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‘Glee’ Faces Fallout From ‘Rocky Horror’ Episode

Nov 2, 2010  •  Post A Comment

Fox’s hit show “Glee” is facing fallout from an unusual source in the wake of its recent “Rocky Horror”-themed episode. While the show is generally praised as being gay-friendly, it was dinged by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation for its use of the word "tranny" in the episode.

The show used the word when Mike Chang offered to play Dr. Frank-N-Furter, but backed out after his parents objected to him "“dressing up like a tra**y," according to GLAAD’s blog.

"Unfortunately the larger problem here is that the word “tra**y” has become an easy punch line in popular culture, and many still don’t realize that using the term is hurtful, dehumanizing and associated with violence, hatred and derision against transgender people–a community that is nearly invisible in media today." the blog notes. "GLAAD urges all entertainment industry creators to stop using the word tra**y for a cheap laugh. GLAAD has reached out to Fox and ‘Glee’ producers to discuss how to move forward with this matter."

20 Comments

  1. Get a life you guys. What are you going to do-boycott?

  2. I had no idea “tranny” was considered offensive by those it describes. Frankly, I’d like it a lot better than the formal “transvestite.”
    But I think groups get to decide what’s offensive to themselves, and if GLAAD says avoid the word, I’d avoid it. I’d just want to know their one- or two-syllable alternate. “Transgender” is just as awkward to use in dialogue as “transvestite.”
    (Although “Sweet Transvestite” works just great in lyrics…except when a woman sings it. Bad choice, GleeFolk!

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  4. Why don’t you “trannys” get a phuckin life ???!!! I’m soooooooo sick of this schitt !!!

  5. Does GLAAD actually think anybody in the industry CARES about this trivia? I haven’t noticed any media types being concerned about negative portrayals of Christians, which are often “hurtful, dehumanizing and associated with violence, hatred and derision” against people of faith. There are billions of Christians, and maybe a few thousand trannys, so where should the industry’s emphasis be on minimizing the discrimination?

  6. Funny…I always thought a tranny was what shifted gears behind the engine.
    Seriously, who gives a DAMN what these fringe groups think? Did we ask the nutjobs if the word “insane” offended them?
    By the way, can a tranny “boy”cott anything?

  7. Dear God, hope you got the letter, and…
    I pray you can make it better down here.
    I don’t mean a big reduction in the price of beer but all the people that you made in your image, see them starving on their feet ’cause they don’t get enough to eat from God, I can’t believe in you.
    Dear God, sorry to disturb you, but… I feel that I should be heard
    loud and clear. We all need a big reduction in amount of tears
    and all the people that you made in your image, see them fighting
    in the street ’cause they can’t make opinions meet about God,
    I can’t believe in you.
    Did you make disease, and the diamond blue? Did you make
    mankind after we made you? And the devil too!
    Dear God, don’t know if you noticed, but… your name is on a lot of quotes in this book, and us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look, and all the people that you made in your image still believing that junk is true. Well I know it ain’t, and so do you, dear God, I can’t believe in I don’t believe in…
    I won’t believe in heaven and hell. No saints, no sinners, no
    devil as well. No pearly gates, no thorny crown. You’re always
    letting us humans down. The wars you bring, the babes you drown. Those lost at sea and never found, and it’s the same the whole world ’round. The hurt I see helps to compound that Father, Son and Holy Ghost is just somebody’s unholy hoax,and if you’re up there you’d perceive that my heart’s here upon my sleeve. If there’s one thing I don’t believe in…
    It’s you.

  8. damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Glee is probably the most gay friendly show on TV, but it still isn’t enough…

  9. Get a Life, Einstein. SO, Are you blaming God for the use of the word Tranny?

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