“Logo,” MTV’s new all-gay-all-the-time channel

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From First Things (October 2005):

So it has come around at last. The New York Times announces the launching of “Logo,” MTV’s new all-gay-all-the-time channel. But don’t expect anything racy. This is not about sex, we are told, meaning the channel will not be carrying gay porn. Brian Graden, head of Logo, says, “When you tell a story about gay rodeo or gay surfers it’s not a story about sex nor does it need to be. So much connects us beyond sexuality.” Well, not really. The gay and lesbian “community” is exclusively defined and constituted by sex: by having sex, desiring sex, talking about sex, and promoting themes and sensibilities related to sex between people of the same sex. Same-sex sex is the foundation of the gay world, the axis upon which it turns. Which is not to say that sex is all that gays or lesbians care about. They may care about many things but, to the extent that something “connects” them, that something is sex. People who are not interested in same-sex sex are not connected, they are not part of the “community.” The story continues: “Documentaries will feature a variety of gay lives: rugby players, surfers, rural dwellers, Cubans, and Republicans.” Republicans? I can understand the desire to project the perception of gay diversity but, really, how exotic can they get?

– Mark L. Chance.
 
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mlchance:
Republicans? I can understand the desire to project the perception of gay diversity but, really, how exotic can they get?.
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You haven’t heard of the Log Cabin Republicans? online.logcabin.org/
They have chapters in all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia.
 
I’m going to write a letter to my cable company and ask that they DON"T carry this channel. Otherwise, I’ll have to figure out the parental controls and block it out (I don’t have kids, I would use the parental controls to block it out for my own sake)

MTV has gone downhill. It used to be all music videos with the occasional fun thing (the game show Remote Control). What do you expect from a television station that promotes condoms? And refused to let a pro-life woman’s interview be on television…
 
I have tried to eliminate the word gay from my vocabulary because i think it is horribly demeaning to define a group of people solely on their sexual orientation. Furthermore, i don’t think most people actually suffer from genuine homosexual orientation, especially women. Most of the “lesbian” or “bisexual” women i know are trying to protect themselves from getting hurt by men again. We’ll never know what the actual figures are, though, on people born that way and people that way as a result of an emotional trauma because society doesn’t think it matters. I hate the fact that our society says acceptance of a behavior equals love. It’s not loving to accept a lifestyle choice if it’s wrong. I don’t accept my son’s playing with electrical cords (he’s a baby) and i would never let him think an immoral behavior was acceptable either. A bishop recently said that because we love homosexuals, we cannot accept the “gay” lifestyle. Amen, brother! 👍
 
Mine picked it up. Fortunately, it is one of the digital channels so not all people will get it.

PF
 
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You haven’t heard of the Log Cabin Republicans? online.logcabin.org/
They have chapters in all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia.
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might I ask why they call themselves the “log cabin”? that just seems like an er…uh wierd name. kinda off the subject, but I was curious.
oh btw, my TV misteriously broke five months ago and I don’t miss it and now I have more reason to be glad I don’thave one. 🙂
 
I’ve got DirectTV and we’ve had this channel for months, since at least the spring. I try not to see the names of the shows when I scan the guide to see what’s on.
 
We have DirecTV also and I’ve seen the junk promoted on other channels… we have our listings set up so that certain channels aren’t even shown. (I’ve got to figure out how to let EWTN be shown)… so when my DH wanted to laugh at LiveAid on MTV, he actually had to reprogram it. One of the only times that I’ve seen him sitting there yelling at the TV for the stupid stuff being said.
 
well, fortunately it doesn’t look like Time Warner here will be getting this channel but UNFortunately instead we are getting a channel called “Q Television”. Luckily ( :rolleyes: )its one of those channels you pay extra for (not part of digital programming). I don’t think they should be getting this channel at ALL. I want more ‘family programming’ channels.
 
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might I ask why they call themselves the “log cabin”? that just seems like an er…uh wierd name. kinda off the subject, but I was curious.
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Yes, I thought it a wierd name, too. I checked their website, and this is what it said:
The name of the organization is a reference to the first Republican President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, who was born in a Log Cabin. President Lincoln built the Republican Party on the principles of liberty and equality. The party should return to its roots. When the organization was founded, the name, “Lincoln Club” was already taken by another GOP group, so organizers settled on the name Log Cabin Republicans.
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online.logcabin.org/about/history.html
 
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WanderAimlessly:
Mine picked it up. Fortunately, it is one of the digital channels so not all people will get it.

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And only on certain levels of digital cable. My sister was shocked to find out that it was on & she has the highest level, i.e. the super-premium one with all the movie channels, just about everything. I have the basic level of digital cable & thank God it’s not on mine.

However, I’m still plenty disgusted with my cable company because in order to get EWTN & some other good channels, I have to put up with paying for filth like MTV and Spike. They have the technology to let us choose our own channels, but they won’t use it because it will cut into their profits to let us exercise free choice.
 
This is not about sex, we are told, meaning the channel will not be carrying gay porn.
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Give them a little time.
I recall when soaps were considered"racy" TV in the early '60’s. For those of us who remember…what a laugh that seems now!
That 40 years later, we have “gay” TV tells what 40 more years will produce.
 
Hee-hee. I’m in a residential program right now where we can’t even get cable or satellite. Just the Philadelphia broadcast channels. Of course, I do have dsl internet so I can log on to either tbn or ewtn and watch streaming video. I must be in Heaven.😃
 
Another channel to block :hmmm: (I’m going to have more blocked then used) I’d take it out but there are some decent programing. Besides where I live, especially after 9/11, I can not get decent reception without Cable.
 
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