Given that one of the people on the poster is an out gay man-- who is raising a child

That wasn't on the poster I saw.

I mean, Sean Hayes was on the poster I saw, but the plot wasn't, and neither was his bio. None of the plots were. I'm not asking a question about the shows, I'm asking a question about the *poster*.

The question about the handling of M/M relationships onscreen clearly doesn't include Sean Hayes' show until we have footage from it to decide on.

The question of network TV's attitude towards gay couples with a focus on M/M will encompass both the content of their shows and of their marketing campaigns. I'm sure one day real soon the billboard will have a M-M pair on equal par with any other pair, whatever the relationship is. My interpretation of the weather is that we're not there yet, and I have no American evidence to present to the sis (and a decent amount of Argentinian supporting evidence for hers). Is there a poster somewhere I'm missing?

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Ooh, I think I just found a job I really want, but I'm going to have to write a cover letter to spin my experience.

Yeah, I kind of don't care about imaginary billboard equality. If you're not satisfied by evidence of actual gay TV content, including the highest rated sitcom on TV, then have fun railing against the vast homophobic billboard conspiracy.

ETA: second highest, excuse me

Go, Dana, go!!!

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The second, yes!

If you're not satisfied by evidence of actual gay TV content, including the highest rated sitcom on TV, then have fun railing against the vast homophobic billboard conspiracy.

But she's talking about a TV market with far greater parity that "including the highest rated sitcom on TV." You really think I can make a case against "the most teased telenovela event of the season" with the third couple on a Modern Family poster? Especially when she tells me she doesn't have any "played for laughs" that she needs to overlook to get there, and I'm not convinced that US network TV doesn't.

Then again, gay marriage is legal everywhere in Argentina.

Today I learned that bus drivers around here encourage folks to wave their lit cell phone screen so they can spot 'em waiting at the bus stop in pre-dawn dark. And stop for them.

Reminds me of train signals.

I definitely want to go be an editor in Saudi Arabia, right?

You DO, Dana, you do.

Because if there's one thing an editing job screams, it's Saudi Arabia!