I love Justin!
No, I don't mean JT (although dancing crazily to Sexyback is a guilty pleasure). I love Justin, Betty's charmingly effeminate nephew on my new favorite show, Ugly Betty.
I love the fact that he is funny, has the flair for the dramatic and isn't afraid to show the world his individual style. Last week's episode showed him singing "Good Morning Baltimore", in full Broadway style on the New York subway and if I was on the train, I would definitely have stood up and cheered.
What I love about him is that he is so obviously gay, and yet he does not have to come out and explicitly declare that he is so. He is just completely open about his love for Martha Stewart,musicals and his talent for jazz hands. In him, I recognize a lot of my gay friends in high school (I was a theatre/drama club kid) who were simply themselves, and unashamed of it. We didn't talk about the fact that they were gay...it was really a nonissue.
The fact that Justin's family is so embracing and supportive of him is also another thing to love about this show. In a recent issue of the Advocate, a commentary says that "It (the show) shows that gay identity isn't just reserved for the sexually mature...Making Justin a likeable gay preteen that the audience can grow with will do a lot more towards opening people's minds than any official network press release".
I wish that one day Phillippine TV could be half as progressive.
I love the fact that he is funny, has the flair for the dramatic and isn't afraid to show the world his individual style. Last week's episode showed him singing "Good Morning Baltimore", in full Broadway style on the New York subway and if I was on the train, I would definitely have stood up and cheered.
What I love about him is that he is so obviously gay, and yet he does not have to come out and explicitly declare that he is so. He is just completely open about his love for Martha Stewart,musicals and his talent for jazz hands. In him, I recognize a lot of my gay friends in high school (I was a theatre/drama club kid) who were simply themselves, and unashamed of it. We didn't talk about the fact that they were gay...it was really a nonissue.
The fact that Justin's family is so embracing and supportive of him is also another thing to love about this show. In a recent issue of the Advocate, a commentary says that "It (the show) shows that gay identity isn't just reserved for the sexually mature...Making Justin a likeable gay preteen that the audience can grow with will do a lot more towards opening people's minds than any official network press release".
I wish that one day Phillippine TV could be half as progressive.