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Gavin Newsom Is Going to Hell and Mormon Wives are Lesbians

There are two series shows on cable right now that are taking a chance by highlighting gay and lesbian story lines within their show.

Showtime has a new series about a woman with multiple personality disorder called The United States of Tara. In the series there is a storyline with the main characters son who is coming to terms with the fact that he is gay. He has a crush on a boy at school, and I have been watching the show to see how things play out.

This week’s story line included a ‘Hell House’ performance by the Evangelical church youth group that Tara’s son was recruited into.

The performance showed a teen girl having an abortion because she had sex with the whole football team, and also included a scene of hell. Of course there was fire and brimstone, and lost souls there, too. The narrator of the show went on to say who was there in hell, and he was yelling off “Movie Stars”, “Butt Fuckers”, and “Gavin Newsom”.

It was interesting to me that Gavin Newsom has become a name of someone you would see in hell.

Honestly, most scenes I have seen like this work with the names of the people in hell being something like “Adolf Hitler” or “Saddam Hussein”. Anyhow, in the end of the ‘Hell House’ on The United States of Tara, you could wind up in heaven according to the churches philosophy, but in the process Tara’s son is a silent witness to the bigotry and homophobic attitudes the church is perpetuating within its youth.

A cable series with a recently lesbian storyline on HBO is called Big Love.

This is a series about a polygamist family and their experiences. It’s an intimate look into a polygamist lifestyle, and interesting to note the different situations this family finds themselves in. Deciding whose turn it is to have a baby, whose turn it is to have a career, and whose turn is it to be intimate with their husband is one example of what we see the wives handle in this show. I have been watching this show here and there, and I have noticed a couple of times where there are lesbian moments between the women on the show.

For one thing it’s kind of interesting when the husband AND all 3 of his wives start ‘dating’ another woman as the potential 4th wife.

The first wife and her husband talk about the potential new wife and she says she likes her and wants to marry her. Her reasons are for wifely duty sharing of course, but it was a little different for me to see a straight woman interested in courting another straight woman.

This last episode I caught however was blatant, episode 31.

A woman played by Sandy Martin is shown in a suit having a meeting in what looks like a barn with a few men and the main man Roman. He orders her to obey her husband which turns out to be one of the other older men, or else. She reluctantly changes her clothes into a pink dress and takes her place by his side. She looked much better in the suit.

So these are two shows worth watching if you want to see how things play out on these story lines, or at the very least get a glimpse into two very different lifestyles and situations. The United States of Tara is brought to us by Showtime, and Big Love is brought to us by HBO.