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July 25, 2003

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The small, lavender screen Emmy nominations continue to be very queer this year

by Kaizaad Kotwal

Cable giant HBO and its scintillating funeral home drama Six Feet Under led all contenders (in comedy, drama, or other genres) for the September Emmy Awards nominations, announced July 17. The 2003 Primetime Awards telecast airs on Fox September 21.

Six Feet Under, the quirky creation by gay writer and executive producer Alan Ball (American Beauty), collected an almost record-breaking 16 nominations, followed by NBC's gay-friendly The West Wing with an impressive 15. However, HBO obliterated its broadcast and cable rivals with a whopping 109 overall nominations, miles ahead of its nearest competitor, NBC, with 77.

In the comedy category once again it was queer programming that was king. HBO's Sex and the City, extremely hot with gay audiences, led with 13 nods while the everhilarious Will & Grace from NBC garnered 12 nominations. Once again, all four leading cast members of the show were nominated in their respective acting categories, proving that this quartet is the most consistently acknowledged acting core of any comedy programming in the history of sitcoms.

Since the birth of gay-specific programs like Will and Grace and Six Feet Under, queer characters, storylines and artists have been at the forefront not only of the new era in television, but also at the top of the hill in artistic excellence. Like in the past few years, the Emmys have a lavender aura about them

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this year, with many, many nominations that are of interest to the GLBT artists and audiences alike.

Even outside of the major categories, queer television has been gaining strength. For Outstanding Animated Program (Less Than One Hour), Fox's The Simpsons is nomi-

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nated for its hilarious episode titled Three Gays of the Condo. The television broadcast of the perpetually-retiring Cher's Farewell Tour, extremely popular with gay men, accumulated six nominations, the same number as the HBO made-for-TV film Normal about an all-American family whose lives are turned upside down when the patriarch has sex reassignment surgery. Gay scribe Tennessee Williams' The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone charted up five nods while Soldier's Girl, the true story of a young soldier beaten to death for falling in love with a transgender nightclub performer, got two nominations.

This is also the first year when Emmys will be awarded in a Reality Television category, including shows like American Idol, Survivor and The Amazing Race, which have all featured popular and long-lasting queer

contestants.

Absent once again from any kind of peer acknowledgement was Showtime's Queer as Folk, which although extremely popular with gay audiences, has failed to garner more universal acclaim. Perhaps if the show moved away from gratuitous sex and ubiquitous penis-voyeurism and focused its energies on better plot lines and character development, then maybe it too could vie for awards like the infinitely more intelligent and sexier Six Feet Under.

The gritty and compelling prison drama Oz was also shut out, but this series, unlike Queer as Folk, is very deserving of critical praise and Emmy nominations.

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