Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!fortune!strock From: strock@fortune.UUCP (Gregory Strockbine) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: MTV Censorship Message-ID: <4808@fortune.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 15:22:39 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.4808 Posted: Mon Dec 17 15:22:39 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Dec-84 02:33:41 EST References: <2639@dartvax.UUCP> <217@harvard.ARPA> Reply-To: strock@fortune.UUCP (Gregory Strockbine) Distribution: net Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 19 Summary: >> >> Okay, let's say that MTV is specifically saying that "No, we won't show this >> video because it has gays in it." So? It's THEIR network. Their music >> director (or video director) had to make a decision. While I was spinning through the channels on my cable out here in SF, I came across a program on channel 6 called gay tv. I caught their version of a music video. 3 guys in leather astride motorcycles blocking the entrance to an alley, in the alley in a doorway was a guy with a leather hood mask on, leather g-string, hands tied up over his head, bare butt facing out, another guy in leather dances around to some really crummy instrumental disco music, strips down to a leather g-string, all the while he is flexing and going over to the guy in the doorway, rubbing his legs and getting his face close to the strung-up guy's bare behind .... ooh ooh ooh nasty nasty