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March 23, 2005 11:01 AM

Ow, my head

I'm starting to think that homosexuality on TV has jumped the shark. I know I was impressed with all the homo stuff on telly sitcoms and dramas just two months ago -- but it's getting ridiculous. This week I can't turn on the set without getting fed gay

March 22, 2005 9:58 AM

Yes it is! No it isn't!

It's dueling press releases, as Canada's PrideVision denies that the American Q Television has made a purchase offer, and Q Television says it has. "'By acquiring Pride Vision, Q would be able to cut its expenses down on all of its programming costs,'

March 22, 2005 9:30 AM

The triumphant return of Rick Mercer

I love the idea of Ricky the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television comedian. But here's a man whose hype has outstripped his talent. I started calculating his show's smile-per-minute ratio, and it just didn't warrant my time. Failed satire and

March 19, 2005 11:01 AM

U.S. company wants queer Canuck TV

The American Q Television Network wants to buy Canada's PrideVision. The Canuck channel is having all sorts of problems. Sigh. ADD ON [Sunday] Canadian broadcasting ownership rules can be found here.

March 14, 2005 2:13 PM

The L Word

Just a smidgen more fluff for the beginning of the week: The imperialist AmeriKKKan official "L Word" website is off limits to anyone with computer cookies that betray a foreign identity. "We at Showtime Online express our apologies; however, these pages

March 14, 2005 10:37 AM

L is for... lookers? loonies? larcenists?

How many Ls? An American senator named Marty Golden says a New York bus shelter ad for "The L Word" television show is too visible to school children and innocent shoppers. "The posters in question show all of the characters looking at the camera, minus

March 12, 2005 10:28 AM

Culture schmulture

PrideVision's mess (Gay TV goes bye-bye?) is a warning to Americans planning their own queer TV (Here! is already broadcasting, mega-company Viacom's LOGO launch has been put off till the summer). Here's my analysis of why gay TV is failing in Canada

March 11, 2005 1:09 PM

Gay TV goes bye-bye?

A divorce battle is jeopardizing Canada's already close to kaput queer TV channel. PrideVision honcho Bill Craig, now in a gay relationship, owes his ex-wife 1.4-million smackers. "An Ontario Superior Court judge ordered a receiver be appointed over [Bill

March 7, 2005 8:34 PM

That's not funny, you pig

Must everything be dumbed down for the lowest common denominator? We live in a world where any culturally-specific message might indeed offend someone else -- and the "someone else" always gawddam wins.The London fire department has scrapped a recruitment

March 7, 2005 8:31 PM

Those zany Newsweek folks

Holy unprepared-for-the-power-of-the-old-geezer-print-media, Batman! I must apologize: OpLes (rhymes with apples, sort of) was mentioned in the March 14 Newsweek -- on the stands today, check out the bottom of page 10. The server instantly crashed. On

March 3, 2005 10:09 AM

Is there room for one more?

It's courageous to launch a new North American glossy gay mag, and publisher Mark Lund has just done so. I've flipped through issue number one of Scene, the newest general interest queer mag to hit the street. One would think the market was saturated

March 1, 2005 6:19 PM

How Marcia Cross was outed

Finally! Here's the link to The Advocate's look at the rumour-- er, make that, the lie -- that Desperate Housewife Marcia Cross was coming out in the queer mag: " [L]et’s be completely clear: Neither Marcia Cross nor anyone who works with her has ever

February 28, 2005 11:03 AM

Shallow book reviewers

One would think that reviewers for Quill and Quire, Canada's book trade industry magazine, would have a grand vision of literature. That they'd understand that the language and the insight found in good books transcend the situations the authors describe.

