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xmetalhead [OP]

2003-07-15 17:27 | User Profile

*Faggots. What can you say? J-E-W-S, jews that's the news. So, when little Johnny picks up a remote and finds "Boy Meets Boy" on the tel-aviv-ison whereafter he then tells you about his new best friend "Joey" wanting him to sleep-over tonight, don't be surprised at all, you altruistic White dopes Homer Sixpack and Betty Soccermommy, don't be surprised at all. Just accept it as another "lifestyle". Also, notice the blatant lack of diversity in the picture below. All White males less one beige looking freak. Funny huh? Coincidence? NO! * [img]http://a799.g.akamai.net/3/799/388/4101b09a0fda58/www.msnbc.com/news/1954454.jpg[/img]

It's raining men: James, on the stool, and his 15 costars

[SIZE=3]Boys R Us [/SIZE]

Dating Games: ‘Boy Meets Boy’ may irk some gays—it’s already angered its own star. The new reality show is part groundbreaking social experiment, part practical joke

By B. J. Sigesmund NEWSWEEK

  July 21 issue —  You’re watching that old standby of all reality-TV matchmaking shows, the “group date,” and the star and his suitors are line-dancing in tight jeans. But there’s the de rigueur twist: this is Bravo’s “Boy Meets Boy,” a gay variant of “The Bachelor,” and all the dancers are guys. And a further twist: the star doesn’t know it, but some of these guys aren’t gay at all.

     IF A STRAIGHT MAN can get the star to fall for him, he stands to make $25,000. Now at least one guy is having second thoughts. “We’re all partnered up,” a heterosexual suitor recalls, “and I’m crotch to crotch with this 6-foot-4 guy—who also turned out to be straight. I’m thinking, ‘Is my mother gonna see this?’ ”
   Sorry. Yes. Bravo expects “Boy Meets Boy,” which debuts July 29, will draw not only a gay audience—the channel’s also premiering the terrific gay makeover show “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” this week—but straight audiences who might get caught up in the guessing games. (Viewers won’t know a suitor’s sexual orientation until he’s eliminated.) Douglas Ross, the show’s executive producer, says he “wanted to test boundaries between gay and straight, and create a world where the straight people were in the closet.” But the show may even prove divisive among gays—especially when they learn that the leading man himself is still smarting from the experience. “I felt betrayed,” says James, a California human-resources executive, perhaps the first reality star ever to speak a bad word about his own series. James was finally let in on the big secret when he’d narrowed his suitors down to three—we won’t give away their orientation—and he was livid. “They told me they put the twist in there because they wanted straight people to watch,” he says. “I said to them, ‘Well, you’ve played gay people as entertainment for straight people. Of course they’re going to watch’.”

    Ross’s team combed bars across California in search of both gay and straight players. In casting heterosexual men, producers picked those who “got” their experiment. Many had gay friends, roommates or family members, and they were curious to see how the other half dates. (Although one, an aspiring actor, admitted to NEWSWEEK that he did it to hone his craft.) Producers instructed the straight guys to fabricate gay dating histories, and warned them they had to be willing to kiss another guy. The contracts stipulated that the action would go no further, even though other matchmaking shows regularly feature “overnight dates.” Ross says he wanted the show to be about “intrigue rather than sleaze.” Besides, advertisers can bear only so much reality.

James, the leading man in ‘Boy Meets Boy’

“Boy Meets Boy” proceeds much like other such programs. James hosts group dates, has downtime with individual dudes and winnows out the unworthy in the dreaded elimination rounds. The guys—who lived together during filming, sharing bedrooms, in a house in Palm Springs—hike, work out, play Ping-Pong, swim, drink and sit around talking, sometimes until 2 in the morning. “Watching the episodes, it’s impossible to tell who’s gay and who’s straight,” says Ross. “That’s the point of the show.” During one bull session, one of the mates—as they’re called—asks another, “Who do you think is the most feminine?” As co-executive producer Kirk Marcolina puts it, “They’re examining stereotypes, not knowing that there’s a straight guy right there.”

Unlike contestants on “The Bachelor,” the “Boy Meets Boy” suitors have a strong potential to fall for each other which is exactly what happened in one instance. The crushee was one of the closet straight men, and he felt so bad about the situation that he went to the producers. The gay mate says that when he learned the truth, “it hurt. A whole relationship that could have happened was just immediately taken away.” Is “Boy Meets Boy” in part a cruel practical joke at gays’ expense? Ross scoffs at the idea. “Why do gay people need to be protected from participating in reality shows with twists?” he says. “I don’t see us as a victimized minority. We’re capable of handling this.”

But James’s problem with “Boy Meets Boy” goes beyond his feeling of personal betrayal; he worries that it plays on homophobic stereotypes. “It may reinforce the idea that gay men secretly like straight men, but have to hide it,” he says. Ross has an answer for that, too. “Please!” he says. “Gay men are attracted to men. Sometimes they’re straight, sometimes they’re gay. The show demonstrates that gay men can be attracted to straight men and that straight men are OK with it.” Both Ross and James, however, agree on one thing: that people will be tuning in. “Is it entertaining?” James says. “Sure. To people who are not involved, it will be interesting because they’ll get to see me cry and wallow in misery. That makes for good television.”

   © 2003 Newsweek, Inc.

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Rumblestrip

2003-07-15 20:34 | User Profile

Could someone please explain why any clear-thinking heterosexual man would go on this show? How does one pretend to be gay? When told that you may have to kiss another man, you say "oh, sure, that's ok"?

How long after this will we hear the dramatic, emotional story of the once-hetero man who "found his gay side" after taking part in this fagfest?

Lewis Wetzel

2003-07-15 20:52 | User Profile

A dating show by and about gays? What's next, a version of "Iron Chef" where the competitors and judges are all starving Micronesian cannibals?
"Today's theme ingredient is - once again - human flesh! It looks like the judges are equally enthusiastic about the Iron Chef's offering of raw bleeding long pig meat and the challenger's offering of raw bleeding long pig."

**“Sure. To people who are not involved, it will be interesting because they’ll get to see me cry and wallow in misery. That makes for good television.”

**

The poor darling! I wonder how many encounters in gay-bar restrooms it took to salve his emotional pain?

Eendracht Maakt Mag

2003-07-19 05:48 | User Profile

*Originally posted by xmetalhead@Jul 15 2003, 11:27 * ** It's raining men: James, on the stool, and his 15 costars **

The could've fit four times as many of the sodomites into the place if they'd just thought of turning the stools upside-down :lol: