General Mills Responds To LGBT Critics – Sets Record Straight
August 22, 2011 by admin
Filed under Entertainment, LGBT, Politics, TV
Last week I posted my displeasure at General Mills and RE/MAX for pulling their advertising dollars from ABC Family’s drama, Pretty Little Liars, in response to pressure from the Florida Family Association regarding the lesbian character on the teen-focused programming. Rather than rehashing the erroneous and deprecating depiction from the socially conservative Florida-based group, take [...]
General Mills & RE/MAX Pull $ From ABC’s Pretty Little Liars
August 18, 2011 by admin
Filed under Entertainment, LGBT, Politics, TV, What's Featured
It was brought to my attention on several social networking sites that a couple of corporate giants have succumbed to pressure from an obscure anti-gay, anti-Muslim, pro focus-on-the-family values, advocacy group, The Florida Family Association. The socially conservative FFA, and its thousands of members, launched a highly inaccurate campaign demonizing ABC’s drama, Pretty Little Liars, [...]
“Minx” Watch: ABC’s Real Same-sex Romance Is a Poke in CBS Eye
August 17, 2011 by admin
Filed under Entertainment, TV, What's Featured
The long awaited love scene for Bianca (Christina Bennet Lind) and Marissa (Sarah Glendening) finally came to fruition, and it was a peach…well, in daytime terms anyway. Watch. And that sound you hear, Harold Camping, is not the world coming to an immediate end because two girls kissed on TV. It’s the cheers from around [...]
The Help – A Personal Review
August 14, 2011 by admin
Filed under Entertainment, Film, What's Featured
I emailed a good friend of mine that I was going to see The Help, and we would discuss my thoughts when I got back from the theater. She had been visiting when I was reading the book, and it was then that we had discussed at length only the history and the periphery of [...]
“Minx” Watch: ABC Holds Key to Handcuffs
July 26, 2011 by admin
Filed under Entertainment, TV
As promised, I continue to keep my eye on the progress of All My Children’s same-sex character couple, Marissa and Bianca. I have written in the past about other “my girl-heart wants your girl-heart” pairings that were intimately handcuffed by the television network, so it’s only natural that I have my finely-honed senses at the [...]


