This is going around facebook and places today, so it's probably old news already. People over here in Oz are excited about comic actress Magda Szubanski coming out as gay on national television. For those not in the know, the panel show she appeared on is Channel 10's "The Project", a continuation of the highly successful "7pm Project", but in a different timeslot. It features regular pannelists and a variety of local and international guests, and takes a stab at critically and, at times, humorously dissecting the day's news. The allure of the show is as much its light-heartedness as its deviation from what's in the headlines of the actual news programs. Sometimes it works and sometimes it's woeful, as is the nature of any panel show.
Admittedly, I haven't watched the show in almost a year. The perks of only hooking your tv up to a PS3 include avoiding commercial television and all of its, well, commercials. The only reason I know of this clip was because a friend of mine linked to it on facebook.
First off, I'd like to applaud Magda's courage. Coming out is difficult and finding the right words to say to one person is hard enough, let alone however many people have seen this clip. She also totally kicks arse here. Specifically, Steve Price's arse. Steve didn't have much to say throughout the interview, but at a certain point he did pipe up and ask a question. First, he acknowledged that this was not the time nor place to really get into the "heavy" side of the political debate. He then stomped all over that and did it anyway. Something about churches being forced to gay-marry people, I fell asleep to avoid going into a rage. Magda followed Steve's earlier advice and skillfully brought to subject round to people having the face their prejudice.
The best part of the interview was Magda's assertion that if there were a cure for teh gayz, she, "would not take it."
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