NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/soc/motss/48827

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From: [e-mail] (A Frank Swilling)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Saturday Night Live
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Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 11:44:52 PST
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Tracey McCartney sees red, or maybe pink:

>Well, I just don't know. I can't decide whether to be offended at
>Saturday Night Live's sketch about gays in the military, which featured
>all the male cast members behaving in your stereotypically, well, gay
>male way; did any of you men find it offensive, or was it cute 'n'
>campy? There were, of course, no dykes, so if you tell me you didn't
>mind, I'll put my poison pen letter to SNL in the trash. If you did
>mind, I hope you're writing one of your own.

I had much the same feeling.  At first I thought they were going for
the cheap laughs, but then the scrolling copy/voice-over at the end
saved it.  I decided then that their hearts were in the right place,
even if their heads were up their butts  vis a vis queer behavior
and mannerisms.

>BTW, lisping gay males seem to be kind of a thread on SNL these days.
>Just last week, Dana Carvey and Michael Keaton did a sketch called
>"Outweek," a television show in which they outed Prince Charles and
>Wilford Brimley for being gay, outed 70's sitcom star Bonnie Franklin
>for being a "lousy lay," etc.

>Tracey

I think it's just a case of a bunch of dumb straight boys learning
everything they know about queer boys from watching "Men On..." on
In Living Color.

Frank
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