The Newlywed Game goes gay...how fabulous is it?

[Jettboy]

Me? I think it’s fan-fucking-tastic; but then I’ve never had any sort of problem with the light-in-the-loafers crowd having the same right to matrimonial misery that everyone else has. I’ve always been a friend to the queer community; Mom used to manage a girls gay bar in Fort Worth, Texas, and a close male relative (can’t say how close as he’s still semi-closeted due to employment…but he’s very, very, very close…as is his fella’), and I think that a broadcast of a TV staple such as The Newlywed Game might go a long way towards mainstream America viewing the gay community as “…well, they’re just like us!”
http://my.att.net/s/editorial.dll?pnum=1&bfromind=7404&eeid=6817313&_sitecat=1479&dcatid=0&eetype=article&render=y&ac=1&ck=&ch=en&rg=blsadstrgt&_lid=332&_lnm=tg+en+topnews&ck=&l=hm

Others may differ. Is this a good idea? Why? Why not?

[dropzone]

And it’s George Takei and his young gentleman. What fun!

[Chronos]

It won’t make an avalanche of difference by itself, but every pebble counts. This, and things like it, are what’s going to eventually turn the tide of public opinion.

[Punoqllads]

“That’d be in the butt, Bob.”

[elucidator]

I think its great, an advancement for freedom and equality, which I applaud, without reservation.

Anybody who tries to make me watch it must be heavily armed and willing to die.

[The_Second_Stone]

@elucidator

I think its great, an advancement for freedom and equality, which I applaud, without reservation.

Anybody who tries to make me watch it must be heavily armed and willing to die.

Watch the game show, not their mating habits. The game show would be hilarious.

[Hilarity_N.Suze]

So much for the theory that gay people, in general, have better taste than straight people, in general.

Actually I guess no one ever accused lesbians of having better taste.

[Bijou_Drains]

Didn’t know the show was still around.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090917/ap_on_en_tv/us_tv_newlywed_gay_couple

I think they picked a famous gay couple to get more publicity.

[moderator note: I merged this into a pre-existing thread that had started in Great Debates and then moved here. {signed} twickster]

[tomndebb]

This seems more of a discussion of a show than a debate on any issue.

Off to Cafe Society with ya.

[twickster]

From the link:

Dan Gainor, a vice president at the conservative Culture and Media Institute, said the move was a publicity stunt for a show most Americans didn’t realize was still on the air. Despite Wilson’s views, Gainor said he believed it was a political statement for the California-based show and network, coming in a state where voters banned same-sex nuptials months after Takei and Altman married.

“They’re trying to use TV and the movies to set the gay agenda and make it mainstream,” Gainor said.

Good for them.

And good for George and Brad for doing it:

Even though they’ve been a committed couple for 22 years, Takei said he and Altman are quietly preparing for their appearance. He’s taking careful note of what his partner orders in restaurants and wears.

“To be included in something we never felt we’d be included in is very satisfying,” he said.

Awww!

[Icerigger]

I wonder what a “Grand Prize selected especially just for them” would be for a gay couple?

[rock_party]

@Icerigger

I wonder what a “Grand Prize selected especially just for them” would be for a gay couple?

Lazy boy’s new portable sling and the boxed Liza set!

[muldoonthief]

Of course, now they’ll be forced to decide publicly which one is the husband and which one is the wife.

[Sigmagirl]

That’s true! “We’ve sent the wives offstage – oh, you too, Brad --”

[Bijou_Drains]

Set phasers on stunning!

[Kamino_Neko]

@Sigmagirl

That’s true! “We’ve sent the wives offstage – oh, you too, Brad --”

Nah…George strikes me as the wifely type.

[Chronos]

Of course, now they’ll be forced to decide publicly which one is the husband and which one is the wife.

Star Trek has an answer for that, too, though from Next Gen. On meeting a member of an androgynous race that shuns the notion of gender, Riker asks “When you dance, how do you decide who leads?” “Whoever’s taller.”. From the pictures, it looks like George is shorter, so he’ll be the “wife”.

“They’re trying to use TV and the movies to set the gay agenda and make it mainstream,” Gainor said.

Gays are what, about five percent of the population? And they’ve had how many contestants over the years? If they were really trying to push the “gay agenda”, I’d expect that at least one couple in 20 on the show would be gay. Nobody even acknowledges that there is a “straight agenda”, much less claims that the show is trying to promote it, despite the fact that straights are vastly overrepresented on it.

[xnylder]

I always find it heartening to see reality shows that acknowledge that a gay couple is just, you know, a couple. For example, an episode of “Till Debt Do Us Part” featured a pair of gentlemen who were overspending on electronics and gym memberships… We have seen how the other half lives, and it’s much like this half, only better decorated.

[Biggirl]

@xnylder

I always find it heartening to see reality shows that acknowledge that a gay couple is just, you know, a couple. For example, an episode of “Till Debt Do Us Part” featured a pair of gentlemen who were overspending on electronics and gym memberships… We have seen how the other half lives, and it’s much like this half, only better decorated.

Then you’d love Home and Garden Network. If your only exposure to the US was just that cable channel, you would swear there were nothing but gay and interracial couples living here.