He has since apologized.

Some might be surprised by the Montel's irrational outburst. I'm not. I was a guest on his show this past March and witnessed the same pride as well as an ample display of his prejudice.

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Mandisa Shares Truth with Grace

American Idol contestant Mandisa--who was voted off the show last week--was interviewed by a gay news magazine about allegations that she was 'anti-gay.' The allegations came after, on the American Idol website, Mandisa expressed admiration  for Beth Moore, a Christian writer and lecturer who believes in freedom from homosexuality and has links to Exodus and Exodus Youth on her website. Mandisa also made a comment during one of her performances that God is bigger than "your lifestyle," which some took as a reference to homosexuality.

When asked how she felt about the accusations, Mandisa responded, "I just heard about that a couple of days ago. It broke my heart. I live my life by the value syste that you treat others the way you want to be treated. . . I absolutely hate no one."

When asked if she believed homosexuality was a sin, and whether she would sing at a gay event, Mandisa held her ground with utmost grace: "I know my value system. . . that on the word [of the Bible], that it does speak of that. I do know I have no place to judge anybody. . . Based on what I believe, I'm not an advocate for [being gay], so it's nothing I would take part in."

Mandisa's response is a wonderful example of how we can defend the truth about homosexuality without attacking those who disagree. She didn't let her convictions cave in, and she displayed that she is unmistakably not hateful.

Dr. Phil Promoting Homosexuality and Abortion Groups

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"Christian groups are calling on the popular television psychologist Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D, a.k.a. Dr. Phil, to stop promoting Planned Parenthood and the homosexual lifestyle...McGraw touts Planned Parenthood as a trustworthy, independent resource on issues relating to sexuality, as evidenced by a recent broadcast in which he challenges a guest who asserts that abstinence is the true reason for the falling U.S. teenage pregnancy rate...Douglas R. Scott, president of Life Decisions International (LDI), said McGraw's response has three effects: “First, it makes McGraw look like he knows more about the subject than he actually does because he has an emphatic style, which is typical Dr. Phil deception. A doctorate does not make one an authority in every discipline and McGraw should stop masquerading as such. Second, it advertises and legitimizes Planned Parenthood. Third, it peddles the group as an agenda-free, independent research agency. Planned Parenthood ‘studies’ (actually conducted by its Alan Guttmacher Institute [AGI] affiliate) are usually long on opinion and short on ‘study.' "-LifeSiteNews.com, Oct. 19, 2005

GLAAD's cast of characters

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/bb20050902.shtml

"The fall TV season is approaching, and predictably, the powerful lobbyists at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) are already demanding that Hollywood develop more positive gay characters.

But this year, GLAAD's study of gay TV characters goes beyond numbers to quibbling about percentages. They claim that out of 710 series regulars who will appear this season on the broadcast networks, gay, lesbian and bisexual characters make up less than two percent of the total. They say it's a false depiction of their community. As GLAAD's Damon Romine complained, "This is a shocking misrepresentation of reality and of the audience watching these programs."- Brent Bozell, Townhall.com, Sept. 02, 2005

A New Assault on the Innocence of Children

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CWA Calls Launch of LOGO Network 'Assault on Children's Innocence' To: National Desk Contact: Rebecca S. Jones of Concerned Women for America, 202-488-7000 ext. 126 WASHINGTON, June 29 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Concerned Women for America (CWA) decried MTV's plan to launch the nation's first "gay" channel, LOGO, designed specifically to appeal to a "gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender audience." LOGO will feature the 16th Annual Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Awards, as well as series like "Queer as Folk" and new feature films like "Happy Endings." The channel will be available in about 10 million American homes. It will benefit from the popularity of MTV which for the past decade has been the #1 rated designation for teens. "This is a sad day for America's children," said Dr. Janice Crouse, senior fellow of the Beverly LaHaye Institute at Concerned Women for America. "LOGO is another assault on our children's innocence. Gay activism, solidly established in our schools, is now spreading right into the nation's living rooms." "MTV has made radical special interest programming a priority," Crouse said. "Their campaigns –– ‘Fight for your Rights,' ‘Protect Yourself' and ‘Choose or Lose' –– have targeted the nation's teens with demagoguery. Now they are taking their activism a step further to indoctrinate our children through a special gay network that will portray homosexuality in a positive, appealing way, legitimizing the homosexual lifestyle for children in millions of American homes." MTV's LOGO will be sponsored by Miller Lite, Motorola, Tylenol PM, Orbitz, Subaru, Lions Gate Films and Showtime Networks, among others. "Once again Corporate America is giving its stamp of approval on a lifestyle that is not only immoral, but devastates lives by the diseases it inflicts, when the message we all need to hear is that there is hope for homosexuals to break free from that destructive way of life," said Crouse. "Last year, Motorola and Tylenol PM donated $50,000 and $25,000 respectively to underwrite an event sponsored by GLAAD. It is an outrage that these marketers consistently recycle their earnings to endorse causes such as LOGO, which will only be detrimental to children and families." Concerned Women for America is the nation's largest public policy women's organization.

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Reality TV Show to Focus on Sex Change Operations

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200505/CUL20050525b.html

May 25, 2005

"TransGenerations" is scheduled to premier Sept. 20 on the Sundance Channel in partnership with Logo, a new Viacom network aimed at homosexuals. The eight-week series will document the sex changes of four college students" -Monisha Bansal, CNSNews.com Correspondent

Hate Crimes Symbol Gets 20/20 Makeover

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Feature by AFA Journal
January 19, 2005

(AgapePress) - The murder of homosexual college student Matthew Shepard in 1998 became a symbol for those demanding the passage of a federal hate crimes law that includes sexual orientation. But a reexamination of the incident in a recent television news program suggests that a hate crime may not have been committed at all.

