It’s Official – Logo Dumps All Gay Programming from Network

Posted by Kevin Farrell on Mar 2, 2012 in Business | 96 comments

Almost two years ago Nick and I had a meeting at Logo in NYC to discuss, among other things, how our little blog was managing to kick their Viacom-funded butts all over the internet. They were very sweet, but real talk, had no clue why the same gay people that were so meh about Logo LOVED Unicorn Booty so much.

I remember literally saying, “Simple. I’m quite good at my job” to a frowned response.

We were told then and there that Logo hadn’t managed to crack the nut on LGBT eyeballs and therefor were unable to crack the nut on advertiser dollars, and that Logo would be transitioning into a gay-free network very soon.

Logo told us they wanted to be the “new Bravo.” Never mind the fact that Oxygen had at the time recently bloomed into a reality television powerhouse of it’s own. And as Bravo’s sister site, it was quite literally the new Bravo. Whatever. It wasn’t our millions being spent on bizarre market research.

At one point last year, I even offered to save the network myself!

Today brings word that Logo is officially no longer in the business of producing or airing gay content.

“The gay community continues to evolve in size, influence and identity,” said Starcom Mediavest’s Esther Franklin, EVP, head of SMG Americas Experience Strategy. ”Beyond Demographics (TM) allows us to understand the needs of this critical community as they emerge and to paint a clearer, more specific picture of what’s meaningful and relevant in their lives.”

The updated lineup at Logo will feature shows akin to “America’s Next Top Model”, “Laguna Beach”, and “Storage Hunters” after producers of those shows have signed on to produce programming absent of gay-focused plots.

RuPaul’s Drag Race will remain on the network in some form, but everything else is being gutted.

Anyone who has ever spent more than five minutes watching Logo knows that the network was just dreadful. Anyone watching Logo with access to a remote control probably changed the channel before hitting that five minute mark.

R.I.P. Logo. But hey, at least the casts of The A-List franchise can stop embarrassing themselves and the LGBT community now, right?

http://twitter.com/stace4072 Stace

Damn bastards!
http://www.facebook.com/gfiege Gregory Fiege

Not surprised, the program were horrible. Now they will just put horrible programs on that already airs on other channels.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=802975713 Missy Haas

Hey, so long as RuPaul stays around I don’t care. None of the other shows were worth watching.

http://www.facebook.com/g.alex.fox Khai Fox

there were other shows on logo?????????

http://www.facebook.com/people/Diego-Alexandro-Gomez/100000793362600 Diego Alexandro Gomez

If you count non-stop Buffy The Vampire Slayer re-runs, then yes.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1423452008 Andy Dunn

Or the late night “Noah’ Arc” marathons.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Benjamin-Spiderm/100000682860873 Benjamin Spiderm

It seemed like the only show that was ever on when I was channel surfing. It was not too bad when they had music videos, news, and animate series similar to liquid television. It seemed to go down hill when they stop doing news.

Anonymous

That was around 2007 when logo was its prime and actually had good programming still,I used to be glued to my tv watching logo all day on my days off.then they change the format,they were good while they lasted…

http://twitter.com/cookiepiotra ChristinePiotraschke

They had great stand-up comedy shows……..alot of funny stuff

http://www.facebook.com/people/Rachel-Tyson/100001477795140 Rachel Tyson

Dammit, they were cool for a couple years.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Norman/1170917683 Steven Norman

Yawn..moving on..big freakin’ surprise there..
Anonymous

hmmm I never even heard of this network, lmao! so I guess no big deal to me!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=606506660 Gypsy-Maria Lorimer

I enjoyed RuPaul’s Drag Race, but I wasn’t even aware of any other programming on Logo, so I guess it’s no great loss.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1172658933 Armando Gilbert

what about 1 Girl 5 Gays???? Oh no I love that show.

http://www.facebook.com/justinfitzgerald1988 Justin Fitzgerald

I love it too!
http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Fowler/1159056710 David Fowler

I’ve always found it to be the single most embarrassing thing on LOGO and a perfect illustration of everything that’s wrong with it. What LOGO and you seem utterly unable to understand is that the gay community does NOT consist entirely of screaming, flaming, nellies who bleed estrogen and glitter all over the stage. That segment of the community is the ONLY one that LOGO “served”. Good riddance to a network that did absolutely nothing but perpetuate and reinforce homophobic stereotypes. I’ll wait for a network that will truly serve the entire gay community.

http://twitter.com/johnwatersfan Grant

I’m sure that one big issue with LOGO was the lack of diversity (I’ve never had access to the channel, and I’m not too familiar with the types of shows on it).

