An editor’s note on the GLAAD homepage pointedly denies that the anti-defamation group is waging war on American Idol - contrary to reports like this one.
I realize that GLAAD has to be careful about appearing overly shrill, but you know what? They should target Idol. I’m a fairly mean-spirited person, and even I can’t abide Idol’s increasingly sour ridicule of its nerdy, lonely, hapless (and, yes, very often apparently gay) auditioning hopefuls.
I would imagine that many of the kids who try out for Idol are rural gay teenagers whose misguided dreams of stardom are their only escape from a dismal life of narrow-minded parents, incompetent school systems, abusive classmates, minimum wage part-time jobs, and church. So for the show that launched the careers of a thousand closet cases (well, at least three), it seems awfully disingenuous to poke fun at the fagginess of the poor souls who made it a hit in the first place.
Editor’s Note [GLAAD]
Gay rights group: ‘American Idol is homophobic’ [Contact Music]
Well said.
what i hate the most is how they trot out some bad closet case singers when you know for damn sure there are some excellent open queer singers who never make it to air or top 32. when i was singing the greatest love of all as a closeted suburban teen i had the common sense to do it alone while crying, not on national television. i blame everyone for this mess. if kathy griffin hosted the show, this would all work itself out.
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