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"Homosexual
activists" are at it again. Just when you thought it was safe to watch
prime time TV, gay propagandists have taken airwaves and are doing
everything they can to make teenagers gay.
At least that's what Brent Bozell wants you to believe. This isn't
surprising, of course, since Bozell is the president of the Media
Research Center, an organization that purports to seek "balance" in the
media, but that really seeks dominance of Christian conservative views.
Bozell blasted gay teen characters on TV in a recent column, writing,
"If anyone doubts that our entertainment industry and our entertainment
media are evangelists for a revolution of sexual immorality (or in their
lingo, 'progress'), he needs only to read the latest cover story in
Entertainment Weekly, a 'special report' on gay teen characters on TV."
The EW cover features "Glee" actors Chris Colfer and Darren Criss who
play boyfriends on the show. Bozell is especially rankled by a scene
that appeared in a "Glee" Christmas episode.
"Their most controversial scene was the two private-school boys
singing 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' to each other on the Fox show," Bozell
writes. "The magazine touted this was the hottest-selling track on the
"Glee" Christmas album, which gives you a flavor of Hollywood's
reverence for that holy day."
Bozell also notes that Colfer told EW, "That was the gayest thing that has ever been on TV, period."
Full disclosure: I have never watched "Glee." I have no interest in
it and I have a myriad of other ways to waste my time and life, thank
you very much. But I obviously had a journalistic duty to watch the
so-called "gayest thing that has ever been on TV." And so I watched the
clip on YouTube. And I have to say, I can understand Bozell's concern. I
mean, what on earth is Kurt (Colfer) doing with his tongue in this
scene? Dude, you're singing, you're not eating an ice cream cone. Put
your tongue back in your face. And all of the coy eye rolling. Yuck. I
don't understand why Blaine (Darren Criss) wants him to stay. Colfer won
a Golden Globe for this schmaltz?
Of course, Bozell's problem isn't with "Glee's" quality of acting or
the cheesiness of sentiment, but with "Glee's" inclusion of gay
characters, specifically gay teens. This is, of course, the opposite
problem I have with the show. I'm all for positive portrayals of gay
teens on TV. I have no doubt that there are kids out there who watch
Kurt and Blaine and, as a result, feel like they aren't alone and that
they're okay. And that's great.
Or terrible, if you're Bozell. The EW story was nothing but
propaganda, he says, because EW didn't ask people like him -- people who
have had unfettered dissemination of their anti-gay rhetoric for far
too long -- to talk about how horrible gay people are.
"If this magazine weren't so earnestly in the tank, the story could
come with a disclaimer: 'This issue is an advertisement bought and paid
for by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation,'" Bozell
writes.
Of course, Bozell believes that teenagers are only a stepping-stone to the real goal: babies.
"Parents should understand that their young children are the next propaganda targets," he warns.
Oh, please. As if two gay teenagers singing a corny holiday song to
each other on TV is just a stepping-stone to mandatory viewings of
"RuPaul's Drag Race" in kindergarten classrooms across the nation. And
even if it did, that wouldn't make kids gay. It might, however, make
them a little more sassy.