Do you know what I find embarrassing? Gay people who are homophobic toward others in the community. Using words like “screaming, flaming, nellies who bleed estrogen and glitter” is derogatory and is just following in the footsteps of the millions of heterosexual people who feel that they can use those terms because they disapprove of gay people (homophobes).

Just because you don’t feel like you fit into this category doesn’t mean that you should be nasty toward them. It’s mean, plain and simple. They are who they are, and they deserve our love and respect the same as any other part of our community.
http://www.facebook.com/TylerKernan Tyler Kernan

Just because one portrayal of a group is broadcasted on TV in a particular way doesn’t mean the network is claiming gays consist entirely of “screaming, flaming, nellies”. That is just the point of the show; asking questions, which often have personal responses which may or may not be raunchy in some way. Obviously not all people from New Jersey are juiceheads, and not every African-American girl is a thug (Bad Girls Club).. ITS A TV SHOW!!! Sometimes I get sick of how easily the gay community has its “feelings” hurt. I’m gay, and shit like this is just entertainment. You need to take it with a grain of salt.

http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Fowler/1159056710 David Fowler

Get your estrogen shot and you’ll feel better, Sally.

Anonymous

You *do* know you can be homophobic even though you’re gay? There’s not something wrong with being effeminate — there is something wrong with being an ass to people who have a different point of view than you.

Anonymous

Obviously you haven’t ever watched more than maybe one episode of 1 Girl 5 Gays — did it represent every gay person in the world? No. That was the point. Each person that appears on that panel is a separate and unique person, and that is shown VERY well on that show.

http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Fowler/1159056710 David Fowler

Separate and unique…..and ALL about 2cc’s of estrogen away from an actual clitoris.

http://www.peridotdynasty.com/ Roni W

I fought hard with my provider to give me this network back after months and months of missing out. And now THIS? I’m openly upset and I just don’t get it. This was more than just a channel to me, but I guess that’s also my wake up call to get my ass out into the city and have my own adventures outside the closet….
http://twitter.com/heydavemaine Dave Garrity

They were good in the beginning with coming out shows and the weekly wedding from Canada, Noah was excellent, but they stopped doing anything intelligent. They could have simulcast Michaelangelo Signorile’s show on Sirius, invited more young directors and producers to experiment with small blocks. I loved Jeffrey + Cole’s Casserole, and that couldn’t have cost 10 cents to make. There was nobody creative in charge. They talked about Bravo, where was their Andy Cohen? Why didn’t they HIRE Andy Cohen?
http://twitter.com/heydavemaine Dave Garrity

…..from Canada!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=537726244 Adam Kuglin

1.) RE: “Simple. I’m good at my job.” … It’s no wonder they didn’t take you up on your offer to “save their network”.

2.) Good riddance. Logo was a remnant of the dying notion that all the gay community wants is to have the same trashy, bitchy bullshit we can go see at [insert any gay bar here] peddled to us with commercial breaks. Perhaps if they’d spent some money on developing TV shows that were compelling, instead of just ham-fisting their way through a bunch of not even all that interesting reality television, they wouldn’t be suffering a format transition. But, that’s what happens when you’ve got television executives making decisions based on their images of what gay people are, instead of an honest look at the people who actually make up our big, huge, diverse community.

http://twitter.com/judderwocky Perpetua

brilliant post!!!!
Joey Willoughby

you are AMAZING!!! took the words right out of my mouth!!!
http://www.facebook.com/deanise.braden Deanise Braden

Amen! I have barely watched the channel in over a year just because of such programming. LOGO was great when it first came on, with programs like ‘In The Life’ and some good documentaries and movies. Now, it shows gay life to be little more than a sex fest. Sad that there is no channel for the gay community…no relevant channel
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http://www.peridotdynasty.com/ Roni W

I have to admit that I’m torn, but LOVE that you’ve put it so eloquently. I barely watch Logo unless RuPaul is on, or I remember to watch AbFab. But nowadays, all the documentaries I’ve been missing since I lost the channel are gone. All I see is Nip/Tuck and other crappy shows I could easily turn to on the channels they’re on. I watched Logo for specific reasons, and those reasons were stripped somewhere along the line with filler.

