It must be Jimmy Fowlie day on BGPS, as we just posted Gay Guys Do Sex & The City, which he stars in, and now it’s time to talk about the Kickstarter that’s hoping to raise at least $65,000 to fund Season 2 of his great web series, Go-Go Boy Interrupted.

We loved Season 1, which was inspired by Jimmy’s own life, and followed his Go-Go Boy character, who discovers he’s seen as being a bit old to be dancing in his underwear in clubs and ends up getting fired. He then decides that perhaps he needed to find a new direction in life (while having fun and being a bit sexy along the way).

As Jimmy says on the Kickstarter, ‘When I first moved to LA, I worked as a go-go dancer and there were so many hilarious stories that I always wanted to write about them! A year ago, I filmed 7 sketches that followed the story of a go-go boy who turned 30 and then got fired from the club he worked at. I called it “Go-Go Boy Interrupted.” It was part of a live show I was doing at The Groundlings in Los Angeles. Some friends encouraged me to put it online, and so I released it as a weekly web series last October.’

Fowlie hopes that perhaps one-day a TV network will pick up the show, but in the meantime he’d love to make Season 2. However, while no one got paid for Season 2, that’s not really an option this time around, and so the Kickstarter campaign has been launched.

You can watch Season 1 of Go-Go Boy Interrupted by clicking here, and if you like that, watch the funding video below and head over to Kickstarter. [Read more…]

For many GLAAD (Gay & Lebsian Alliance Against Defamation) has produced an annual report detailing the number and quality of LGBT characters on major US TV networks. However it’s now decided to end the practice.

Last year was the first time that a network (Fox) was graded as excellent, which seems to have caused GLAAD to feel that the Network Responsibility Index’s job is done and that it should find new way to work to raise the quality of gay representation on television.

GLAAD CEO & President Sarah Kate Ellis commented: “The ninth edition of the NRI marks the first time in the report’s history that a major broadcast network – FOX – received an ‘Excellent’ as a grade. This milestone highlights real change across the media landscape – especially considering that the network received a ‘Failing’ grade in the NRI’s first two editions.”

She added: “GLAAD’s Network Responsibility Index has helped reshape the television landscape, inspiring LGBT characters and storylines that move acceptance forward. As representations of LGBT people in the media continue to rise in number, pushing television networks to make those representations more diverse is more crucial than ever. This requires a different set of tools than the NRI provides, and as such GLAAD will shift focus to its annual TV diversity and transgender reports.”

Instead of the Responsibility Index, the organisation will focus on its Where We Are On TV Report, which is more about the diversity of LGBT representation than the quantity.

In the last Index, both Fox and ABC Family were graded excellent, with only two networks being seen as failing, both of which were cable documentary channels – A&E and History.

It’s believed the companion Responsibility Index, which details LGBT characters on films from the main US distributors, will continue.