Ministry Calls on NBC to Apologize

http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0034812.cfm

December 7, 2004

by Stuart Shepard, correspondent

The death of Matthew Shepard had nothing to do with the Wyoming youth's homosexuality, according to a new report.

Focus on the Family is calling on NBC to publicly apologize for an anchor's insinuation that Christians somehow contributed to the brutal slaying of Matthew Shepard.

The request comes in the wake of a recent special report on ABC's "20/20," which found that gay college student Matthew Shepard was not the victim of a hate crime—as has been widely asserted by homosexual activists and the media since his 1998 murder.

UCC TV ad affirming homosexuality is ‘masterful propaganda,' Mohler says

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Dec 2, 2004
By Jeff Robinson

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--A new TV advertisement promoting the United Church of Christ says that God is now affirming homosexuality, but R. Albert Mohler Jr., appearing on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” said the commercial misrepresents biblical Christianity.

“It is a piece of masterful propaganda but it is a diabolical misrepresentation of Christianity,” said Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, on the national telecast Dec. 2.

“... Jesus Christ did indeed come to seek and to save the lost but as He said to the woman caught in adultery, ‘Go and sin no more,’” Mohler said. Jesus “did not invite persons to stay in sinful lifestyles. Rather, He came to save us from our sins and to make us what we otherwise could not be -- and that is victorious over all the sins that entrap us. Homosexuality is one of those.”

CBS, NBC ban church ad inviting gays

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Networks wont run church spot featuring gay couple; say ad runs contrary to company policies. December 2, 2004: 9:47 AM EST By Steve Hargreaves, CNN/Money Staff Writer

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The CBS and NBC networks have refused to run an ad by a liberal church promoting the acceptance of people regardless of sexual orientation because the networks believe the ad is advocacy advertising. The 30-second spot, run by the United Church of Christ, features two muscle-bound bouncers standing outside a church, selecting people who could attend service and those who could not. Among those kept out are two males who appear to be a couple. Written text then appears saying, in part, "Jesus didn't turn people away, neither do we." "Because this commercial touches on the exclusion of gay couples...and the fact that the executive branch has recently proposed a Constitutional amendment to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, this spot is unacceptable for broadcast," the church quoted CBS as saying. Quote from Ad: Ad Campaign Begins ! The UCC's first 30-second television advertisement - part of the denomination's new, broad identity campaign - began airing nationwide on Dec. 1, stating that - like Jesus - the United Church of Christ seeks to welcome all people, regardless of ability, age, race, economic circumstance or sexual orientation. The ad has been accepted and will air on a mix of broadcast and cable networks, including ABC Family, AMC, BET, Discovery, Fox, Hallmark, History, Nick@Nite, TBS, TNT, Travel and TV Land. On the eve before the campaign's launch, negotiations with CBS and NBC broke down, after the networks deemed the UCC's all-inclusive message as "too controversial."

Was Killing of Shepard an Anti-Gay Hate Crime?

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By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN

Published: November 26, 2004

on't count out television news yet: the magazine shows might yet make a comeback. Elizabeth Vargas goes for broke tonight on an intellectually brave episode of "20/20" on ABC.

Ms. Vargas, the striking brunette who replaced Barbara Walters as co-host of the show in September, has wasted no time before taking on a risky story: the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard. But what's incendiary about tonight's program is not its topic but its argument. "20/20" takes the position that the description of this murder as an anti-gay hate crime is entirely wrong. After six years of sentimental theater, documentaries and television movies that have bolstered the hate-crime view, tonight's program is no less than iconoclastic.

In October 1998, Mr. Shepard, a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, was found tied to a fence on the outskirts of town. He'd been pistol-whipped and left shoeless in near-freezing temperatures; he was almost dead. Friends who heard about his beating instantly began to tell reporters that he was gay and that his attack might have been an instance of gay-bashing.

Showtime unveils 2005 documentaries

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Television - Variety

Sun Nov 21,12:22 PM ET Online Staff, STAFF (Variety) — Showtime has produced a trio of socially oriented docs -- "Same Sex America," "After Innocence" and "Rikers High" -- that will air under its "Sho Exposure" lineup in 2005. Launched in October 2003 as part of cabler's initiative to showcase more non-fiction films, "Sho Exposure" premieres a doc each month. Henry Corra's "Same Sex America" follows several gay and lesbian couples and their struggle for civil rights in the wake of President Bush (news - web sites)'s proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriages. Doc is produced by Alex Johnson and exec produced by Robert Katz and Jerry Kupfer.

S.C. Johnson drops 'He's a Lady' backing

http://www.jsonline.com/bym/news/oct04/267679.asp

Move follows drive against reality show
By DORIS HAJEWSKI
dhajewski@journalsentinel.com
Posted: Oct. 18, 2004
S.C. Johnson & Son Inc., the Racine household products manufacturer, has backed out of its sponsorship of "He's a Lady," a cross-dressing reality show that debuts tonight on Turner Broadcasting System.

Johnson pulled its sponsorship just a week before the launch, after conservative groups campaigned against the show.

"We have assessed the show, and we will not sponsor it," said S.C. Johnson spokeswoman Margie Mandli.

Mandli declined to answer further questions about the decision.

In the show, 11 men, including three from the Milwaukee area, compete dressed as women for $250,000 in a series of feminine challenges. TBS recruited the participants by telling them they would be on a show called "All American Man," where they would face tough physical challenges.

