Not fflg any feathers. Willie Garson chose not to reveal that he was straight while playg a gay character on Sex and the Cy bee he didn’t want to send the wrong msage. ‘Sex and the Cy’ Cast: Where Are They Now? Read article The 56-year-old actor — who portrayed Carrie’s (Sarah Jsi Parker) iend Stanford Blatch —opened up about his cisn durg an terview wh Page Six on Thursday, October 22. Willie Garson. Willy Sanjuan/Invisn/AP/Shutterstock “For years I didn’t talk about bee I found to be offensive to gay people,” Garson told the outlet. “People playg gay characters jumpg up and down screamg that they’re not gay, like that would somehow be a bad thg if they were.” The New Jersey native explaed that he had to e up wh a practil answer when people terviewed him about his sexualy. “When the qutn would e up durg the show I would say, ‘When I was on Whe Collar no one ever asked me if I was a nman, and when I was on NYPD Blue, nobody ever asked me if I was a murrer. This is what we do for a livg, portray people,’” he said. Garson add that playg a gay character ma his datg life difficult at the time. “At the begng, you would approach someone at a bar and realize, ‘Oh, they want to be Stanford’s bt iend.’ They don’t necsarily want to sleep wh you,” he said. The Whe Collar alum’s on-screen chemistry wh Parker, 55, was cultivated before the duo began filmg. Garson told Out Magaze 2000 that he and the Hoc Poc star went on a bld date before the show. 'Sex and the Cy' Men: Where Are They Now? Read article “I’ve known Sarah for 15 years — we were set up once, had a very long flirtatn, and then jt settled to beg bt iends, somethg I thk really reads on the show,” he said at the time. Willie Garson and Sarah Jsi Parker shootg ‘Sex and the Cy’ on December 1, 2003 New York Cy. Shutterstock Kim Cattrall (Samantha Jon), Cynthia Nixon (Miranda Hobb), Krist Davis (Charlotte York) and Parker starred on the popular HBO seri, which ran for six seasons om 1998 to 2004. The st returned for the Sex and the Cy movie 2008 followed by the sequel 2010. 15 LGBTQ TV Characters Who Beme Ins Read article Parker told Entertament Weekly September 2019 that she would be “cur” to see a Sex and the Cy reboot. “I mean, the world has changed so much, technology and social media,” she said at the time. “Those characters never talked about social media, which I thk would be really tertg and jt also sexual polics and the #MeToo movement and Time’s Up has really steered nversatns about sexual polics.”
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- 'SATC' STAR WILLIE GARSON HID HIS SEXUALY FOR FEAR OF OFFENDG GAY FANS
- WAS WILLIE GARSON GAY REAL LIFE? REMEMBERG SATC STAR
- WILLIE GARSON WIFE, NET WORTH, SON, GAY, PARTNER, GIRLIEND, CSE OF DEATH, REDD, WIKI, AGE, MARRIED, HBAND, FAY, OBUARY
