Interesting post by Jesse Archer: Is Gay the new Black?

[reviews_and_ramblings]

http://jesseonthebrink.blogspot.com/2009/07/is-gay-new-black.html

here is an excerpt:

"Now consider what I learned when I met up with Out Magazine editor-in-chief Aaron Hicklin the following day. He told me how ABC came to them and wanted to put on a same-sex episodes of Dancing with the Stars! They set it all up with out gay stars, filmed it, but then---ABC couldn't handle the apparent scandal of two men foxtrotting (even though they were the ones to initially approach him)...so they re-filmed it all with opposite-sex partners.

Now you can see the gay version online at OUT. And you can presumably see the "regular" version on ABC. What Aaron mentioned next was how it reminded him of how back in the Hollywood heydey, they used to film the same film with all-whites, and then separately with all-blacks"

Handsome Chad Allen proves he has the knack of a natural for the big band favorite, the Foxtrot.

Comments

[cassandra-gold.livejournal.com]

Why am I not surprised that ABC backed off? We have so much violence, language, and sexual stuff (het only, of course) on TV, but show two men dancing and it's scandalous. *eye roll* Sometimes we're so backward over here.

Too bad for ABC. I don't like Dancing with the Stars, but I probably would have watched a gay version. And I love Chad Allen.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's really strange, you can show a man kills another man, but two men dancing together? NO WAY! Sad indeed. Elisa