Mixed Media
IGF Culture Watch Dec 14 08
by Stephen H. Miller
Newsweek runs a cover story making the case for gay marriage ("Our Mutual Joy"). Nice, but it's taking the liberal mainstream U.S. media way too long to get here. Britian's The Economist ran a similar cover story titled "Let Them Wed" — in January 1996.
And American popular culture remains deeply schizophrenic about gays: On one hand, featuring more openly gay characters on prime time TV, for example, albeit in supporting roles. And on the other, there's David Letterman's smarmy sneering about two men kissing in the new Harvey Milk biopic, as reported by the Washington Post's Hank Stuever:
"I didn't want to screw it up," Franco told Letterman on "Late Show" last week. Full story...
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