A History of the Gay Bt Friend Film and TV

Contents:

• GAY FRIEND QUOT
• QUOT & SAYGS ABOUT GAY BT FRIENDS
• GAY BT FRIEND QUOT & SAYGS
• SEARCH PARTY’S ELLTT IS THE LIM CASE OF THE ‘GAY BFF’
• 15 REASONS I LOVE MY GAY BT FRIEND
• FRIENDSHIP TROUBLE: AN EXAMATN OF THE GAY BT FRIEND INTY AMERIN CONSUMER CULTURE
• THE EVOLUTN OF THE GAY BT IEND ROMANTIC EDI

GAY FRIEND QUOT

Durg an terview wh Katie Couric Tuday, Sarah Pal says she is not opposed to gay people, addg 'One of my absolute bt iends for the last 30 years happens to be gay and I love her arly and she don't exist. At the lowt pots my life, when all else abandoned me, my gay men iends were my sisters, nts, mothers who lifted me up on their shoulrs and remd me that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Loads of my iends are gay, I don't see myself any sense as beg opposed to gay rights, but I did exprs a view before the electn - which by the way was also exprsed by the party but then they changed their md - that we didn't support gay marriage which is, I suppose for some, the ultimate statn, but not for everybody.

Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay, Gone are my iends om the tton fields away, Gone om the earth to a better land I know, I hear their gentle voic llg Old Black Joe.

QUOT & SAYGS ABOUT GAY BT FRIENDS

I am the woman I grew to be partly spe of my mother, and partly bee of the extraordary love of her bt iends, and my own bt iends' mothers, and om surrogat, many of whom were not women at all but gay men.

I explaed that when our gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr iends aren't wele at the table, then we don't feel wele eher, and that not every young adult gets married or has children, so we need to stop buildg our church around tegori and start buildg them around people. Often an important first step troducg queer storyl to mastream dienc, the GBF trope had a tenncy to rerce stereotyp about gay men: that their only terts are makeovers, shoppg and drama, that their stggl and relatnships fa to the background unls they're supportg a straight person's story, and that they only exist to be wise oracl about love and LGBTQ+ reprentatn Hollywood improv both onscreen and behd the mera, movi and TV shows are gettg creasgly self-aware, creatg gay characters who provi the ic relief we love while tearg down outdated ias. Perhaps the earlit example of the classic Gay Bt Friend character is 1984 movie The Woman Red, a Gene Wilr edy about a married man who be obssed wh a mol (Kelly LeBrock) after he se her skirt get blown up by a wd grate, Marilyn Monroe-style.

Rickie Vasquez (Wilson Cz) of ABC's short-lived cult classic My So-Called Life (1994-1995) is one of the first exampl of a gay character a high school ensemble seri -- but what mak him pecially noteworthy is that he challenged the Gay Bt Friend trope before was even a trope.

GAY BT FRIEND QUOT & SAYGS

Helen Hunt stars as Carol, a sgle mom and his love tert who "mak him want to be a better man, " while former Talk Soup host Greg Knear surprised dienc wh his imprsive actg chops as Simon, the gay neighbor who be iends wh the curmudgeonly Simon, an artist, is badly beaten up by a iend of one of his mols, his agent (Cuba Goodg Jr. She enlists the help of her gay iend Gee (Rupert Everett), who drops everythg to fly to Chigo, pretends to be Jul' fiance to make Michael jealo, and trolls the hell out of her while dispensg nuggets of wisdom about her love is such a fantasy of a character that he may as well be a unirn, but Everett is jt so charmg about the whole thg. The flash-forward at the end, wh all the characters beg one big happy fay, was progrsive for s time; but the ia that a gay man uld be attracted to a woman if she plays her rds right is a b unfortable.

But then Abbie meets a guy who wants to get married and move to New York, and the romantic edy spirals to a bizarre urtroom drama as they fight over ctody of their Ebert gave the movie one star and lled "a garage sale of gay issu, " bombed at the box office, and Everett later revealed that led to the llapse of his iendship wh Madonna.

