I'm feeling very still, and I think I know my spaceship knows which way to go

Now I know what straight sci fi geeks feel like when they see two hot chicks on SciFi shows make out. I TiVo'd a miniseries on BBC America called Torchwood: Children of Earth and saw the hotest guy on guy kiss I have ever seen on regular TV. I know have to go on netflix and figure out what the hell this show has been about for the last couple of years...

Come out, come out, wherever you are...

So I got my copy of Entertainment Weekly last Friday with the lovely Adam whats his name from American Idol...I have not been watching American Idol this season, actually not since the second or third season have I invested any time or caring for anyone on this show; but this article brought up something that really gets on my last gay nerve. Famous gay people, who I know are gay, who aren't out of the closet. They seem to be everywhere I look right now. I turn on CNN and there is Mr. Closet himself Anderson Cooper...who I believe has no real reason to stay in the closet, I remember seeing him every Saturday night at The Roxy in NYC, shaking his groove thing with all the other gay boys to Victor and Peter. I mean this is nothing new, for stars to be in the closet, of course...I mean way back to Rock Hudson gays have had to stay in the closet, but I imagined in the day of Melissa, Ellen, Elton, and the likes younger artists would feel more comfortable coming out. I remember when I was doing my party in NYC called Pop Rocks! and Lance Bass would not come to it because he didn't want people to know he was gay, and yet the very straight and comfortable Joey Fatone came by to check us out, I love him immensely by the way! GRRRRRR I'd like me some of that hot cub action! ANYWHOO I digress...there's of course my compatriot Ricky Martin, who should fucking get his ass out of that closet already, nobody gives a shit! And then there is the lovely world of Star Trek where we have already had Mr. Zulu (George Takai) come out of the closet, why can't the new Mr. Spock (Zachary Quinto) come out? I used to see him all the time hanging out at MJ's when I worked there, I just wished these Hollywood people didn't feel the need to stay in the closet, and while were on the sci fi note, can I just express my grievance of there being no gay characters in science fiction TV or film? I was very happy at first when I saw two guys kiss on a Battlestar Galactica webisode, but then it pissed me off that it wasn't included in the show itself. It was just frustrating to me as a huge Sci Fi geek that in these worlds were robots come to life and kill us, and alien men can have babies, there can't be two happy normal men or women who are in love and in a relationship!

Ground control to Major Thom!

Hi my name is Gerson, and I'm a scifi geek. (group mumbles: “Hi Gerson”)
So I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited because in just a few hours the first of ten new and final episodes of one of my favorite TV shows of all time begins, Battlestar Galactica! Now you may look at me and think how the hell did this showtune hairdressing queen ever get to be a scifi geek?
Let's start with the fact I was first addicted to Stargate:Atlantis; that came about because I have this weird connection to a lot of water related phenomena, like Titanic, and Atlantis. So when I heard a show called Stargate: Atlantis was starting on the SciFi channel a couple of years ago I tuned in, and got hooked immediately. I wasn't a big scifi geek as a child, I mean I enjoyed Star Wars like any kid does, but that was about it. While my best friend and his friends would play Dungeons and Dragons and watch anime, I would be watching MTV and prancing around to Madonna and showtunes. But I digress, Stargate: Atlantis came on, and I was hooked, that led me to start catching up on the Stargate SG-1 shows I had missed (almost 7 seasons) and was pretty much hooked on those immediately as well.
So fast forward to about 3 years ago or so ,my New Years Eve plans of endless tweeking were shattered by my health. Crystal Meth had obviously fucked my body up to such an extreme that I was bed ridden for two weeks. ANYWHOO I had returned all my netflix movies and hadn't gotten back any in time for New Years Eve, and so as I am flipping through the channels and stopped because I saw an ad for Stargate: Atlantis on the SciFi channel, after it was done I notice I have stumbled upon a show recapping the first season of Battlestar Galactica, and I fall in love immediately.
Of course being a big ol' fag, I love all the drama it has in it, but I feel that it's much more than just a bunch of humans and robots fighting in outer space. I feel that the writers have done such a beautiful job of incorporating real life situations into this scifi universe. I mean their parallel of the insurgents suicide bombers on New Caprica was a brilliant mirror to what was going on around the world at the time. Something that hit close for me was when humans had partnered up with cylons, and how they were ostracized, I'm not sure that the writers were trying to make it a gay parallel, but as a gay man I sure did take it that way.
On that note, I do wish that scifi had some frackin gay characters for christ's sake! I mean, it doesn't have to be a big storyline, like the usual “special episodes” that TV shows do, and then the gay characters are never to be heard of again! Just incorporate a gay citizen, and have him go about doing the usual space-y things. That would be a refreshing take on sci phi for me. But for now I will settle for my last ten episodes of Battlestar, and wonder what the hell I'm gonna watch after it's done since Atlantis has also signed off. I guess I'll just have to look forward to the new Star Trek movie. Anyway may the Gods bless us with a great couple of episodes!