Instead, they found themselves wearing bras, high heels and artificial fingernails, and facing people in their hometowns as women.

On Television

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Monday, October 18, 2004

Noel Holston

TBS' "He's a Lady," a six-week series in which a bunch of brawny guys subject themselves to leg-waxing, eyebrow-plucking and high- heel drills in order to compete in a drag beauty pageant, doesn't premiere on TBS until tonight at 10, but already it's under attack from the morality police.

The American Family Association, a media watchdog group that describes itself as "pro-family," believes the series promotes a transvestite lifestyle. Through two online activism Web sites the association sponsors - OneMillionMoms.com and OneMillionDads.com - the organization has encouraged concerned parents to contact the series' principal sponsor, SC Johnson & Son Inc., maker of such familiar household products as Windex, Ziploc bags and Drano, and "adamantly but politely request that they pull all their advertising and financial support from this type of programming."

"It's inconceivable that 11 men - acting, dressing and living as women - would be entertainment in our society today," Randy Sharp, the association's special projects director, told reporters for AgapePress, a Christian news service. "What's more shocking is that SC Johnson would throw their money behind the entire production."

'Transvestite' Reality Series Loses Chief Sponsor

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/112004d.asp

By Jody Brown and Allie Martin
October 11, 2004

(AgapePress) - An online activism group is crediting its efforts with a sponsor's reversal over advertising on a new Turner Broadcasting System series that features men dressing, acting, and living as women -- all for the chance of winning a quarter-million-dollar prize.

He's a Lady, scheduled to premiere October 19 on the TBS network, will feature eleven men who each week "learn something new about what it's like to live as a lady," says the show's website. In addition to having to learn how to "walk, talk and dress like a lady," the contestants in this reality series supposedly learn how to "flaunt their new attitude." The competition concludes with a hometown appearance as a woman where they must remain in character in front of family and friends.

But the American Family Association, a pro-family media watchdog, sees no humor in the staged cross-dressing that promotes life as a transvestite. Contacting the members of OneMillionsMoms.com and OneMillionDads.com -- online activism websites sponsored by AFA -- the organization targeted the SC Johnson company, cited by news reports as the primary sponsor of the show.

Same-sex ‘Simpsons’

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Same-sex ‘Simpsons’
From RedEye

London's Sun newspaper says it knows which "Simpsons" character is coming out of the closet this year.

It's not the popularly speculated Smithers; it's Patty, Marge's hard-up-for-a-man sister. According to an anonymous source on the show, Patty will marry another woman after Springfield decides to allow gay marriage. Patty's bride-to-be is reportedly a woman she has known for a long time but who has never been introduced to viewers.

France Starts Gay TV Channel PinkTV

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Tue Sep 28,11:47 AM ET

By JOHN LEICESTER, Associated Press Writer

PARIS - The transgender sportscaster wears a miniskirt, the porn is gay, lesbian and bisexual, and Wonder Woman will be on every night at seven.

France's first gay television channel, PinkTV, is an eye-opener. And that's the point. Pink's founders believe there's a ready audience for the channel, and not just among France's estimated 3.5 million gays.

Pink's "a giant leap for television, a small step in high heels," said presenter Eric Gueho in a promotional clip shown at the channel's unveiling Tuesday, which was feted with pink champagne.

"Gays are speaking to the French. But not all French speak to gays. But it will come."

Well, maybe. This at times surprisingly conservative and largely Roman Catholic country is still divided when it comes to homosexuality.

France has in recent years made big strides, legally recognizing gay couples and electing a gay mayor for Paris. Homophobic remarks will be punishable with prison and fines under a draft law expected to be debated in parliament before the year's end.

New reality TV show promotes virtues of traditional marriage

www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=18933

Aug 25, 2004
By Shannon Baker

Telling the story
Jeff Higgins, associate worship pastor at Faith Baptist Church, Glen Burnie, Md., and Jennifer Fuqua, a U.S. Air Force staff sergeant stationed at Fort Meade, Md., shared how they met through ChristianCafe.com on the new counter-cultural, celebrity-laden reality show, "An American Wedding," set to air in fall 2004 and early spring 2005. Photo courtesy of BaptistLIFE

WASHINGTON (BP)--When Jennifer Fuqua and Jeff Higgins said, "I do," they did so in the presence of their family and friends -- and with the help of a camera crew -- before a projected two million families who are expected to watch a new counter-cultural, celebrity-laden reality show called "An American Wedding."

Targeting networks such as FamilyNet, The Travel Channel, The Total Living Network, Good Life TV and PBS, the program celebrates the beauty and romance of a wedding while presenting the truth in a marriage based on a covenant.

"The popularity of reality and lifestyle programming present us with a unique opportunity to present marriage as an adventure and as a positive way of life. It's about strong community, commitment and bringing the family back," explain executive producers Barbara Lindorme and Maureen Tokeson. "With value based programming, we have the rare opportunity to become a conduit for inspiring our culture."

Dr. Throckmorton on Coral Ridge Hour

www.drthrockmorton.com/

Recently I was interviewed for the Coral Ridge Hour with Dr. D. James Kennedy. It is likely that the show can be viewed on a station near you since it covers over 80% of American homes.
The show airs between Saturday and Sunday (8/21-22) depending on location. It will concern same sex issues and the church. I believe some mention of the new film I Do Exist is planned.

To find a station near you go to: http://www.coralridgehour.org/ and look on the left hand column to see the heading "Find a Local Listing." Enter your state and town in the search slots and the website will display where and when you can watch the show.

