AMERICAblog has the Washington Post dead to rights for Tom Shales's surprisingly bigoted column, the one that complains that images of gay families that don't involve drag queens or leather parades are "misleading." Shales earned the scorn for crap like this:

O'Donnell, who captained the project, was presenting to the mainstream TV audience a scrubbed-up, politely tidy image of gay men and women -- a portrait meticulously devoid of the drag queens, pierced nipples and campy vamping one often sees when a local TV station rushes off to cover a gay-themed event. O'Donnell earns herself a citizenship award or a political correctness award, but the unfortunate byproduct of the consciousness-raising is that it isn't engaging, it isn't much fun, and sometimes it's punishingly platitudinous.

O'Donnell almost robs her subjects of their sexual identity in the pursuit of making them wholesome. In short, there is no gay cruising on this gay cruise.

Yes, how dare those gay families not meet local TV stereotypes. But Aravosis stopped me cold with this part of the rant:

As for local TV coverage, the Post is correct. In the past, local news often did show men walking around naked in leather when doing any story, ANY story, about gay people.

It was comment #114 over there, so it probably got lost, so I'll say it here for posterity:

The only way to be both naked and "in leather" is to be a cow.

Insert your own joke about ho-moo-sexuals here.