[Sca-cooks] Re: Hollywood gays (was movie night at therock)

[Gorgeous Muiredach]

At 12:54 PM 4/11/2002, you wrote:
>     Given the high (er) percentage of gays in the entertainment field and
>the high(er) levels of creativity generally associated with them, why have
>gay relationships been presented is such lights? It's not like it's a
>horribly taboo subject any more, yet the subject is treated as either scary
>& tragic or one of Liberace's wet dreams.

Sieggy, good points...

Along the same lines...  Why are most people with disabilities in the media
are villains, or over achievers?  Why are there so few "incidental"
characters with disabilities?  Only one I can think of is in Notting
Hill.  Other than that, it's the villains in the bond movies, in Wild Wild
West, etc...  <shrug>

After all, conservative estimate show 20% of the US population having a
disability of one form or another...  That's 1 in 5!

<going back to my hiding spot now>

Gorgeous Muiredach
Rokkehealden Shire
Middle Kingdom
aka
Nicolas Steenhout
"You must deal with me as I think of myself" J. Hockenberry