***Also, check out the "I Had An Abortion" column on Townhall.com - http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/Throckmorton20040815.shtml

Concerning the October 10-11 showing of I Do Exist. Response has been tremendous! Fifteen locations are confirmed and more are considering a showing that weekend or later that week. If you are interested in getting involved in this effort to raise awareness of the potential for change, please email me soon.

Warren Throckmorton, PhD

http://www.drthrockmorton.com/

http://www.idoexist.net/

First gay Christmas TV special planned

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A cable programming service aimed at gays and lesbians is reportedly developing what it says will be the first gay-themed family holiday special.

Sexual identity difficult to keep straight

www.azcentral.com/ent/tv/articles/0702sexid.html

Matthew Gilbert
Boston Globe
Jul. 1, 2004 03:40 PM

Claire Fisher is straight - or is she? As season four of "Six Feet Under" unfolds, the show's caustic art student is fanning her fires for a slamming lesbian poet named Edie. Meanwhile, Claire's terminally bummed ex-boyfriend, Russell, is chasing after her, despite his gay tryst with their bombastic professor, Olivier. and by the way, Olivier is now having a full-on hetero affair with the HBO show's mother from Freudian hell, Margaret Chenowith.

Talk about switch-hitting. These days, it's getting harder to hang sexual-orientation labels on TV characters, particularly in the backroads of cable. Writers on "Queer as Folk," "The L Word," and "Nip/Tuck" have been boldly creating men and women who fall somewhere between the extremes of the Kinsey scale - exclusively homosexual and exclusively heterosexual. They're pushing their series and their viewers beyond the more familiar black-and-white portrayals, the either/or sexual construct. Think of the unique Arthur, also on "Six Feet Under," who behaves more like an elderly auntie than a young man. The show has been amusingly noncommital about his sexual identity, leaving the Fishers and the viewers to wonder whether the funeral assistant is straight, gay, or simply "A" - as in asexual.

This blurring of the lines of sexual orientation is a step beyond "Gay TV," the trend that has ridden a few waves of buzz in the past decade, first with the "Ellen" coming-out episode in 1997 and again recently with "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." The sexually indefinite characters aren't closeted gay men and lesbians, running from their true selves, struggling to accept the inevitable. They're more curious-seeking than that, and less tortured. They're "Questioning," as a number of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender organizations have put it. Yep, TV is beginning to include the LGBT and Q community in its electronic embrace.

Oprah Over The Edge

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By Cliff Kincaid | June 25, 2004
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We were skeptical when we received an email message from a group called Mission America saying that the Oprah Winfrey show on May 12 had aired a show on men wanting to be women, and vice versa, through sex-change operations. But the message wasn't just about men and women. It was about boys and girls.

The transgendered is the latest dangerous fad associated with the gay rights movement. But boys wanting to be girls? Certainly Oprah would not go down that road, would she? Unfortunately, we went to Oprah's website and found a program titled, "The 11-year-old Who Wants A Sex Change." The teaser for the show declared, "Meet children who say they were born in the wrong body. One is only 11 years old—and wants a sex change." Then we found another show, "The Husband Who Became a Woman." It said, "For 40 years, Jenny Finney Boylan was known to everyone as James. James was a husband and a father, a popular professor and a successful novelist. But James was hiding a shocking secret—he knew he was a woman inside a man's body."

Oprah's website also directed people to nodumbquestions.com, advertising a film scheduled to air on HBO/Cinemax this summer. "Uncle Bill is becoming a woman!," says the site. "This lighthearted and poignant documentary profiles three sisters, ages 6, 9 and 11, struggling to understand why and how their Uncle Bill is becoming a woman. These girls love their Uncle Bill, but will they feel the same way when he becomes their new Aunt Barbara?" It is recommended that the film be used as a "resource" for sex education in the K-12 grades.

The Mission America article by David Kyle Foster noted that the Oprah show he saw amounted to an infomercial for sex-change operations. He said, "As with the rest of the media elite, what you often witness these days is a carefully crafted infomercial for themselves and their pet doctrines. For example, you will not see a show devoted to those who have come out of the gay lifestyle. Nor, it seems, will you see one with people who have emerged from the hell of transsexualism. Oprah has decided that it is okay now, even it seems, for the youngest of children."

Don't expect edgy fare on gay channel

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By Kevin D. Thompson, Palm Beach Post Television Writer
Sunday, May 30, 2004

The Gay Channel.

OK, so that's not what MTV is calling its new cable channel aimed at gay and lesbian viewers.

For the record, the new channel will be called Logo and is scheduled for a February launch. MTV promises the channel will be "honest, smart and above all, entertaining."

Don't all programmers make the same claim?

Anyway, if you're expecting such edgy fare as The L Word or Queer as Folk to appear on Logo, you'll be disappointed. MTV plans to follow a basic cable format while leaving the more explicit gay-themed programs to Showtime.

Considering MTV was behind Janet Jackson's "Boobgate" performance at the Super Bowl, MTV's intended conservative plan of action is somewhat surprising.

Look for the old bait-and-switch down the road if Logo is successful. Remember when FX was a harmless basic cable outfit home to lame reruns? Now it's airing TV's most violent cop show in The Shield as well as an unapologetically graphic and sexually explicit drama about two South Beach plastic surgeons in Nip/Tuck.

'Seriously, Dude,' It's Cancelled

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(Friday, May 28 08:59 AM)
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - FOX has yanked a one-off reality special in which two straight men would try to convince friends and family that they're gay.
"Seriously, Dude, I'm Gay" was scheduled to air Monday, June 7. It would have shown two "guy's guys" moving into lofts in West Hollywood, where each would get a crash course on gay culture from three homosexual roommates. The guy who did the most convincing job -- as judged by a panel of "gay men from all walks of life" -- would get $50,000.

