Joe Biden: Gay stereotypes made America more pro-gay
You’re not helping, Mr. Vice President: “I think ‘Will and Grace’ probably did more to educate the American public than almost anything anybody’s ever done so far.” Stereotypes seem to [...]
Category Archives: stereotypes
GLAAD’s Offend-O-Meter out of whack
A couple of years ago Ron Howard’s movie “The Dilemma” attracted the wrath of GLAAD for using the word “gay” in a joke, charging that it would lead to bullying. [...]
The island of misfit gays
Finally, my decade-long movement to free my fellow gays from the harsh confines of the stereotypical closet has attracted some lackeys. Okay, so it wasn’t exactly a movement, just a [...]
A hipster stereotype fulfilled
The school marm look is all the rage among male hipsters who’ve adopted the “man bun”: Alexander Kellum, 31, a fine-arts painter and yoga teacher who lives in Williamsburg, bends forward and [...]
The most tasteless promotion ever
I’ve long complained about gays embracing cultural stereotypes but I never thought it would come to this.
Shooting begins Tuesday on what might be the worst movie ever made
Written by Tyler Perry. Directed by Tyler Perry. Title: “The Marriage Counselor,” about a marriage counselor., Filming in Atlanta, always a bad sign. Co-starring Kim Kardashian as “a co-worker who [...]
Good/bad news in racial stereotyping
The good: George Lopez’s talk show was canceled Wednesday. The bad: Tyler Perry is starting his own network. The partners will initially stock the channel with reruns of Mr. Perry’s [...]
The father, the son and Tyler Perry
Caricature has been very good to Tyler Perry, who says the only critics that matter are “the million and four people that have left messages on my message board saying [...]
Drag queens, male models and plastic surgeons
So I caught a bit of the “AbFab” marathon on the gay cable channel, proving I’m not a fundamentalist contrarian. There’s nothing else worth watching on LOGO, a clearinghouse for [...]
Sometimes, it gets worse
There’s worse things than being bullied. You could grow up and become a vapid caricature willing to sell your soul for 15 seconds of fame:
