Stand Up for Ourselves

Season 4, Episode 2, Aired

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Brian struggles to obtain a new list of clientele, but discovers he can win back one of the accounts his old firm has by re-inventing their ad campaign.

Justin struggles to deal with the gay-bashing of his friend, and decides to join the group of gay rebels, "The Pink Posse", in order to protect the citizens of Liberty Avenue from gay bashing.

Ted leaves rehab, but doesn't manage to leave Blake behind, when Blake willingly hands over his phone number, urging Ted to "call anytime". Blake comes over to help Ted throw out his "triggers"- things that might cause Ted to have painful memories or things that might tempt him to use again. Blake offers to crash at Ted's place for the night to make sure Ted will be okay, and he sleeps on the couch, leaving the lingering tension between them at a standstill.

Emmett and Michael join the "fairies", a strange sort of gay wilderness retreat. Emmett struggles at first, finding himself unable to "believe in the fairy magic" until he talks things over with an elderly fairy man- who he finds out later died two years ago. When he and Michael return, Emmett dances joyfully at Babylon, apparently on the road to mending his broken heart.

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  • Brian must come up with something big to bring himself back up to where he was in his career. A new face at the center gives gays and lesbians hope to fight back. Emmett and Michael discover their inner fairies. Ted gets out of rehab for good.moreless

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    By breezy2281, Nov 19, 2008
    The suspense between Ted and Blake continues to intensify when we find ourselves again asking, what the hell is going on with these two. Blake is sending mixed messages by giving Ted his number but then meeting him for coffee and trying to make amends with "the first guy that ever gave him hope." When Ted is freaked out about staying in his place alone where all the triggers are, Blake helps him get rid of them. He then says he can stay the night on the sofa. I thought for a minute that Ted might just being trying to get him to stay because he wants him back, but perhaps it's a little of both. Blake acts like he wants something too, but when Ted hugged him earlier when getting discharged from rehab, Blake acted like he was uncomfortable. Maybe i'm misreading it and Blake just missed Ted as well. Emmett talks Mike into going to some fairy gathering group in the woods somewhere, where they must come up with their own fairy names and be around nature and all of that. They encounter all kinds of things that they think are silly, like naked men walking around and playing volleyball. They look hilariously ridiculous in their outfits. However, when a fellow fairy named Perriwinkle gives Emmett a mushroom, we find out that they were the magical kind. I found that amusing. Emmett meets an old man named Harry who was putting rocks in a circle. After a heartfelt conversation with this man Emmett finally comes up with his fairy name, and his spark lights back up instead of diminishing out completely. When meeting with the rest of the fairies around the campfire, Emmett asks where Harry is, after someone brings him up since he was the founder. Perriwinkle says Harry has been dead for two years. Also after countless bad job offers, Brian continues to try to get his own clients. When he finds out from his old assistant Cynthia (who wants to go with him) that his former partner is trying to pitch Brian's ideas anyway, Brian knows knows he has to come up with a way to steal them back. Justin tells him to come up with an even newer, better idea. When his partner is pitching his first idea, Brian crashes the pitch with his own newer idea which is raw and honest. It looks like the man is going to say no to the new ad, but it turns out he accepted. Brian is going to start Kinnetics! Darren survived his attack. However, when the suspects were caught, he informs Justin that he's not going to identify them. Justin says he needs to do something or they will get off. Darren then asks Justin what HE did when his attacker got off scott free. Justin is then angry with himself for being a coward, and pours this anger into some drawings of Rage. Ben and Mel hold a meeting at the center to discuss what they can do to help with the safety of each other to help prevent these attacks in the future. When they can only come up with the same old ideas, a new voice offers hope when he says they need to fight back for themselves and suggests a "vigilante group". He is smart, he made some good points, and he is confident. He is a very good motivational speaker. Justin sees him later at Woody's and the kid blows him off at first, until Justin acts like he knows what he's talking about as well as this kid, so the boy introduces himself as Cody. I have a feeling we'll be seeing more of him as they are organizing a group. Looking forward to the next episode.moreless

  • This was a kind of weird episode, but none-the-less, still very good.

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    By luv4brian, Aug 01, 2007
    Michael and Emmett go to some fairy camp, where they're supposed to discover fairy magic. After being a non-beliver for most of the trip, right before they leave, Emmett talks to a fairy that died years ago. After returning to Pittsburg, he finds himself a new person, who is back on the road to recovery. Justin wants Darren to fight against his attackers. When he refuses, Justin gets angry that he too didn't get back at Chris Hobbes after the bashing. After hearing Cody, a member of the gay avengers group: The Pink Posse, Justin decides to join and stand up for victims on Liberty Ave. Strange episode but good as always.moreless

  • Reliving past injuries

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    By SMGslayer97, Jan 16, 2007
    While Brian struggles to open his own business, trying to bring over clients from his former employer Vanguard, Justin struggles with a recent gay bashing on Liberty Ave. After the young man who was bashed refuses to identify his attackers Sunshine takes it rather hard. He begins to digress things that he had once put behind him about his own bashing and does not deal with it well at all. Even after Brian advises him and tries to help him he turns to someone else, a group of people to be specific. The Pink Posee.moreless
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    • Emmett's fairy name is "On a clear day you can see forever", otherwise known as "Clearday".

    • Ben signs Hunter up for a gym membership in this episode, so Hunter can work out to stay healthy.

    • Michael's fairy name is "Dumpling".

    • The music playing in the background during the Babylon scene is a remix of Punjabi MC's "Mundian To Bach Ke" (special thanks to Nikita for this tidbit).

    • Among the things Ted throws out are: porno magazines, his laptop, clothes, his pipe that he used to smoke, and some porno tapes. He was going to throw out a photo of Verdi, but Blake stopped him, saying the photo was special because "It was there when you played me 'La Traviata' for the first time."

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    • Emmett: I hope he looks more like Tinkerbell than Captain Hook. Another reference to "Peter Pan" by Sir J. M. Barrie. Tinkerbell was his fairy companion and Captain Hook was a pirate captain and Pan's enemy.

    • Blake: Let's give [Verdi] another chance, hm?
      Verdi was a popular opera composer, so beloved in fact, that in opera troupes you have to call him "Papa Verdi".

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