Tag Archives: MTV

Porno Pete To MTV: Cancel Dan Savage

“Number One: Dan Savage is a radical and raunchy homosexual activist who gives unhealthy and reckless sex advice. He aggressively works to undermine the historic ethic of marital fidelity by championing the twisted notion that married couples should allow outside sex — like so many ‘monogamish’ homosexual male couples do. Incredibly, Savage argues that this would lower the divorce rate. …

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Headline Of The Day

“Pregnant, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life.”

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Savage U Launches April 3rd

Dan Savage’s MTV series, Savage U, will launch at 11pm on Tuesday, April 3rd. “Savage U” will air twelve episodes, each focused on a particular campus and its culture. The schools include the University of Maryland, Ohio State University, East Carolina University, Auburn University, the University of Illinois Chicago, Cornell University, the University of Oregon, the University of Central Florida, …

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It Gets Better Lands MTV Special

MTV will air a star-studded hour-long special about It Gets Better. Among those slated to appear are Zachary Quinto and Adam Levine. It just keeps getting better over at MTV and Logo — and for gay teens on TV. EW has exclusively learned that the sister cable networks are jointly prepping a special titled It Gets Better, which will chronicle …

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MTV To Feature Gay Chubby Chasers

True Life airs this Wednesday.

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Asshat Of The Day – David Caton

“We’re challenging Mars-Wrigley to stop advertising and stop supporting this kind of content that is aimed at an immoral behavior that children would embrace. It [MTV’s Degrassi] has content that is very extraordinarily explicit towards transgender and homosexual lifestyles. It often has promotions on there that direct teens to organizations that will encourage them to embrace and accept the transgender …

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AFA’s “One Million Moms” Vs Target

The American Family Association has handed off their campaign against Target to their new One Million Moms group. Last week the AFA denounced the retail giant for advertising alongside a Trevor Project PSA on LGBT suicide. The Trevor Helpline promotion aired during the “Beat It” episode of Teen Nick’s Degrassi series when teen Riley, the openly gay football captain and …

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Lady Gaga Opens VMAs In Drag

Watch this now before the YouTube police swoop in.

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Like A Persian

MTV promotes the upcoming VMA awards with a feline recreation of Madonna’s famed performance on the show’s 1984 edition. (Via – Boy Culture)

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Abercrombie Disses Jersey Shore

In an amusing reverse-endorsement offer, yesterday Abercrombie & Fitch said they would pay the cast of Jersey Shore to stop wearing their brand on the show. “We are deeply concerned that Mr. Sorrentino’s {The Situation] association with our brand could cause significant damage to our image. We understand that the show is for entertainment purposes, but believe this association is …

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MTV Turns 30

And Boy Culture points us to this magazine spread featuring the original VJs. (Nina Blackwood is almost 70!) I remember sitting on the edge of the sofa with my roommate, anxiously waiting for our cable signal to go from snow to MTV on the first day our local system began carrying it. I also remember how disappointed we were when …

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MTV Airs Uncritical “Ex-Gay” Program

Unless I missed some disclaimer at the top of the show, last night’s “ex-gay” episode of MTV’s Real Life was completely uncritical of the abuses, torture, and brainwashing inherent in “reparative therapy.” Weigh in if you saw the show, please. I’m looking for clips.

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FLORIDA: Anti-Gay Group Launches MTV Boycott Over Transgender Character

The Florida Family Association has launched an advertiser boycott against MTV because the network’s Degrassi series positively portrays a young transgender man. Degrassi airs on MTV’s Teen Nick channel. FFA chairman David Caton (left) writes in a letter to the show’s advertisers: It is very concerning that your company would knowingly advertise during a television show that condones and promotes …

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Savage Vs. Gallagher, Round 2

“I do not intend to ‘educate your college students,’ Maggie. Your college students—the offspring of NOM supporters—are being ‘educated’ at Brigham Young, Liberty University, Bob Jones, Seattle Pacific University, and other Christianist madrassas. My college tours typically take me to secular institutions of higher learning where the kids were hooking up and having sex long before my visit to campus. …

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Maggie Gallagher Denounces Dan Savage

Maggie Gallagher puts her hooves to the NOM blog today to declare that Dan Savage’s sexual ethic of valuing honesty over fidelity is going to be a disaster for the viewers of his upcoming MTV show. There was a thoughtful analysis of [Savage’s] sexual ethics in the Washington Monthly recently, for folks who want to get a taste of what …

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MTV Picks Up Dan Savage’s Show

MTV has committed to ten episodes of Dan Savage’s sex advice show, Savage U. The show will follow Savage as he travels across the country taking personal questions from students while on tour of college campuses. “He could be our Dr. Drew,” Janollari said MTV’s head of programming David Janollari of Savage and the new show. “He’s able to do …

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Today In Predictable Navel-Gazing Over-Intellectualizing Queer Theorist Attacks On Dan Savage

In what feels like a rerun of this JMG post about an earlier attack on Dan Savage’s It Gets Better Project, today blogger Renee Martin announces that Savage is unworthy of an MTV show. Because he’s only interested in the civil rights of people who look just him. Or something. Simply because Savage is a gay man, does not mean …

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Dan Savage Lands MTV Pilot

Entertainment Weekly reports: Savage Love may be coming to MTV. Columnist Dan Savage is working on an advice show for the network. MTV has ordered a pilot that follows Savage as he tours college campuses giving his brand of brutally honest (and sometimes graphic) sex and relationship advice. In the format, Savage takes questions from an auditorium audience (similar to …

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Rip Taylor As The Black Swan

The Advocate reports that this MTV/Jackass spoof of Black Swan was shown to the audience, which included the movie’s cast, at last night’s Critics Choice Awards. I had just been wondering what Rip Taylor was up to these days. He’s 77! Sadly, there are no buckets of confetti in this clip.

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The Snooki Ball

As part of MTV’s New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square, the network will lower Jersey Shore cast member Snooki in a giant hamster ball. The ball will drop (violently, some would hope) from the seventh floor balcony of MTV’s studios.

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