ok if there's been a thread on this i apologize but this show is da bomb!!! it's on bravo tuesday nights and i hear NBC re-airs itonthursdays...omg...if you haven't seen it--you have a mission!

This show is hilarious and the guys they makeover are pathetic, they're like miracle workers.

I want to watch Straight Eye for the Queer Guy, where a bunch of construction workers make over a hairdresser.

Anxiety said:

co-

I love this show, tonite was a good one...and that straight guy WAS FUCKING HOT...specially with the cowboy hat, I love cowboys

endorphin74 said:

hard to find a hot guy that is also nice, and not struck on his body and hair products

he had me at the hat

Great show, great make-over with the guy tonight. Looks wise, they really didn't have to do much, but what they did with his wardrobe and apartment was amazing.

His girlfriend was beautiful, and the whole tent thing was fantastic.

The Fab Five are awesome! I would love to hang with them just to laugh my ass off with them... especially the blonde one... he's too funny.

Great show.

OMG I just saw the show for the first time and I loved it!! It was hilarious and the guy who was getting made over was soo cute and soo sweet and I'm glad his girlfriend said yes when he proposed!

This show is great!

But like, whats the purpose of the bald guy? In one episode, his whole contribution was writing something on a chalk board, in the next episode all he did was buy some CDs, and in another episode he got some books for the coffee table. LOL.

Tom said:

Jai? he is my favorite. he is the culture man. chooses music, romantic things. need i point out it was him that cmae up with the fantastic "yes kaziram kazeed" thing last night?

and am a total loser for crying last night while watching it when she said yes?

jthad1129 said:

Correctamundo!

Here are two things I don't like about this show:

1. It perpetuates the image that gay men live by a self-imposed stereotype. We all have perfect hair, perfect tastes in clothes and music and alla that, that we're witty and glib and wear trendy shoes, even when we're at the gym (which is most of the time). BLEEAERGAARRGGGHH!!!

2. It glamorizes the homoerotic fetishization of straight men, that whole "desire of the unobtainable object of desire" bullshit. I know gay guys who are almost EXCLUSIVELY attracted to straight guys because they like going after what they know they can't get, or what they think will be difficult to get. BLAEARRERERERRGGHH!!! I want a guy who's happily, openly queer. I want a guy who goes there with pride and glee. I want a guy who is willing to write an encyclopedia about sucking cock, with a close up of his face on the cover, and ads for his amazing hummer technique pasted on billboards all across the land.

Sometimes the way mainstream culture represents gay guys really annoys me. And the way we always eat it up annoys me even more.

cborgman said:

no, cos I got teary too!

endorphin74 said:

aww...kitty!
i was holding my breath in the pause too. i was afraid to breathe.

I don't like it when they go in and trash 'everything' the guy has. I wish they would stop for a second and say, oh i like these pictures, or chair, or shoes. Something positive so it doesn't crush his whole self esteem. Everything else is great, you don't have to crush there feelings

Love the show. Recognize the stereotype issue, don't give a fuck. I'm so happy queers are on TV making fun of straight people for a change that I don't even CARE what the premise of the show is.

Best thing on TV since. . .maybe forever.

tackam said:

I miss that guy Hollywood from the "Mannequin" movies.

Anxiety said:

ac COMPLETELY different type of stereotype.

A straight guy's opinion on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy...

I love this show--I find it very entertaining, and it's one of the few things I watch on television these days. Yes, I do recognize the stereotype problem. OTOH, it presents gay men as people to be admired (instead of ridiculed--remember the "Men on..." skits on In Living Color back in the early 1990s?), and the positive interaction between straight and gay guys seems to be new ground for television.

I see more gay stereotypes at a gay bar on a saturday night, than I see on this show. We're kind of shooting ourselves in the foot if we're going to agrue that this is an innacurate portrayal of gay men, when the fab 5 reflects the characteristics and interests present in a great portion of us.

They're not all raging flaming queens. The interior decorator guy and the chef guy have a (slightly) more masculine demeanor.

But theres also an undertone of feminine gay men as being inferior, that I have a hard time agreeing with.
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Tom said:

exactly. the only one that could even be consrtued as being an offensive steretype is the clothes one, but even then not really.

matt said:

What a surprise

cborgman said:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that a DIFFERENT guy? I thought the bald guy who wrote on the chalkboard in ep. 2 was black, while Jai on ep. 3 looked middle eastern? Anyways, I think they replaced him (Jai is much cuter) :p

anemone said:

there was one episode that jai was not in that some black guy was there instead, nad no one explained it.
i lovelovelove jai. he is so freaking adorable. my other fave is tom, the food and wine guy. so smart and witty, and hella-cute in that refined way

jai jai jai

jthad1129 said:

he is SOOO adorable. normally, i am not into guys that are that soft spoken, but he is sooo cute.

he is gorgeous, but more importantly, C-H-A-R-M-I-N-G!

cborgman said:

He is a little thin for me, thats the only flaw

jthad1129 said:

agreed

Ooh, we have the same taste! :p
Jai is adorable! I like the grooming guy the best probably, and the food and wine guy .. even though he reminds me of Kurt Loder

I'm a bit nuts about the food guy. . .Tom, I think? With the glasses? He is excellence. Nerdy queer wine snob sort. . .I wish my husband would bring one of THOSE home. . .

anemone said:

<--- totally attracted to Kurt Loder