After digtg the game-changg season fale, take a moment to reflect on the gay and lbian characters of the 'Mad Men' universe. WARNING: SPOILERS!
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Salvator "Sal" Romano Sal, the Italian-Amerin, Ann Margaret-lovg art director of Sterlg Cooper, was the origal gay character of Mad Men. Hearts broke for the sweet, sad man trapped 1960s homophobia, and when he fally got the urage to sleep wh a bellboy, he was ught the act by his boss, Don Draper.
He's the first out and proud gay character of the seri. Kurt then assured everyone that he was homosexual and nothg happened between him and I don't thk that means what you thk means. " Manolo's homosexualy was aga mentned episo 12 when Benson reassured Pete, "Manolo don't like women.
There's a new gay character on Mad Men! Some viewers, like Jaime Woo at Huffgton Post, were upset by the notn that Bob uldn't jt be a gay character whout also beg a villa like many have suggted.
Salvatore "Sal" Romano worked for the Sterlg Cooper Advertisg Agency advertisg agency. ("Smoke Gets Your Ey") Sal was an Italian-Amerin om Baltimore, MD and a closeted gay man. Lois Sadler had a csh on him and he also received advanc om Ellt Lawrence, a salman for Belle... * ken cosgrove gay *
It might be too one-dimensnal to assume that he n't be both fatuated wh Pete and out to get somethg om ntued his explanatn wh: "I don't know if Bob is necsarily gay, but I thk he is fatuated wh Pete and wants to be Pete and I don't thk Pete is horrified or shocked, but he's now a suatn bs where someone has really filtrated his life...
In the distant past of 1993, gay marriage wasn’t legal any state the untry. Sodomy laws all over Ameri attempted to outlaw gay sex by crimalizg any oral or anal erotic ntact. And Dan Savage, a sex-advice lumnist then only known to rears of a few pennt alt-newspapers around the untry, was pable of makg breakout news wh a sndalo revelatn: Mattel’s latt Ken doll, part of the Earrg Magic le of Barbie toys, was openly moled on gay fashn.
“For about a year every gay boy at a rave was wearg at least one, ” Savage wrote. “What the ltle girls were seeg, and tellg Mattel was ol, wasn’t what their relatns were wearg — unls they had hip queer relativ — but the homoerotic fashns and imagery they were seeg on MTV, what they saw Madonna’s dancers wearg her ncerts and films and, as happens, what ACT UP/Queer Natn fags and dyk were wearg to mos and rav, ” Savage wrote. A lot of male actors, pecially of a certa age (Goslg is 42), would vote the media cycle around a movie built on gags about their character’s aquacy to retablishg their own domance, the way straight men ed to soak up aclas for playg gay rol while seizg every opportuny to drop a mentn of their girliends.