Contents:
- THAT GAY EPISO: ‘FRASIER’ IS GAY COMEDY BY GAY PEOPLE STARRG STRAIGHT CHARACTERS
- 20 STRAIGHT CHARACTERS WE DIDN'T KNOW WERE OPENLY GAY IN REAL LIFE
THAT GAY EPISO: ‘FRASIER’ IS GAY COMEDY BY GAY PEOPLE STARRG STRAIGHT CHARACTERS
Beg a gay viewer 2019, there are optns, honey. When I was a young, eply closeted gay the late ’90s, we really jt had two shows: Ellen and Will & Grace, and those two didn’t even overlap on-air. Frasier’s not textually a gay show, but ’s a really gay show–and was pecially gay if you were watchg TV wh your nservative Christian parents Tennsee the mid-’90s.
Sure, that’s partly due to the narrow-md nflatn of “cultured” and “gay, ” which is a thg and fely the South’s whole thg. I knew Frasier was the gayt of shows before I even knew what gay was.
But as “other” as Frasier seemed to me as a middle schooler, there was nothg explicly gay about Frasier.
20 STRAIGHT CHARACTERS WE DIDN'T KNOW WERE OPENLY GAY IN REAL LIFE
It didn’t even have one recurrg gay character on –asi om the eply closeted, married-to-a-woman Gil Chterton. Friends, a show where two dus refed to even change the channel for days for fear of losg the ee porn that magilly appeared, was actually gayer than Frasier bee of Carol and San!
” In the episo, Frasier the character is prumed gay by a gut gay for all of the same reasons Frasier the show was prumed gay. Of urse he’s gay! This is where I want to pot out that as perplexgly straight as Frasier was on-screen, was maybe the gayt show of the 20th century off-screen.
The show unted gay actors Dan Butler (Bulldog) and Edward Hibbert (Gil Chterton) as recurrg players and David Hy Pierce (Nil) as a seri regular. There’s even plenty of speculatn that John Mahoney, who played Frasier’s gff dad Marty, was gay.