Tom Duran is a gut character Season 2 of Frasier, portrayed by Eric Lut. He is statn manager of KACL durg the send season, succeedg Ned Miller that role. He is openly gay, and Frasier accintally asks him on a date, meang him for Daphne The Matchmaker. In Agents In...
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THAT GAY EPISO: ‘FRASIER’ IS GAY COMEDY BY GAY PEOPLE STARRG STRAIGHT CHARACTERS
Beg a gay viewer 2019, there are optns, honey. When I was a young, eply closeted gay the late ’90s, we really jt had two shows: Ellen and Will & Grace, and those two didn’t even overlap on-air. Frasier’s not textually a gay show, but ’s a really gay show–and was pecially gay if you were watchg TV wh your nservative Christian parents Tennsee the mid-’90s.
Sure, that’s partly due to the narrow-md nflatn of “cultured” and “gay, ” which is a thg and fely the South’s whole thg. I knew Frasier was the gayt of shows before I even knew what gay was.
But as “other” as Frasier seemed to me as a middle schooler, there was nothg explicly gay about Frasier. It didn’t even have one recurrg gay character on –asi om the eply closeted, married-to-a-woman Gil Chterton. Friends, a show where two dus refed to even change the channel for days for fear of losg the ee porn that magilly appeared, was actually gayer than Frasier bee of Carol and San!