We used to joke that Lifetime was "television for women and gay men." Only if its more profitable and marginalizing. Their new movie aired last night: "The 19th Wife." Sure, they run gay schlock if its campy and super queer like "On the Road with Austin and Santino," but shows with gay people whom the audience might actually identify with? Cut that shit out right quick. Gays are funny and non-threatening and less than humans-- they're cute, funny, fashionable pets! Get your own gay BFF and be the popular girl! But said gay friend must be super faggy. No football-playing gays please.
"The 19th Wife" was written by a gay man and is the story of "Jordan, who has been excommunicated from the Mormon Church, and his efforts to help his mother, a member of a polygamous sect who has been accused of killing her husband." The secondary storyline (second to rescuing the mother from a sect) is the life, love and relationship of Jordan with his boyfriend Tom. Not that you would be able to tell from the movie, which changed the main character to straight and eliminated completely the story of his life, who he is, what he does, and why he might have the relationship he does with his mother and the Mormon church.
AfterElton has the story.
WTF Lifetime?
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