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Contents:
- ‘CHEER’ STAR JERRY HARRIS ON BEG A GAY IN: ‘I WANT TO BE SOMEONE THAT’S FEARLS’
- DIRECTOR OF QUEER CLASSIC 'BUT I'M A CHEERLEAR' WANTED TO 'MAKE A GAY "CLUELS"'
- THAT GAY EPISO: HOW SAM MALONE SHOWED ACCEPTANCE IS MACHO ON ‘CHEERS’
- CHER RELLS THE HER FIRST INTERACTN WH GAY PEOPLE NEW INTERVIEW
‘CHEER’ STAR JERRY HARRIS ON BEG A GAY IN: ‘I WANT TO BE SOMEONE THAT’S FEARLS’
Sorry Brokeback Mounta, but we’re puttg the spotlight on the happit gay movi to watch durg Pri Month * cheer gay characters *
And not only that they don’t even know, but they have probably never even been around or tried to form a relatnship wh someone that is gay.
DIRECTOR OF QUEER CLASSIC 'BUT I'M A CHEERLEAR' WANTED TO 'MAKE A GAY "CLUELS"'
In 1964, gay activist Randy Wicker appeared on the TV show, The L Crane Show. * cheer gay characters *
” The movie centers on a lbian high school cheerlear (played by Natasha Lyonne), whose parents send her to a nversn therapy mp to cure her homosexualy.
I read that your first choice for the lead role turned down for relig reasons, and other st members were utned by their agents agast playg gay characters. I thk ’s better, but there’s a lot of homophobia the actg realm and that agents would still advise some of their clients not to take gay rol, pecially if their clients is gay and the closet.
THAT GAY EPISO: HOW SAM MALONE SHOWED ACCEPTANCE IS MACHO ON ‘CHEERS’
As someone who mak a lot of queer ntent, I still see a lot of closeted actors who don’t want to play gay rol bee they feel like they won’t pass or somethg. This fictnal book kicks off a wave of gay panic Cheers, the bar where everyone knows your name and also your sexualy — or so the regulars thk. Halfway to the first season of Cheers, wrers Ken Leve and David Isaacs ed the real life g out of Los Angel Dodgers and Oakland Athletics player Glenn Burke as spiratn to tackle homophobia an episo tled “The Boys the Bar.
When ’s revealed that Catcher’s Mask is about Kenrson’s double life as a womanizg athlete and closeted gay man, the bar be home to a major moment for Boston’s gay muny. Once the photos of bar-owner Sam wh major league gay Tom h newspapers, the regulars —led by Norm (Gee Wendt) and Cliff (John Ratzenberger)— fear that Cheers will bee a gay bar.
CHER RELLS THE HER FIRST INTERACTN WH GAY PEOPLE NEW INTERVIEW
Norm worri that Cheers will go the way of Vo’s Pub, a bar that me out after they hosted one Gays for the Metric System meetg. Norm, who brags about havg gaydar, surveys the bar and se no gay men: “Looks like a straight crowd to me. After all, as she explas, Cheers has always been equented by gay men — and there are two the bar at that very moment.
It turns out that those aren’t the boys Diane meant, and she reveals that the two gay men “have had a wonrful time watchg [the regulars] make plete idts of yourselv.