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Rich Brown - Living My Life Out Loud!
Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Sunday, January 28, 2001
Ok -- so I'm cheating a bit with this entry. I'm actually writing it two days overdue, but I wanted to write it anyway.
Sunday evening I decided to have a group of my friends over to have an Queer as Folk USA marathon. Since I had all of the episodes on tape and not many of my friends have seen it I decided to invite a bunch of them over.
I was surprised at the turnout. I picked up a bunch of soda, chips and dip. We started around 5 but not everyone showed up until later. The turnout included Anthony, Bryan, Rob, Todd, Charles, Patrick, Ben, Conrad, Emory, and Rick. I also ordered out for Pizza for us all, however not much was eaten so I was left with a whole pizza in my refrigerator. I guess I'll have leftovers this week.
I have to comment on QaF USA. I really like watching this series. I know that it has been getting mixed reviews but I think it's a very honest television show. Many think that it portrays gay men in a bad way. Showing them all as drug users and sex addicts. I only have one things to say to this. The show is honest and pretty close to reality. If anyone wants to disagree with me on this I'd have to say they have been living in their own world and have not been involved in the gay community at all. Of course not everyone is a drug-user nor a sex addict, however from my experiences over the past 5 years I would have to say that a majority are at least one of them.
I think the most important and engaging part of this show is how it touches on the personal relationships that go on between friends in the gay community. Unlike the "straight" world, gay men have a unique and sometimes difficult situation. We are often best friends with the same gender we are attracted too. As everyone knows this can lead to complications, and mistaken feelings. This is true regardless, straight or gay, but we are more often put into this situation by having other gay male friends.
So as for my opinion -- I will keep watching QaF because I enjoy it. It's open and it's real. It touches on many of the issues that shows have never touched on concerning the gay community. I enjoy shows like Will and Grace, however they are merely watered down shows with versions of gay people that are able to be stomached by the rest of the heterosexual world. QaF may be more then some can handle, but it is a pretty accurate representation of the gay community ... not a watered down version to make people feel good about homosexuals.
Ok ... Anyway ... [Rich steps down from his soap box now]
