Great Scott - Fab Magazine

Quoting from Fab Magazine:

Great Scott - The gay marriage movement in Canada has been spearheaded by a handful of lawyers and a few homo activists who most queers couldn’t name if their lives depended on it. The anti-gay marriage side has big religious right money (in U.S. dollars!) behind it. For a multiplicity of reasons – queer apathy, for one – there has been no mass gay movement supporting same-sex marriage here in Canada. Who knew that Global Television was about to drop the bomb with a brilliant, witty warhead named Scott Thompson.

A former “Kid in the Hall,” Thompson plays a wedding fairy host in the new reality show my My Fabulous Gay Wedding, which airs on Weds. June 1st at 10pm. Paul Bellini, who wrote our cover story on Thompson and the show, told me he cried when he saw the preview tapes. I figured I was tougher than Bellini.

What I saw was one of the most impressive gay programmes I have watched in a long time. Most gay TV is not for gays. The real money is selling watered-down queerness to a straight audience.

Thompson, however, is not a castrated gay host. He is smart, creative, funny and sexual (sometimes all at the same time). Thompson and his elves organize weddings for happy same-sex couples in two weeks. The show itself is fun, silly, emotional and extremely heartwarming. It’s unabashedly gay and a big part of that should be credited to Thompson, one of the first Canadian pioneers of proud sexual queer visibility.

Big kudos to Global for airing My Fabulous Gay Wedding. Well, they kinda owe us anyway for all the money they made off hit shows for straight people like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Will & Grace. But it can’t be denied that they are taking a big chance considering the current Canadian political storm over queer nuptials.

This is a show that will change people’s minds. It puts a face to something few have seen. Most gay people haven’t even seen a same-sex wedding, so you can only imagine the intrigue it will hold for straight people.

The religious right will likely call for a boycott of every advertiser on this show. Expect an increase in those big, anti-gay, save-marriage ads with the hot guys and gals in newspapers. But audiences will see a homely Christian mother from Alberta flying to Toronto for her son’s wedding and, with a slightly choked-up voice, say her only wish was that her husband would have lived to see her son’s special day.

OK, I admit it – I did cry during some scenes of the show. But not as much as Bellini.

Mitchel Raphael

Editor-in-chief