Gay TV: Making Same-Sex Marriage Safe for America

Thanks for your thought provoking blog on this issue Meta.  While I agree that gay characters on network TV have not yet been allowed to develop as far sexually in relationships as straight couples, it’s easy to forget how far we’ve come in such a short amount of time. I never thought that we’d be portrayed so positively in so many forums.  What Rosie is doing on The View is showing what life is really like for lesbian moms, not all that different from any other moms.  Does she purposely take the sex out her relationship talk...I don’t think so.  After several years of marriage, let’s admit, for the most part the honeymoon’s over.  It get down to the daily focus of getting through our days, especially when we have kids.  I love Ellen for entertainment but she is not putting herself or her relationship out there at all anymore and I don’t think she is having nearly the impact that Rosie is on the whole gay marriage issue.  I would love to hear Ellen make a pro-gay marriage statement to her audience before the November elections but I’m not holding my breath. Personally, it’s important for me that gay marriage is legalized, but you can call it whatever you want.  As long as my partner of almost 20 years and I, and our 2 children, have the same rights and priviledges as any other citizen.  But again, back when I protested at the March on Washington in 1987 for the right to wed, I only have hoped to have made the progress that has been made thus far.  Kudos to those gay and lesbian families who have put themselves out there in the media and in the courts to make this progress.  Someday, the history books will remember them as civil rights heroes.

Comment by Jan from Texas — October 27, 2006 @ 8:14 pm