Gay TV is Gay Friendly
The New York Times must really be out of things to cover. Gay Cable’s Like Straight, Except for Nervous Jokes highlights how viewers won’t see homophobic jokes on Logo.
The most striking difference between Logo and other networks is what the gay channel doesn’t have: straight men humorously acting out their subliminal fear of homosexuality. Those kinds of jokes are rampant elsewhere: whether it’s a “Saturday Night Live” skit, the guys needling each other on “Entourage” or a sendup of homophobic hysteria on “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” young men on television now make the same kinds of gay jokes that abound in “Wedding Crashers” and “The 40-Year-old Virgin” (“Know-how-I-know-you’re-gay?”)
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