Jonathan is like Shirley Temple in the Depression- LIFTING us UP in very dark times!!! Thank you, thank you; Bless you, bless you. We need as much kindness and joy and belief in ourselves as we can get right now.
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Love him, the show, and its message. Great interview, thanks!
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Jonathan, I remember Quincy, IL very clearly because my husband, a minister, and I looked at a church there. You’re one tough cookie for surviving...no, THRIVING...after that experience. We ran in the other direction, but had we stayed, you would’ve had at least two friends in Quincy.
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It's sobering to read about Jonathan's painful experience being bullied. I'm glad he is forthright about it. How can we end the cycle if we aren't honest about it? At the same time, Quincy is also home to his supportive family, including many loving cousins. I know because I watched them grow up together as friends. It is generous of you, mamavalveeta03, to offer your and your husband's friendship. You would have been two among many, many of Jonathan's family and friends who embraced him as the young boy and teen he was, are impressed with the man he has become, and are cheering the success he has achieved thus far, by being who he is.
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It is rare that I become so interested in someone on a TV show, but I unashamedly love this man and his exquisite tenderness. If we decide we are really committed to healing this country, tenderness an intolerance of cruelty will be what does it, and I thank Jonathan for modeling it.
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"Getting Curious with Jonanthan Van Ness" is my new favorite podcast!
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His “Gay of Thrones” recaps are the BEST!!! Each character has a “title” and we end up calling them by his title.
It’ll make sense when you watch them. You HAVE to watch them.........
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Thank you, JVN, for being you, in your big, beautiful, fierce, fun way. Watching you on Queer Eye is like putting on a detox mask in these heavily polluted times. You’re broadcasting a vital counternarrative to what we hear every day from the heteronormative patriarchy.
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Jonathan Van Ness is a sparkling diamond on the Queer Eye reboot. I can't take my eyes off of him while he's on screen--he's just too fabulous. Everyone I know has seen the show and loved it, laughed at it, cried over it. It's so touching. We need more of Jonathan Van Ness to help us come together and heal as a country.
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I love JVN. Great to hear from him though I feel like this interview ended a little too quickly and only touched the surface of his impact in today's media and his past experiences.
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And he is a terrific yoga teacher
And he is so genuine
And he is a loving friends
And he deserves everything good
And he is hilarious
And I so am excited that I know him
PS. Camera loves ya
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I love this show! I thought Jon would be my least favorite because I didn't think his over the top enthusiasm would wear well with me. Now he's my close fave after the gorgeous Tan. I'm a senior, straight white woman.
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I need more episodes NOW! Queer Eye makes my heart feel lighter with all of that kindness. It's the best antidote to the Trump Administration.
Love you all, but the decorating guy needs more airtime. He does so much (great) work. We need more time to absorb it. I know, more shows, make them longer, and get them out soon. The world needs them.
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I was a teenager when the original aired. The show was odd. It doubled-down on gay stereotypes in a way that felt instantly dated even to me, a lonely gay boy starved of representation. Aside from its mission to prove that positive interaction between straight and gay men was possible—a depressingly low bar, in retrospect—the show‘s only contribution to progress was that the five men at its center weren’t all Carson Kressley; Tim Allen read more nerdy than “fabulous,” and Jai Rodriguez had obvious sex appeal.
At that time, if you told me that, in fifteen years, critics would praise a virtually identical reboot for having “touched a cultural nerve,” I would have assumed that Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act were still on the books—that the whole same-sex marriage campaign failed. How would it otherwise be possible for foppish, bourgeois gay men who lilt and gesticulate, style hair and love shopping, primp, sass, and bestow the civilizing gifts of “gay culture” upon clueless straights to continue to be heralded as “progressive?”
It’s not possible, not if gay men themselves matter. After Obergefell, gender supplanted sexual orientation as cause de jour. Queer Eye exploits a gender-subversive performance that some gay men adopted when they were forced to the margins of society. It‘s not universal and has arguably alienated more gay men than it has helped. It is, however, useful in the fight against “toxic masculinity,” so it and gay men are being used.
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Jonathan, I'm raising a 13 year old boy who identifies as cis-gendered and straight. I am so grateful we can watch this show together and broaden who he is and with whom he can identify. Thank you!
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I grew up across the river in Canton (where we moved when I was seven, so people used to make fun of my East Coast accent), and I'm a few months younger than Jonathan. We did our grocery shopping in Quincy and went to the UU church there. I am so happy that someone else got out. I was school bullied constantly for a whole host of reasons and didn't come out until after college because the thought of it gave me panic attacks. Solidarity, solidarity, solidarity.
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This show is literally the best thing for America right now. JVN, cheers to you, my dear! You are a brave, fabulous, and very funny soul. We appreciate your grooming tips, humor, and compassion. Keep on, keepin' on.
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its an amazing reboot and makes me laugh and cry at the same time : )
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