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Contents:
- WILL AND GRACE STAR CONFIRMS HE’S GAY
- ‘WILL & GRACE’ FANS ARE STILL UNSURE IF ERIC MCCORMACK IS GAY REAL LIFE
- 'I WOULDN'T GET THIS ROLE TODAY': WILL & GRACE'S STRAIGHT 'GAY' STAR
- 'SATC' STAR WILLIE GARSON HID HIS SEXUALY FOR FEAR OF OFFENDG GAY FANS
- WILL & GRACE SHOWS WOMEN, GAY MEN TRYG TO AGE WH GRACE
- WHAT ‘GRACE & FRANKIE’ GETS RIGHT & WRONG ABOUT GAY FRIENDSHIP
- WILL & GRACE IS BACK. BUT HAS GAY LIFE ON TV LEFT BEHD?
- GRACE AND FRANKIE: THE COMPLEXY OF GAY INTY
- ‘WILL & GRACE’ IS BACK. WILL ITS PORTRA OF GAY LIFE HOLD UP?
WILL AND GRACE STAR CONFIRMS HE’S GAY
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Yup, he's gay real life, too. The rolutely private actor recently gave his first terview to gay newsmagaze The Advote after many nied requts.
‘WILL & GRACE’ FANS ARE STILL UNSURE IF ERIC MCCORMACK IS GAY REAL LIFE
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'I WOULDN'T GET THIS ROLE TODAY': WILL & GRACE'S STRAIGHT 'GAY' STAR
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'SATC' STAR WILLIE GARSON HID HIS SEXUALY FOR FEAR OF OFFENDG GAY FANS
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Actor Sean Hay, who portrayed openly gay character Jack on Will & Grace, didn't e out real life until five years after the show end. More recently, Hay has revealed that he's "ashamed and embarrassed" he stayed the closet for so long when he might have ma a difference young gay people's liv by g out sooner.
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WILL & GRACE SHOWS WOMEN, GAY MEN TRYG TO AGE WH GRACE
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"The show has given me a chance to give back, " he says, cg some recent gay-related chary events at which he has appeared. Out of the four ma Will & Grace st members, the tular pair were the rerved on: openly gay lawyer Will Tman (Eric McCormack) and his (straight-intifyg) terr signer bt iend Grace Adler (Debra Msg).
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WHAT ‘GRACE & FRANKIE’ GETS RIGHT & WRONG ABOUT GAY FRIENDSHIP
Hay didn't publicly e out as a gay man until 2010, four years after Will & Grace wrapped s ial n.
After he saw the Will & Grace pilot 1998, Deamer says he felt "chagred, embarrassed, and vastated" when he realized that the character based on him was picted as "flamboyantly gay, nstantly over the top, promiscuo, and irrponsible. Durg season four, Matt Damon played Owen, Jack's rival the New York Cy Gay Men's The Telegraph poted out, the show featurg Matt Damon was one of the seri' most-watched episos of all time. Elton John played a member of the "gay mafia.
WILL & GRACE IS BACK. BUT HAS GAY LIFE ON TV LEFT BEHD?
The legendary Elton John played a member of the "gay mafia, " and Jack thought that he (and the rt of the mafia, of urse) was g after him.
GRACE AND FRANKIE: THE COMPLEXY OF GAY INTY
Neil Patrick Harris was a "former gay man.
Durg season two, Neil Patrick Harris played Bill, who intifi as a "former gay man" who tri to make Jack episo mocked the disproven ia of "gay nversn therapy, " a topic later revised the revival.
‘WILL & GRACE’ IS BACK. WILL ITS PORTRA OF GAY LIFE HOLD UP?
"Chris Haston / NBCU Photo Bank via Getty ImagBut he was bt known to televisn dienc as Beverley Llie — the nemis of the Karen Walker character played by Megan Mullally — who out as gay one of the show's most memorable episos.
Declarg Jordan, who was openly gay, a "natnal treasure, " the Society of LGBTQ Entertament Crics last year award him s Timels Star reer achievement a statement Monday, GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis lled him "a loyal iend to so many LGBTQ anizatns.