The network decided earlier this week to pull the show after sending a screener copy to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and hearing of the organization's concerns. GLAAD officials asked for a meeting with FOX executives, but before that meeting could take place, the network decided to scrap the two-hour special.

Fox Cancels Gay-Themed Reality Show Amid Criticism

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Thu May 27, 9:39 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fox television said on Thursday it has canceled plans to air a two-hour special titled "Seriously, Dude, I'm Gay," in which two straight men compete for $50,000 by trying to pass themselves off as homosexuals.

A network spokeswoman said the reality show, which had been slated to air June 7, was pulled off the schedule "for creative reasons" after Fox executives previewed the program.

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (news - web sites) issued a statement commending Fox for shelving the special, which the civil rights group branded "an exercise in systematic humiliation."

"Fox deserves a lot of credit for doing the right thing here," GLAAD executive director Joan Garry said. "They offered us an advance copy of the show and were incredibly responsive to our grave concerns."
She said Fox also had agreed to meet with GLAAD officials to discuss the special, but the session was called off once the show was dumped.

According to GLAAD media director Stephen Macias, who viewed a copy of the special, the contestants referred to their experience as "their worst nightmare" and complained of being "trapped in gay hell."

Gay teen's prom date legal challenge becomes CTV movie, airing June 1

JOHN MCKAY

TORONTO (CP) - They called him Cinderfella. All gay teen Marc Hall wanted was to take his boyfriend to the high school prom.

But when his Oshawa, Ont., Catholic school said no, Hall became a national cause celebre in 2002, albeit a reluctant one. The dispute exploded first in the media and then into a major legal confrontation between the 135-year-old Canadian Constitution - that guarantees the separate school system autonomy - and the new Charter of Rights and Freedoms that defends sexual orientation from discrimination.

Hall's ambivalence over being thrust into the media spotlight is portrayed in Prom Queen, a CTV movie of the week airing next Tuesday night.

B.C. actor Aaron Ashmore (Treed Murray), who plays Hall replete with his then-trendy blue hair rinse, expects some controversy after the telecast, especially from the Catholic Church, and he thinks that's exciting.

"I think it's a fair portrayal of where the Church stands and how they conduct their business, so I don't think they can be too angry," Ashmore says.

Hall, meanwhile, is equally excited but anticipating little if any negative backlash over the still-sensitive issue. He says he has since moved out of his parents' home and so doubts he will face any hate mail or calls, even though the film itself clearly takes his side.

But he notes that in real life it isn't over, that the court injunction he won allowing him to bring his male date to the school dance, hasn't yet set a legal precedent.

"So hopefully it won't happen to anybody else, the court's gonna be in October."

And he believes the Church is far from ready to give up the fight.

"Their lawyers are getting prepared for the trial, we're getting prepared for the trial. I think if I win, that they would appeal it."

Prom Queen is a curious hybrid, using Hall's real name and those of his Acadian-born parents, but declaring it's only "inspired" by real events. Other characters are fictionalized, Monsignor John Pereyma School becomes St. Jude Catholic School and even the community is changed from Oshawa to the equally blue-collar but made-up town of Inniston.

Court TV: Liberty Counsel vs. ACLU on Gay Marriage

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Gay Marriage
An online debate between the Liberty Counsel's Matthew Staver and the ACLU's Tamara Lange
May 25, 2004



Court TV Host: We're beginning our simultaneous Webcast of and online debate about the arguments before the California State Supreme Court about the power of officials to recognize gay marriage. The California state Supreme Court is hearing arguments on whether the mayor of San Francisco was within the law when he okayed thousands of same-sex marriages. Take up the same issues as the court, at the same time as you watch the arguments. Our guests are Tamara Lange, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, which has supported San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom in his effort to recognize gay marriages; and Matthew Staver, president and general counsel of the Liberty Counsel, one of the organizations which went to court to prevent the mayor from carrying out gay marriages.

Court TV Host: Welcome to you both. Thanks for being our guests today.

Tamara Lange: My pleasure. Justice Werdeger is asking about void vs. invalid because the laws only talk about void or voidable marriages. They don't describe "invalid" marriages.

Mat Staver: This question goes to the heart of the case. If the Mayor has no authority to issue these licenses, then they are void ab initio.

Tamara Lange: The justice is asking whether the court can invalidate a couple's marriage without giving them an opportunity to express their views to the court.

Mat Staver: The question would be similar to a situation in which a mayor issued a pilot's license. Having no authority to issue such a license, then the licensee should be void even if the applicant has not opportunity to speak at this hearing.

'TV Revolution'

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040520/review_nm/review_television_revolution_dc_1

Thu May 20, 5:56 PM ET

By Barry Garron

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Attitudes and opinions change, both in the real world and on TV. It seems to occur slowly, but looking back only 10 or 20 years can show how much has happened in what is, historically speaking, a small amount of time.

"TV Revolution" examines the way five issues or social movements have been reflected on the small screen. It's a reasonably comprehensive compendium of clips, though it provides too little explanation of the machinery through which content is filtered.

There's also evidence here that belies the title of the show. In most cases, according to the various illustrations, TV was at best a mirror of society. More often than not, it lagged popular sentiment, catering instead to the sensitivities of the most reactionary groups of viewers for fear of giving offense. That being the case, this is more of a "TV Evolution" than a "TV Revolution."

