Queen for a day

The Times‘ John Sellers spends a day getting made over by the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy‘s Fab Five:

[T]he show as a whole, suggests that something has changed not just in Bravo’s programming department (which is bringing out an increasingly gay-friendly lineup) but in the culture at large. Television has long featured straight male characters making jokes about gay men, or teasing each other about acting gay, or just generally reveling in their babe-watching, couch-potato-ing heterosexuality. Not infrequently, these characters have even been played by gay men.

Now the same medium features guys like Butch and Adam laboring intensely to look more gay. And all across America, straight guys will watch the show, and from their stained, sagging couches, where they sit in their boxers drinking Budweiser from a can, they’ll see people’s lives transformed by queerness, and they’ll think, “Dude, maybe someday that could be me.”

Full article here. Sure, the show’s premise plays on stereotypes of both gay and straight men, but oh well, I’ll give it a chance. Queer Eye premieres on Bravo this Tuesday with two episodes, starting at 10 p.m.

Speaking of queer Bravo, I caught most of the Gay Weddings marathon this afternoon. I found it rather compelling: not only watching all the preparation–by turns fabulous and troublesome–but also hearing how each couple’s families felt about the wedding. So yeah, I’m kind of tired. I mean, I’ve virtually been to four weddings (and hopefully no funerals)–can you tell I’ve been waiting to use that line?–so it’s off to bed for me. Good night.