# QueerEye backlash **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 13, 2003, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queereye-backlash/201341 "2003-09-13T04:25:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queereye-backlash/201341/1 "2003-09-13T04:25:29Z")
[http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2003/09/10/1](http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2003/09/10/1) ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queereye-backlash/201341/2 "2003-09-13T04:27:09Z")
I forgot my post. > [@](#): > > Julie Millam, director of the coalition, said the group will direct its protest to companies that advertise on the highly rated show, which she called “outrageous.” > > “To me, that’s not a reality show about gay people,” Millam told the Billings Gazette. “A really good reality show for gay people would be five gay men dying of AIDS.” I sort of expected a backlash, but more importantly from people who thought the show plays overmuch to stereotypes. But these people take the cake. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queereye-backlash/201341/3 "2003-09-13T04:32:33Z")
> [@](#): > > “We don’t want to see (gay content) on every single TV show,” she said. “I’m hearing from people left and right, that every time they turn on the TV it’s something to do with gay people. It’s not reality.” Yeah, cause every fucking show on TV is just filled with gay content. Morons. If they don’t want to see the gay content, then they don’t have to fucking watch. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queereye-backlash/201341/4 "2003-09-13T04:42:49Z")
It’s just one stupid stereotype to another. I think the show’s stupid, and I think the comment you quoted is even stupider. ---
**Author:** ![JustPlainBryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/57b2e6/32.png) [@JustPlainBryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustPlainBryan)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queereye-backlash/201341/5 "2003-09-13T04:55:37Z")
Yay! People like this are losing the culture war! Haw Haw Haw! I have no fear of these intolerant bigots anymore. I tend to see them as freaks now, to be laughed and mocked at. They’ll be dead in a few decades anyways. All that will be left is the culture of tolerence that is currently being nurtured all around us. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queereye-backlash/201341/6 "2003-09-13T05:37:00Z")
> [@](#): > > “A really good reality show for gay people would be five gay men dying of AIDS.” Gosh, that doesn’t _sound_ like a good show for gay people . . . . But by this logic, a really good reality show for this group would be _How To Stuff Your Head Up Your Own Ass_. Hey, I’d watch it. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queereye-backlash/201341/7 "2003-09-13T06:05:37Z")
Singing to the choir, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![superstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@superstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superstar)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queereye-backlash/201341/8 "2003-09-13T06:26:18Z")
“not reality”… what are Gay people if not real? Androids? Cartoons? Wax models? We don’t have the show here in Oz, but I’ve seen it advertised. How can Gay people not be reality? I won’t be so bold as to estimate the number of Gay men in the world, but I’m going to assume it’s alot. What corner of the world are these people living in if they think 5 gay men do not constitute reality? ---
**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queereye-backlash/201341/9 "2003-09-13T10:30:14Z")
Please. _Queer Eye_ is just like all the other reality/makeover/remodeling shows all over TV…it’s just more entertaining because they have a lot more taste, money, and humor than _Trading Spaces_ and that lot. I don’t have cable at home, but we have it at work, and my boss knows that when _Queer Eye_ is on, the channel will NOT be changed. And these freaks protesting the show are just going to give it even higher ratings. Isn’t that always how it works? Oh, and as far as Ms. Millam’s idea of a “really good show for gay people,” how the fuck would she know? 😃 And since when are the citizens of Montana being forced to watch TV? [sub]There’s this groovy little button on your remote…it turns the whole box off, I swear…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Thylacine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thylacine/32/1143_2.png) [@Thylacine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thylacine)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queereye-backlash/201341/10 "2003-09-13T10:50:18Z")
**Superstar** , I have very bad news! They are planning a version here which may include _The Boys_ from [_The Block._](http://ninemsn.com/theblock) \ For those not here _The Block_ was a reality show in which four couples were each assigned one flat from a block of four to renovate, furnish and sell in 12 weeks within a budget. One couple were gay and they became known for painting in their underwear and racing off to meet their stress therapist or heading to an oxygen bar. They called themselves _The Boys_ and have started a design business under that name. The network involved tried to beat up a controversy (and ratings) around them but only 2 conservative radio guys took the bait, the rest of us yawned over the non issue as we have over queers on telly for eons, my guess is we will be no different over Queer Eye. \ When will this reality TV fad go away? I want good scripts, great actors, fantastic camerawork and sensitive direction if I am going to sit through all those damned ads, not somebody sanding their floorboards or snogging in a hot tub. ---
**Author:** ![pencilpusher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d6d6ee/32.png) [@pencilpusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pencilpusher)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queereye-backlash/201341/11 "2003-09-13T10:53:04Z")
What pisses me off about this bitch is that apperently she thinks that AIDS is a “gay thing” when it’s NOT. I know three straight women that have it. As far as everything on TV being gay. Well… I say better gay than stupid and I can think of a LOT of really stupid shows that have nothing to do with being gay!! ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queereye-backlash/201341/12 "2003-09-13T12:36:18Z")
