SEAN HAYES COPS OUT AGAIN
'So, ladies and gentlemen, members of the media, colleagues and friends, I'm ... being selfish again.' With these words, spoken at the podium of The GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles April 26, Sean Hayes officially became The Most Boringly Closeted Person Alive. Hayes, who didn't seem to mind talking about his sexuality in his pre-Will & Grace days while promoting the gay indie film Billy's Hollywood Screen kiss, somehow imagined that he was being clever when he made his mock statement at the GLAAD Awards.
Instead, he just came off as tedious and annoying, his feeble attempt at humor in effect mocking the entire nature of the evening. It's one thing to be in the closet and stay in the closet. It's quite another to toy with the 'shock' of coming out and bore the world with phrases like 'I prefer not talk about my sexuality.' (Has anyone ever met a straight person who 'preferred not to talk about (their) sexuality' ???)
Note to Sean: remember, people love JACK, not necessarily Sean ....
WEDNESDAY, MAY 7
ALL MY CHILDREN (ABC, noon) Last week saw the first on-screen lesbian steam room massage in Daytime TV History!!! What could be next ... ???
DAWSON'S CREEK (WB, 7 p.m.) Countdown to the May 14 Series Finale: Jack (Kerr Smith), Jen and Grams say goodbye to the gang as they prepare to move to New York (Don't worry, though—Jack returns in next week's Series Finale, which catches up with the gang five years in the future).
SOUL FOOD (SHO, 9 p.m.) Bird's deepening friendship with her lesbian friend Eva raises eyebrows.
PRIME TIME GLICK (COM, 9:30 p.m.) Eric McCormack.
THURSDAY, MAY 8
WILL AND GRACE (NBC, 8:10 p.m) Minnie Driver returns. Karen's husband Stan dies suddenly in the middle of their divorce proceedings, and the funeral becomes a contest of wills between Karen and Minnie.
Meanwhile, Grace is shocked when recently returned husband Leo (Harry Connick Jr.) is called back into service for a charitable medical organization overseas and asks her to make the trip with him.
E. R. (NBC, 9 p.m.) Romano has his arm amputated. With Laura Innes as lesbian Dr. Kerry Weaver.
MEGAN MULLALLY ON LETTERMAN (10:35 p.m.)
FRIDAY, MAY 9
E! TRUE ROCK HUDSON (E! TV, 1 p.m.)
UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE (Ch. 20. 6:30 p.m.) 'Behind Closed Doors' Texas's homosexual-conduct law and how the Supreme Court might rule on it. Guests include Stanford law professor Pamela S. Karlan and Douglas W. Kmiec, dean of the Catholic University Law School.
E! TRUE DIANA ROSS (E! TV, 7 p.m.)
GALE HAROLD ON LAW AND ORDER: S.V.U. (NBC, 9 p.m.) Gale Harold (Brian on Queer As Folk) guest stars as a doctor interested in human cloning.
UNDRESSED MARATHON (MTV, 1 a.m. - 5 a.m.) College and high school sexual shenanigans, often gay and lesbian.
SUNDAY, MAY 11
SIX FEET UNDER (HBO, 8 p.m.)
BEVERLY HILLS 90210: THE 10-YEAR HIGH SCHOOL REUNION (FOX, 8pm) Not as fun as it sounds ... instead of catching up with where Brandon, Brenda and Dylan are today, this is a reunion of the cast talking about the show with clips (yawn).
QUEER AS FOLK (SHO, 9 p.m.) Woody's is closed down after an Amateur Strip Contest. Conservative candidate Stockwell discovers Brian is gay—and fires him. Ted's humiliated when he tends bar at one of Emmett's soirées. Melanie promises Lindsay she'll work less during her pregnancy, just before landing the case of a lifetime.
MONDAY, MAY 12
WHITNEY HOUSTON ON BOSTON PUBLIC (FOX, 7 p.m.) When a student writes a 10-page letter to Whitney Houston asking her to attend the prom with him, faculty and students are amazed when she accepts the invitation. At the sight of Whitney, Aisha (American Idol loser Tamyra Gray) gets stage fright about singing in front of her idol—so Whitney gives a surprise performance of her new single!
TUESDAY, MAY 13
JUDGE MATHIS (Ch. 6, 11 a.m.) A lesbian relationship leads to a child-welfare controversy.
JERRY SPRINGER (Ch. 12, 2 p.m. ) 'Lesbian Threesomes With Mom'
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (UPN, 7 p.m) The countdown to the May 20 Series Finale continues: Visiting Angel (David Boreanaz) helps Buffy in her struggle to slay Caleb (Nathan Fillion).
NYPD BLUE (ABC, 9 p.m.) New: Kim Delaney returns for one episode. Andy calls on Det. Diane Russell. (Delaney) for help with Connie's custody battle against her motherless niece's grandparents. With Bill Brochtrup as the precinct's gay receptionist John Irvin.
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