Logo, The country's first basic cable channel devoted to gay programming, launches tonight at 9pm with a documentary about the growing visibility of gay America in the last few decades. Spawned by MTV programming wonder Brian Graden (who developed "Punk'd," "The Newlyweds," and "South Park"), the channel will feature movies, scripted series, news, and a reality wedding show.
Graden says the new channel won't be all about sex, a la "Queer as Folk" on Showtime. ""When you tell a story about gay rodeo or gay surfers, it's not a story about sex, nor does it need to be," Graden told the O.C. Register. "So much connects us beyond sexuality.""
As networks cave in to right-wing pressure and cancel "controversial" programming (CBS pulling "The Reagans" miniseries because it showed them in a bad light, PBS yanking an episode of "Postcards from Buster" featuring a lesbian mom), and as the right wing establishes more of a foothold in mainstream culture (Republicans trying to make PBS more conservative, the anti-Hillary book being published by a new, conservative imprint of Penguin), it'll be refreshing to see a channel that promotes free speech and tolerance, and depicts gays as human beings instead of people you can't expose your children to ...
