Remember last June when the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation joined with racial sensitivity groups and pressured ABC to cancel broadcast of its already-filmed reality show "Welcome to the Neighborhood"? (See A Victory for the Self-Appointed Thought Police.) The show explored changing attitudes among suburbanites as a diverse group of families, including a gay couple, competed to win a $400,000 house by overcoming their neighbors' prejudices. GLAAD declared that the episodic format "created serious issues in terms of depicting the neighbors' journey from intolerance to acceptance," and that viewers of the earliest episodes might be misled into thinking prejudice was acceptable.
Well, the Washington Blade has now reported
that the gay couple, Steve and John Wright, who have an adopted
son, won the house! Can you imagine a more convincing, uplifting,
pro-gay message to have sent America? Good thing our media
watchdogs kept that from happening, huh?