Q Television Announces Sneak Preview Broadcast

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040514005156&newsLang=en

May 14, 2004 08:00 AM US Eastern Timezone

Q Television Network Announces Additional Details of Five-Hour Sneak Preview Broadcast Scheduled for Saturday May 15th

PALM SPRINGS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2004--Q Television Network (OTCPK: QBID), the nation's premiere 24/7 gay and lesbian television network, today announced that in addition to the previous announced test of its signal by satellite, that it has reached agreement for the test to be telecast in New Orleans on Cox Channel 10. The signal will be available in over a quarter million homes in the 4 major parishes.

In addition Q Television Network announced that it reached further agreement for carriage of this sample sneak preview on KHCV-TV, carried on the Comcast Cable system channel 15, throughout Western Washington, including Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia and Everett up to the Canadian border, with a reach of 1.6 million households.

Fox Takes Gay-Themed Reality Show One Step Further

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040514/tv_nm/leisure_gay_dc_1

Thu May 13, 9:30 PM ET

By Steve Gorman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two straight men will do their best to pass themselves off as gay as they compete for $50,000 in an upcoming Fox television special, "Seriously, Dude, I'm Gay," the network said on Thursday.

The two-hour show, set to air June 7, marks the latest in the burgeoning TV sub-genre of gay-themed reality shows, such as "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" and the previous Fox offering "Playing It Straight."

"Queer Eye," in which five gay men teach a heterosexual slob how to dress, dine and design, caught on quickly with gay and straight audiences alike, first on the Bravo cable channel and then on its sister broadcast network NBC.

But "Seriously, Dude, I'm Gay" has raised the eyebrows of at least one gay activist group, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (news - web sites), which questioned the show's premise as potentially offensive and the "inflammatory" tone of the original press release announcing it.

"Without having seen the show yet, it ra

For 'Indecency' Watchdogs, Work Is a Day Full of TV

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Across the Potomac from Capitol Hill, on the second floor of a red brick-and-glass building, Caroline Eichenberg toils away in her homey cubicle, watching television. Monday through Friday, 7 1/2 hours a day, she keeps tabs on dramas, sitcoms and reality shows.

CTV to Celebrate Anti-Catholic Gay-Activist Episode in Toronto with Mini-Series

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/may/04050507.html

TORONTO, May 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - CTV is set to launch a new mini-series based on the life of homosexual teen Marc Hall, the teenager who, in 2002, had a court force his Catholic school to permit him to bring his homosexual boyfriend to the school prom over the faith-based objections of the school. The series, titled Prom Queen, begins broadcasting June 1.

The mini-series is part of CTV's Signature Series -- dramatizations dealing with "social issues of national importance," according to a CTV story. Prom Queen is the 12th in the series, with more planned, including one titled Choice: The Henry Morgentaler Story.

"I don't know why anyone would watch it, the news coverage in 2002 already resembled a comedic production," Michael Connell, Communications Director of the Catholic Civil Rights League told LifeSiteNews.com. "Of course the story was lacking a real-life hate-filled religious bigot, but I'm sure the writers have written one in. Given CTV's track record of anti-Catholic stereotypes in its comedy programming, including recent offerings of the show Comedy Inc. and most notoriously the anti-Catholic stunts of the now cancelled Mike Bullard Show, we can expect that all the 'humour' will be at the expense of Catholics," he added.

Bill O’Reilly in the Spin Zone-Dr. Throckmorton

http://www.drthrockmorton.com/article.asp?id=69

Bill O’Reilly, host of the O’Reilly Factor show on Fox Network, describes his show as the “no spin zone.” Guests on the show don’t get much slack to slant their cause or issue in the most favorable light. Most of the time, Mr. O’Reilly confronts them in mid sentence. However, way back in February, Mr. O’Reilly had Kevin Jennings of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Educators Network (GLSEN) on his show. Mr. Jennings was touting his organization’s high school curriculum on gay marriage. Not only did Mr. Jennings engage in spin, he did so under the watching eyes of the one who presides over the no-spin zone, Mr. O’Reilly himself.

Let’s set the stage: Here is a portion of Mr. Jennings description of the same sex marriage curriculum: “our curriculum is designed to give them (students) a fair and balanced set of resources concerning gay marriage, everything from position papers provided by the Catholic Church to position papers by the people who argue...” At this point, Mr. O’Reilly cut him off and asked: “So you give them both sides in this?” To which Mr. Jennings replied, “Absolutely.”

And that was pretty much Mr. O’Reilly’s challenge to Mr. Jennings. Mr. O’Reilly must not have read the curriculum because it does anything but give both sides. As I found out when read it, a reference to the official position of the Catholic Church is the only dissenting resource about same-sex marriage in the entire curriculum. In short, the curriculum is spin.

'Queer As Folk' Starts Fourth Season

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040428/ap_en_tv/ap_on_tv_queer_as_folk_1

Wed Apr 28, 5:50 PM ET

By LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer

LOS ANGELES - Producers Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman figure they have bragging rights when it comes to putting the "queer" into television.

Their Showtime drama "Queer As Folk" preceded "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" by three years. Unlike Bravo's G-rated makeover show, Cowen and Lipman also brought steamy, unabashed gay sexuality to TV.

They're unabashedly proud of the show's impact.

"Now people are used to seeing gay personas, gay characters," Lipman said. "I think 'Queer As Folk' had a little something to do with people perceiving gay people in a way they hadn't before, and with gay people perceiving themselves."

