The Fab 5 are head to the Big Easy! In honor of season 7 of Queer Eye, Gayety’s Calynn McDaniel sat down wh hosts Bobby Berk, Antoni Porowski, Jonathan Van Ns, Karamo Brown, and Tan France to talk all about the hero of New Orleans. They share about this season's hero, "you root for them, you know that they have been through thgs, but they have never lost that hope.” The st also opens up about which “Queer Eye” makeover job they want to try out next. Queer Eye season 7 is now streamg on Netflix.
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Krsley agreed, sayg, “We meet people all the time who are probably their thirti now, who say, ‘I me om a very nservative fay, we were very relig, “Gay” was not somethg that was ever spoken about our home, and your show allowed to at least have that nversatn, if not make easier for me to e out.’”.
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He add that of urse, isn’t only gay people who approach them wh spiratnal msag, and that at the time the origal show aired, the st saw how their visibily as gay people wh a larger straight world was beg received firsthand.
In Netflix's 2018 reboot of the classic Bravo show Queer Eye there is, of urse, a new Fab Five. And acrdg to Karamo Brown, the culture expert of the new Queer Eye, this updated versn of the show is much more clive of the broad gay… * queer eye roles *
“For many people, we were the first real, live, real life gay people that they actually enuntered,” Krsley observed. You’re the first gay person I met!’”.
“Of urse you’ve enuntered gay people!”. And anythg gay the zegeist has the potential to bee policized, then and now. “And we were a very nocuo group of five gay men helpg a straight guy try to get the job, or the look, or the girl.”.
And for those who cricized the origal seri for rercg stereotyp by havg a gay fashnista or bety expert swoop to tidy thgs up, Colls creds his rint foodie Allen for a memorable moment at the show’s first NBC upont Los Angel back 2003, when he faced a slew of reporters and had the perfect retort. “Ted fally grabbed , really grabbed a hold of the answer, which was like, ‘Yeah, we are, as a matter of fact, owng the clich around the fact that gays have a different perspective, have a unique visn and perspective of a lot of different thgs.