2008 Gay Pop Culture Wish List

Hollywood films a biopic on Lincoln's early years, which explores his apparent homosexuality

Been to the Lincoln memorial in DC? Pigeon crap aside, he's sorta hot if you’re into tall, bearded men.

Hollywood has a long, long tradition of whitewashing the gay out of history. From Alexander the Great to Greece, Sparta and Rome, to the civil rights movement, gay people have a tendency to disappear when history makes it to the big screen. To help rectify that, we suggest it’s high time for a mini-series covering the early years of Abraham Lincoln, our nation’s sixteenth and arguably greatest president.

The source material could be C.A. Tripp’s The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, and should cover Abe’s bed-sharing relationships with a string of men, even once he reached the White House. Lincoln may not have been “gay” in any modern sense, but that he had homosexual relationships certainly seems possible from the record — no matter how loudly rightwing pundits might scream at the suggestion. How else to explain the written musings of one such bed-mate who penned, “His [Lincoln’s] thighs were as perfect as a human being could be.”

Someone needs to option this material post haste, and send out a casting call for actors with really nice thighs.

Boy Meets Boy comes back for a second season

In 2003, two breakout gay hits essentially put Bravo on the cable map. The first was Queer Eye for the Straight Guy which ran for five seasons. The second was gay dating reality show Boy Meets Boy. Despite being a bona fide hit for Bravo, the series only ran for one season, and that’s a shame because we gay men haven’t much use for the strictly hetero dating shows such as The Bachelor. Wouldn’t it be nice if Boy Meets Boy returned in 2008 for a second season? And maybe this go round they could drop that annoying “twist” wherein half the contestants were secretly straight.

If the show does come back, cross your fingers that they find a way to also bring back Andra! Her over-the-top histrionics as “best friend and sidekick” were a large part of what made Boy Meets Boy such fun. What other reality show personality (and an ancillary one to boot) made such an impression in just six episodes? That Michael McDonald would impersonate her in a whole series of MadTV skits only added to her legend.