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• MATT MCGRATH GAY PORN VIOS
• GAY PORN ROSTER
• GAY VIOS FOR: MATT MCGRATH
• MATT MCGRATH GAY PORN VIOS
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“A lot of people ask me when I first knew I was gay. Will & Grace would not premiere until 1998, and s star Ellen DeGener wouldn’t e out (“Yep, I’m gay, ” blared Time magaze’s profile) until 1997, at the st of her popular seri, ABC’s Ellen. It would change the way dienc unrstood gay life Ameri.

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Gay Men’s Therapy. By 1997, he’d e out as gay, graduated om Northwtern Universy, and transplanted himself to Wt Hollywood wh ambns to wre for the screen.

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Movg to Wt Hollywood—a growg hotbed for LGBTQ culture—provid Berlanti wh a surrogate fay of close gay iends who uld offer him support and suggtns his origal scripts. “When I veloped the group of gay iends I had out here, ” Berlanti rells, “that was the moment.

Berlanti began workg on a script about a group of young gay men livg Los Angel and playg on the same lol gay softball team. Together, they would nont existential qutns about love, relatnships, securi and refg gay inty after the trma of the AIDS epimic.

That vernacular would bee part of the script’s hallmark humor, dividg to five acts, each troduced by mock fns om the “gay dictnary. Other high-profile gay movi of the era foced on g out (Betiful Thg), the spectre of AIDS (Love!

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“Then I ma [the quasi gay-themed] Go, and Sony bought [midway through productn].

For Lidll, a gay, Midwtern transplant himself, the script stck an immediate chord.

“It was gay guys hangg out and gog to parti and havg iends and all that.

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It may seem absurd now at a time when actors fight over who should have the honor of playg a queer character on the screen and when LGBTQ stori often ba major awards, but the late 90s, playg a gay character was still seen as dangero for a performer.

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“At the time, most guys thought if they played gay a movie would dg their reer, ” Berlanti rells.

There were fely a lot of gay men who felt that other gay men shouldn’t e out. It wasn’t jt like we’re makg a gay movie! ” The producer cid to leverage his own succs as much as he uld hop of nvcg actors—gay, straight or otherwise—to read the script.

“Bee I had jt done Go wh Jay Mohr and Stt Wolf [playg gay characters], who are both straight, I thk that was half of my pch. I spent the late 90s Wt Hollywood dancg wh the gay boys.

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Fdg the rt of the st sudnly had a new urgency about , as the creative team ntued to look for men willg to play cintally gay characters. He’d e out as gay himself the year before to iends and fay, who accepted him wh open arms.

His agents at the time, on the other hand, had a very different reactn, pecially when he began to show an tert playg gay rol. “There was a very well-known gay movie that I was offered.

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I opted to do the movie, but my agents said ‘too gay. So movg on om that agency, I never fot hearg ‘’s too gay. Then Porter h a snag: he refed to nceal his inty as a gay man.

As a gay man himself, Mahoney saw the character of Jack as a way to acknowledge his own sexualy a subtle way whout havg to surrenr the whole of his privacy. “We went to gay nightclubs and met all the real people that spired the movie.

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It was the Mec of beg young and gay at that time.

There was a quiz gog around how you n tell someone’s gay, and was all the mil theatre songs. Likewise, for Billy Porter, seeg a succsful, gay actor thrivg on set brought him hope for his own future. “He was jt like the gay godfather, the gay granddad, ” Porter says of Mahoney.

“It was a time where everybody knew that he was gay, everyone the bs knew, but he was a character actor, and he was olr.

You had straight guys playg gay guys, and gay guys playg gay guys. Dpe the stud’s earlier nfince the project—and that Berlanti had brought the shoot on time—stud executiv began to get nervo over the impendg release of the film, and if a movie about a group of gay characters uld fd enough of an dience to reup s st.

“For a mute, felt like we were gog to be the wist-released film at the time where all the characters were gay sce Boys the Band.

I remember thkg this is a really big al for a small gay movie. Roger Ebert, the leadg film cric of the day, wrote “The movie is so likable, we go wh on s chosen level…The movie’s buried msage celebrat the arrival of gays to the mastream.

That key le (“I’m 28 years old and all I’m good at is beg gay”) is like an announcement liberatg gay movi om an exclive preoccupatn wh sexualy.

Berlanti, Lidll and the st & crew of The Broken Hearts Club had succeed dog somethg no one else had before: They’d ma a movie about gay people for a broad dience.

That December, Showtime unveiled the nighttime drama Queer as Folk, a seri about an all-gay st of characters. We were part of helpg the world unrstand gay & lbian people. In 2018, he shot to the top of the dtry as the lead on the televisn drama Pose, for which he won an Emmy 2019, beg the first openly gay, Black performer to w an Emmy for a leadg role.

“Very often, I hear om queer people—maly gay boys—who found durg their g out procs. He would return to directg wh the drama Life as we Know It 2014, and would break more gay ground wh Love, Simon, Hollywood’s first romantic edy about gay teenagers.

I wanted to provi a wdow to what meant to be a young gay person Wt Hollywood at the time. The die film reprents a tippg pot where gay and lbian characters uld live and love on the screen jt like everybody else.

Beg gay didn’t tomatilly mean vlence, ath or victimhood. “But what I do remember, what I n rell, is when I first realized [beg gay] was okay: It was when I met the guys.