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.
MY SO-LLED GAY LIFE
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.
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.
WILSON CZ RELLS HIS GROUNDBREAKG GAY ROLE ON ‘MY SO-CALLED LIFE’: ‘IT WAS LIFE-ALTERG’
"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.
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.