THR's TV crics revis the 1994 ABC drama that lnched the reers of Claire Dan and Jared Leto, batg s ronance today, s treatment of a proment gay character, the prsg relatabily of Brian Krakow and more.
Contents:
- MY SO-CALLED EX-GAY LIFE
- MY SO-LLED GAY LIFE
- WILSON CZ RELLS HIS GROUNDBREAKG GAY ROLE ON ‘MY SO-CALLED LIFE’: ‘IT WAS LIFE-ALTERG’
MY SO-CALLED EX-GAY LIFE
Only, she’s pretty certa that he’s gay, which she gently asks him about. At one pot, when Cz said the le, “Yeah, I’m gay, ” he flicked the pencil he was holdg out of his hand.
Wilson Cz's portrayal of a troubled gay teen 'My So-Called Life' helped the LGBT muny the mid-1990s. It was the episo where one of the first ma gay characters on televisn (at least one that wasn't portrayed a negative light), teenager Rickie Vasquez (played brilliantly by actor Wilson Cz), gets thrown out of his hoe and be homels on Christmas Eve. As a closeted gay man his early 20s, Ricky was too stereotypilly "gay" for my sens.
It was one of the first public displays of love for a gay teenager ever on natnal televisn, and the fact that took place a relig stutn on a relig holiday ma more symbolic and memorable. It turns out I wasn't the only gay person that this Christmas episo had a profound effect on. Many members helped cheer up a gay teenage immigrant om Iran, who said his fay would kill him if they ever found out about his secret life.
MY SO-LLED GAY LIFE
Katimski, who is also gay. Some younger LGBT folks may have not heard of My So-Called Life, but they have the show's wrers, producers, and actors (pecially Wilson Cz) to thank for helpg to open the doors so gay people n live far more fortably today than they did 20 years ago.
"Are you gay? My mom is a problem solver, and the next day she hand me a stack of papers she had prted out om the Inter about reorientatn, or "ex-gay, " therapy. "The gay liftyle is very lonely, " she told me about Dr.
WILSON CZ RELLS HIS GROUNDBREAKG GAY ROLE ON ‘MY SO-CALLED LIFE’: ‘IT WAS LIFE-ALTERG’
Joseph Nilosi, a clil psychologist California who was then print of the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy (NARTH), the untry's largt anizatn for practners of ex-gay therapy. Nilosi's rner office had emerald-green rpet and mahogany bookshelv led wh tl like Homosexualy: A Freedom Too Far and Homosexualy and the Polics of Tth. " Although I might never feel a spark of excement when I saw a woman walkg down the street, as I progrsed therapy, my homosexual attractns would dimish.
Until I had spoken wh Nilosi, I had rigned myself to the ia that, sirable or not, my life would have to acmodate the fact that I was gay.
The other men-four or five altogether-were their forti and fifti and talked about their years the "gay liftyle, " which had yield only unhapps.