In s earlit days, one of the ntroversial topics 'All the Fay' tackled was Archie Bunker's view of gay reprentatn.
Contents:
- BILLY PORTER IS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK MAN TO W EMMY FOR LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA
- BILLY CRYSTAL PORTRAYED FIRST OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER ON TV — SI THE 'SOAP' STORY
- BILLY PORTER: ‘I'VE LIVED AS A BLACK GAY MAN FOR 50 YEARS AMERI. NOTHG SHOCKS ME'
- FRANK WILLIAM “BILLY” GAY III’S NET WORTH, RHOSLC HEATHER’S EX-HBAND
- ‘ALL THE FAY’: INSI THE EARLY EPISO THAT CHALLENGED ARCHIE BUNKER’S VIEW OF GAY PEOPLE
BILLY PORTER IS FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK MAN TO W EMMY FOR LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA
"I'm never gog to do half-hour episos of 'Billy on the Street' aga," says Eichner, whose gay rom- 'Bros' is due September. * billy the gay guy *
” The w ma him the first openly gay black man to receive the honor the tegory. "I'm never gog to do half-hour episos of Billy on the Street aga, " says Eichner, who also reveals plans for his next project: a gay-divorce edy.
“I never thought a major stud would do an thentilly gay film, ” says Billy Eichner, “and treat the same way they would treat Brismaids or 40-Year-Old Virg or Fettg Sarah Marshall.
” Eichner is the star of Bros, the groundbreakg, hilar gay rom- he also -wrote, which — fyg his ial doubts — is due theaters Sept.
BILLY CRYSTAL PORTRAYED FIRST OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER ON TV — SI THE 'SOAP' STORY
Back 1977, actor and edian Billy Crystal stunned dienc when he portrayed the first openly ga ma character a TV seri, "Soap." and opened the way for gay ins like Ellen DeGener * billy the gay guy *
“You don’t s there as a kid thkg, ‘Oh, I uld be the star of this movie, if only I wasn’t gay, '” he says. Bobby’s openg rant, excerpted the movie’s first trailer, is a brilliantly meta attack on the ia of makg a gay movie that’d make straight guys fortable. For me, and a lot of my iends, when we watch some of those shows, although there are gay characters, we don’t regnize those people.
BILLY PORTER: ‘I'VE LIVED AS A BLACK GAY MAN FOR 50 YEARS AMERI. NOTHG SHOCKS ME'
Billy Crystal embraced gay 'Soap' character on-screen and off. * billy the gay guy *
There’s an archns to so many of the gay male characters we get. I’m my forti, and I look around at movi general — about straight people, about gay people, pecially edi — and say, “Where are the adults? Bee y, we’re gay.
Nick Stoller is a straight guy; you said that he tght you how to wre a movie and you tght him about gay culture. Whereas gay men make up our own l, we create our own fai. As much as I love those movi, for gay people, pecially gay men, they never applied and they certaly don’t apply now.
FRANK WILLIAM “BILLY” GAY III’S NET WORTH, RHOSLC HEATHER’S EX-HBAND
Billy Porter mak history as the first openly gay black man to w lead actor a drama Emmy for FX’s “Pose.” * billy the gay guy *
I wrote all the segments, and they were very topil — they took on polics and pop culture, and I was very open about beg gay.
‘ALL THE FAY’: INSI THE EARLY EPISO THAT CHALLENGED ARCHIE BUNKER’S VIEW OF GAY PEOPLE
There was a sketch that got very specific about gay sex, and straight sex, was lled “Sex Talk.
” To get onstage 2003 and talk explicly about gay sex, even New York Cy, was really phg people outsi of their fort zon.