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Contents:
- 'I WOULDN'T GET THIS ROLE TODAY': WILL & GRACE'S STRAIGHT 'GAY' STAR
- THE RISE OF THE GAY MAFIA, A POWERFUL CABAL THAT NEVER EXISTED
- 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
The Honeymoon's Over is the 10th episo of the fifth season and 108th overall. Jack is ncerned that the "gay mafia" is after him. Grace returns om her honeymoon and fds Karen need of a place to stay after she stops stayg at Will's. After Jack kicked someone out of his actg class... * will and grace gay mafia *
While hidg om the gay mafia, Jack mak several referenc to the Coppola classic The Godfather (1972), a film centered around the Corleone mafia fay New York. Will sarstilly asks if the gay mafia is "gonna make you a iffure you n't refe", parodyg the Don Vo Corleone's le the film "I'm gonna make him an offer he n't refe". Jack claims that the gay mafia is sendg him a msage that he is gog to "sleep wh the fish", a phrase for beg killed and disposed of the sea, which was ed the film.
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. 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. 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.
THE RISE OF THE GAY MAFIA, A POWERFUL CABAL THAT NEVER EXISTED
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WILL & GRACE BROKE GROUND FOR GAY REPRENTATN—CAN IT DO IT AGA?
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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.
Fellow executive producer David Kohan and producer-director Jam Burrows agreed, notg that the show had troduced and normalized gay people for a swath of the public. Hollywood's "gay mafia" or "velvet mafia" or "lavenr mob" has long been the subject of gossip, wh ocsnal blips to the mastream prs.