A Different Reality?

Thinking (involuntarily) about the boring and preachy television I was exposed to last night, I can't help wondering why in the world does Hollywood makes so many shows about homosexuality.

The fact is, the steady and persistent percentage of homosexuals in the human population throughout history and across cultures is something like 3-6%. (6% being the high that gay activists insist on.) Among billions that's a lot of people. But still, it's a small percentage. Very small. And it's not growing. (Unlike other "minorities", birth-rate is not a factor.) It's been approximately the same they (people who know about such things) figure, for...well...ever.

But, if you were an alien watching American television you would come away with the impression that 30-40% of human beings were homosexual. To say gays are "over-represented" on television is to state the wildly obvious. The question is, "Why?"

Sure, Hollywood is overflowing with weepy Liberals, known for their panoply of "causes". But why this particular one? And why such single-minded, long-term persistence, considering the well-documented fickleness of the Hollywood Trend-Elite?

It isn't just "liberal politics". There are thousands of emoting Liberals in the rest of the country for whom homosexual rights barely register on their radar. If asked, they'll indicate support, of course, but they don't inject the issue into everything they do.

Then it occurred to me that maybe, rather than just being a typical Hollywood "cause", it is, in fact, an actual representation of their reality. No, I mean actual reality, the real kind of reality...not their vacuous poppy dreams of Utopia.

Seriously, what is the likely gay/straight ratio in Hollywood? Could it be 30/70, or even 40/60? I don't have any statistics, and maybe I'm crazy, but I don't think it's completely out of the question.

So in a world of "artists"—writers, producers, directors, makup-artists, set-designers, costuming directors, hair-stylists, fashion-designers, style-consultants—populating every page, scene, show and shot with what, to average Americans seems like an inordinate number of gays and gay "issues", may just be an accurate reflection of Hollywood's reality. Its actual, real-life demographics—what their world really does look like.

Now if this is the case, rather than being schizophrenically "out of touch with reality" which is what most of us generally assume, this would make them merely provincial.

Oh my God, how embarrassing for them. There is no doubt it my mind that they'd much rather be considered insane than parochial, considering their pretentious swaggering as worldly-thinkers.

It rather makes them the "country cousins" of the story, doesn't it?

The Gunslinger