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Too much of one reality

You thought the televised and painfully straight Rob and Amber wedding was silly? Hey, at least it was paid for by uber producer Mark Burnett. The gay couple on the latest "The Amazing Race," the Lynn Warren and Alex Ali team, didn't get the same magnanimous offer from their executive producer.

The two men are getting hitched today, Wednesday, in Ottawa, with all expenses paid by a Canuck radio station. (Endless blah blah here.) The whole thing is an embarrassment to the gay movement, and you'll have to do the click-work yourself; I'm not quoting from this stuff.

I'd say Yankee go home, but damn, we Northerners are such an inspiration to them.... And Scott Thompson's "My Fabulous Gay Wedding" premieres tonight at 10 on Global smelly-vision. Home-grown homos! Wheeeee!

Need more of a queer wedding fix? Compulsives who must track every politician's showboating moment in the Canadian same-sex marriage debate, both pro and con, should visit the Parliamentary committee website 17 to 23 times a day. Click here.

Are they all gone now? Okay, now could the rest of us focus on getting rid of marriage altogether? Please.

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# re: Too much of one reality
June 2, 2005 10:15 AM
I've become a documentary nut since moving back to Montreal a few years ago. This city's cinemas are a joy for lovers of non-fiction. Reality TV, of course, doesn't count as documentary, being just as manufactured as is a Doctor Who episode. So it's hard to judge "My Fabulous Gay Wedding" as a reflection of reality.

There are shallow men out there, and it's just as valid to portray them as to portray mindless heterosexual drones. It sure was exhausting to watch, though.

Of greater interest is the production deal. This is Canadian show, created with the support of Global TV and the American gay channel Logo (which is set to launch June 30). Logo is a creation of the MTV-Viacom behemoth. Not a mention of the Canuck PrideVision in the show's credits -- I mean, OutTV -- PV is now all boy porn, all the time. OutTV is either seen as a direct competitor of Logo's (and there was talk of a U.S. expansion a few years ago, though the scene is now cluttered with three queer channels -- Look! and Here! are the other two -- and I doubt they'll all survive).

It might just be that Logo and Global have money, and OutTV doesn't.
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