Italian TV puts gays front and center
Ever since the conservative politician Rocco Buttiglione (shown) denounced homosexuality as a sin, Italy's gays have been having a field day. It may be coincidence, but state and private networks have suddenly begun broadcasting programs featuring gay leads. In recent weeks, an Italian version of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" went on the air. A television miniseries about a tough cop accepting his gay son got a 30 percent audience share recently as well. Gay commentators are suddenly abounding on talk shows. Corriere della Sera's weekly magazine even splashed the phenomenon on a recent cover, asking: "Being homosexual is trendy. Too much so?" And Prima, a media magazine, editorialized last month: "Oscar Wilde defined homosexuality as 'the love that dare not speak its name.' It would seem that now we don't know how to make it shut up."International Herald Tribune[Date: 09-Feb-05 ]
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