'Will & Grace' Broke Ground for Gay Reprentatn—Can It Do It Aga? | GQ

Contents:

• ‘WILL & GRACE’ FANS ARE STILL UNSURE IF ERIC MCCORMACK IS GAY REAL LIFE
• WILL AND GRACE STAR CONFIRMS HE’S GAY
• WILL & GRACE BROKE GROUND FOR GAY REPRENTATN—CAN IT DO IT AGA?

‘WILL & GRACE’ FANS ARE STILL UNSURE IF ERIC MCCORMACK IS GAY REAL LIFE

Is Eric McCormack gay?

Bee Eric do play a gay man on TV many people believe that means he is gay real life. And Eric is faiar wh what means to play such a public and beloved gay character on the screen. Yup, he's gay real life, too.

WILL AND GRACE STAR CONFIRMS HE’S GAY

The rolutely private actor recently gave his first terview to gay newsmagaze The Advote after many nied requts.

You're gonna shoot the gay guy down? The star of the popular, Emmy-wng gay s adds, "I feel like I've ntributed monumentally to the succs of the gay movement Ameri, and if anyone wants to argue that, I’m open to . If Will & Grace were beg st for the first time today, Eric McCormack nces, "I probably wouldn't get anywhere near this role"'s bee McCormack is straight, and this era of diversy and thenticy stg would be a bold, perhaps even foolish, cisn to st anyone but a gay actor a seri that puts the character's sexualy ont and he'd be out of a job this hypothetil scenar, the first "gay" man many middle Amerins weled to their hom is OK wh that.

"I thk wasn't a terrible thg 1998 that a straight guy played the role, but I'm glad that tim are changg, and I'm glad that nowadays a Will Tman would probably be st wh someone who is gay, " he says. "But do that mean that now when you walk to a stg room you have to state whether you are straight or gay?

WILL & GRACE BROKE GROUND FOR GAY REPRENTATN—CAN IT DO IT AGA?

"The show has given me a chance to give back, " he says, cg some recent gay-related chary events at which he has appeared. [1] As a boy, Will performed plays durg fay events but his mother would disurage him, retrospectively admtg she was not prepared to raise a gay son.

Although he seems to have shown hts of his sexualy early on, Will says that he was nfed until his sophomore year high school when durg a game of basketball, he and Jay Barr touched stomachs, and he tly realized he's gay. Although there were signs of Will's homosexualy early on, Grace seemed obliv and they ntued to see each other.

Jack who is openly gay, stantly knew that Will is the closet and phed him to be te to himself, askg him the qutn "aren't you tired yet? Will panicked and proposed to Grace to keep them om havg sex but later admted that he is, fact gay. Durg the 80s, Jack acpanied Will on his first night at a gay bar where Jack bribed a guy named Zack to go out wh Will.