Towleroad's Bobby Hankson pays homage to openly gay Broadway and televisn actor Ts Burgs.
Contents:
- TS BURGS IS READY FOR GAY MEN TO STOP SHAMG THEIR EFFEMATE PEERS
- GAY INOGRAPHY: ‘UNBREAKABLE’ TS BURGS
- TS BURGS, '30 ROCK' ACTOR, TALKS BEG 'COMFORTABLE' AS A GAY MAN ON NEW ALBUM
- STEPHEN SONDHEIM APPROV GAY MAN TO PLAY INTO THE WOODS WCH
TS BURGS IS READY FOR GAY MEN TO STOP SHAMG THEIR EFFEMATE PEERS
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GAY INOGRAPHY: ‘UNBREAKABLE’ TS BURGS
"Even as a young gay man, I always had problems ftg neatly to the cis and straight culture at large, " admted Gwn, who intifi as queer and agreed.
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TS BURGS, '30 ROCK' ACTOR, TALKS BEG 'COMFORTABLE' AS A GAY MAN ON NEW ALBUM
Andromedon's unapologetilly flamboyant characterizatn perpetuat gay stereotyp, but Burgs thks differently. He's over gay men--y, gay men--shamg T' lorful personaly. To him, an ternalized homophobia gay men have toward effemacy--Grdr talk: "No fats, no fems"--keeps them om embracg his Kimmy Schmidt alter-ego (and people jt like him).
(As a fem-leang gay men, I certaly did. What do you thk mak T different than some of the gay characters we’ve seen on televisn?
STEPHEN SONDHEIM APPROV GAY MAN TO PLAY INTO THE WOODS WCH
It’s jt an examatn of another human beg who happens to be gay vers the "gay bt iend stereotype. Have you e across cricism wh the gay muny about T’ characterizatn?