- SEX AND THE CY STAR WILLIE GARSON DI AT 57HE PLAYED CARRIE’S BT IEND, STANFORD BLATCH, ALONG WH MEMORABLE ROL WHE COLLAR AND FARRELLY BROTHERS FILMS.BY ANTHONY BREZNINSEPTEMBER 21, 2021BY CRAIG BLANKENHORN/HBO/DARREN STAR PRODS./KOBAL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWH HIS BOOKISH LOOK, FSY MEANOR, AND VILISH SE, WILLIE GARSON WORKED FOR A PLAYG UNNAMED CHARACTERS LIKE “NW EXECUTIVE,” “CORPORATE GUY,” AND “ANNOYG GUY” BEFORE BREAKG THROUGH WH HIS REER FG ROLE: SEX AND THE CY’S NATTILY DRSED NFIDANTE AND BT IEND STANFORD BLATCH. ARMED WH A RAZOR W AND EQUALLY SHARP SKEPTICISM ABOUT THE DATG SCENE, “STANNY” OFTEN JOED SARAH JSI PARKER’S CARRIE BRADSHAW AND HER TR OF GIRLIENDS NAVIGATG THE MEN OF MANHATTAN. FROM 1998 TO 2004, AND OVER TWO FEATURE FILMS, GARSON, WHO DIED TUDAY AT AGE 57, PLAYED THE PART OF THE “GAY BT IEND” YEARS BEFORE MOST PEOPLE KNEW A REAL-LIFE IEND OR RELATIVE WHO WAS FORTABLE BEG OUT.GARSON’S FIRST APPEARANCE AS STANFORD, THE 1998 PILOT FOR SEX AND THE CY, ARRIVED JT A YEAR AFTER ELLEN DEGENER’S CHARACTER OM HER SELF-TLED ABC S ME OUT PUBLICLY, CREATG A CULTURAL STIR AT A TIME WHEN SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS WERE SELDOM SEEN MASTREAM ENTERTAMENT. GARSON’S STANFORD PHED THE DOOR OPEN FURTHER AS A GAY CHARACTER WHO TALKED ANKLY WH HIS STRAIGHT IENDS ABOUT SEX, DATG, REJECTN, SECURY, AND THE ETERNAL NUNDM OF THE MALE MD. AS THE WORLD CHANGED, SO DID HE. IN THE 2010 MOVIE SEQUEL SEX AND THE CY 2, STANFORD SETTLED DOWN AND MARRIED HIS LONGTIME RIVAL, ANTHONY, A CEREMONY OFFICIATED BY NO LS THAN LIZA MNELLI. THAT WAS FIVE YEARS BEFORE THE 2015 SUPREME COURT LG THAT LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ALL 50 STAT. GARSON, WHO REPORTEDLY HAD BEEN BATTLG NCER, WAS NOT GAY HIMSELF, BUT TOOK PRI PLAYG A CHARACTER WHO ULD MAKE DIENC LGH WH STANFORD RATHER THAN AT HIM. WHILE DIENC WERE BEG ENTERTAED, THE ACTOR ALSO HOPED THE LOVABLE CHARACTER WOULD MAKE VIEWERS MORE ACCEPTG AND TOLERANT. “IT WAS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT TO THE SHOW TO SHOW SOMEONE HAVG FUN BEG GAY, BEG PROUD, OPEN AND FORTABLE WH WHO THEY ARE,” HE TOLD THE HUFFGTON POST 2016. “YOU KNOW, WE’D JT E THROUGH THE [AIDS] CRISIS AND EVERY REPRENTATN OF GAY WAS KD OF DARK, AND SPOKEN HHED TON,” GARSON ADD. “BUT STANFORD WAS LIKE, ‘HEY, I’M GAY. REALLY GAY. SUPER GAY. AND I’M HAPPY ABOUT , I’M LOOKG FOR A BOYIEND, LOOKG FOR A HBAND,’ AND WAS VERY OPEN, AND DIFFERENT TO WHAT HAD BEEN SHOWN BEFORE.”GARSON’S ATH WAS NFIRMED ON SOCIAL MEDIA BY HIS SON, NATHEN GARSON: “YOU ALWAYS WERE THE TOUGHT AND FUNNIT AND SMARTT PERSON I’VE KNOWN. I’M GLAD YOU SHARED YOUR LOVE WH ME. I’LL NEVER FET OR LOSE . I LOVE YOU SO MUCH PAPA,” NATHEN WROTE ON INSTAGRAM.STANFORD WAS GARSON’S MOST FAMO ROLE, BUT THE ACTOR PLAYED SR OF OTHER CHARACTERS MOVI AND TV SHOWS OVER THE S, CLUDG A REGULAR ROLE AS THE N ARTIST, FIXER, AND RMATN GATHERER MOZZIE ON THE SERI WHE COLLAR. HE ALSO MA GUT APPEARANC ON CHEERS, THE X-FIL, QUANTUM LEAP, NYPD BLUE, AND SUPERGIRL. IN FILM, HE HAD SUPPORTG ROL GROUNDHOG DAY, SOAPDISH, AND MARS ATTACKS!, AND APPEARED THREE EDI DIRECTED BY THE FARRELLY BROTHERS—THERE’S SOMETHG ABOUT MARY, FEVER PCH, AND KGP.GARSON WAS OUTSPOKEN SEVERAL YEARS AGO WHEN FIGHTG BETWEEN THE OTHER ACTORS AND -STAR KIM CATTRALL LED TO THE LLAPSE OF PLANS FOR A THIRD SEX AND THE CY MOVIE, BUT FANS MAY GET TO SEE SANFORD ONE MORE TIME. IN A STATEMENT TO DEADLE MOURNG THE ACTOR, SERI