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Article: Seriously, dude, it was a joke: Fox canceled the straights-play-gay reality show Seriously, Dude, I'm Gay before it aired. Was it a hoot, or was it homophobic? You won't get to find out.(television)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- October 12, 2004
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When Fox Television shelved its two-hour reality special Seriously, Dude, I'm Gay just days before it was scheduled to air, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation declared a victory.
Seriously, Dude was seriously homophobic, insisted the media watchdog organization. The show--in which two seriously straight guys have to spend a week in West Hollywood trying to win $50,000 by convincing everyone they know that they are gay--embodied "some ludicrously sophomoric notions of what it is to be gay," GLAAD's entertainment media director, Stephen Macias, declared, even going so far as to suggest that should Fox air it, the network could put gay people "in harm's ...