'Will & Grace' Broke Ground for Gay Reprentatn—Can It Do It Aga? | GQ

Contents:

• WILL AND GRACE STAR CONFIRMS HE’S GAY
• WILL & GRACE BROKE GROUND FOR GAY REPRENTATN—CAN IT DO IT AGA?
• 'I WOULDN'T GET THIS ROLE TODAY': WILL & GRACE'S STRAIGHT 'GAY' STAR
• BIG GAY FOLLOWG: BOBBY CANNAVALE

WILL AND GRACE STAR CONFIRMS HE’S GAY

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WILL & GRACE BROKE GROUND FOR GAY REPRENTATN—CAN IT DO IT AGA?

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'I WOULDN'T GET THIS ROLE TODAY': WILL & GRACE'S STRAIGHT 'GAY' STAR

[2] Will says that bee he's a gay Catholic, he may "never feel clean". On the weekend Grace was planng to lose her virgy to him, Will impulsively propos to her to keep them om havg sex, realizg that he is gay.

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BIG GAY FOLLOWG: BOBBY CANNAVALE

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There was Jack, the flamboyant one most people assumed gay men to be; then there was Eric McCormack's Will Tman, the mundane, everyman that tght straight people their next-door neighbor uld be gay. Will's portrayal has gone on to be the blueprt for most gay men on televisn sce then, whereas Jack is somehow seen as negative, and regrsive. I've e to realize that Karen Walker was the te gay in of Will & Grace.

As portrayed by Megan Mullally, Karen was the boozy, outspoken bch of the NBC s, often ed as a gay male surrogate the way that the women of Sex and the Cy uld often be.

Much has been ballyhooed about whether Jack's feme, theatre-lovg, melodramatic portrayal did a disservice to gay men as the one mastream reprentatn on televisn.