On the other hand, I’m sad they’re wiping the slate clean. There was a time when I just loved this channel to DEATH. There was more to it than the same old camp movies and irrelevant crapola. I’m also personally upset because I went without this channel for months, and just got it back like 5 months ago. But Logo isn’t all their is. I live in a city rich of a social life I need to be exploring on my own…FEARLESSLY. I might not like the changes, but it seems like it’s for the best. Well put, Adam. WELL PUT!

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1322350973 David Campbell

I watched Logo exclusively for the Noah’s Ark and Big Gay Sketch show. The rest of the programming was/is ostensibly unwatchable. And what limited quality content they played was so overwrought with commercials I’d rather not watch TV at all. Logo was dead to me. This news is irrelevant.
http://twitter.com/mariogleaf92 Mario A. Gonzales

I missed the old LOGO when they would show short films, Queer As Folk,The L Word, and actual good movies. I just stopped watching LOGO when they started to show non-stop RuPaul and not so good movies. I do like watching RuPaul but it get tiring after the first 3 hours.

Anonymous

Amen! (And that’s coming from an atheist.)

http://www.facebook.com/people/Jessica-Rose/729115532 Jessica Rose

just want to say, growing up in a place where i could not gain access to shows with gay people in them, Logo was a life send. I watched one of my first and favorite LGBT movies on logo, awake and terrified, hiding out in my parents living room at 2:00 am at age 16, excited to see people, acting and loving like i did. Sad to see it go but times are changing
http://www.facebook.com/Fiendforlife909 Kassie Galindo

I liked the Logo channel so im kinda sad I miss when they used to show The L Word, Queer as Folk, Jeffrey & Cole casserole. Occasionally they would air But Im Not A Cheerleader. I wasnt really a fan of Ru Paul though. It was nice having a channel like that while it lasted.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002005545301 Jeremy Neill

logo dumped gay programming? Thats like MTV dumping all its reality programs about horrible people , what are they gonna play?

http://www.facebook.com/todd.reazor Todd Reazor

Then again, MTV should’ve remembered what the “M” actually stood for.

http://www.facebook.com/justinfitzgerald1988 Justin Fitzgerald

I’m very disappointed to be honest! What does that say to the gay community when we can’t even keep a gay themed channel when we’re so close to getting the rights that we so badly deserve?!?!?! SHAME ON LOGO!

http://twitter.com/judderwocky Perpetua

seriously piss off.

Anonymous

Is that “Seriously, piss off” to Justin Fitzgerald?

Or is it that you’re “seriously pissed off”?

Good grammar is your friend.

http://www.facebook.com/Raleigh5683 Raleigh Baker

This is really bad to me, as much as I really didn’t watch most of the networks content, I was REALLY happy there was at least ONE network devoted to promoting our content at all. So this really kinda saddens me. We need a new “gay” network with the innovation and bravery that this one sorely lacked.

http://www.facebook.com/Raleigh5683 Raleigh Baker

Sniff…..sniff…. OMG do you smell that?!?!? coming in 2013 RUTV. If Oprah can have her own network than why can’t RUPAUL!!! the perfect person to head up out new gay outlet

http://www.facebook.com/Breezyzmoon Tricia Verhoye-Cook

The answer is not going to a “straight” network but to improve the LGBT programming. I love RuPaul but when that’s all you’re showing it gets monotonous, and there were FAR TOO MANY commercials. It’s an ABSOLUTE SHAME that we (the LGBT community) fought so hard for TV programming geared towards our likes & dislikes and still are fighting, for equality & many other things the straight community takes for granted EVERYDAY! How would they feel if all they could watch on TV was ALL geared towards the LGBT community? How much more will be taken from us before y’all (the straight community) realize we are NOT going to just go away, we DON’T need to be “Fixed” or “Cured” & that when you cut us we bleed red blood just as EVERYONE else does!

http://twitter.com/judderwocky Perpetua

this was not a product of our community… it was an attempt to mimic our community and profit off us… which is why it had no viewers and failed.

stop whining about lost opportunity and realise that the market was never being tapped to begin with . this is happening because nobody has been watching it and the ceos are clueless about the actual desires of our community.

http://twitter.com/judderwocky Perpetua

First of all… LogoTV was never a “gay themed network” … it was a network of gaysploitation so I’m glad to see its offensive pathetic garbage being taken off air. If I wanted to vommit skittles and glitter I would be upset, but….
Anonymous

Can they please kill BET for the same reasons? Signed, Black Woman.