CREATOR MICHAEL PATRICK KG SAID GARSON HAD BEEN WORKG ON THE NEW HBO FOLLOW-UP SERI AND JT LIKE THAT, EVEN WHILE BATTLG HIS ILLNS.INIALLY, GARSON HIMSELF WAS APPREHENSIVE ABOUT THE CHARACTER WHO WOULD MAKE HIM FAMO. WHILE ACKNOWLEDGG THAT STANFORD WAS MORE OF AN EMBRACE OF STEREOTYP THAN A REFUTATN OF THEM, THE ACTOR WAS WORRIED ABOUT HOW LGBTQ+ PEOPLE WOULD FEEL ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE. “I DIDN’T WANT TO OFFEND THE MUNY AT ALL, AND THAT WAS A REALLY BIG NCERN OF ME, TO THE POT WHERE I DIDN’T EVEN HAVE HBO FOR THE FIRST THREE YEARS BEE I DIDN’T WANT TO SEE , BEE I WAS SO TERRIFIED OF BEG OFFENSIVE,” THE ACTOR TOLD HUFFGTON POST. “BUT THE GAY MUNY REALLY ROSE UP, AND SAID ‘WE KNOW PEOPLE LIKE THIS, THIS IS REAL.’ AND SO THAT MA ME FEEL GREAT, AND I ULD START WATCHG THE SHOW.”STANFORD WAS PERFORMED WH PASSN AND EMPATHY, EVEN THOUGH HIS SENSE OF HUMOR WAS THLS. THAT ANKNS MA HIM ENARG, LIKE A REAL IEND WHO MIGHT TELL YOU ANYTHG. CONSIR THIS EXCHANGE HE HAD WH CARRIE SEASON THREE: “I N ONLY STAY A FEW MUT,” STANFORD SAYS. “I’VE GOT TICKETS TO THE VAGA MONOLOGU.”A PERPLEXED CARRIE ASKS HIM PLATIVELY: “WHY?”HIS REPLY: “JT BEE I DON’T EAT AT THE RTRANT DON’T MEAN I N’T HEAR THE SPECIALS.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— UNHAPPY LTLE TRE: THE DARK LEGACY OF BOB ROSS— THE TE STORY OF A HOLLYWOOD PARTNERSHIP BUILT AND DTROYED BY MONEY, SEX, AND CELEBRY— TED LASSO’S ROY KENT ON WHY THE SHOW ISN’T “WARM AND FUZZY”— CAFTANS, GOYARD, AND ELVIS: INSI THE WHE LOT’S COSTUM— THE CHAIR IS LIKE AN AMIC GAME OF THRON— THE BT MOVI AND SHOWS STREAMG ON NETFLIX THIS MONTH— RACHAEL LEIGH COOK ON RECLAIMG SHE’S ALL THAT— WATCH KRISTEN STEWART CHANNEL PRCS DI SPENCER’S OFFICIAL TRAILER— FROM THE ARCHIVE: JEFEY EPSTE AND HOLLYWOOD’S OMNIPRENT PUBLICIST— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF “AWARDS INSIR.”MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHANTHONY BREZNIN
- WILLIE GARSON FOUND A HOME PLAYG THE CANONIL ‘GAY BT FRIEND’
- WILLIE GARSON, CARRIE'S GAY BTIE ON SEX AND THE CY, HAS DIED
- SATC’S WILLIE GARSON SHAR WHY HE NEVER ‘CAME OUT’ AS STRAIGHT WHILE PLAYG CARRIE’S GAY BT FRIEND
'SATC' STAR WILLIE GARSON HID HIS SEXUALY FOR FEAR OF OFFENDG GAY FANS
Willie Garson, the celebrated Amerin actor passed away at the age of 57. Social media ers are cur to know if Willie Garson was gay real life. * willie garson gay or straight *
Late actor Willie Garson famoly portrayed Stanford Blatch, the gay bt iend of Sarah Jsi Parker's Carrie Bradshaw Sex and the Cy—but real life, he actually once dated the fact, Garson—whose ath at 57 was announced on Tuday—worked hard at keepg his heterosexualy quiet, for fear of offendg gay fans of the star spoke of his sexualy an terview wh Page Six 2020, sayg: "For years I didn't talk about bee I found to be offensive to gay people. "People playg gay characters jumpg up and down screamg that they're not gay, like that would somehow be a bad thg if they were. The actor, whose ath was announced on Tuday, last year revealed that he had kept his heterosexualy quiet after playg a gay man "Sex and the Cy.
