• September 15, 2003 Q1
www.ExpressGayNews.com • September 15, 2003 Q1 Q_COVERstory Scene from Sordid Lives Queer TV Is here! New Pay-Per-View Gay Channel Is a Hit By Mary Damiano we’re involved with, the care and love we give Arts & Entertainment Editor to our community, the care and love we give “I know a lot of gay men with bad taste,” to each other and our families. These are the says filmmaker Paul Colichman, referring characteristics of our community that I’d like to the unreality of the reality show Queer to see.” Eye for the Straight Guy. In fact, Colichman There has been a lot of buzz in the last isn’t thrilled by most of the gay images year or so about a cable channel with all gay currently on TV, especially on Queer Eye programming. Showtime and MTV were and its Bravo companion, Boy Meets Boy. going to start one, but that project has been “By advancing these stereotypes that gay shelved for now. “We were looking at doing men are out to redecorate the world and sleep a gay and lesbian full-fledged channel,” says with straight men, you are going to upset Colichman, “but the costs for a full-fledged people and cause a backlash.” channel are so high, we decided that rather risk. “Trevor stands for all the values we gay and lesbian film festivals, including Colichman considers such programs as than wait two or three years, we would get the stand for, which is building self-esteem in Outfest in Los Angeles, and scouts the shows designed for straight people, not the service started, show everyone its success and our community and fighting stereotypes,” festival circuit for new independent films.
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