I Want My M4MTV: A User's Guide To Gay Cable

Tagline: Gay Television On Demand
Date-ability: Gay-for-Pay. Here! only exists as an on-demand option in most cable networks
Top Shows: The Lair, Dante’s Cove
Flesh Factor: Medium High. The Lair and Dante’s Cove both show an occasional buttock and lots of topless men (with the odd, quick shot of full frontal thrown in), falling somewhere between the camp of NBC’s Passions and the explicit shots of HBO’s Tell Me You Love Me. Lots of the bodice-ripping indie films like Shelter
Other properties: Radio/Podcasts (Here with Josh and Sara)
Tolerant Parent: Regent Entertainment finances and produces varied gay independent programming
Porn Connections: Dylan Vox, aka GayVN-winner Brad Benton, stars on The Lair

Describes Itself As: “Entertainment programming for lesbians and gays and just about anyone who enjoys a gay point of view.”
Date-ability: Available in most major top urban markets, replacing VH1’s Mega-Hits Channel.
Top Shows: The Big Gay Sketch Show, Noah’s Arc
Flesh Factor: Low. Logo’s policy of “maintaining an appropriate level of
content standards for a sponsor-friendly cable channel” means that gay viewers won’t be seeing a rear-view anytime soon.
Straight Parent: Viacom’s MTV Networks
Little Gay Brother: American Idol also-ran Jim Verraros gives us video blog updates on this season’s contestants on LogoOnline.com and news service 365Gay keeps us up-to-date on all the latest news that’s not interesting enough for a regular site to report (“NY Rangers Not Doing Enough To Silence Homophobic Fans“)
Porn Connections: Former porn star Colton Ford has hosted the network’s NewNowNext music show.

QTV

Describes Self As: The first LGBT network, but angry
shareholders and unhappy employees accuse it of being a lying hooker
that stole all their money and spent it on crystal.
Date-ability: The network is no more. You could try being a Correctional Institute pen pal, though.
Porn Connections: It once was in talks to stream the soft-core version of porn soap Wet Palms

Tagline: Watch What Happens.
Date-ability: The loosest goose in the bunch takes on 79 million viewers a year, but asks that “U B discreet”
Top Shows: Project Runway, Make Me A Supermodel, Life on the D-List
Bottom Bitches: Boy Meets Boy, Queer Eye for the Straight Girl
Flesh Factor: Medium. Supermodel is shower-nozzle
masturbation material for sure, but otherwise you’re more likely to
hear fierce than see flesh.
Semi-Tolerant Parent: NBC Universal, which maintains as-long-as-the-neighbors-don’t-gossip standard
Little Gay Brother: OutZoneTV.com, where gay exiles from their reality shows (think Malan from Project Runway) maintain blogs on their post-show lives and charming flotsom like a “Gay of the Day” post.
Gay Porn Connection: Kathy Griffin Hosted the GayVN Awards in 2007

I Want My M4MTV: A User’s Guide To Gay Cable

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