"But, the gay muny really rose up, and said 'we know people like this, this is real.
She's said terviews that every sgle one of her iends is gay, 'except for Willie Garson. Social media ers are cur to know if Willie Garson was gay real life.
WAS WILLIE GARSON GAY REAL LIFE? REMEMBERG SATC STAR
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The ‘Sex and the Cy’ actor once won the hearts of viewers wh his stellar character portrayal of Stanford Blatch, an openly gay wh ‘Sex and the Cy, ’ Garson boasts an actg legacy that spans over five s wh 75 films and 300 televisn episos. Some of his notable works clu his character Henry Coffield on NYPD Blue, Mozzie the USA Network seri Whe Collar and Ralph the kst doorman on rom- Ltle MORE: MGK’S BEEF WITH EMINEM BROUGHT BACK BY TWITTER AFTER SLIPKNOT DISSPhoto by Jam Devaney/GC ImagWas Willie Garson gay real life? Willie Garson’s portrayal of Stanford Blatch ma many cur if Willie Garson was gay.
SEX AND THE CITY STAR DIES AGED 57Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty ImagHe later said, “But, the gay muny really rose up, and said ‘we know people like this, this is real. ”He further mented that the character beg openly gay was important to SATC as “to show someone havg fun beg gay, beg proud, open and fortable wh who they are.
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SEX AND THE CY STAR WILLIE GARSON DI AT 57HE PLAYED CARRIE’S BT IEND, STANFORD BLATCH, ALONG WH MEMORABLE ROL WHE COLLAR AND FARRELLY BROTHERS FILMS.BY ANTHONY BREZNINSEPTEMBER 21, 2021BY CRAIG BLANKENHORN/HBO/DARREN STAR PRODS./KOBAL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWH HIS BOOKISH LOOK, FSY MEANOR, AND VILISH SE, WILLIE GARSON WORKED FOR A PLAYG UNNAMED CHARACTERS LIKE “NW EXECUTIVE,” “CORPORATE GUY,” AND “ANNOYG GUY” BEFORE BREAKG THROUGH WH HIS REER FG ROLE: SEX AND THE CY’S NATTILY DRSED NFIDANTE AND BT IEND STANFORD BLATCH. ARMED WH A RAZOR W AND EQUALLY SHARP SKEPTICISM ABOUT THE DATG SCENE, “STANNY” OFTEN JOED SARAH JSI PARKER’S CARRIE BRADSHAW AND HER TR OF GIRLIENDS NAVIGATG THE MEN OF MANHATTAN. FROM 1998 TO 2004, AND OVER TWO FEATURE FILMS, GARSON, WHO DIED TUDAY AT AGE 57, PLAYED THE PART OF THE “GAY BT IEND” YEARS BEFORE MOST PEOPLE KNEW A REAL-LIFE IEND OR RELATIVE WHO WAS FORTABLE BEG OUT.GARSON’S FIRST APPEARANCE AS STANFORD, THE 1998 PILOT FOR SEX AND THE CY, ARRIVED JT A YEAR AFTER ELLEN DEGENER’S CHARACTER OM HER SELF-TLED ABC S ME OUT PUBLICLY, CREATG A CULTURAL STIR AT A TIME WHEN SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS WERE SELDOM SEEN MASTREAM ENTERTAMENT. GARSON’S STANFORD PHED THE DOOR OPEN FURTHER AS A GAY CHARACTER WHO TALKED ANKLY WH HIS STRAIGHT IENDS ABOUT SEX, DATG, REJECTN, SECURY, AND THE ETERNAL NUNDM OF THE MALE MD. AS THE WORLD CHANGED, SO DID HE. IN THE 2010 MOVIE SEQUEL SEX AND THE CY 2, STANFORD SETTLED DOWN AND MARRIED HIS LONGTIME RIVAL, ANTHONY, A CEREMONY OFFICIATED BY NO LS THAN LIZA MNELLI. THAT WAS FIVE YEARS BEFORE THE 