Showtime Aims to Broaden Appeal to Gays

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040428/tv_nm/leisure_showtime_dc_2

Wed Apr 28, 5:33 PM ET
By Bob Tourtellotte

In July last year, Showtime brought in Hollywood veteran Bob Greenblatt to expand original programming. As an independent executive producer, Greenblatt had supervised the development of shows like award-winning HBO hit, "Six Feet Under." ..."We've mined niche audiences over the last few years, and the new direction, which is not a wholesale change but is more of a broadening, is to knit those together," Greenblatt said.... Gay-themed "Queer as Folk," which debuted its fourth season earlier this month, broke new ground when it first aired. But in January when Showtime launched "The L Word" centering on lesbian characters, it found something new. Gay was no longer cutting edge, and "L Word" appealed to wider audiences.

Dr. Phil Weighs In on Sexual Orientation

http://www.truthcomesout.com/straight_talk_2.html

Warren Throckmorton, PhD

America’s newest diet counselor and author of the Ultimate Weight Solution has weighed in with his views of sexual orientation. What do the scales say? While Dr. Phil McGraw has pretty hefty advice on some matters, he’s definitely a lightweight on this one. Let’s get real and I’ll explain.
Dr. Phil’s website recently posted a question from a woman whose 22 year old daughter was involved in a lesbian relationship. The reader wondered if her daughter could have learned this behavior, thus allowing a possibility that her current lesbian relationship could be a phase. Dr. Phil’s reply: “Homosexuality is not a learned behavior. A sexual orientation is inherited; you are wired that way.” He acknowledges that people can experiment with behavior but if they are “really gay” then they will “find a place in that life and in that community.”

As one who spends time studying such matters, this advice puzzled me. Surely, Dr. Phil knows that the research concerning genetic factors in homosexuality is inconclusive. Has he never heard of LUGs (lesbians until graduation) that recently populate college campuses? If anything the research shows an environmental component must be involved in the development of homosexual orientation. To wit, a recent study of genetically identical twins in the Journal of Personality & Social Psychology found that the participants were quite dissimilar when it came to sexual orientation. Consider the study’s male identical twin pairs: if one twin was gay, then only 20% of the time was the other twin gay. Female twins were alike only 24% of the time. With 76 - 80% discordance rates, environment must play some, and I suspect, pretty significant role in creating the differences.

Cable's Bravo to Spin Off 'Queer Eye' for Women

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040407/tv_nm/television_queereye_dc_1

Wed Apr 7, 6:17 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The women of America will soon have their chance to be criticized, stylized and lionized by a team of fashionable gay men.

Cable television network Bravo on Wednesday said it will create a women's version of its smash hit series "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," in which a team of five gay men, the "Fab Five," show a heterosexual man how to dress, dine and design.

A Bravo spokesman said many of the details for "Queer Eye for the Straight Girl" were yet to be worked out, including how many men would star on the show and whether or not the format would be exactly the same as "Straight Guy."

'JAG' Episode Takes on HIV Discrimination

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040402/ap_on_en_tv/tv_jag_1

Thu Apr 1, 7:04 PM ET

LOS ANGELES - CBS' military drama "JAG" takes on a different battle — over HIV discrimination — in Friday's episode.

In "Hard Time," airing 9 p.m. EST, a Navy fleet training officer (guest star Gerard O'Donnell) is removed from duty after it's discovered that he carries the AIDS -causing virus.

Navy lawyer Harm Rabb, played by series star David James Elliott , fights to get the officer reinstated.

"We felt it was important to tackle the issue of HIV/AIDS-related discrimination. As this is a global epidemic, military personnel are not immune," said Donald P. Bellisario, creator and executive producer of "JAG."

‘Survivor’ Hatch testifies at gay-marriage hearing

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PROVIDENCE -- After listening for more than three and a half hours to earnest advocates on both sides of the gay marriage debate, the House Judiciary Committee heard from a Survivor.

Viacom revives gay-themed channel project

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NEW YORK (AFP) - US media giant Viacom is reviving plans to create a gay-themed cable network, two years after dropping the project, it was reported

'Whoopi' takes on gay marriage

http://www.freep.com/entertainment/tvandradio/duf23_20040323.htm

BY MIKE DUFFY

March 23, 2004

Whoopi Goldberg sure likes to go her own unfashionable way. All season on "Whoopi," Goldberg has enthusiastically tried to channel the 1970s topical spirit of such groundbreaking Norman Lear comedies as "All in the Family," "Maude" and "The Jeffersons." The results have been mixed and the ratings anemic.
But that hasn't stopped a charmingly ornery contrarian like Whoopi. Her good-natured zest for zingers about President George W. Bush, terrorism, ethnic stereotypes, New York's anti-smoking laws and all sorts of other prickly social issues is the most vital element of her show

Standards of indecency

MSNBC
03-23-04
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4573870/
Bill Maher and George Carlin represent two generations of free speech entrenchment in America. Maher’s biggest claim to fame is his provocative post-9/11 commentary, which proved too "Politically Incorrect" for ABC. The comic legend Carlin is perhaps best known for his FCC-baiting list of the "Seven Dirty Words You Can’t Say on Television."

FCC to Broadcasters: F-Word Out of Bounds

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040319/D81DEUFO0.html
03-19-04
For broadcasters seeking more guidance on what is indecent, federal regulators have some warning: Don't use the F-word.

Ben Affleck lambasts George Bush!

http://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=33942&cat=EntertainmentWashington | March 19, 2004 4:06:00 PM IST

Hollywood hunk Ben Affleck has blasted American President George W Bush's call to outlaw gay marriages. Thousands of same-sex couples, including TV personality Rosie O'Donnell and her longtime love Kelli Carpenter, have thronged to San Francisco, California, in recent weeks to walk down the aisle in contumacy of Bush's ban, reports Imdb.

