The media elites glowed as they reported a judge had forced New Jersey
to become the 14th state to honor and celebrate the "gay marriage"
concept. When homosexuals marry in Hoboken, the gay left will be —
should be — thanking Hollywood.
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has issued a
new report boasting that "TV hasn't merely reflected the changes in
social attitudes; it has also had an important role in bringing them
about. Time and again, it's been shown that personally knowing an LGBT
person is one of the most influential factors in shifting one's views on
LGBT issues, but in the absence of that, many viewers have first gotten
to know us as television characters."
If network executives were honest, they'd be slamming this report. If.
Haven't they routinely insisted that TV shows have zero effect on the
audience? That's their constant mantra when defending sex and violence
on TV. They're silent. They know exactly how much they influence.
GLAAD and The Hollywood Reporter commissioned a poll last fall that
found in the past 10 years, about three times as many voters have become
more supportive of "marriage equality" (31 percent) as more opposed (10
percent). When asked how television has influenced them, 27 percent
said "inclusive" TV shows made them more "inclusive," while six percent
were more "anti-marriage equality."
As GLAAD put it, "Telling our stories to a mass audience is an important role that television continues to play."
These cultural trend-enforcers went after the movies this summer,
complaining that out of the 101 film releases by the major studios in
the 2012 calendar year, "only 14 films contained characters identified
as lesbian, gay or bisexual. There were no films containing transgender
characters."
America weeps.
The silver-screen people need to catch up, they lectured: "But if the
major Hollywood studios want a real barometer of how much has changed in
our society and how much catching up they have to do, they need only
look at what's become one of the greatest threats to their viability:
television."
In the 2012-13 TV season, GLAAD found a record number of LGBT
characters — 4.4 percent, or at least double their actual percentage of
the population. Fox was honored for having these characters in 42
percent of their programming hours — although that wasn't enough for
"Excellent" status, merely "Good."
There's no wonder that a Gallup poll in 2011 found that on average, American adults estimate that 25 percent of Americans are homosexual. They're getting that crazy idea from TV.
GLAAD is using that example to proselytize the movie studios: "The
'novelty' of these (TV) characters being LGBT has long since passed, and
now they're simply unique personalities making up part of unique
character ensembles."
That doesn't mean these guardians of inclusion aren't going to keep
pressuring TV. The new gay-focused sitcoms "Partners" and "The New
Normal" were canceled, alongside other shows with socially liberal
agendas. To compensate, GLAAD is even bashing The History Channel for
having zero gay characters.
They don't mean in the Civil War documentaries. History executives have
loaded their schedule with fictional and "reality TV" shows, and GLAAD
is having a tantrum. "The closest the network seemed to get was on the
scripted drama 'Vikings,' which depicted one 'straight' Viking couple
sexually propositioning a monk they had enslaved." They even expect
Middle Ages dramas to have gay scenes or characters in 42 percent of
programming hours.
They want children indoctrinated as well. GLAAD is also not shy when it
comes to Teen Nick, Cartoon Network and the Disney Channel. Apparently,
children also desperately need the propaganda of gay characters in 42
percent of programming hours. They're extremely happy with the
liberalism of "ABC Family" and have relayed that Disney Channel
executives promised GLAAD they will "introduce LGBT characters in an
episode of its original series 'Good Luck Charlie' set to air in 2014, a
first for the network." The first of many, they expect.
Here's the catch: Gay characters never face any real opposition to the
gay agenda on these so-called "inclusive" programs. There is no measure
of Orthodox religious inclusion and no real debates. The victory of the
left is assumed without thinking. When a conservative character is
created — like Ellen Barkin's "Nana" in "The New Normal" — it's a
vicious cartoon, the kind that those "against defamation" folks deeply
enjoy.
These people are all about tolerance and sensitivity. But if you
disagree with them, they will have your head. Ask anyone in Hollywood
who's pro-family.