Hulu beta and gay for 30 Days

I'm all excited because this morning in my mailbox I finally got my Hulu.com beta password. Hulu is a video site/service from the folks at Universal/NBC and was set up as a sort of alternative to YouTube - allowing NBC and its partners to broadcast their content library online. And in addition to clips, Hulu allows users to embed entire episodes wherever they like.

I thought this would be a great asset to our blog because we could go back and highlight some older television content of interest to the LGBT community. Admittedly, a lot of the available content seems pretty uninteresting. I mean, I'm not sure if old reruns of Simon & Simon or WKRP in Cincinnati are of much interest to the gay community (or any community, for that matter).

However, after perusing their online catalog I did find a few things that might be interesting to our readers. Just for example, two years ago the FX channel ran a show called 30 Days, which was a reality series hosted/produced by Morgan Spurlock. The premise? An individual is inserted into a lifestyle that is completely different from his or her upbringing, beliefs, religion or profession for 30 days.

I confess, I missed this series when it was playing on FX but the premise of the fourth episode, "Straight Man in a Gay World" had a 24-year-old conservative red state homophobe living in the heart of San Francisco's Castro district for a month. That certainly caught my eye (and had me wondering if the kid maybe moved to the Castro permanently after filming stopped).

Anyway the episode, all 45 minutes of it with limited commercial interuptions, appears after the break. I'm very curious what readers think both of the episode and of Hulu. So if you check it out, please share your thoughts in the comments.