TOTALLY GAY!
VH-1 Monday, Aug. 18 10 a.m., 5 p.m.,10 p.m., 1 a.m., Tuesday noon. (Note: Times and frequency for VH-1 programs often change at the last minute. Check tvguide.com to confirm.)
VH-1's TOTALLY GAY is a fast, breezy clipfest highlighting the growing influence of gays and lesbians on mainstream culture and fashion, including how straight men are increasingly adopting gay looks and styles.
From Madonna, Clinton and Roseanne to AIDS activism and the internet, TOTALLY GAY traces the people and phenomena who helped the evolution of gay influence throughout the '90s.
Among the commentators: Sandra Bernhard, Melissa Etheridge, Michelangelo Signorile, Amber Benson, Michael Musto of The Village Voice, Mariel Hemingway, the two male models who kiss in Christina Aguilera's Beautiful video, and The Real World Chicago's Chris, who looks very different now with longer curly hair and a suit.
(Blurring the line between straight and gay, in accordance with the show's theme, for a moment, I thought Chris was one of the straight roomies from the show!)
Among the most fun aspects of the special is its entire new glossary of Gay/Straight terms: The Dorothy Dollar, Dykon, Tatusexuals, Metrosexuals, Lespolitation, Fag Stags, Yestergays, Hasbians and Lugs!
Produced by Thairin Smothers for World of Wonder (Gay Hollywood, Party Monster, The Complete Warhol), the special is narrated by Trev Brody, the young West Hollywood resident and voice-over artist who was brutally gay-bashed last year on the sidewalk in front of his apartment building.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13
ALL MY CHILDREN (ABC, noon) Last week, Bianca attempted to convince a skeptical Lena that she's found a new love, and Erica tearfully confided to Myrtle her fear that Bianca had been raped.
RENO 911! (COM, 9 p.m., 11:30 p.m.) Funny spoof of cop reality shows, including gay Lt. Dangle (Thomas Lennon).
ISAAC MIZRAHI (Oxygen, 9:30 p.m.)
SEX 2K: GAY CRUISES (MTV, midnight). Repeat.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 14
E! TRUE MELROSE PLACE (E!TV, noon). Remember gay Matt (Doug Savant)?
AMAZING RACE 4 (CBS, 7 p.m.) Chip and Reichen are still in the race.
QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY (Bravo, 7 p.m.) Repeat of Tuesday's program.
WILL AND GRACE (NBC, 8 - 9 p.m) Repeat: Grace and Leo's wedding.
ISAAC MIZRAHI (Oxygen, 9:30 p.m.)
QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY (NBC, 10 p.m.) Repeat: NBC airs a full-hour episode previously seen on Bravo—the best episode yet, in which Straight Guy John asks the Fab Five for help as he prepares to propose to his girlfriend.
QUEER EYE ON JAY LENO PART ONE (NBC, 10:35 p.m.) The Fab Five visit Jay Leno to prepare for his makeover.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 15
RUPERT EVERETT: BRAVO PROFILE (Bravo, 5 a.m.)
BOY MEETS BOY (Bravo, 5 p.m. - 7p.m.) Repeats.
ISAAC MIZRAHI (Oxygen, 9:30pm)
QUEER EYE ON JAY LENO PART TWO (NBC, 10:35 p.m.) The Fab Five return to show the results of Jay Leno's makeover.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 16
BOY MEETS BOY (Bravo, midnight -2 a.m.) Repeats.
QUEER EYE MARATHON (Bravo, 12:30 p.m., 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 17
ISAAC MIZRAHI (Oxygen, 12:30 a.m., 8 a.m., 8:30 a.m.)
QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY (Bravo, 1 a.m., 5 a.m.)
SEX AND THE CITY (HBO, 8 p.m.) Miranda likes what she sees in a new neighbor. Newlywed Charlotte regrets giving Harry permission to be himself.
THE WIRE (HBO, 9 p.m.) With Sonja Sohn as lesbian Det. Shakima Greggs.
MONDAY, AUGUST 18
TOTALLY GAY! (VH-1, 10 a.m., 5 p.m., 10 p.m., 1 a.m.)
HALF AND HALF (UPN, 8:30 p.m.) Repeat: Dee Dee mistakenly thinks Mona had a sexual dream about a woman and introduces Mona to a lesbian friend of hers.
ISAAC MIZRAHI (Oxygen, 9:30 p.m.)
TUESDAY, AUGUST 19
DAWSON'S CREEK (TBS, 10 a.m.) GTV Classic: Jack (Kerr Smith) comes out.
THE PRACTICE (FX, 10 a.m.) GTV Classic: John Larroquette won an Emmy for his first role as Joey Heric, a gay man who literally gets away with murdering his lover.
'It's about Marty. He's not himself,' Joey tells Ellenor and Eugene when they arrive at Heric's apartment at his request. The lawyers enter and discover Joey's lover, Marty, dead with a knife stuck in his chest. Joey confesses to the killing, but claims it was in self-defense.
This two-part episode concludes Wednesday at 10 a.m.
TOTALLY GAY! (VH-1, noon)
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (UPN, 7 p.m.) Repeat. With Alyson Hannigan as teen lesbian witch Willow.
QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY (Bravo, 7 p.m.) Repeat of last week's episode.
BOY MEETS BOY (Bravo, 8 p.m., midnight).
QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY (Bravo, 9 p.m., 11 p.m.) New episode.
REAL WORLD PARIS (MTV, 9 p.m.) Gay Simon, 18, has still remained mostly in the background.
NYPD BLUE (ABC, 9 p.m.) Repeat. With Bill Brochtrup as the precinct's gay receptionist John Irvin.
ISAAC MIZRAHI (Oxygen, 9:30pm)
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