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Contents:
- WILL AND GRACE STAR CONFIRMS HE’S GAY
- WILL & GRACE BROKE GROUND FOR GAY REPRENTATN—CAN IT DO IT AGA?
- 'I WOULDN'T GET THIS ROLE TODAY': WILL & GRACE'S STRAIGHT 'GAY' STAR
- ‘WILL & GRACE’ FANS ARE STILL UNSURE IF ERIC MCCORMACK IS GAY REAL LIFE
- HOW ‘WILL & GRACE’S’ RELATABLE VIBE HELPED AUDIENC ACCEPT GAY CHARACTERS
WILL AND GRACE STAR CONFIRMS HE’S GAY
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Grace Jon is perched on a ledge above the dancefloor of New York’s 12 Wt, the state-of-the-art, members-only gay dis, about to take the stage for one of her first performanc. Wh the exceptn of maybe hairdrsers and artists, queer people risked unemployment if they merely hted at their orientatn outsi the nf of gay bars and clubs, and was the diss that the seeds of liberatn were sown.
WILL & GRACE BROKE GROUND FOR GAY REPRENTATN—CAN IT DO IT AGA?
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At 12 Wt, gay people uld grasp the power of their llectivy and unrstand what meant to be ee. LaRue, a cult dis act whose world-weary, gay-d “Cathedrals” praged Pet Shop Boys, and former Sugarloaf ontman Jerry Corbetta, the most soulful of Jon’ dis sgl also poted toward her future.
'I WOULDN'T GET THIS ROLE TODAY': WILL & GRACE'S STRAIGHT 'GAY' STAR
I remember protters disptg the filmg of William Friedk’s Cisg, which retold the real-life story of a fugive who had lured men out of gay bars to bed and then killed them. Havg tried harr, thought broar, and crossed more boundari than most of her ntemporari, this dance-floor renega closed out the boxed and the late ’80s, I had moved to San Francis; AIDS was cimatg the gay muny.
One night 1993, I fally got my chance to see Jon perform at a lol gay nightclub and took my iend Brian, whose partner Mark was too sick to jo . In this passage om her recently published memoir, Jon rells her first enunter wh gay culture via her brother Chris, and she offers her own view of how our tegori of sexualy and genr n be as hrg as they are helpful.
‘WILL & GRACE’ FANS ARE STILL UNSURE IF ERIC MCCORMACK IS GAY REAL LIFE
I started to go out to the gay clubs wh Chris. My dad was very unfortable at the time wh Chris beg gay.
He played the an at church, and I would ll him “church gay, ” or perhaps should be “church feme.
HOW ‘WILL & GRACE’S’ RELATABLE VIBE HELPED AUDIENC ACCEPT GAY CHARACTERS
He uld have had a girliend who unrstood his femy, but if you are as feme as he was, then the ncln is, you mt be gay. People would ask, Well, your brother is gay, how e he never got AIDS?