30 Days of Pride: What's on TV Tonight?
It's here! It's here!!! After months of anticipation, the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards are finally airing TONIGHT on Bravo at 7 PM ET/PT. You've seen the backstage footage, the fabulous photos -- maybe you even attended one of the ceremonies in person -- but now it's time to sit back, make yourself an Absolut martini, and watch the highlights from this year's Media Awards. 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards (Bravo, 7 PM ET/PT) PREMIERE
GLAAD's annual awards ceremony honoring media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the LGBT community and the issues that affect their lives is airing for the first time on Bravo. Special guests include Janet Jackson, Ellen DeGeneres, Rufus Wainwright, Sharon Stone, Cindy Crawford, Tom Ford, Kathy Griffin and many more.
After that, you KNOW you aren't changing the channel. Here's why:
Brokeback Mountain (Bravo, 9 PM ET/PT) BASIC CABLE PREMIERE
The critically acclaimed, Academy Award®-winning film, which also received the award for Outstanding Film - Wide Release at the 17th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, makes its basic cable premiere.
Think you've seen Brokeback one too many times? We dare you to watch the official trailer without getting teary-eyed.
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I've never been more disappointed than I was last night.
After reading GLAAD's press releases for the Bravo broadcast of Brokeback Mountain on June 27, I was looking forward to watching it. I knew they would probably edit most of the 4 letter words and the sex scene in the tent, but I was shocked at what they did to the other tent scene.
This pivitol scene is one of the most romantic and beautiful scenes in the history of film, and they chose to delete most of it. There was no sex, no nudity, no swearing in the scene. So I have to ask why?
Why would Bravo show a gay movie but feel the need to censor the "gay stuff'? It's one of the most important scenes in the film, and it's deletion changes the whole dynamic of the film.
Why was it ok to leave in the graphic violence when Ennis gives Jack a black eye, or when Jack get's his face bashed with the tire iron, but not ok to show the two men falling in love?
I realize that GLAAD probably had no prior knowledge of what was going to be edited, but I just thought you should know that there are a lot of fans of the movie who are very upset with what appears to be, if not a return to "the love that dare not speak it's name", then a return to "the love that dare not show it's face".
This is supposed to be "accurate and inclusive" ? It sure as hell doesn't feel that way, and it doesn't feel fair either.
Thank you John, you said it very well. I am also very upset about this. They left in a hard kiss but took away the tenderest, most loving gay scene I have ever seen.
I feel it was a slash job. An attempt to show gay love as just quickie sex.
I am very angry about it. Better to NOT show it than to butcher it. Ang Lee himself has said the second night was the pivotal scene in this movie.