RTEs gayfest

Fuinseog

earlier this week we had brokebackMountain. Tonights its Milk. Is there any reason why RTE is showing so many gay movies this week? Is is for us to gain a better understanding of their favourite presidential candidate?

efb

WTF, RTE showing Oscar winning movies!!!

would somebody please think of the children!!!

nkay1985

One of the more ludicrous stretches of imagination I've seen...

copacetic

Fuinseog wrote: »

earlier this week we had brokebackMountain. Tonights its Milk. Is there any reason why RTE is showing so many gay movies this week? Is is for us to gain a better understanding of their favourite presidential candidate?

They are trying to tell you something.

Fuinseog

copacetic wrote: »

They are trying to tell you something.

yeah, Milk was the first openly gay public representative and like norris seemed like a fun character.

Fuinseog

efb wrote: »

WTF, RTE showing Oscar winning movies!!!

would somebody please think of the children!!!

so you do not think it is a bit of a coincidence?

Cavehill Red

Fuinseog wrote: »

earlier this week we had brokebackMountain. Tonights its Milk. Is there any reason why RTE is showing so many gay movies this week? Is is for us to gain a better understanding of their favourite presidential candidate?

RTE are backing Mitchell, are they?
That probably explains his nosedive in the polls.

Meesared

Fuinseog wrote: »

so you do not think it is a bit of a coincidence?

No, youre being ridicilous.

Andrew33

I actually commented to the missus yesterday that there seemed to be a lot of "gay" themed programmes on the telly in general recently so I don't think OP is too far wrong.
I'm not sure there is a hidden agenda (normalisation) by the various media companies, I just think they'll air what they think will sell.

ted1

I noticed too.

efb

There's a lot of rugby matches on the tv too...

BBC showed the movie last night too, what's their agenda...

stimpson

Just looking at the RTE Guide there and they are planning on showing the Passion of St Tibulus next week. Apparently it's uncut too so you get to see the bit where St Tibulus tries to take the banana off that other lad.

Jeasus Joe, it's shocking.

mike65

Whats worse is that RTE are working in concert with the BBC (well known for its gays) as Milk was on BBC2 at the same time last night! :eek:

efb

mike65 wrote: »

Whats worse is that RTE are working in concert with the BBC (well known for its gays) as Milk was on BBC2 at the same time last night! :eek:

The beeb was at 10 tbf (Catch the stragglers)

emo72

me da used to work for rte. he claims that if you were gay you had a much better chance of getting on in rte. in all fairness the arts is full of luvvies so no surprise that rte would have their fair share.

im glad to tell you me da worked in rte for over 20 years and didnt do well. he was obviously super straight. well done da.

irishh_bob

efb wrote: »

There's a lot of rugby matches on the tv too...

BBC showed the movie last night too, what's their agenda...

well everyone knows thier is nothing as gay as rugby

Ellis Dee

Every time I look at the channel Animal Planet they seem to have a programme about some kind of wildlife. I'm sure there's an agenda, but don't know what it is.:):)

RadioRetro

emo72 wrote: »

me da used to work for rte. he claims that if you were gay you had a much better chance of getting on in rte. in all fairness the arts is full of luvvies so no surprise that rte would have their fair share.

im glad to tell you me da worked in rte for over 20 years and didnt do well. he was obviously super straight. well done da.

Sorry, but that's bulldoodoo... I have many straight friends and former colleagues doing very well there.

emo72

not disagreeing with you. Just passing on his observation on the matter. He worked there in the 70s and 80s. It may have been different then.

Plautus

Surely in the 70s and 80s, under Section 31, as enforced by Gerry Collins and afterwards The Cruiser (i.e. Conor Cruise O'Brien), with Eoghan Harris in the production department, RTE was a place where you had to be anti-Republican to the nth? Which was funny, because the only secret organisation that had actually 'infiltrated' the place was the Irish Communist Party.

Never heard of the head honchos or broadcasters at the station being gay in this time period. So I'll probably take the word of your Da with a pinch of salt.

The Scientician

That film they showed tonight Ass Destroyers #7 hasn't won any Oscars.

stimpson

Plautus wrote: »

Never heard of the head honchos or broadcasters at the station being gay in this time period. So I'll probably take the word of your Da with a pinch of salt.

So nobody in RTE was openly gay when gayness was a criminal offence? Strange that.

Anyway, not all of RTE was gay, just RTE 2. RTE 1 was, and still is staffed with Fianna Failers who, ironically are all now repressed and in denial, while the gays are free to screen movies with actual artistic merit regardless of the sexual orientation of the plot.

The only exceptions to this rule are Gay Byrne and the Plank, named after his ability to get wood at inopportune moments, like the funeral of Pope John Paul II

Plautus

So nobody in RTE was openly gay when gayness was a criminal offence? Strange that.

Sure, but anecdote still isn't great positive evidence.

Snickers Man

irishh_bob wrote: »

well everyone knows thier is nothing as gay as rugby

What's your point?

Yeah some leading rugby people came out as being gay. Gareth Thomas and the referee Nigel Owens.

And nobody batted an eyelid. After all, when you've tackled Jonah Lomu in full flight, like Thomas has, or imposed discipline on some savage French packs, as Owens has done, you don't have to prove your manhood to anyone.

Ditto with being a Cork hurling goalkeeper.

No leading soccer player has ever come out as being gay. Unless you count Justin Fashanu as a leading player and he was so villified for it that he committed suicide later.

Says more about soccer players and fans than rugby or GAA people if you ask me.

Oh and many of us know that a particularly macho rugby player, from these islands shall we say, who performed particularly heroically at this World Cup will probably officially "come out" very soon. But until then, it's his business.

InigoMontoya

Fuinseog wrote: »

so you do not think it is a bit of a coincidence?

Actually, it probably is exactly that. A coincidence. They happen all the time.