Best. Gay. Week. Ever. (February 13, 2009)

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY: HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS LOGAN AND BRANDON.
These two guys caused quite a splash last month when they showed up in an epsiode of the online web series The Principal's Office and essentially traumatized their school's earnest assistant principal, Mr. Salisbury, with a completely straight-baiting demonstration of dirty dancing.

Sure, the situation might have been staged (probably reenacted from a prior real principal's office meeting), but the two teens' utter lack of gay panic demonstrated supreme confidence in their own (obviously heterosexual) orientation. Either these guys are way cooler than your typical teens, or kids have matured a lot since I was last in high school.

At any rate, kudos to Brandon & Logan for mining gay humor without the usual gay phobia. Someone needs to give these two their own web series pronto.

IN MY HUMBLE OPINION
This was a great week for television.

Battlestar Galactica - In last week's episode Lieutenant Gaeta's coup d’état is put down with much bloodshed and his eventual execution. I know a lot of people around here were seriously unhappy that the last two episodes, which essentially revolved around Gaeta, failed to even hint at the fact that he was gay. 

Gaeta faces the firing squad

I definitely find fault with the show for never addressing Gaeta's orientation over the past 5 years (they only dealt with it in a series of webisodes this fall). However, I am prepared to give them a pass for not bringing it up at the very end. I mean, in the last two episodes Gaeta (who was always a fairly peripheral character) becomes the main villain. To highlight his orientation at this point to your typical teen fanboy viewers would only serve to equate homosexuality with villainy. Bringing the subject up so late in the game would have implied that his act of mutiny and his gayness are related in some way.

Regardless of how one feels about the show's treatment (or lack thereof) of sexual orientation, I think last week's episode made for pretty compelling viewing, so I'm giving it an up arrow.

Big Love - So much happened this episode. Bill (and Barb!) proposed to potential fourth wife Ana, the case against Roman Grant fell apart and he avoided prison, and Rhonda ran off to LA with $30,000 in hush money. Meanwhile, pregnant daughter Sarah (Amanda Seyfried) paid a surreal visit to a Mormon couple that wanted to adopt her baby.  The overly chatty wife has a mean case of OCD, while the husband (played by openly gay actor Stephen Spinella) owns up to his same sex attraction: "Though I am as gay as they come, through the Lord's help I've been able to develop a lot of masculine qualities." Yeah right.

Stephen Spinella (left) plays a Mormon husband looking to adopt

The husband and wife seem so completely effed up by their Mormon faith that Sarah decides to keep her baby. And I love how she explains it to her friend and brother:

Counseling women to marry gay men and gay men to get married is just wrong! I don't know what the solution is to the gay thing, but this isn't it. I don't want my baby to brought up in a home where there's no true intimacy or a mutually nourishing relationship!

Big Love is, in my opinion, the best show currently on TV. Unfortunately it has a criminally small audience (only 1.9 million viewers for last Sunday's episode). If you haven't been watching I urge you to rent Season 1 and Season 2 to catch up.

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