The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation just released their third annual ?Network Responsibility Index?, as if the networks had a responsibility to any one special interest group. It?s rather telling that HBO led the list and were rated as ?good? because there was a 42% representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people on the network, while CBS came in last and got a ?failing? grade with only 5% of their characters being openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (and they only got that because of a couple of smoes on SURVIVOR and THE AMAZING RACE).
NBC also got a failing grade with 8% ?LGBT? representation last season, but they plan to bump things up a notch with some hot lesbian action being added to HEROES later this year. A senior spokeslesbiangaybisexualtransgender said ?We hope that CBS and NBC will be able to better reflect the American scenes on their shows?.
Granted, CBS?s 5% is pretty bad, but CBS has pretty much sucked at everything they?ve ever tried to do and I?m a stock holder so I can say that. What I don?t get is why HBO is only rated as ?good? with 42% representation? I?m told only 10% of America is LGBT, so I?d say 42% is a little more than ?good?. In fact, it?s going overboard. It?s gayer than Lifetime for the love of God and all that?s holy.
I say CBS blows the doors off GLAAD next season with a couple of little tweeks:
Doogie Howser is already gaying up HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, but what if John Cryer finally came out of the closet on TWO AND A HALF MEN?
Would it be that big of a leap for David Caruso to spoon with a fella or two once a week on whichever CSI he?s on?
NUMB3RS, a show about a cop that is really, really good at math is already a pretty gay show, not a whole lot left to do there; but THE MENTALIST is real dreamy, very clean and doesn?t have a girlfriend. You don?t have to be able to read Rip Taylor?s mind to see where this is going. And who hasn?t thought a little girl or girl action would be just the thing for MEDIUM? ?I sleep with dead people?. Does GLAAD cover necrophilia or do they have their own paramilitary terror-lobbyist?
Come on CBS. This is 2009. Leaving a few unasked questions about Jessica?s long time companion on MURDER SHE WROTE isn?t enough. Either one of the NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE involves D-rings, a flannel shirt and tickets to a kd Lang show, or we?re talking boycott.
Hmmm...I think the word you were looking for to describe Numb3rs is inane. And while inane and gay do often go together (I've been to my share of vapid gay pride parades, not to mention those late 80s/early 90s lesbian-made films...argh), in this case, the show is just inane. (I tried for a while to approach every challenge in my life by saying, "I can write an algorithim for that!" but my own inanity was too much to bear.)
ReplyDeletePS--David Caruso falls in that category of people who, when they come out, gays try to send back. That's really what happened to Anne Heche, y'know--aliens, my hiney.