Anonymous

I kind of have to agree — the implication is because we’re becoming “more mainstream” we don’t have our own separate community. If BET exists, and Oxygen and WE exist, why is it so problematic for there to be a gay network?

http://twitter.com/hj_baltimore Hope Jean

I better still be able to watch RuPaul or else some heads are gonna role…
Anonymous

This post is one of the few lately which make me question the ” newsworthiness” of this site. It just sounds trite and extremely full of it. There is a line between blogging and news and this article falls into neither category.

Ariel Schoonover

I always thought it was basically a tabloid…

http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Hyland/1016786433 David Hyland

I’m no media expert but am not shocked that Logo re-branding itself. In my lifetime, the LGBT community went from invisibility to in-your-face activism, then to being a perpetual political wedge issue at the same time we were becoming fashionable and more conventional and, frankly, as boring as the rest of the population. Logo was stuck with programming that reinforced stereotypes. We’re almost on the verge of becoming mainstream and no longer a “community” unto itself. We’re winning and losing at the same time. If we don’t stop political activism to get every single bit of equality with the rest of the population, we’ll eventually – and ironically – become as invisible as we were in the mid 1960s. I don’t know if that is good or bad because we aren’t there yet but I suspect many of us will look back and recall how exciting it was to join hands and refuse to be treated like second class citizens. That struggle, more than any other single thing, built a bona fide, sophisticated, non-violent movement only eclipsed by the civil rights movement to demand equality for black Americans.
http://profile.yahoo.com/O3FU2BQJYRUGPY6GU447SGWDKI PaganShadow

I saw this trend coming long ago and even posted to Logo’s page. In my opinion they haven’t been a Gay channel in a long time. Way too much “reality” programming and very little of interest to most.
http://kisame661366.deviantart.com/ Nicholas Sharpe

This is a surprise because? That network has been going pretty much down hill for a while now, though it is sad that this is officially happening. But of course I agree with most of the comments here: They simply failed to show the dynamic people that the LGBT community is made out of, and thus, that is why there ratings sucked were going no where but down. But still, sad in a way.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JM24CDXB3I5DTRBTEOL6WVFA74 Ineeda

Lets see….5 mins of programming….10 mins of commercials, repeat…that was one of Logo’s problems.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Carlos-G-Vazquez-Sales/1505100399 Carlos G. Vazquez-Sales

sorry to see Logo go ,bye ., sad
http://www.facebook.com/ben.s.cole Ben Shane Cole

Logo is THE gay chanel, like WTF!
Anonymous

We couldn’t get Logo for the longest time, but several friends did. At that time, the programming seemed interesting and it seemed as if the network had potential. Shortly after our provider (Dish Network) began to carry it, the whole thing started to slide into the abyss. The quality shows like “Coming Out Stories,” the travel program (I can’t remember the name), and even ANT’s show were no longer in production, with the old episodes being shown less and less. The interesting documentaries were harder to come by . They stopped doing the late-night movie showings with the quirky-if-somewhat-annoying hosts. They cancelled “The Big Gay Sketch Show.” Then from the accounts I’ve read, they screwed Del Shores over with regard to the “Sordid Lives” series (a hilarious show—particularly to those of us in the Bible Belt—that never had a chance).

Now, for the past few years it’s been increasingly trashy reality shit. And I like RuPaul as much as the next person, but seriously, having countless variations of “Drag Race” serve as the bulk of Logo’s programming is a bit much. I like a drag show every now and then, too, but I wouldn’t want to be immersed in a bitchy, catty world of egomania and shallowness every hour of the day. Seriously, it’s as if they gathered a group of the most unlikeable people they could find, taped them 24/7, then cut the footage up and parceled it into six different shows. I know reality TV is cheap and gets ratings, but some of us prefer quality rather than quantity.

(And on a completely different but related note, Logo had the poorest picture quality of any supposedly HD channel that I’ve ever seen. Seriously, the images were horrible! I think they were trying to upconvert standard definition programs to HD and it just didn’t work at all.)

