To let Entertainment Weekly tell it, we are in the midst of a "gay revolution."

According to the magazine's latest cover story, Fox's ever popular series Glee -- and in particular its young yet openly gay characters, like Kurt Hummel, the high-note-hitting, fashion-loving teen played by Chris Colfer -- is "changing hearts, minds and Hollywood."

Joining in the praise is Newsweek, which celebrated the musical comedy-drama series by branding it "the gayest show in the history of network TV." In the Newsweek interview, columnist and anti-gay-bullying advocate Dan Savage echoed these sentiments and praised Glee and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. "Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on," Savage opined. "The first war is political. But the culture war is over. Between Glee and Ellen and how integrated and accepted LGBT adults are, that's done."

I would have joined in on the celebration going on at Newsweek and Entertainment Weekly, but I stopped believing in fairy tales after finding my mama's signature on "Santa's receipt" some 20 years ago. While I applaud Glee's efforts and adore DeGeneres for simply being alive, Hummel's high notes and DeGeneres' nonthreatening dance moves have aided only a portion of the gay population.

Many gays of color certainly don't see themselves in this revolution. Though we are seeing a lot more gay faces on TV, many of them are of the same ilk. And are we really challenging the tolerance levels of Americans that much by asking them to accept versions of gay people that they've long grown accustomed to seeing?

That's akin to arguing that the mainstream popularity of The Real Housewives of Atlanta star NeNe Leakes will help black women become more endearing to the American public.

Sure, getting people to embrace certain members of a minority group helps boost overall acceptance to some degree, but wouldn't showing off the diversity of that group do more to achieve that feat?

It's a point that Newsweek's own Ramin Setoodeh tried to argue last year in a piece in which he claimed that "the Kurt model" is everywhere and asked whether or not that helps or hinders the gay community.

The tone of the piece was rightfully criticized, but at the core, Setoodeh's piece conveyed an important sentiment shared by many gay men and women: We're not all flamboyantly dressed teenage boys or millionaire talk-show hosts. The fact remains that we still don't see true representations of ourselves on TV. And for gays of color, that feeling is magnified.