Contents:
- DAVID FISHER ON ‘SIX FEET UNR’ WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THREE-DIMENSNAL PORTRAYALS OF A GAY MAN ON MASTREAM TELEVISN
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
DAVID FISHER ON ‘SIX FEET UNR’ WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THREE-DIMENSNAL PORTRAYALS OF A GAY MAN ON MASTREAM TELEVISN
This week, we pse on one of HBO’s greatt shows, Six Feet Unr, which featur one of the most fully realized gay male characters ever seen on televisn, David Fisher, played by Michael C.
Premierg as did after The Sopranos and provg HBO’s swaggerg arrival to prtige TV was no fle, Alan Ball’s melancholy medatn on ath, mental illns, and sexualy, neverthels always felt, as David Fisher himself, like the dutiful, kda gay, and oft-ignored middle child HBO’s ey; Six Feet Unr th lived (and died) the shadow of s more popular and charismatic olr brother.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
The first scene, which tak place at an ATM, tablish the easy timacy of a young gay uple before a tr of men (“You thk you n do offensive sh like that public? In rewatchg “A Private Life” preparatn for today’s post I had to stop myself om jottg down every le the gay-related scen. Here we wns the way difference towards the LGBT muny, and an unwillgns to speak about homosexualy particular, is jt as damagg as the srit spectre of gay life: AIDS.