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"Gay" themes win acclaim for HBO. (Insider Report).(Home Box Office/Sex in the City/Queer as Folk)(Brief Article)
HBO (that's Hedonist Box Office) is receiving more showers of media praise for its Emmy award-winning Sex and the City, a sex-com (that's sex comedy) revolving around the pathetically vacuous lives of fashionable Manhattan jezebels. Besides winning accolades for glorifying the self-conscious promiscuity of the "liberated" damsels, the series also scores points with the libertine set for its treatment of lesbian and homosexual themes. "It is for this viewer, the best gay series on television, treating gay and lesbian subject matter with insight, objectivity, and equanimity," gushed Alan James Frutkin in an article entitled "The Return of the Show "That Gets Gay Life Right," that appeared in the January 6th New York Times. "And it's returning with new episodes tonight."
Frutkin writes:
"Sex and the City" is clearly not a show about gay life (although gay viewers joke that while it concerns four primarily heterosexual women, it's really about gay men -- who else could have so much sex with so little guilt?). But since its 1998 premiere, it has featured story lines portraying contemporary gay ...
- `The Celluloid Closet' Eyes Hollywood Take on Gay Life
- Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered March 22, 1996 700+ words
...takes a historical look at the portrayal of gay life and people in Hollywood films, providing...Birdcage is currently number one at the box office, but two new films offer a more serious look at gay life. One is the drama It's My Party, the...
- Author chronicles gay life // Witty Armistead Maupin mines rich vein of...
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Stephanie Mansfield December 3, 1986 700+ words
...re essentially drawing on one of the greatest strengths of gay life, and that is this wonderful, rich, self-deprecating humor...Row paperback volumes (sales of 50,000 each) and Home Box Office owns rights for a proposed film. Much in demand as a spokesman...
- Gay life was much easier under Saddam Hussein, harrowing Radio 5 Live...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire June 30, 2009 700+ words
M2 PRESSWIRE-30 June 2009-BBC: Gay life was much easier under Saddam Hussein...documentary on BBC Radio 5 Live has found. In Gay Life After Saddam, Aasmah Mir finds out how...House and the Foreign Office in London. Gay Life After Saddam is produced by Ashley Byrne...
- Q Television Network to Film Segments of the Gay Life Expo in NYC; Two Episodes...
- Press release article from: Business Wire October 26, 2004 700+ words
...company will be at booth number 418 at the Gay Life Expo in New York City. The network will...experience, while the other will feature the Gay Life Expo. "Q on the Move" is a show shot...interest stories and fun events. The Gay Life Expo will be held at the Jacob Javits...
- The big picture (in pictures).(Gay Life and Culture: A World History)(Book...
- Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide Strong, Lester May 1, 2007 700+ words
Gay Life and Culture: A World History Edited by...even twenty, years ago, a book titled Gay Life and Culture: A World History would have...transgender, and transsexual communities. Gay Life and Culture is not exactly a culmination...
- Laptops and loneliness.(computer has changed gay life)
- Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide Holleran, Andrew January 1, 2006 700+ words
...way in which the computer has changed gay life. The gay community as we knew it in the...Before computers, the repression of gay life meant that gay people, like bees, literally...says all that computers have done to gay life is allow bisexual suburbanites to cruise...
- Homo economics: capitalism, community, and lesbian and gay life.
- Magazine article from: Labour/Le Travail September 22, 1998 700+ words
...economic trends, and the state of gay life (the rise of wage labour, the sexual...impact of changing economic conditions on gay life and struggle. For instance, Julie Matthaei...way in supporting its contention that gay life and identity are shaped by economic forces...
- Prospect Publishing Announces the Release Of 'A Face in the Crowd: Expressions...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 21, 2003 700+ words
...A Face in the Crowd: Expressions of Gay Life in America." The book, sponsored by...the Crowd" poignantly illustrates that gay life in North America does not fit a single...A Face in the Crowd: Expressions of Gay Life in America" by John Peterson (editor...