2015 SUPREME COURT LG THAT LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ALL 50 STAT. GARSON, WHO REPORTEDLY HAD BEEN BATTLG NCER, WAS NOT GAY HIMSELF, BUT TOOK PRI PLAYG A CHARACTER WHO ULD MAKE DIENC LGH WH STANFORD RATHER THAN AT HIM. WHILE DIENC WERE BEG ENTERTAED, THE ACTOR ALSO HOPED THE LOVABLE CHARACTER WOULD MAKE VIEWERS MORE ACCEPTG AND TOLERANT. “IT WAS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT TO THE SHOW TO SHOW SOMEONE HAVG FUN BEG GAY, BEG PROUD, OPEN AND FORTABLE WH WHO THEY ARE,” HE TOLD THE HUFFGTON POST 2016. “YOU KNOW, WE’D JT E THROUGH THE [AIDS] CRISIS AND EVERY REPRENTATN OF GAY WAS KD OF DARK, AND SPOKEN HHED TON,” GARSON ADD. “BUT STANFORD WAS LIKE, ‘HEY, I’M GAY. REALLY GAY. SUPER GAY. AND I’M HAPPY ABOUT , I’M LOOKG FOR A BOYIEND, LOOKG FOR A HBAND,’ AND WAS VERY OPEN, AND DIFFERENT TO WHAT HAD BEEN SHOWN BEFORE.”GARSON’S ATH WAS NFIRMED ON SOCIAL MEDIA BY HIS SON, NATHEN GARSON: “YOU ALWAYS WERE THE TOUGHT AND FUNNIT AND SMARTT PERSON I’VE KNOWN. I’M GLAD YOU SHARED YOUR LOVE WH ME. I’LL NEVER FET OR LOSE . I LOVE YOU SO MUCH PAPA,” NATHEN WROTE ON INSTAGRAM.STANFORD WAS GARSON’S MOST FAMO ROLE, BUT THE ACTOR PLAYED SR OF OTHER CHARACTERS MOVI AND TV SHOWS OVER THE S, CLUDG A REGULAR ROLE AS THE N ARTIST, FIXER, AND RMATN GATHERER MOZZIE ON THE SERI WHE COLLAR. HE ALSO MA GUT APPEARANC ON CHEERS, THE X-FIL, QUANTUM LEAP, NYPD BLUE, AND SUPERGIRL. IN FILM, HE HAD SUPPORTG ROL GROUNDHOG DAY, SOAPDISH, AND MARS ATTACKS!, AND APPEARED THREE EDI DIRECTED BY THE FARRELLY BROTHERS—THERE’S SOMETHG ABOUT MARY, FEVER PCH, AND KGP.GARSON WAS OUTSPOKEN SEVERAL YEARS AGO WHEN FIGHTG BETWEEN THE OTHER ACTORS AND -STAR KIM CATTRALL LED TO THE LLAPSE OF PLANS FOR A THIRD SEX AND THE CY MOVIE, BUT FANS MAY GET TO SEE SANFORD ONE MORE TIME. IN A STATEMENT TO DEADLE MOURNG THE ACTOR, SERI CREATOR MICHAEL PATRICK KG SAID GARSON HAD BEEN WORKG ON THE NEW HBO FOLLOW-UP SERI AND JT LIKE THAT, EVEN WHILE BATTLG HIS ILLNS.INIALLY, GARSON HIMSELF WAS APPREHENSIVE ABOUT THE CHARACTER WHO WOULD MAKE HIM FAMO. WHILE ACKNOWLEDGG THAT STANFORD WAS MORE OF AN EMBRACE OF STEREOTYP THAN A REFUTATN OF THEM, THE ACTOR WAS WORRIED ABOUT HOW LGBTQ+ PEOPLE WOULD FEEL ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE. “I DIDN’T WANT TO OFFEND THE MUNY AT ALL, AND THAT WAS A REALLY BIG NCERN OF ME, TO THE POT WHERE I DIDN’T EVEN HAVE HBO FOR THE FIRST THREE YEARS BEE I DIDN’T WANT TO SEE , BEE I WAS SO TERRIFIED OF BEG OFFENSIVE,” THE ACTOR TOLD HUFFGTON POST. “BUT THE GAY MUNY REALLY ROSE UP, AND SAID ‘WE KNOW PEOPLE LIKE THIS, THIS IS REAL.’ AND SO THAT MA ME FEEL GREAT, AND I ULD START WATCHG THE SHOW.”STANFORD WAS PERFORMED WH PASSN AND EMPATHY, EVEN THOUGH HIS SENSE OF HUMOR WAS THLS. THAT ANKNS MA HIM ENARG, LIKE A REAL IEND WHO MIGHT TELL YOU ANYTHG. CONSIR THIS EXCHANGE HE HAD WH CARRIE SEASON THREE: “I N ONLY STAY A FEW MUT,” STANFORD SAYS. “I’VE GOT TICKETS TO THE VAGA MONOLOGU.”A PERPLEXED CARRIE ASKS HIM PLATIVELY: “WHY?”HIS REPLY: “JT BEE I DON’T EAT AT THE RTRANT DON’T MEAN I N’T HEAR THE SPECIALS.