The Best Gay TV Preview Ever!

to Michael & everybody at Afterelton for all your hard work.:)I bookmarked this article and will be using it as the guide for viewing.

btw,one tiny thing that I`ve been wondering for a while,guess I`ll just post it here.Is it possible that something happened to the actor who played Gay Joe in Grey`s Anatomy,or maybe he didn`t want to come back to play this character any more?The reason I ask this is-it`s very clear that during S4 the characters are still referring to the bar as"Joe`s place"or something,but Joe was nowhere insight during the whole season.When the scenes were in the bar,the camera would always focusing on the doctors and keeping away from who`s inside the bar(at least that`s what I remembered).If the actor is available why wouldn`t just show that he was actually there,you know,to make the show generally gay-inclusive(as some other shows did)?

Thanks for this! I really enjoyed reading through it, and you've convinced me that True Blood is worth a look. Also, awesome inclusion of Pushing Daisies. That show needs as much love as is humanly possible!

Thanks for this as well, one question. The New Adventures of Old Christine you said the brother came out last season, what episode was that I must have missed that.

Doesn't the show have another gay chracter? One of the male writers fell in love with the coffee boy.

thanks for sharing! :-)

I'm besotted with Gossip Girl! Ugly Betty is obviously the gayest show on the tube but for subtext alone GG lands in the number two spot. I'm crazy about Ed Westwick. He reminds me of a sleazebucket I went to college with went so far as to actually marry his fag-hag. Their wedding was a scream. But then I shouldn't be giving a show like this ideas, should I?

Connor Paolo is WAY cute.

logo and some other channels are only on US television. Some of these look interesting, but not on Canadian stations.

Is that season 2 of The Lair? Or just repeats of season 1? And while we're on the subject of so-bad-they're-great-supernatural-gay-soaps, do you have any inside info on the 4th season of Dante's Cove?

So I have been wondering, I know Joe is gay but rarely seen (probably because I think I have seen him on Men in Trees but haven't watched it for quite a while), but are we just reporting gay male relationships? At the end of last season, it was kinda clear that Erica Han and Caley Torrez were deffinitely heading towards a relationship. Is this not true?

Great work, Michael! Just wanted to add for those of us hanging on with the (now mostly unfunny) Simpsons that Marge's sister, Patty, came out (and almost married a woman) and it was implied that Mr. Largo (the band teacher that kicks Lisa out in the opening credits) was having an affair with Smithers. Now the complaint: I'd rather the two gay characters on Sarah Silverman not be referred to as "unusual" as there are a surprising number of gay geek/gamer/slackers out here if one were to look beyond the hairless, speedo sea. I think it's pretty great that, besides having their sexuality ignored, there's really nothing stereotypically "gay" about them (but they are, in fact, gay characters and they do represent real gays.)

Really, couldn't you find more shows with no (or marginal) gay content to mention, to spread the clicks out even more? You could have easily hit 30 clicks, dude! And really, why should we care? We shouldn't, obviously. I'd say you were sucking up or getting paid off, but unless AE pays you by the clicks, I'd have to admit you just don't know what gay content is, do you?

Great write up. Eli Stone was a surprise to me -- I watched the first episode on a dare because the premise sounded so absurd. But I got hooked almost immediately by the writing and characters, including the openly gay Victor Garber who plays the senior partner in Eli's law firm and the father of his former fiancee. It's a very entertaining and engaging show with a strong gay sensibility.

OMG, Heath/Zack Lively was kickass awesome in Greek last night. And the ensemble especially the knee high socks was awesome.

Seems to be missing B&S which is returning on September 28 with Kevin & Scotty in marital bliss. :)

KC

Maintainer of Luke MacFarlane Online

Nice coverage, Michael, you already know I am big fan(and fag too, I suppose). But darling, sweetie how can you write about LIPSTICK JUNGLE without mentioning the two most etherial words in the universe: ROBERT BUCKLEY,the love child of Robert Gant and Matthew McConaughey. And, how about a few props to out actor, writer, and producer, David Marshall Grant for his contribution as story editor on BROTHERS & SISTERS. He has been a flag bearer in several television and theatrical landmark events.

INSIDEGUY

I will admit upfront that maybe I'm blowing it out of proportion but I was offended by a recent commercial for The Mentalist. The lead character dispels the notion that a dead man and woman were lovers because the man was obviously gay. Since the deceased male was covered with a sheet and only his feet were in view a bewildered colleague asked him how he knew. His response was something like "he had a pedicure and was wearing clear nail polish". Oh! Of course he was gay!. Cause there's nothing I'd rather do, as a gay man, than to sit at home with cotton between my toes slathering on nail polish. Ugh. Again, maybe it's just me but it seemed to me that it was playing into stereotypes AND using it as humor. Not cool.

Cinematt01

DISCLOSURE - I do enjoy a pedicure from time to time but I'm fairly sure they are now available to straight men as well.