Friday, October 27, 2006 (page 2)
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JON ROBIN BAITZ: A MAN OF HIS WORD
Times sure have changed since FOX censored Doug Savant's same-sex kiss on Melrose Place or we had to endure the frenzy of disapproval that erupted when Thirtysomething dared to show a gay couple in bed.

In case you missed it, Brothers and Sisters delivered an actual same-sex kiss on Sunday night and God didn't ravage the earth in a fiery cataclysm as punishment for our nation's moral decay.

The theme of Sunday night's episode was dating. Nora (Sally Field) went on an embarrassing date that wasn't. Sol (Ron Rifkin) and (Patricia Wettig) dined out together, and Kitty (Calista Flockhart) ditched Mr. Moneybags after an awkward double-date. But best of all, Kevin (Matthew Rhys) and Scotty (Luke MacFarlane) finally managed to go out on a date that was romantic and every bit as integral to the episode as the other character's liaisons. Not only did the show touch on issues that affect gay men--internalized homophobia, public displays of affection--but it culminated in a very sweet kiss between the two men, followed by a rather clear (and totally appropriate) indication the evening was going considerably further than just a kiss.

As I recall, it's been two years since Andrew locked lips on Desperate Housewives in a relationship that didn't really go anywhere. So it's especially terrific that Baitz delivered on his promise that Kevin's characterwould have as full and rich a personal life as his siblings. But it's a sad commentary how startled I was to see it actually happen on network television.

UPDATE: Turns out times haven't changed completely. Some ninny just emailed me to say she and her co-workers weren't going to watch Brothers and Sisters anymore because there were TWO same-sex kisses on the episode. Her thoughtful, insightful analysis about that? "Yuck! YUCK!"

BARNEY FRANK FOR PRESIDENT
I hope you took my advice and TIVOed last Friday night's episode of Real Time with Bill Maher. If not, you missed Barney Frank, one of the gay communities most eloquent spokesman, I mean faggots, making Stephen Moore from the Wall Street Journal's kooky editorial page look like the babbling chimpanzee I've always suspected him to be.

During the panel discussion, Frank ran circles around Moore again and again (every time Moore got verbally body-slammed by Frank he giggled like a six year old), but the piece de resistance occurred when the topic of gay Republicans came up. Moore expressed shock-shock!-that people were actually surprised to learn that there are gay Republicans (or "faggots" as Isaiah Washington might say). "After all," he whined, "it's not like Republicans want to make being gay illegal or anything."

"Au contraire!" cried Frank. (BTW, in this case "au contraire" translates to "you are possibly the stupidest man I have ever met".) "That is exactly what the Republicans want to do." Frank went on to remind Mr. Moore that back in the late 90's then Texas Governor Bush came out in favor of Texas' sodomy laws criminalizing same-sex relationships, and in the Supreme Court case which overturned those very same laws just a few short years ago, Justices Scalia, Rehnquist, and Thomas (all Republican appointments) voted to uphold the law. (Scalia also issued a scathing statement about how reprehensible it was to decriminalize same-sex relations.) Furthermore, pointed out Frank, Bush's two most recent Supreme Court appointments Alito and Roberts almost certainly agree with Scalia, meaning we are one more Republican Supreme Court appointment from gay relationships again being illegal.

Frank then called Moore a butthead and now Republicans and the media are calling for Frank to apologize, resign his office, and be shipped to Guantanomo Bay where he'll be waterboarded until he admits what he knows about The Gay Agenda.

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