{"id":3925,"date":"2009-07-13T11:41:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T16:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2009-07-13T11:49:13","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T16:49:13","slug":"surely-no-one-could-believe-that-stereotype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/3925","title":{"rendered":"Surely No One Could Believe That Stereotype&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Sullivan&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Br&uuml;no is, in more than one sense, beyond gay. Is any viewer really going to think that this hyperbolically crass and ridiculous narcissist&mdash;who wears mesh tops and eye-searing lederhosen, refers to his adopted African baby as a &quot;dick magnet,&quot; and drops faux-Teutonic vulgarities about his waxed arschenhaller&mdash;represents &quot;the mainstream of the gay community,&quot; as one troubled Hollywood &quot;gay insider&quot; put it?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay&#8230;I have a question for you.&nbsp; How many top grossing box office movies can you name that honestly represented that mainstream of gay people you speak of?&nbsp; How many?&nbsp; No&#8230;not just a walk-on token gay character, but a movie <em>About <\/em>gay people that wasn&#8217;t full of the same stupid ignorant stereotypes that are propelling Sacha Baron Cohen&#8217;s gayface act to number one?&nbsp; How many?\n<\/p>\n<p>That one about the gay cowboys?&nbsp; The one that couldn&#8217;t win an academy award because John Wayne was rolling in his grave?&nbsp; The one academy members openly said they&#8217;d never vote for.&nbsp; The one they made Bruno-esq jokes about at the award ceremony?&nbsp; The one that got practically no cable channel airplay after it left the theaters, even though it was nominated for best picture?&nbsp; That one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Sullivan&#8230; Br&uuml;no is, in more than one sense, beyond gay. Is any viewer really going to think that this hyperbolically crass and ridiculous narcissist&mdash;who wears mesh tops and eye-searing lederhosen, refers to his adopted African baby as a &quot;dick magnet,&quot; and drops faux-Teutonic vulgarities about his waxed arschenhaller&mdash;represents &quot;the mainstream of the gay community,&quot; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,65],"tags":[122,11,41,12],"class_list":["post-3925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-thumping-my-pulpit","tag-gayface","tag-gays-in-the-media","tag-prejudice","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}