Thursday, September 03, 2009
Dan Savage, Racism Has Its Rewards
Posted by Monica Roberts at 12:00 AM
TransGriot Note: This guest post is from my Canadian homegirl Renee at Womanist Musings
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/09/dan-savage-racism-has-its-rewards.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/09/dan-savage-racism-has-its-rewards.html)
Well, it seems that HBO has decided to give Dan Savage his own show, excuse me for a moment while I am reflexively ill. Dan is just the kind of edgy fauxgressive that the media loves to embrace. He does after all write about the great taboo – sex. To make matters even more appealing, he represents the type of gay White male that the media loves to portray.
He is educated and has class privilege – yup, that sums up the GLBT community and allows networks like HBO to put a checkmark beside their inclusive of all peoples box. No need to find a person of color in the GLBT community to promote, when the media can present yet another edgy White male.