Could the Emmys have been any gayer?

Jane Lynch

The first half hour of the Emmy Awards on Sunday night were gay. Gay. Gay. Gay. And lesbian.
Ryan Murphy, winner of best director of a comedy, kissed his boyfriend before running up on stage to accept his award.
Jane Lynch, who won best supporting actress in a comedy, kissed her wife and then thanked her on stage.
The controversy about ABC’s gay-friendly comedy “Modern Family” has been when will Cam and Mitchell kiss? They answered that question last night. Erik Stonestreet won best supporting actor in a comedy. He kissed his wife and then kissed his TV husband, Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
Neil Patrick Harris won best guest appearance in a comedy by an actor. Golden Girl Betty White won best guest appearance by an actress. Harris thanked the Academy for allowing a gay man to host the show two years in a row. (Harris, who hosted last year, is gay. No one would be surprised if Jimmy Fallon, who hosted this year, came out.)
The show straightened up after the first awards, with a few more gay Emmys through the night. Aaron Paul, who won best supporting actor in a drama for his role in “Breaking Bad,” kissed his partner. The writers for the Tony Awards won best writing for a special and “Modern Family” won best comedy.

8 Comments

Ian on August 30, 2010 at 1:28 pm

Wow bigoted much? Who cares if gay people, gay characters, gay directors won? This is Hollywood you realize right? I cant believe this is seriously an article. You call this journalism? You never see how straight everyone acted at the Oscars or anything like that do you. It isn’t news and shouldn’t be. Is sounds like you would like it to go back to the old days where gays were in the closet and no one discussed such things. Replace the word gay with black, latino, or asian and look how ridiculous this article sounds.

Ian on August 30, 2010 at 1:33 pm

To follow up my comment, I thought the tone was bigoted. If this is an LGBT site and supports and celebrates us so much the tone should be different. I didnt pay attention to the site at first and read this article not knowing it was an LGBT site. This shows you how someone can come across this article on google and see how words can mislead people. I know this site isnt bigoted but the tone of the article sure sounded that way. It is wonderful to celebrate equality in awards but to mock or make fun of it about how gay the awards show was does not help the movement for equality it mocks it and makes straight and narrow people agree. Just pointing out tone or at least implied tone. Thank you

David Taffet on August 30, 2010 at 2:24 pm

Saying the Emmys (at least the first half hour) was gay gay gay. And lesbian. … isn’t mocking. It’s celebrating. And this is our blog, our entertainment blog, not the hard news. Was I making fun of the show? Sure was. No reason to take all that self-celebration too seriously (especially after the two people I know who were up for awards lost, or had the awards stolen from them by shrews who put in completely inferior, undeserving performances).
Just pointing out that Jane kissed and thanked her wife. Erik kissed his wife and TV husband. Now ABC, get over yourself and show a kiss on the show cause your actors don’t care. And Aaron Paul didn’t kiss his partner. That was his co-star that he kissed, full-frontal, on-the-lips, passionately. Made me want to watch his show that I never heard of before.
But was I making fun of the whole thing? You betcha. It’s an awards show for television performances, not a political donation to people trying to take away my civil rights, or in the case of Target to someone who wants me dead. Keep it in perspective.

Kelly on August 30, 2010 at 2:12 pm

I understand the frustration when so many times bigotry is the reason for ‘reporting this’ but I think the point of this article was to show how far we’ve been able to come out of the closet at award shows that gay and lesbians couples kissed and were actually shown to do so..

wonderette on August 31, 2010 at 12:54 am

Um, Aaron Paul isn’t gay. He didn’t kiss his partner. The only person he touched was Bryan Cranston. He’s dating Jessica Lowndes. Can you people not use Google? And frankly if you actually paid attention you completely missed someone else who’s gay and actually thanked their partner on stage in their acceptance speech. Again, Google. Apparently you’ve never heard it.

