What If Juliet Had a Sassy Gay Friend? | HuffPost New York

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• WHAT IF JULIET HAD A SASSY GAY FRIEND?
• HOMENEW VIOSUBTLEDARCHIVEUPLOADCONTACTLOGRSS FEEDTWTERFACEBOOK "AZTCOA8NGZKCYYD99G23F0NJNOI7SWRYVTKMCW=="; LOADG THE PLAYER...VAR POSTID= ("/")(); JWPLAYER('MEDIASPACE')({'FILE': ",SHARG: {: "", LK: ""('?')[0]+""},TRACKS: [{ FILE: "// "", KD: "THUMBNAILS" }],IMAGE: ""+POST.THUMBNAIL+"",TOSTART: ""+TOSTART+"",SK: {NAME: "EIGHT"},'WIDTH': '100%','HEIGHT': '100%'}); THE SASSY GAY IEND JULIET
• MY BT FRIEND'S WEDDG ALMOST HAD A GAY SEQUEL
• IN ‘MY BT FRIEND’S WEDDG,’ I FOUND MY GAY ROLE MOL: JULIA ROBERTS

WHAT IF JULIET HAD A SASSY GAY FRIEND?

But whout the BFF, there's no impet for poor cisns, soundboard for the fears of mment, or a person to effectively track the protagonist's necsary growth so they don't end up as a homels many rom-s, that BFF is a GBF -- a gay bt Nigel Devil Wears Prada, to Damien Mean Girls, Patrick Perks of Beg A Wallflower, Stt Celte and Jse Forever, Brandon Easy A, Sean Burlque, Christian Stovz Cluels, andStanford Blatch Sex and the Cy, there's no shortage of GBFs. Hell, they even ma a movie about the trope, lerally lled of the many gay bt iends to h the screen have two thgs mon; they're played by Stanley Tucci, and they're Juliet, Naked, the new Judd Apatow-produced edy based off the book by Nick Hornby (Brooklyn, An Edutn, High Fily), there's a gay bt iend, or should I say, lbian BFF. What If Juliet Had a Sassy Gay Friend?

Love him or hate him, the Gay Bt Friend plays a big role pop culture.

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Almost as long as rom-s and high school TV shows have existed, the Gay Bt Friend(tm) has been a source of edy and ntroversy. Often an important first step troducg queer storyl to mastream dienc, the GBF trope had a tenncy to rerce stereotyp about gay men: that their only terts are makeovers, shoppg and drama, that their stggl and relatnships fa to the background unls they're supportg a straight person's story, and that they only exist to be wise oracl about love and LGBTQ+ reprentatn Hollywood improv both onscreen and behd the mera, movi and TV shows are gettg creasgly self-aware, creatg gay characters who provi the ic relief we love while tearg down outdated ias.

MY BT FRIEND'S WEDDG ALMOST HAD A GAY SEQUEL

Perhaps the earlit example of the classic Gay Bt Friend character is 1984 movie The Woman Red, a Gene Wilr edy about a married man who be obssed wh a mol (Kelly LeBrock) after he se her skirt get blown up by a wd grate, Marilyn Monroe-style.

IN ‘MY BT FRIEND’S WEDDG,’ I FOUND MY GAY ROLE MOL: JULIA ROBERTS

A mor character wh limed screen time, Buddy do w pots for beg portrayed as jt another one of the guys, who happens to be gay -- a big al for movi the 80s.

Rickie Vasquez (Wilson Cz) of ABC's short-lived cult classic My So-Called Life (1994-1995) is one of the first exampl of a gay character a high school ensemble seri -- but what mak him pecially noteworthy is that he challenged the Gay Bt Friend trope before was even a trope.