For all of these reasons, over the past two years or so, I’ve found myself stopping there during my channel surfing on fewer and fewer occasions. I’m sad to see Logo go, but it’s a sadness borne of never having seen it reach its potential, rather than of seeing anything it currently airs fall off the radar. As with so many other failures, it’s probably due to clueless executives more than anything else. (Seriously, are there any real qualifications to be a network exec?)

I’ve seen this happen to several gay magazines over the years, as well. They just can’t seem to find their niche or, on a more basic level, even figure out what they want to be. And in the end, the same thing inevitably happens: they go under, just as Logo has. It’s a pity.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Chanel-Jenkins/636918994 Chanel Jenkins

I honestly could care less at this point. the last time I’ve seen them air something new relating to lesbians was about 4 or 5 years ago. I mean of course i heard they brought exes & 0′s back for another season, but by the time they did I had already gotten rid of the channel. I couldn’t relate to anything on logo which sucked.
Anonymous

I don’t think you can really say they’re dumping “All Gay Programming” if they’re keeping Rupaul’s Drag Race. And, actually, the press release said “some programming with higher ratings such as Rupaul’s Drag U” which likely means Rupaul’s Drag Race, Rupaul’s Drag U, and probably 1 Girl 5 Gays. That’s three gay programs right there.

It’s just ironic that your headline and information have such subpar accuracy in an article where you quote yourself as saying you were good at your job.
http://twitter.com/sfulghum sfulghum

Before adding more of that reality stuff that inundates the airwaves, let’s have MORE from RuPaul!!!!
http://www.facebook.com/ShaggyKev77 Kevin Braddock

The only shows I watch are 1 girl 5 gays, RuPaul’s drag race, Drag U and The A-list.
Kevin Webb

Beyond these posts, what is your job?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1423452008 Andy Dunn

Jeez. They’d barely given anything a chance before they would cancel it and now Viacom’s recycling their own programming like it’s a dumping ground. One less channel on my remote’s favorite button, I guess. Maybe Viacom should just cut their losses and close the channel entirely.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1162728462 J.r. Graff

No. I watched for longer than 5 minutes; that is, if they weren’t playing some god-awful movie like “Mean Girls”. I loved “Big Gay Sketch Show” (it’s a shame they won’t let it’s various segments play out on YouTube – damn actor unions and copyrights!) But I also think the gay community needs to provide feedback on what did and did not work and the network making changes accordingly.
http://www.facebook.com/matthewcarrico Matthew James Carrico

logos still around i haven’t turned it on in 12 years… hmmm
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=105600124 Katywompus Cassandra Snow

I completely agree about the shows being crap, but Logo AND Logo online were a great source of LGBT movies and I am really worried about those being accesible to people who don’t live in artsy towns. I’m hoping someone else will pick up the mantle-maybe someone with some marketing savvy and programming know-how who will figure out what worked and what didn’t? Just a thought.
http://www.facebook.com/califonza Califonza Thompson

Its a trip! Logo was ran by straight people that made program based on gay stereotypes……Its cool with me. I can downsize my Cable now!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=887180542 Michael Blank

I hope ru paul comes over to bravo
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1540838116 Jim Holomon

Thank Godd! TRIED to watch LOGO a few times, but everything they showed was hacked to pieces (ex. ‘Latter Days), and what wasn’t hacked to pieces wasn’t worth the effort.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1256443932 Anonymous

They lost me when they cancelled Sordid Lives!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Anthony-N-Amador/100000669424960 Anthony N Amador

when is LOGO going str8???
sad, but as long as we don’t lose our RUPAUL,
we will still watch.(maybe)
http://www.facebook.com/people/Anthony-N-Amador/100000669424960 Anthony N Amador

when is LOGO going str8??
guess as long as we still get to see RUPAUL’s DRAG RACE, we will be good.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Clay-Utley/1193131887 Clay Utley

as odd as it may see i am sad to see the current content on logo go. There was a lot of it that I didnt like but some of it was good. Logo should have done more surveys and more polls to find out what people did and didnt like and build from it.
http://www.facebook.com/XwhyterabbitX Anthony Powers

well, if they still have drag race, then my relationship with logo won’t change at all. lol. i tune on for Ru, and tune out after. i will say, that with logo gone, there will be a marked absence of queer-osity on my idiot box…. direct tv needs to get me some here! (which, for any who have not tried it, is ACTUAL gay programming)
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000223728491 Deborah Zarett

