Friday, December 18, 2009

Know your lgbt history - Martin Lawrence and that 'gay guy' on his show

Martin (1992-1997), a sitcom starring comedian Martin Lawrence was broad and not for everyone's tastes.

I'm ashamed to admit that I found certain episodes and characters (particularly the ones created by Lawrence) to be hilarious.

Then there are other characters who are just downright insulting.

One character in particular is the gay man who hits on Lawrence in two episodes.

I will admit that I sometimes find a broad portrayals of a gay men to be funny, but not on a show which features no lgbt characters except for that broad one.

And especially not when the show is geared towards a community (in this case being the African-American community) in which lgbts are mostly pushed in the closet.

Hell, the gay guy isn't even given a name (although Lawrence does call him a "fake RuPaul).

In this clip, Lawrence is trying to distract his girlfriend by making suggestive motions. The gay guy picks up on his vibes starting at 3:25. Keep watching the clip so that you can see what Lawrence's friends does so as to tell the gay guy that they aren't interested. It can be considered as funny, but I found it insulting:



Then in this clip from another episode, Lawrence meets the unnamed gay guy at the DMV. Phony hilarity ensues at 0:37:



Past Know your lgbt history posts:

Know your lgbt history - The Ricki Lake Show

Know your lgbt history - Which Way Is Up

Know your lgbt history - Gays in Primetime Soaps

Know your lgbt history - Boys Beware

Know your lgbt history - The Boondocks

Know your lgbt history - Mannequin

Know your lgbt history - The Warriors

Know Your LGBT History - New York Undercover

Know Your LGBT History - Low Down Dirty Shame

Know Your LGBT History - Fortune and Men's Eyes

Know your lgbt history - California Suite

Know your lgbt history - Taxi (Elaine's Strange Triangle)

Know your lgbt history - Come Back Charleston Blue

Know your lgbt history - James Bond goes gay

Know your lgbt history - Windows

Know your lgbt history - To Wong Foo and Priscilla

Know your lgbt history - Blazing Saddles

Know your lgbt history - Sanford and Son

Know your lgbt history - In Living Color

Know your lgbt history - Cleopatra Jones and her lesbian drug lords

Know your lgbt history - Norman, Is That You?

Know your lgbt history - The 'Exotic' Adrian Street

Know your lgbt history - The Choirboys

Know your lgbt history - Eddie Murphy

Know your lgbt history - The Killing of Sister George

Know your lgbt history - Hanna-Barbera cartoons pushes the 'gay agenda

'Know your lgbt history - Cruising

Know your lgbt history - Foxy Brown and Cleopatra Jones

Know your lgbt history - I Got Da Hook Up

Know your lgbt history - Fright Night

Know your lgbt history - Flowers of Evil

The Jeffersons and the transgender community  





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2 comments:

Dawn said...

Thank you for that great list of links - I have some watching to do this weekend.

BlackTsunami said...

Knowing how iffy youtube is, some of them may not work. But I'm sure the majority of them do.