Midnight, Texas is a supernatural thriller on NBC, based on the books by Charlaine Harris (who is also responsible for the True Blood series).

 

The first season aired last year, with the new season about to debut on October 26 (just in time for Halloween).

 

Actor Jason Lewis plays Joe Strong. In the series, he's married to Chuy (actor Bernardo Saracino). There wasn't much fuss about the two until the fourth episode, when they shared a kiss!

 

One of the whiners was Lindsay Kornick, a writer for the far right Newsbusters. “It’s bad enough I can’t go one show without seeing a gay couple wedged into the plot anymore (we are by far past the four percent representation the LGBT community really makes up), but now they’re affecting symbols of a decidedly non-homosexual religion," she wrote. Life can be so cruel, Ms. Kornick.

 

During a recent interview, Lewis admitted he didn't care what the haters thought.

 

“Yeah, cool, be intolerant of us and see how well that goes for you,” he said. “Joe is a little over the petty sexual concerns of the average human being. He’s been around too long (being 1000-years-old) to look at somebody through such narrow values and assess them.”

 

 

Though not gay himself, he has always seen himself as an ally.

 

“I love those people, I always have,” he told Blackbook. “I’m a child of the hippie California generation. In this industry, there are a lot of gay people, I’ve always been around gay people.

 

“In Brothers & Sisters, I played a person who didn’t know where it was okay for him to exist. I think that’s definitely brought up in Midnight, Texas too, but I don’t think that’s the sum total of what Joe’s reality is – because I don’t know what they’re gonna write for Season Two."

 

Hopefully there's more same-sex action in season two. Maybe Kornick's head will actually explode this time!