There was already a thread about these losers, but my reply is basically that they are a splinter group of Bible-waving morons using the fame of the show to get attention for themselves they they would never be able to achieve on their own. What saddens me is that any responsible media would give these troglodytes any publicity at all. Like the giant ads in a Treehouse of Horror episode, these bigoted fools will disappear if we don’t pay any attention to them. ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queereye-backlash/201341/13 "2003-09-13T14:28:00Z")
\*"To stop those monsters 1-2-3 Here’s a fresh new way that’s trouble free It’s got Paul Anka’s guarantee… (Guarantee void in Tennessee!) Just don’t look! Just don’t look! Just don’t look! Just don’t look!"\* ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queereye-backlash/201341/14 "2003-09-13T15:36:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chandeleur \* > \*\*\*"To stop those monsters 1-2-3 > Here’s a fresh new way that’s trouble free > It’s got Paul Anka’s guarantee… > (Guarantee void in Tennessee!) > > Just don’t look! > Just don’t look! > Just don’t look! > Just don’t look!"\* \*\* Crap. Now I’ll have to figure put which cartoon that came from, I want to say Animaniacs, but that doesn’t seem quite right. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queereye-backlash/201341/15 "2003-09-13T15:54:11Z")
The Simpsons. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queereye-backlash/201341/16 "2003-09-13T16:03:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by superstar \* > \*\*“not reality”… what are Gay people if not real? Androids? Cartoons? Wax models? > > We don’t have the show here in Oz, but I’ve seen it advertised. How can Gay people not be reality? I won’t be so bold as to estimate the number of Gay men in the world, but I’m going to assume it’s alot. What corner of the world are these people living in if they think 5 gay men do not constitute reality? \*\* In this show, 5 gay sweep into some poor man’s life to set him up for some kind of special occassion. They take him shopping, give him a make-over and tips on ‘things to do’, tell him how to cook one really nice dish, and (here’s the kicker) redecorate his house. Occasionally, they flame. We love the show. But, if this is reality, it’s only in New York. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queereye-backlash/201341/17 "2003-09-13T16:54:32Z")
The people quoted in the OP are obviously bigoted morons, and it’s good to see that they’re losing the culture war. I should add, however, that one does not have to be a fundamentalist homophobe to see the “Queer Eye” TV show as a steaming pile of dog crap. It is no better and no worse, in my opinion, than all the other steaming pile of dog crap “reality” shows currently taking up space on our airwaves. It is also beginning to follow the annoying habit of other reality shows, whereby the “stars” actually branch out beyond their own show and take to annoying us on other shows and in other locations as well. I don’t believe in segregation by race, ethnic group, sex, or sexual orientation. But i do firmly believe that we should construct a ghetto–on the “Escape from New York” model–for anyone who’s ever been on a reality TV show. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queereye-backlash/201341/18 "2003-09-13T18:49:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by fluiddruid \* > \*\*The Simpsons. \*\* Thanx ---
**Author:** ![Laurie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Laurie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laurie)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queereye-backlash/201341/19 "2003-09-13T19:23:45Z")
Yes…hrmph…yes… Well…let’s spend MORE money pretending that AIDS just happened with the sexual proclivites of heterosexuals. That homosexuals were the innocent bystanders of the god-awful practices of heterosexuals. That AIDS only happened from …mmmmm…sex…mmm…sex anywhere at anytime in any century under any conditions…but just sort of happened in the lives of heterosexuals NOW…no…we don’t know why…it just happened and then got passed on to gays (through bisexual conduct, of course - those damn men who fuck women too…) and now AIDS has scourged us all. Damn women. Bisexual women. Women will be the death of us all. No…no …really. Women with AIDS had sex with bisexual men. Meanwhile…they were passing on AIDS to babies. Then these poor, unsuspecting FOOLS had sex with men and gave them AIDS… and babies died, because of women. Women with AIDS gave their blood and tainted the supply. Women drug users with AIDS shared their needles and passed on AIDS. Of course, this whole AIDS things has nothing whatever to do with homosexuals. They are only the scapegoats. If you would just damn well leave homosexuals ALONE and let them MARRY one another like most of them want to do - then you will see that sexual problems arise out of heterosexuality and not homosexuality. Let us not be so damn judgmental. Hate the AIDS and the billions it has cost this society and the world… Love the carrier… After all… Choice of behavior has many reasons - and we must never JUDGE that. ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queereye-backlash/201341/20 "2003-09-13T19:27:10Z")
OMG, **Laurie** , are you for real? :eek: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queereye-backlash/201341.md?page=2)