It’s Gonna Be Huge
All in the interest of keeping our finger on the Zeitgeist as it evolves in ways that those over, say, fifty may not have foreseen: there’s a new gay reality dating show called For the Love of DILFs …
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A 180 Year Old Woman Stole My Heart
By Janet Lea
This is embarrassing. I have fallen in love with a woman who died nearly 200 years ago.
I blame my newfound love on the new and enthralling period drama Gentleman Jack. The eight-episode prime time series is adapted from the diaries of Anne Lister, a charismatic female force of nature.
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Are You the One: Come One Come Most — What is Missing in MTV’s Sexually Fluid Reality Show
By Lilian McCarthy
MTV recently decided to morph its Are You the One? franchise into a “sexually fluid” experiment. In the new season of the show, coined Come One Come All, sixteen people live in a mansion together …
Rent for the Millions
Fox’s cable TV production of the musical, Rent, titled Rent Live, had a major surprise. Because Bennin Hunt, who played main character Roger, had broken his foot during the dress rehearsal the night before, Fox chose to broadcast the footage from that rehearsal, switching to Sunday night’s performance for the last fifteen minutes.
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Bert ♥ Ernie
Was there ever any doubt about the nature of Bert and Ernie’s relationship on Sesame Street? If so, it was pretty well dispelled when a former writer for the…More
Modern Family and the Tyranny of Straight Coupledom
THE POPULAR TV SERIES Modern Family, which debuted on ABC in 2009, is a comedy presented in mockumentary style in which the characters often talk directly into the camera to interject their…More
Jack Out of the Box
When former Will & Grace costar Sean Hayes came out as gay last fall, it wasn’t exactly earthshattering news; most people had assumed as much. However, Hayes had been…More
OH YES HE IS!
THE LATEST éclat in the annals of pop cultural fireworks has come and gone: a TLC reality show called My Husband’s Not Gay that focused on four Mormon men who…More