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on Showtime may be the only place on television where you can find muscle queens simulating oral and anal sex with each other (if the positions aren’t extravagant, then the camera placement is-call it Queer Du Soleil!), this hardly constitutes progress.
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Or it’s entirely possible that the organization has become so criminally shortsighted that it thinks the show’s soap-operatic depiction of gay culture-predicated on simplified and exploitative reductions of “big issues” affecting gay men and women in this country cut around lots of steamy sex and bad dialogue-is actually good for the gay community. GLAAD does great work for the gay and lesbian community, but if the organization is seriously “dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation,” how does one explain why Queer as Folk continues to earn the GLAAD Media Award’s seal of approval? Though the show has never won their award for Best Drama Series, it still continues to make the shortlist of nominees, suggesting GLAAD has to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find five gay-friendly shows to fit its quota of nominees or that it hopes to send the producers of the show a clear message: Get better, we’re counting on you! If so, it isn’t working.