"The Matchmaker" (October 4, 1994) Shortly to Frasier's send season, one episo ma clear once and for all that spe appearanc otherwise, Frasier Crane was not gay. The episo featur Eric Lut as the dashg statn manager who thks he's gog on a date wh Frasier, and this first stallment of the podst has Glen and Drew talkg about how the show slut-sham Roz, how Nil should have e out and why this particular episo got awards for dog a gay episo the right way. Support ! Follow: • • Listen: • • • • • • And y, we do have ! And we even have urty of . Our logo was signed by . This is a podst.
Contents:
- THAT GAY EPISO: ‘FRASIER’ IS GAY COMEDY BY GAY PEOPLE STARRG STRAIGHT CHARACTERS
- GAYT EPISO EVER: THAT TIME THE SHOW ‘FRASIER’ ADMTED TO ITS OWN QUEERNS
THAT GAY EPISO: ‘FRASIER’ IS GAY COMEDY BY GAY PEOPLE STARRG STRAIGHT CHARACTERS
The Doctor Is Out: Directed by David Lee. Wh Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leev, David Hy Pierce, Peri Gilp. A misunrstandg leads the town to believe that Frasier is gay." data-id="ma * frasier boss gay *
However, there is a misunrstandg; that beg the guy is gay and he thks Frasier is g on to him. Beg a gay viewer 2019, there are optns, honey. When I was a young, eply closeted gay the late ’90s, we really jt had two shows: Ellen and Will & Grace, and those two didn’t even overlap on-air.
Frasier’s not textually a gay show, but ’s a really gay show–and was pecially gay if you were watchg TV wh your nservative Christian parents Tennsee the mid-’90s. Sure, that’s partly due to the narrow-md nflatn of “cultured” and “gay, ” which is a thg and fely the South’s whole thg. I knew Frasier was the gayt of shows before I even knew what gay was.
But as “other” as Frasier seemed to me as a middle schooler, there was nothg explicly gay about Frasier. It didn’t even have one recurrg gay character on –asi om the eply closeted, married-to-a-woman Gil Chterton. Friends, a show where two dus refed to even change the channel for days for fear of losg the ee porn that magilly appeared, was actually gayer than Frasier bee of Carol and San!
GAYT EPISO EVER: THAT TIME THE SHOW ‘FRASIER’ ADMTED TO ITS OWN QUEERNS
” In the episo, Frasier the character is prumed gay by a gut gay for all of the same reasons Frasier the show was prumed gay.
Of urse he’s gay! This is where I want to pot out that as perplexgly straight as Frasier was on-screen, was maybe the gayt show of the 20th century off-screen. The show unted gay actors Dan Butler (Bulldog) and Edward Hibbert (Gil Chterton) as recurrg players and David Hy Pierce (Nil) as a seri regular.
There’s even plenty of speculatn that John Mahoney, who played Frasier’s gff dad Marty, was gay. “The Matchmaker” is a first for That Gay Episo bee ’s the very first episo to be wrten and directed by gay men. Both men are openly gay, and very much shows “The Matchmaker” (which is also probably why this episo won a GLAAD award back the era when a show jt had to be gay for one week to w).