February 23, 2005 10:33 AM

Marcia Cross is a big ole dyke

The Advocate slaps a publicity shot of the redhead "Desperate Housewives" star on its new cover and looks at how an absolute lie posted on some website somewhere in the world -- that Marcia Cross was about to come out in its pages -- became the gospel

February 20, 2005 10:45 AM

High dudgeon

Media folk can track the latest on the Stevie Cameron affair here and here. [ADDENDUM 16:08pm: And the same reporter has just posted another interesting blurb here.] Cameron is the investigative journo accused of being a police informant, who was denounced

February 17, 2005 9:41 AM

Small mercies

Am gobsmacked. Some of the media coverage of same-sex marriage is more mature than Big Gay Issues have received in the past -- more subdued. 'Twould seem some reporters and editors have realized that hysterical presentation encourages some people to spew

February 15, 2005 10:04 AM

Hubba hubba, Mr. President

Some old but entertaining gossip recycled: Is U.S. President George Bush gay? Is his press secretary gay? (These items are lower down on the page -- and yeah, there's a Canadian angle!)

February 15, 2005 9:53 AM

Media junkies: Senate hearings on the state of journalism

As of the end of December, the gay and lesbian press had given a wide berth to the Canadian Senate committee studying the state of the country's news media. The complete transcripts of testimony are available -- I've pulled some of the interesting (to

February 10, 2005 10:53 AM

For crankypants media insiders only

This post's for political and media junkies: Stevie Cameron is a Canadian investigative journalist who's been accused of being a police informant. She has publicly promised that her side of the story -- or some of it, anyway, will be posted here at some

February 7, 2005 10:34 AM

Later, alligator

Today I cursed the post office and pined after a new copy of Frank magazine, the spurious and delectable satirical rag. Then I remembered that it's gone belly up. It had recently changed ownership, and the newbies didn't understand an important aspect

February 6, 2005 10:49 AM

Ghost in the machine

Globe and Mail writer Simon Houpt reports this weekend on how "TV's not the boss of me," part one in a series on the boob tube. "Despite the advent of the VCR, studies show that TV viewers still overwhelmingly watch television when it is broadcast." In

January 31, 2005 9:38 AM

Activism vs. journalism

A friend testily asked why I had originally written that two Montreal women had "claimed" they'd been bashed. The friend supposed I'd been playing "journalist," in essence placing the commands of mainstream career over the bonds of politics and community.

January 29, 2005 9:36 AM

I grok Spock

Canada's broadcasting regulator, the CRTC, has ruled that the American men's channel, Spike TV, can continue to beam its signal into our country. Thank gawd. Number of times an episode of one of the Star Trek franchises is shown on Fridays on Spike

January 28, 2005 10:05 AM

Asking the question

Am I seeing internalized homophobia where non exists? But why else are there so few portrayals of real affection between women in the pages of the queer media? Of men touching each other with actual tenderness? My analysis can be found here.

January 15, 2005 2:21 PM

Who needs fiction?

I didn't post this yesterday because I assumed it was a hoax. A funny. A hiccuping editor hit the wrong button and sent it 'round the world in error. 'An undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato....'

January 14, 2005 3:21 PM

We are not worthy

Have happily discovered another out Canadian journalist. In a Dec. 30 column, Steve Bergeron, at the French-language daily La Tribune de Sherbrooke, wrote: "J'ai beau etre gai, je reste un gars" -- "I'm gay, but I'm still a man," a prelude to criticizing

January 9, 2005 12:14 PM

Sex columnists make it all seem so easy

Curve magazine's February "sex! sex! sex!" issue is mostly about the lack thereof. The month's Dyke Drama column is penned by Michele Fisher, who makes satisfying sport of that hoary "lesbian bed death" study of the '80s. "These so-called 'experts' asserted

January 8, 2005 4:29 PM

Enquiring minds (and noses with fingers stuffed into them)

I let my National Enquirer subscription run out months ago (too expensive to get it shipped up here to the frozen north), but I always pick up the "Who's gay... and who's not" edition, baybee. I'll save you the dough. Yes, she's gay or bi: Cynthia

January 8, 2005 4:26 PM

RIP Susie S.

In today's Globe and Mail, columnist Heather Mallick goes on an entertaining rant about the obituaries for Big Thinker (TM) Susan Sontag. The Associated Press originally sent out a quickie that attacked Sontag for being a mouthy broad, dintcha know. Thank
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