Rosie O’Donnell’s upcoming HBO documentary “All Aboard! Rosie’s Family Cruise” debuts this month. The HBO show description is so very reality show: "One cruise. Five hundred families. Thousands of memories. For years, Rosie and Kelli O'Donnell dreamed of a society free of discrimination against gay and lesbian families in America. In 2004, they made that dream come true when 1,500 people-gay, lesbian and straight-set sail on a seven-day cruise to the Caribbean.” Sounds kind of like the trailer for a Lesbian Waterworld right? Well, even if you can see the heavy handed producers' work here, Rosie has been getting some positive press for the first time in a while.

Since the film’s success at Sundance, Rosie O’Donnell has been back in the spotlight (sort of), but the media portrayal of her is much more forgiving than the often used gruff, cantankerous, angry lesbian stereotype. O’Donnell was consistently portrayed as the ultimate queer crabapple after she came out publicly. Her original title the “Queen of Nice,” changed drastically after quitting the show, cutting her hair short, and all of the drama with her failed magazine ensued.

Even Fox News says of O’Donnell, “Rosie has incredible comic timing; if the show can duplicate the kind of charm she showed in “Sleepless in Seattle” as Meg Ryan’s buddy, the rest should be easy.” This coming from the same news outlet that allows Bill O’Reilly to go off on rants like: “I don't want these [gay] people intruding on a [St. Patrick’s] parade where little children are standing there, watching. And then they have to go mommy, ‘What does that mean?’” The New York Times also wrote about the film and O’Donnell favorably and New York Magazine's profile of O'Donnell reveals a three-dimensionality that O'Donnell's former public persona was lacking.

But while some people are beginning to lend credibility to the gay families and gay marriage, others, namely those entitled Canadians, are mocking their newly won equal right. The Toronto Blue Jays staged a mock surprise wedding for two of their team members, and ESPN was stupid enough to print the prank as news, and so is the Toronto Star. Thanks guys. You did this just in time to rub in Americans’ faces that Massachusetts just made it impossible for out of state couples to have same-sex marriages.