Drivers Screen X-Rated Videos on the Road

DETROIT — Andrea Carlton hadn't planned on telling her daughter about the birds and bees until she was 8 or 9. But that changed the night 4-year-old Catherine spotted a porno movie flickering on a screen in a minivan nearby.

Porn Director, Church Make PSA for Kids

Just because he makes his living directing pornographic films doesn't mean James DiGiorgio wants children watching them. [Registration required]

Whoopi Goldberg brings same-sex debate to TV sitcom

Reuters, March 10, 2004
http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArticle.jsp;:404f420c:419c50de502e7edd?type=entertainmentNews&locale=en_IN&storyID=4533301

By Larry Fine
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Comedian Whoopi Goldberg thinks same-sex marriage is a laughing matter – and hopes her slant on it will further the national discussion on the subject.

Gay bar patrons have definite opinions of 'Queer Eye'

Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 9, 2004
425 Portland Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, 55408
(Fax: 612-673-4359 ) (E-Mail: opinion@startribune.com )
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http://www.startribune.com/stories/389/4644969.html
Delma J. Francis, Star Tribune
If it's 9 p.m. on a Tuesday, it's a sure bet the TV monitors at Boom, a popular gay bar in northeast Minneapolis, will be tuned in to "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy."

'West Wing' Takes Aim at Traditional Values Coalition

www.family.org
The Traditional Values Coalition is striking back.

On Wednesday, NBC's "The West Wing" took an obvious shot
at the pro-family group

The problem is, "The West Wing" not only labeled the
thinly veiled cover organization -- the "Traditional
Values Alliance" -- as "right-wing"; the politically
liberal program starring Martin Sheen wrongly linked it to
Fred Phelps, the Kansas pastor who claims -- as the TVC
does not -- that "the Lord hates homosexuals."

Acceptance of gays tied to pop culture

The Oregonian, March 6, 2004
1320 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, 97201
(Fax: 503-294-4193 ) (E-Mail: Letters@news.oregonian.com )
( http://www.oregonlive.com/ )
http://www.oregonlive.com/living/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/exclude/1078578604206570.xmlAlthough religion and family are the biggest influences, TV helps teens grasp the issues
Tracy Jan and Luciana Lopez
Five fabulous well-coifed gay men infiltrate a hapless straight man's apartment, redecorate his digs, revamp his wardrobe, and inject him with style, taste and class by the end of the hourlong show.

Anger over gay drama

The Australian, March 7, 2004
GPO Box 4162 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia
(Fax: +61-2-9288-2824) (E-Mail: ausletr@newscorp.com.au )
( http://www.theaustralian.com.au/ )
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,8888581%255E2902,00.html
By Carly Crawford
A lesbian drama to be shown on Australian television this month has provoked outrage for its sex scenes and what have been called "toxic" gay themes.
Family and religious groups have criticised Channel Seven's decision to air the American-made The L Word.

A gay reality

http://www.theage.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2004/03/03/1078295441920.html

March 6, 2004

Reality television has embraced gay characters, but to what end? James Norman investigates.

First it was the appearance of Richard Hatch on Survivor. Then Big Brother brought us Johnnie. Then The Block introduced us to Gavin and Warren. Suddenly, it was not just acceptable to have a gay character in a TV show, it was mandatory.

DISNEY/ABC PUSHES TELEVISION BOUNDARIES

http://www.headlines.agapepress.org/archive/3/32004d.asp

The Walt Disney Company continues to push the homosexual agenda through its ABC television network, as well as seeking new ways to promote immoral content in future endeavors.
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TV: Acceptance of gays is more real on TV than in politics

Salt Lake Tribune, February 27, 2004
P. O. Box 867, Salt Lake City, UT, 84110
(Fax: 801-257-8950) (E-Mail: letters@sltrib.com )
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http://www.sltrib.com/2004/feb/02272004/friday/142909.asp

Vince Horiuchi, Salt Lake Tribune Columnist
Television executives are notorious for their play-it-safe programming decisions. But leave it to politicians to have more backward thinking than the Hollywood bean counters who decide what we see on TV.

Rosie O'Donnell Weds Longtime Girlfriend

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/TV/Rosie_ODonnell_Wedding.html

By LISA LEFF
Associated Press Writer

SAN FRANCISCO — Rosie O'Donnell married her longtime girlfriend Thursday, taking what she called a proud stand for gay civil rights in the city where more than 3,300 other same-sex couples have tied the knot since Feb. 12.

Straight talk from Allen on 'Queer Eye' CD

Chicago Sun-Times, February 10, 2004
http://www.suntimes.com/output/derogatis/cst-ftr-queer10.html
Straight talk from Allen on 'Queer Eye' CD
By Jim Derogatis, Pop Music Critic
Though "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy Soundtrack: What's That Sound" features two (unremarkable) contributions from Chicago artists signed to Capitol Records - Liz Phair and OK-Go - the cast's hometown hero, Ted Allen, admits that he had little to do with the disc.

Viewers turn a queer eye on reality

Sydney Morning Herald, February 4, 2004
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/03/1075776062148.html
Viewers turn a queer eye on reality
By David Dale
Australia went gay on Monday night, if you judge by the television audience figures. The official ratings season doesn't start until next Sunday, but channels Nine and Ten launched early this week, trying to catch
Seven off guard.

'L Word' is good word for series' local star

Philadelphia Inquirer, February 3, 2004
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/7859765.htm
'L Word' is good word for series' local star
By Gail Shister, Inquirer Columnist
The L Word's resident heartthrob grew up terrorizing Rittenhouse Square on her tricycle.
Katherine Moennig and her pals gleefully caused havoc as they sped around the park on their noisy Big Wheels. They called themselves the Big Wheels Harley gang.