From Will and Grace to Morn Fay, studi show gettg to know gay characters on televisn has changed Amerins' attus toward homosexualy. One rearcher says 's an effect that uld snowball.
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- WILL & GRACE IS BRGG GAY LOVE AND MARRIAGE TO AMERI THIS FALL
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- HOW TV BROUGHT GAY PEOPLE INTO OUR HOM
WILL & GRACE IS BRGG GAY LOVE AND MARRIAGE TO AMERI THIS FALL
Will & Grace: Created by David Kohan, Max Mutchnick. Wh Eric McCormack, Debra Msg, Megan Mullally, Sean Hay. Gay lawyer Will and straight terr signer Grace share a New York Cy apartment. Their bt iends are gleeful and proud gay Jack and charismatic, filthy-rich, amoral sociale Karen." data-id="ma * gay couple on will and grace *
At the end of the first episo of the Will & Grace revival last fall, Grace (Debra Msg) leav a red "Make Ameri Gay Aga" hat on Print Tmp's chair the Oval symbolic gture was a signal to Ameri (and the current polil admistratn) of why the NBC edy, which origally left the air 2006 after eight seasons, had returned to work televisn. "I feel jt beg on the air every sgle week celebratg the LGBTQ muny is somethg that feels necsary right now, and mak me feel good about wakg up the morng, " Msg Will & Grace succeed their missn of makg Ameri gayer?
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
"We are the straightt gay show of all time, " marveled McCormack, who acknowledged the generatn of "younger trailblazers" who me along after Will & Grace's first n and are creasg LGBTQ reprentatn the media. "I thk that every time a fay middle Ameri that don't know a lot of gay people... "There's been a lot of important gay voic for a while, but middle Ameri don't get to hear most of them.
"Sometim, McCormack is still amazed by the reach of the gay show an era when people are very eply divid along partisan l.
""I'll keep sayg for as long as I live, " Hay said of the msage of LGBTQ equaly, addg, "I thk jt by showg Jack gettg married, we jt have to remd people that that's a real thg that happens the world, that gay people get married too.
HOW TV BROUGHT GAY PEOPLE INTO OUR HOM
"That Hay, who was closeted to the prs durg the first n of Will & Grace, has pleted his first season as an openly gay actor has given this msage personal signifince. "This season, both Will and Jack are alg wh their own anxieti of beg gay men nearg age 50 the era of marriage equaly.
"Otherwise, he's pretty nfint, I mean nfint enough to return to theater and wre a one-man show based on the secret gay romance of Abraham Lln, and 's lled Gaybraham Twk. Will, he observed, is "an tertg voice the gay muny" for work TV; he is a person who has seen so many rights gaed and then has to then ask himself, What do I do now that I have all those eedoms?