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Pride? The Scott McMahan Response

For Pride 2010, we asked an eclectic group for their take on Gay Pride.   From living to loathing, the responses cover a wide spectrum - a rainbow of opinion, perhaps?

Makeup and grooming artist Scott McMahan has been seen around these parts before and will hopefully be seen again soon.  Here's his take: 

A few weeks ago my partner, Jorge, told me that he had never seen the '70's sitcom, Soap. For Christ's sake, Jodie Dallas was the first openly gay character on a weekly TV series! I added Soap to our Netflix instant viewing queue lickety split, and we got to watching. 

As much as I enjoyed revisiting the Campbells and Tates, I was kind of shocked by the kind of gay bashing in the name of comedy they got away with. It made me think.

Michael Jackson's This Is It, 2009

Michael Jackson was pronounced dead at 2:26 p.m.one year ago today.  "This Is It" is available for instant viewing on Netflix. While a flawed piece and perhaps overlong, it displays his genius at work in a straightforward manner and serves as appropriate memorial to the artist, if not the man.