Florida Agenda

MIAMI  –  Former “Saturday Night Live” star, Victoria Jackson has attacked the Fox television show, “Glee” for “shoving the gay thing down our throats.”

Jackson, who appeared on SNL from 1986 to 1992, is currently a blogger for World Net Daily, a conservative website.

Recently Jackson wrote: “Did you see ‘Glee’ this week? Sickening! And, besides shoving the gay thing down our throats, they made a mockery of Christians – again! I wonder what their agenda is? Hey, producers of ‘Glee’ – what’s your agenda? One-way tolerance?”

NEW YORK – Brett Berk, a columnist for the magazine, wrote an article about a recent episode on the Vanity Fair website.

He wrote: “Nice singing. But how can having girls in the audience make these cartwheeling, foam-party fags straightsexy?”

Berk was immediately criticized across the board for the comment, with gay rights groups, bloggers and commentators weighing in.

On Tuesday he issued an apology, saying “I would like to apologize sincerely to anyone I offended.” He continued “As an openly gay writer writing in an overtly overblown style, my intent in using the word in this offhanded way was to continue my consistent efforts to confront and challenge stereotype.” He went on to say “Anyone with even a whiff of familiarity with my writing will know that I am, and have long been, a tireless agitator, here at VF.com and elsewhere, for gay rights, as well as a huge supporter of everything Glee has accomplished in advancing a meaningful dialogue about homosexuality in our popular culture – and in our youth culture in particular.”

Vanity Fair said: “With so many genuine homophobes stirring up trouble these days, the gay community doesn’t need any [agitation] from an ally like Vanityfair.com, so we are eager to set the record straight about the use of the word ‘f**s’ in Brett Berk’s latest ‘Gay Guide to Glee’ column.

“Brett, who has repeatedly referred to himself as VF.com’s ‘fun and f**gy editor’ (a title the editors have declined to endorse), writes from a humorous and explicitly gay perspective, and his invocation of this complicated word was meant to critique the notion that the gay characters of Glee should feel obliged to ‘play straight’ on stage.” They went on to say,

“That said, we recognise that the column caused genuine offence to many readers, and we apologise unreservedly to them.”

LOS ANGELES, CA – The original “King of Rock and Roll” has been dethrowned by the Queens on the Fox TV show, “Glee”. The cast of “Glee” has taken over the record for the most-charted songs in the Billboard list’s 52 year archives. Last week, “Glee” had six debuts on the Hot 100 on Billboard.com. The “Glee” cast has placed 113 songs on the chart, besting the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley who has 108 chart entries logged since the survey’s inception in 1958 and 2003. A remake of Katy Perry’s recent Hot 100 No.1 hit ‘Firework’ represents the “Glee” cast’s highest debuting title this week.