“José Luis Sin Censura” Criticized For Homophobia, Profanity

The trashy Spanish language  show “José Luis Sin Censura,” which features strippers and young men in fists fights, is getting in trouble with just about everybody for its antics. The Los Angeles Times reports:

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the National Hispanic Media Coalition want the Federal Communications Commission to shut down “Jose Luis Sin Censura,” a raunchy talk show that might best be described as a Spanish-language version of Jerry Springer’s program…

When guys aren’t calling each other names, scantily clad women get into the act. One clip that GLAAD and the NHMC sent to the FCC shows a young woman giving what looks to be a tutorial on lap dances to the men in the studio audience.

Although some of the language on the show is bleeped, much of is not. To make things easier for the FCC, the almost 200-page complaint includes a dictionary of the Spanish words that are heard regularly on “Jose Luis Sin Censura” that GLAAD and the NHMC find particularly offensive.

I always thought it was kind of funny how you could say bad words in Spanish on TV, but not in English, I guess the growth of the Latino population is also leading to these types of changes. Of course the issue of homophobia among Latinos and in the Spanish language media is a whole different story, one we’ve written about before, hopefully this will resolve itself in such a way that everybody learns something.

That happens on Jerry Springer, right?

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[Screenshot Courtesy José Luis Sin Censura]