SEARCH PARTY’S ELLTT IS THE LIM CASE OF THE ‘GAY BFF’

Ta Fey's 2004 high school edy is proof that the gay bt iend don't have to be an offensive or trivial character, bee what would Mean Girls even be whout "too gay to functn" Damian (Daniel Franze) and "big lbian csh" Janis (Lizzy Caplan)? Few straight actors play gay as well as Stanley Tucci 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada, about aspirg journalist Andy (Anne Hathaway) who gets a job at Vogue-spired Runway Magaze.

As much as we love and appreciate Ryan Murphy's high school mil seri (2009-2015) as a formative experience for lennials everywhere, s portrayal of LGBTQ+ people ran to a few be fair, Chris Colfer's character Kurt was a TV breakthrough, offerg a much-need posive role mol to gay kids. His relatnship wh Blae (Darren Criss) was one of the first tim we got to see two young gay characters kissg onscreen a mastream, fay-oriented edy, and we'll never fet the way his father Burt (Mike O'Malley) fied stereotyp by beg pletely supportive when Kurt me out to him. But his gossipy iendship wh Rachel (Lea Michele) and her hab of llg Kurt her "bt gay" had some crics wonrg if he was beg treated like an accsory, a bate that n set off Tumblr fandom shoutg match to this day.

Chigo improv edy troupe The Send Cy left their mark wh Sassy Gay Friend, a viral YouTube sk starrg Brian Gallivan as a GBF who talks sense to Shakpearean hero and other women om ancient history. Instead of him supportg the female lead, 's actually Olive (Emma Stone) who looks out for him, by pretendg to (loudly) have sex wh him at a party so he n keep homophobic bulli off his back until he n graduate high school.

15 REASONS I LOVE MY GAY BT FRIEND

A llege ex-boyiend of Dunham's character Hannah, Elijah reveals that he's gay early Season 1 when she tri to fd out if he gave her HPV -- and then drops the memorable bombshell, "It was nice to see you.

F., remiscent of Mean Girls and Not Another Teen fashn magaz clarg a Gay Bt Friend to be this season's hottt accsory, three would-be prom queens fight over recently outed stunt Tanner (Michael J. The Tough Fashn Edor and her Bchy Gay Sikick were revived yet aga Freeform's The Bold Type, wh Srlet Magaze EIC Jacquele (Melora Hard) and her assistant Andrew (Adam Caprlo).

FRIENDSHIP TROUBLE: AN EXAMATN OF THE GAY BT FRIEND INTY AMERIN CONSUMER CULTURE

The enuragg takeaway om this progrsive-md show, however, is that if your queer reprentatn also clus a bisexual, biracial lead character (Aisha Dee), her lbian Mlim love tert (Nikohl Boosheri), and a Black gay man who is head of the fashn partment (Stephen Conrad Moore), the GBF character stops beg a potentially harmful stereotype and be more of a playful wk at whe gay men. ")Like a te GBF, Donny seems to have no purpose beyond obssg over Natalie's love life and givg her a makeover montage scene -- but the good news is, when she fds her way back to the real world, turns out her neighbor really is gay and datg Bowen Yang. For me, my disfort wh gay weddgs was articulated by a close iend, who observed that gay people gettg married is like retard people gettg together to give each other PhDs.

THE EVOLUTN OF THE GAY BT IEND ROMANTIC EDI

"We are so grateful to be gathered here today wh our fay, and the fay of our brother's homosexual boyiend, and our new ltle goth iend who has a gay dad, whatever the heck that is all about. Born to people who clearly shouldn't have reproduced, I date my bt iend and turn him gay, date another man who don't know he's gay, almost have dner wh a third man who's more terted his reflectn than me, and land on a yeti who turns out to be a lnaire playboy. After the send chapter of Days of Obligatn, which is about the ath of a iend of me om AIDS, was published Harper's, I got this rather angry letter om a gay-and-lbian group that was anizg a prott agast the magaze.

How we rpond creat light or be aware that when you've never heard anythg posive about beg gay and you've laboured secretly over this for ag, you don't make a claratn like that lightly.