I heard about the show, but there's something about the whole "who's gay and who isn't presented as entertainment" thing that kind of rubs me the wrong way.

The portrayals of gay characters on TV usually make me want to throw my TV out the window. There was that "Boy meets Boy" show where the gay 'bachelor' had to choose from a bunch of guys, and half way through the show, they told him he was really just trying to guess who was gay and who wasn't, and if he chose wrong, he'd lose the prize being offered. One of my friends tried to get me to watch "Queer Eye" and I lasted about 4 minutes before I went looking for my revolver.

But I digress.

Mainstream culture may be still just getting used to the homo next door, but for many of us in large cities with huge gay communities, it got old around the same time as the cassette single. I get bugged with the idea that gay people are supposed to act a certain way or listen to a certain kind of music or dress code. Watching newly out young men and women trying to shoe-horn themselves into a gay community standard of social grace is rather sad. I've been introduced to people by friends (more often my friend's girlfriends) as "the straightest acting gay guy I've ever met".

It. Makes. Me. Want. To. Scream.

So although a show like that might help out gay kids in small towns who's only gay role models are Jack and Will, for most of us, it's just more tedium that ends with punch lines including designer's names and decorating tips, and I'd like to think most of us have moved past that by now.