My Fabulous Gay Wedding

[beerbecue]

I am a huge Scott Thompson fan! I would love to see this show...

I will probably have to wait for a DVD release, or my move to New York, where I may be able to pick up some Canadian airwaves!! Very few cable companies carry Canadian TV (what ever happened to SCTV, or KITH reruns)... It is not even easy to get the BBC in my current market..

Sounds like the show is a hoot!!

[Ugly Bear]

Unfortunately, with the neo-puritanism that is pervading the States, I will probably have to wait for a DVD release, or my move to New York, where I may be able to pick up some Canadian airwaves!!

You are so right about rampant neo-puritanism pervading the USA. Ever since Tom Hanks won an Oscar for Philadelphia, it's been well-nigh impossible to see anything other than fundamentalist Christian images on TV. We have no programs like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Queer Eye for the Straight Girl, Queer as Folk, or The L Word. There are no 8-years-running sitcoms with gay main characters, and there are no gay supporting characters to be found in any American TV program. Any such show that might barely make it onto the air will be crushed by such ratings bonanzas as Revleations. It's just channel after channel of dour, jowly men wearing weird hats with buckles on them.

How fortunate that we have Canadian TV to enlighten us. We should all be grateful.

[beerbecue]

I will agree with Chasem,

Sarcasm escapes many.....

[Graham]

I will say no more, this isn't the place for a discussion on this.....

correct

[Colin]

That was quite a funny show.

I did find it funny that both guys didn't originally want to wear a kilt (there were Scottish roots), as they may have come across as feminine and stereotypically gay. However when both tried on the kilts, they commented on how butch they both felt.

Both of the men looked good in their kilts and represented them well. Let's remember, kilts are for guys in general.

The only reason this show wouldn't run in the US, is because Canada allows same sex marriage, where as the US does not.

[Ugly Bear]

The only reason this show wouldn't run in the US, is because Canada allows same sex marriage, where as the US does not.

Absolutely right! That's why there would NEVER be a miniseries run on Bravo called Gay Weddings, and why this same miniseries would never be released on DVD. You just can't DO that in America. We would NEVER broadcast anything contrary to the way things are.

[Pittsburgh Kilts]

Where I grew up, we received one Canadian station (CFPL-TV, from London, Ontario). You have to admit, Ugly Bear, that there is one major gap in American television that only Canadian stations are willing to fill: Curling. I want Curling on my TV!

(In defense of this thread, curling is a Scottish sport that is often performed in a kilt. I assume it is also performed by gay men, who may or may not be able to get married and/or watch gay marriage on television in American and/or Canada. But they can't watch curling here, darn it.)

[KMacT]

The only reason this show wouldn't run in the US, is because Canada allows same sex marriage, where as the US does not.

Except in Massachusetts where same-sex marriages are legally performed and recognized. And unless I am mistaken, a marriage recognized by one State is respected as a marriage in the remaining States.

Kevin

P.S. Although there is a law before the Canadian Parliament that will make same-sex marriages legal in all parts of Canada, at present they are legal only in most of the Provinces.

[Ugly Bear]

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And unless I am mistaken, a marriage recognized by one State is respected as a marriage in the remaining States.

You are mistaken ... now. The Defense of Marriage Act ended that.

Back to Kilts in the Media: The miniseries Gay Marriages -- which does not exist, and certainly isn't released on DVD, and has been seen by no one in America -- features two kilted pipers and a kilted drummer at the posh, downtown wedding reception of one of the couples. The grooms themselves wore ordinary day suits.

[Severian]

I just saw that show with the kilts in the wedding. It was very cool! The show on DirecTV's LOGO channel is titled, "First Comes Love", and Scott Thompson arranges marriages on it. It makes me really miss Kids in the Hall.