What will follow TV's summer romance with queers?
As television winds down a very queer summer - dominated in media circles by Bravo's "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" - the debate has begun shifting from tonnage to quality. Gay men have become TV's foremost fashion accessory, shown to possess fabulous taste and deliver the best catty one-liners at any party - a contemporary equivalent of Paul Lynde on "The Hollywood Squares" that not everyone is sure is a step forward. But it's at least a step. For fall, producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron - whose credits include "Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story" - offer "It's All Relative," a clashing-cultures show about a woman with two fathers who falls in love with the son of heterosexual working-class bar owners in Boston - are unapologetic that their priority is to connect with the widest possible audience. "We're not setting out to change the world," Zadan said. "We're setting out to make a sitcom. The main question is, 'Is it funny?'" Sun-Sentinel
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