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Tszuj-It! -- A Fab Five Fansite

Philadelphia Daily News, 2/23/2004

Fab 5 Wedding Tips


A lot of people are against gay weddings.

I'm not. Unless they're tacky.

Where someone HAS to be a bride and someone HAS to be the groom. And the couple gets to fighting about who gets to throw the bouquet.

The Fab 5 from the Bravo hit, "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," aren't too keen on the way same-sex weddings are being conducted these days, either. I interviewed three of them last week and they are aghast at some same-sex ceremonies they've attended. Some need a makeover as much as, well, a straight man.

"I've been to one where one guy was walked down the aisle and one guy was waiting," said Thom Filicia, the show's interior "design doctor."

What's needed, they said, are totally new traditions. Ones where gay couples don't feel the need to choose male groomsmen or female bridesmaids. Or where two females feel they have no option but to wear white wedding dresses.

"They're doing it just to be doing it," added Jai Rodriguez, the show's culture expert.

"They're up there petrified and nervous," added grooming guru Kyan Douglas.

"I can't believe that they are still so brainwashed," added Filicia, who was promoting the new book, "Queer Eye for the Straight Guide: The Fab 5's Guide to Looking Better, Cooking Better, Dressing Better, Behaving Better and Living Better" (Clarkson Potter, $22.95). For one thing, lose the idea of separate groomsmen and bridesmaids. "It would be great to have people that stand up that are both sexes, representing both parties, instead of each guy having four guys," said Filicia.

And whether you're gay or straight, past a certain age you don't need a parent to walk you down the aisle. "That seems archaic to me," Douglas said.


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