I’ll miss “1 Girl 5 Gays” and AbFab reruns; other than that, they haven’t had any really interesting programming for awhile. I do have to ask, however, do we REALLY need another clone of Oxygen or Bravo? I can’t stand either of those networks and all their incredibly lame reality shows……
http://www.facebook.com/yuriftw Oceania Bare

Dude, MTV better pick 1G5G the duck UP. That sucks, one less channel I can flip to… wtf am I gonna watch? American Pickers? duck
http://profile.yahoo.com/C7XMJQWZOTENVNDFD5CHLYVXI4 bill

I assume the channel will have just as difficult a time finding its feet as a “straight” network as a) its not available to everyone and b) I think that too many people identify it as a “gay” network and are not going to pay much attention to the fact that it has jumped tracks
http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Fowler/1159056710 David Fowler

LOGO was always an
embarrassment. It was firmly under the delusion that the gay community
consists solely of nothing but drag queens and bitchy, screaming,
flaming nellies. I’m not like that. Very few of the gay men I know are
like that, but that’s the ONLY aspect of
the community that they EVER showed. Their “idea” of what and how gays
are is exactly the same as an Alabama trailer park redneck’s. Good
riddance to LOGO. I’ll wait for a gay network that represents ALL of the
gay community, and does not mindlessly promote stale, harmful
sterotypes. LOGO is LOng GOne.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Amy-Shelden/100000409754688 Amy Shelden

WTF!?!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=737478135 Jerry Mazzola

Well first it sounded like a great idea. Big Gay Sketch Show, Ru, etc…then they added the fillers of Buffy …non-stop Buffy….every freaking time we would turn it on….Buffy. What a total bore it was . As a network, it was a real snooze.

http://www.facebook.com/tj.bernardo1 Tj Amii Bernardo

lol you would think they would show Xena..

Anonymous

As Deanise did point out, Logo was good when it first came out.
Then it became like most gay media parading Whites and those of light-complexions as the faces of intellect and beauty, and gays of color as some extreme stereotype (e.g. Blacks as either uber-masculine in guest spots or uber-effeminate like in “RuPaul’s Drag Race”). It was TV programming segregated as if we were in Pre-Civil Rights era America. And with this being America, to ignore or ridicule ANY ethnicity in your programming is the DUMBEST and MOST INCOMPETENT thing you can do. For people of color are “minorities” in name only. We are actually a powerful majority whose power needs to alas be acknowledged.Now I see why they never dared to challenge my attacks repeatedly pointing this out to them via my blog and Twitter. It’s because they knew I was right, and I (like any gay with depth) would revel in their self-induced, long overdue demise.

Bye, bye Logo! You’ve been phony.
http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Montoya/1144712319 David Montoya

yay….more reality shows. I’m not saying Logo was always great, but it was nice to have a network where i didnt feel like a sidekick to a spoiled housewife, which, if Bravo has taught me anything, is where i belong in the grand scheme of television programs. That, or designing clothes normal people cannot wear and insisting its “funtional-couture meets dysfunctional-everydaywear”.

I will miss the old Logo that held some relevancy, but not the channel of recent years…save for 1 Girl 5 Gays(but thats a property of Mtv/Canada).
Anonymous

I too have been annoyed at much of their programming… as if all gay men were skinny, emaciated, and eliminated from view once hitting 35 (and that’s pushing it). Anything other than that was a “token” like the chubby bear (hey, two birds with one stone!) on One Girl, Five Gays. If I wanted to see “me” I had to look out for some home remodeling show and even then it seems like the only gay men who fix up their homes have lisps. I am fine with men who don’t mirror me and many of my friends living their lives (not shortage of swish in my cohort either) BUT I kept hoping that the rest of us would show up as time went on in something other than documentaries about “excessive” masculinity. At least the average age of the drag queens on this seasons Ru Paul seems to have gone up. So, what channel is Roger Hazzard on now??
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QCDKCCYTO77Q7NNUMASF6MAG6Q Frank P

LOGO was good at the beginning, one of the reasons I got cable. However, over the past years, the program has gone down hill. I don’t blame the community but on the poor performance of the programming staff. They had several gems, Noah’s Ark, cancelled, Steve & Rick, cancelled, the Wedding Show, cancelled, Gay Sketch Show, Coming Out Stories, the travel shows, the music shows a lot of good shows focusing on the community. Some decent gay theme movies. However, lately the reality shows become cookie cutter formula, the programming less original. Almost like oh look that’s a good concept on FOX let’s do that with a gay spin.