David Taffet on August 31, 2010 at 9:40 am

Right. I corrected Aaron Paul in comment above. He kissed his co-worker passionately. Do I use Google? Yes, but this wasn’t something I cared enough about. I was just making observations. OK, so I must have missed another one. I wasn’t watching the show that carefully. I was really only watching to see if two really wonderful people I know and have worked with won. They didn’t. So who else thanked his or her partner that I missed?

wonderette on September 1, 2010 at 2:42 am

They aren’t publicly out so I don’t think it’s my place to say anything, but a simple Google search will tell you who it is pretty easily. In fact it was actually a trending search on Sunday night. I think that if you’re going to make observations and post them in such a manner that they should at least be fairly well informed and accurate. A lot of people might take you at your word, and not read the comments where the correction is contained or put forth the effort to further research the matter.

dude on September 3, 2010 at 12:06 am

Where’s Arnold when you need him?!

Ian on August 30, 2010 at 1:28 pm

Wow bigoted much? Who cares if gay people, gay characters, gay directors won? This is Hollywood you realize right? I cant believe this is seriously an article. You call this journalism? You never see how straight everyone acted at the Oscars or anything like that do you. It isn’t news and shouldn’t be. Is sounds like you would like it to go back to the old days where gays were in the closet and no one discussed such things. Replace the word gay with black, latino, or asian and look how ridiculous this article sounds.
Ian on August 30, 2010 at 1:33 pm

To follow up my comment, I thought the tone was bigoted. If this is an LGBT site and supports and celebrates us so much the tone should be different. I didnt pay attention to the site at first and read this article not knowing it was an LGBT site. This shows you how someone can come across this article on google and see how words can mislead people. I know this site isnt bigoted but the tone of the article sure sounded that way. It is wonderful to celebrate equality in awards but to mock or make fun of it about how gay the awards show was does not help the movement for equality it mocks it and makes straight and narrow people agree. Just pointing out tone or at least implied tone. Thank you
- David Taffet on August 30, 2010 at 2:24 pm
  
  Saying the Emmys (at least the first half hour) was gay gay gay. And lesbian. … isn’t mocking. It’s celebrating. And this is our blog, our entertainment blog, not the hard news. Was I making fun of the show? Sure was. No reason to take all that self-celebration too seriously (especially after the two people I know who were up for awards lost, or had the awards stolen from them by shrews who put in completely inferior, undeserving performances).
  Just pointing out that Jane kissed and thanked her wife. Erik kissed his wife and TV husband. Now ABC, get over yourself and show a kiss on the show cause your actors don’t care. And Aaron Paul didn’t kiss his partner. That was his co-star that he kissed, full-frontal, on-the-lips, passionately. Made me want to watch his show that I never heard of before.
  But was I making fun of the whole thing? You betcha. It’s an awards show for television performances, not a political donation to people trying to take away my civil rights, or in the case of Target to someone who wants me dead. Keep it in perspective.
Kelly on August 30, 2010 at 2:12 pm

I understand the frustration when so many times bigotry is the reason for ‘reporting this’ but I think the point of this article was to show how far we’ve been able to come out of the closet at award shows that gay and lesbians couples kissed and were actually shown to do so..
wonderette on August 31, 2010 at 12:54 am

Um, Aaron Paul isn’t gay. He didn’t kiss his partner. The only person he touched was Bryan Cranston. He’s dating Jessica Lowndes. Can you people not use Google? And frankly if you actually paid attention you completely missed someone else who’s gay and actually thanked their partner on stage in their acceptance speech. Again, Google. Apparently you’ve never heard it.
- David Taffet on August 31, 2010 at 9:40 am
  
  Right. I corrected Aaron Paul in comment above. He kissed his co-worker passionately. Do I use Google? Yes, but this wasn’t something I cared enough about. I was just making observations. OK, so I must have missed another one. I wasn’t watching the show that carefully. I was really only watching to see if two really wonderful people I know and have worked with won. They didn’t. So who else thanked his or her partner that I missed?
wonderette on September 1, 2010 at 2:42 am

They aren’t publicly out so I don’t think it’s my place to say anything, but a simple Google search will tell you who it is pretty easily. In fact it was actually a trending search on Sunday night. I think that if you’re going to make observations and post them in such a manner that they should at least be fairly well informed and accurate. A lot of people might take you at your word, and not read the comments where the correction is contained or put forth the effort to further research the matter.
dude on September 3, 2010 at 12:06 am

Where’s Arnold when you need him?!