7 HBO TV Shows That Feature Proment Gay Characters

Contents:

• SERIAL KILLER DOCERI 'LAST CALL' RECKONS WH NYC'S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE
• STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED
• 7 HBO TV SHOWS THAT FEATURE PROMENT GAY CHARACTERS
• NOVEMBER 2021: WHAT’S NEW AND GAY ON NETFLIX, PARAMOUNT, SHOWTIME, AMAZON PRIME, APPLE TV, HBO MAX AND MORE!
• WHAT'S WH ALL THE GAY STUFF ON NETFLIX?
• SAME STREET TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS DURG PRI MONTH

SERIAL KILLER DOCERI 'LAST CALL' RECKONS WH NYC'S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE

The seri has never shied away om beg as gay as wants to be (’s on the CW, so that’s very gay™) but the addn of a Black lead means that they get to explore thgs a way they’ve never done before.

Even though the documentary is a celebratn of the fashn, culture and pageantry of drag also lv to tough tersectnal issu of race, class, homophobia and the experienc of trans people the 1980s. We may all be done wh the gay bt iend trope, but Shane Evans (Griff Matthews) is so much more than that. The seri featur much of the same st, many of which have queer d vib (wh Kirt beg the only member of the group that’s explicy gay), but those implitns may be more bee of the Gen Z feel of the show than any direct tentns om the wrers.

STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED

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Bomer's character, Larry Traer, is a gay man, and the show has several other queer characters.

The st is credible and clus Hannah Ebr as the bisexual Ava (the aforementned young edy wrer), Carl Clemons-Hopks as the edian's gay chief operatg officer, Poppy Liu, Johnny Sibilly, Megan Stalter, and more. Is there a gayer show?

7 HBO TV SHOWS THAT FEATURE PROMENT GAY CHARACTERS

She mov back to her hometown of Manhattan, Kansas, where she beiends Joel, a gay man, and Fred Ro, a trans scientist. This classic edy stars Rob Williams, Nathan Lane, and Hank Azaria hilar gay rol and still gets lghs today.

When the son of an openly gay drag club owner wants to get married to the dghter of an ultra-nservative senator, his parents mt pretend to be a straight uple orr to w her parents over. This HBO origal movie served as the fale for their terrific seri about the liv of gay men. Ryan Murphy directed this adaptatn of Larry Kramer's play about a group of gay men, led by activist Ned Weeks (Mark Ruffalo), durg the rise of the AIDS crisis Ameri.

The film then follows the two gay men as they explore and try to bridge their generatnal now. Wong Kar-wai's betiful and tragic story of two young gay men om Hong Kong who move to Argenta and experience separatns and renciliatns is currently streamg on HBO Max. More than three s after a serial killer began preyg upon gay and bisexual men at bars New York Cy, the victims and their fai, as well as the activists who fought to brg the elive murrer to jtice, are the subjects of a four-part doceri that premier Sunday on HBO and Max.

NOVEMBER 2021: WHAT’S NEW AND GAY ON NETFLIX, PARAMOUNT, SHOWTIME, AMAZON PRIME, APPLE TV, HBO MAX AND MORE!

Rogers was acquted a nonjury trial a few months leadg their own vtigatn to the victims wh sensivy, the creative team wanted to “peel back the onn of homophobia” by creatg the faiar feelg of most te-crime documentari — and then addg a queer twist, Caronna said. "By the time we get to 1973, I hope we set up enough so that the dience go, ‘Oh, my God, this is jt another example of extreme homophobia that allowed the murrs to keep happeng, ’” he said. Gertler said one of the big them of “Last Call” is “the way that stutnalized homophobia and transphobia works, and that was one of the most horrifyg thgs [they disvered] when we were dog our own diggg and reportg to the circumstanc around the 1973 murr and trial and the 1988 asslt and trial.

It turns out that the last place anyone saw Mulhy was an Upper East Si gay bar named The Townhoe, where olr, sophistited men met each other, or met younger men attracted to their type. Through extensive archival footage and terviews wh people who participated the AVP particular and New York’s gay scene general, we are remd of jt how dangero was for people who were jt beg themselv, ually via vlence perpetrated by people who ma a practice out of queer-bashg.

But the realy is brought home by the members of AVP and Edgar Rodriguez, a former NYPD sergeant and a member of the Gay Officers Actn League, who discsed the rampant and open homophobia the partment, which was so severe that Rodriguez knew was unsafe for him to e out while he was a p. This is illtrated a really tellg scene durg the terview wh the two Pennsylvania State Police, when the director asks them if he missed anythg durg the terview and one of them potedly says, “Why is the emphasis [of the terview] on the gay part? ” To them, the fact that Anrson was gay was irrelevant, but ’s important for a lot of reasons that they jt n’t wrap their mds around.

WHAT'S WH ALL THE GAY STUFF ON NETFLIX?

The cln of gay characters mastream televisn and film has been an ongog procs for the dtry — one that has ma the the current generatn of TV shows some of the most progrsive to date. As such, the goln age of TV is also a goln age for gay characters and televisn seri — wh gay-iendly work HBO leadg the work has featured proment gay characters several of s seri — though, admtedly, wh mixed rults th far.

Here are seven shows om HBO's lp, both prent and past, that promently feature gay characters their storyl.

SAME STREET TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS DURG PRI MONTH

Read more: The Depictn of Gay Teens on 'Amerin Crime' Is Unprecented on TVSix Feet Unr: The premise is a b somber — a fay owns a funeral home — and morticians generally don't personify warm and fuzzy feelgs. Dave wants to n the funeral home that his father left him and his more reluctant brother, Nate (Peter Krse), but Dave also stggl wh a closeted homosexualy.

Patrick) — a gay black police officer — and Dave fds a lot of acceptance and strength to unrgo such a big change to his life.