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Contents:
- 'Q-FORCE': SEAN HAY ON BRGG 'GAY JAM BOND' TO NETFLIX WH ANIMATED SPY EDY
- WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
- AIMG FOR “PRI WHOUT PREJUDICE”: A GAY HOLLYWOOD AGENT’S PERSONAL STORY (GUT COLUMN)
- EX-FBI AGENT, FIRED FOR BEG GAY, FIGHTS TO GET BACK JOB
'Q-FORCE': SEAN HAY ON BRGG 'GAY JAM BOND' TO NETFLIX WH ANIMATED SPY EDY
TV show 'Call My Agent' on Netflix is a rare look at gay parentg problems through Andréa: ctody battl, blogil mom's bond, more. * agent gay *
Early the first season of "Q-Force, " Netflix's rnchy and heartfelt new animated edy (now streamg), there's a poignant exchange between novice gay spi Steve (Sean Hay) and Deb (Wanda Syk).
WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
Inially, there were accatns that Ziegler, as a gay Democrat, was biased toward Bin, but now some Republins say his inty shows he's fair and reliable sayg the IRS was hampered the vtigatn. * agent gay *
But the openly gay actor, who played the unapologetic Jack McFarland for 11 seasons of the s (cludg s recent revival), murely dismiss his "trailblazer" stat. "I go, 'Gay Jam Bond.
'" "Q-Force" follows the adventur of a misf group of superspi led by Steve, a risg star the Amerin Intelligence Agency (AIA) who's punted to a low-level job Wt Hollywood after g out as gay. For Liedman, was a chance to make somethg "fun and stupid" and full of queer joy, fog the gay trma we so often see film and televisn. " More:I'm jt a boy, standg ont of Hollywood, beggg for more joyful LGBTQ filmsThe adult-oriented seri also don't shy away om nudy and graphic, although still stylized, pictns of gay sex.
It's showg that gay people have sex too, and n be jt as sexy, if not more.
AIMG FOR “PRI WHOUT PREJUDICE”: A GAY HOLLYWOOD AGENT’S PERSONAL STORY (GUT COLUMN)
" In the weeks leadg up to release, "Q-Force" has gotten phback om crics and Twter ers for s at-tim dated gay stereotyp, which were on full display the show's much-rid first teaser trailer. Henry Willson was an unscpulo talent agent who mold gay stars to the "beefke" ial of 1950s Hollywood — while also preyg on them.
As a premier talent agent who happened to be gay, Henry Willson unrstood that better than most. Stty Bowers, who once ran a prostutn rg for gay men the film dtry, explaed was no piic to live as a gay man wh the town’s spotlight on your back. “He would fd the young boys who almost all me om horrible home suatns, ” said Hollywood show-nner Ryan Murphy, “…and take them on as clients…He was a tormented gay man who preyed on tormented gay men.
EX-FBI AGENT, FIRED FOR BEG GAY, FIGHTS TO GET BACK JOB
Many, cludg Hudson and Hunter, were closeted gay men. Hudson’s bgrapher Mark Griff lled Willson’s procs “the gay stg uch.
How thgs veloped was up to whomever Henry was pursug…That’s how Henry earned his ls-than-sterlg reputatn as Hollywood’s ‘lechero gay Svengali.
On the other hand, his reputatn as a shamels gay agent wh var addictns evably st him the relatnship.