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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). 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.
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 *
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'" "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.
AIMG FOR “PRI WHOUT PREJUDICE”: A GAY HOLLYWOOD AGENT’S PERSONAL STORY (GUT COLUMN)
It's showg that gay people have sex too, and n be jt as sexy, if not more. " 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.
Many, cludg Hudson and Hunter, were closeted gay men. Hudson’s bgrapher Mark Griff lled Willson’s procs “the gay stg uch.
EX-FBI AGENT, FIRED FOR BEG GAY, FIGHTS TO GET BACK JOB
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.