The Three P's

After Ellen has posted an interesting article on how television (specifically CSI) deals with the GLBT community:

"Despite the fact that Ann Donahue, one of CSI’s executive producers, is openly
lesbian, the popular CBS crime drama's track record on LGBT characters has
significant room for improvement. CSI still routinely depicts LGBT characters
driven to kill due to their sexuality: they are desperate to hide their sexual
orientation, psychotically jealous of their lovers, or criminally insane due to
gender dysphoria.
These representations call to mind the negative
stereotypes that pervaded crime dramas in the 1970s and 1980s, when criminals
who were gay killed because of their sexuality."

I find it very disheartening that we are constantly related only as Prostitutes, Psychotics or Punchlines. The silly part is, when they do try to portray us normally (Max Bickford for example), the Family Values folks complain and threaten boycots. They DEMAND that we are portrayed badly.

I don't think I am as evil as they say. Maybe that's just the voices in my head talking.