Lately the whole network has been getting straighter and straighter as if it got bought out by some reparitive group curing LOGO of being gay. It’s sad that other networks have gay movies and themes that surpass LOGO. As far as I’m concern remove the Lesbian and Gay from LOGO you’re left with OO or a double zero. So there’s no need to have LOGO as my package. Perhaps HERE! or here’s a tip to TLA, this might be your time to fill the void left by LOGO.
http://www.facebook.com/tj.bernardo1 Tj Amii Bernardo

I didn’t watch a lot that was on logo, Ru Pauls drag race mostly, and if there was a good movie playing.. But i am sad to see it go. It was a channel i called my own. Maybe if they re thought the programs they are showing it might be different.. I miss the old logo, never the less sad to see it go
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002294426599 Robbie G Maris

This article is just saying that there is a lack a creativity at Logo. Why punish the viewers? I personally love the A-List series, and have watched every episode online. Why bring on more shows like “America’s Next Top Model” and “Laguna Beach” when they are overdone and are nothing new or different? What will make us watch these shows on a GAY tv network? That is what was special about Logo. This will completely change the identity of the Logo and therefore will be a detriment to ratings. Why we can’t watch logo content on hulu is beyond me. And Logo cannot be found on basic cable packages. Fix these problems and maybe ratings would go up. What is more relevant than gay issues? Nothing! Time to get creative without throwing out the whole network’s identity.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002294426599 Robbie G Maris

Preach!
Ed Avila

It is funny that this would appear now. It was just last week to the day that I had asked Logo via their Twitter (no response), Google + (no response), and Face Book (an answer but not truly a truthful one) what was going on with there programming? Why where they airing 5 hours of shows from MTV teen programming, and finished the day with Drag Race. I had asked them point out if they where veering away from LGBT programming and their response was ”
Sorry about any confusion but we hear you loud and clear — your Gay TV is not going away!”.
I beg to differ. They could have said that yes we are starting to air other programming, but they did not want to piss off what ever LGBT followers they might still have. From what I see I don’t see the next Bravo but the next MTV. With efforts toward a much younger viewer, and and the intermix of LGBT programs from time and again.
http://www.facebook.com/froggyone Jp Cooper

ok.. as long as RUPAULS DRAG RACE is still on.. im ok.. everything else was trash..
http://www.facebook.com/justin.w.jones3 Justin Wayne Jones

I personally liked the A-list a bit so im guilty.. But i absolutely hated Rupauls drag Race.. Granted it has it’s demographic but Drag is only applies to a group that likes it.. I don’t care to watch it and so it doesn’t apply to all the LGBTQ.. I of course was disappointed when showtime took off Queer as Folk.. So ya know how that goes..
Anonymous

But I love A-List New Yord & Dallas :[ !! 1 Girl 5 Gays and especially RuPaul’s Drag Race!!!
Evan Malcolm

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO i need logo to watch 1girl5gays
Demarcos Grosso

Good Riddance Logo never represented me all I kept seeing was white Gays and the occasional token black or Latino …I stopped watching Logo after they cancelled Noah’s Arc Even Rupauls Tired Drag Race already ran it’s course..
Penny Sautereau-Fife

Logo NEVER had any real gay content. They had FOX content starring self-loathing homocons.
siriusthecat

As a heterosexual viewer, I never thought of it pushing negative stereotypes at all. Quite the opposite. In fact, its one of the few channels that didn’t try to drive viewers outside the demographic away. I used to watch centric, but after being told during every commercial break that Its only for black people, I finally agreed. Who knew you had to be black to watch Miami Vice reruns. I have turned a lot of straight friends onto drag race and A list. That brings more tolerance and acceptance to the LGBT, not less. If every nationality gets a channel, pushing racist agendas, even. I think the LGBT community should have at least one. Really, there should be two. One for more serious programming and Logo for the fun stuff.

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