An excerpt from Lynda-Lee Potter’s notorious review of Queer As Folk from 1999, as quoted in Giovanni Porfido’s chapter of Thomas Peele’s collection, Queer Popular Culture:
Queer as Folk, with its lewd and coarse language and ceaseless copulation, goes out at 10.30 at night but it shouldn’t be going out at all. More than anything it proves that we need censorship. Year by year the boundaries of what is deemed permissible are pushed wider and wider apart. Sadly there are far too many cynical people in powerful positions in television who lack any kind of commonsense or antennae about what we ought to be free to see in our own homes.
Certainly we shouldn’t be at liberty to watch naked actors having relentless homosexual sex. Any nation which allows this without any voice raised in dissent is lacking in both wisdom and self-respect. It’s hell-bent on destruction.
Note the smooth slide between demanding the right to dissent and pleading to have the “liberty” of choosing what to watch taken away from us.
Yesterday on the official World of Warcraft forums, a poster brought up the fact that the word “transsexual” gets censored by Blizzard’s mature language filter. Almost immediately after, another poster brought up the fact that the word “homosexual” is censored as well. The obvious follow-up question has stirred a hornet’s nest of controversy: Why are these considered bad words?
Another episode in the ongoing confusion between “appealing to girls” and “patronising to girls.” Lego used to market directly to girls without a single pink brick in sight - what changed?
The Gay Agenda presents a clear image of what gay domesticity really looks like, the occupants performing the normal, routine, mundane tasks of any couple: vacuuming the carpet, making coffee, reading the paper, playing cards with friends, ordering pizza, watching TV, etc.. […]
The Gay Agenda as conceived here should be incredibly boring to watch.
