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WAS COMEDIAN GALLAGHER GAY?
What follows is a brief perd of ristance om Lip, who is not ready to accept that his brother is gay. This do not mean, however, that reprentatns of gayns Shamels, nor beg a gay character the show, is whout issue. Reprentatns of queer1 people popular televisn and film often align wh what sexuali scholars refer to as a “post-gay” narrative (see Coleman-Founta 2014; Rsell et al.
Here, social, polil, and legal advanc over the last are ed as evince that homophobia is a thg of the past, and that the Uned Stat has achieved what Gay Liberatnists set out to acplish s earlier: equaly. Here, queer televisn characters are fully tegrated to their workplace, fai, and schools, wh ltle—asi om the ocsnal homophobic bully—nflict. The post-gay narrative obscur an important dimensn of ntemporary queer polics: acceptance is often ndnal, suatnal, and ntgent on race, class, and genr privilege (Fields 2001; Mart et al.