Comments on: ABC leads GLAAD Media Awards

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:37:38 +0000

I am not familiar with most of the shows and films up for GLAAD awards, but I have seen “Milk” and it i definitely deserving of any awards it receives. GLAAD does great work has the only comprehensive media guide for writing about queer people I have ever seen.

I have seen “Ugly Betty” a few times and the only time I every time I have seen queer people on there, they are acting in a pretty stereotypical manner. I would like to see what portrayal this show was nominated for.

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By: RogerRamJet

RogerRamJet — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:31:45 +0000

I’m going to disagree; Ugly Betty is a comedy containing over-the-top portrayals of every type, from Bio-otch to womanizers. Mark may be uber-nelly but his boyfriend, Cliff, for several espisodes was frumpy but intelligent and didn’t put up with Mark’s shallow vanity. And then there is Justin who is also smart, caring, ambitious and hard-working.

This is a show centered around the fashion industry. There are more ’stereotypes’ on Project Runway than Ugly Betty. No one complains about that. In my gay-stimation U.B. has captured it quite accurately.

By: jose-vera

jose-vera — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:52:29 +0000

Unfortunately the gay guy in ugly Betty is the ’steriotype gay guy’.I am gay and I find him very shallow, ignorant, self absorbed. Ugly Betty doesn’t do the gay community any justice