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
Burgs, who is openly gay and has found fame playg the gay character of aspirg performer T Andromedon on his Netflix seri, said he was eply honored by the award, spe the fact he is jt dog what naturally. Andromedon's unapologetilly flamboyant characterizatn perpetuat gay stereotyp, but Burgs thks differently.
He's over gay men--y, gay men--shamg T' lorful personaly.
TS BURGS, '30 ROCK' ACTOR, TALKS BEG 'COMFORTABLE' AS A GAY MAN ON NEW ALBUM
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).
STEPHEN SONDHEIM APPROV GAY MAN TO PLAY INTO THE WOODS WCH
(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?
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?
Is ternalized homophobia toward effemacy at play? There are some gay people who don’t act like T and who more closely remble that of a heterosexual, more mascule male, but that do not a better gay make.