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.