Postmodern homophobia

Date: 7 Mar 2003 11:57:51 -0800
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I'm concerned about a new style of homophobia I see. I see Jay Leno
making lisping jokes about San Francisco on the Tonight Show, and
Bernie Mac talking about his little "queer" nephew in "Kings of
Comedy," and now a joke in the latest Entertainment Weekly: "Critics
love the Broadway play ["Take Me Out"] about a star baseball player
who outs himself. Some say it's faaabulous, others say it's to die
for."
The reason I call this "postmodern" homophobia is because these people
will defend themselves by saying nobody's homophobic anymore. Society
supposedly accepts gay people as equal to everyone else, and since we
know nobody in their right mind would be homophobic nowadays it's OK
to make jokes about us again.
All I can say is, huh?
I've written to GLAAD about a few of these instances and never get a
response. Is it OK to joke about gay people now that "everybody knows"
gay is good?