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— UNHAPPY LTLE TRE: THE DARK LEGACY OF BOB ROSS— THE TE STORY OF A HOLLYWOOD PARTNERSHIP BUILT AND DTROYED BY MONEY, SEX, AND CELEBRY— TED LASSO’S ROY KENT ON WHY THE SHOW ISN’T “WARM AND FUZZY”— CAFTANS, GOYARD, AND ELVIS: INSI THE WHE LOT’S COSTUM— THE CHAIR IS LIKE AN AMIC GAME OF THRON— THE BT MOVI AND SHOWS STREAMG ON NETFLIX THIS MONTH— RACHAEL LEIGH COOK ON RECLAIMG SHE’S ALL THAT— WATCH KRISTEN STEWART CHANNEL PRCS DI SPENCER’S OFFICIAL TRAILER— FROM THE ARCHIVE: JEFEY EPSTE AND HOLLYWOOD’S OMNIPRENT PUBLICIST— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF “AWARDS INSIR.”MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHANTHONY BREZNIN
Willie Garson opened up about why he never talked about beg straight while playg a gay character on 'Sex and the Cy' — tails * willie garson gay or straight *
Garson played an openly gay man on Sex and the Cy. He played Stanford Blatch, Carrie Bradshaw’s gay bt iend the HBO show “Sex and the Cy, ” which aired om 1998 to 2004.
WILLIE GARSON FOUND A HOME PLAYG THE CANONIL ‘GAY BT FRIEND’
"For years I didn't talk about bee I found to be offensive to gay people, " Garson told Page Six a Thursday terview.
However, Garson also experienced datg troubl for portrayg the high-profile gay character, who memorably wed Anthony (Mar Cantone) a mil same-sex marriage number wh Liza Mnelli the Sex and the Cy 2 film. The actor never married, but he did adopt a seven-year-old son, Nathen, remarks e at a time of bate over the appropriatens of straight actors portrayg gay rol. While the stg of a straight actor Disney's first clearly gay role Jungle Cisparked a sizable backlash on Twter -- mpy trop are particularly sensive terrory -- die fare like Supernova, a Col Firth and Stanley Tucci starrer, have a warmer wele.
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WILLIE GARSON, CARRIE'S GAY BTIE ON SEX AND THE CY, HAS DIED
From 1998 to 2004, and over two feature films, Garson, who died Tuday at age 57, played the part of the “gay bt iend” years before most people knew a real-life iend or relative who was fortable beg ’s first appearance as Stanford, the 1998 pilot for Sex and the Cy, arrived jt a year after Ellen Degener’s character om her self-tled ABC s me out publicly, creatg a cultural stir at a time when same-sex relatnships were seldom seen mastream entertament.
Garson’s Stanford phed the door open further as a gay character who talked ankly wh his straight iends about sex, datg, rejectn, secury, and the eternal nundm of the male md.
Garson, who reportedly had been battlg ncer, was not gay himself, but took pri playg a character who uld make dienc lgh wh Stanford rather than at him. “It was also very important to the show to show someone havg fun beg gay, beg proud, open and fortable wh who they are, ” he told The Huffgton Post 2016. “You know, we’d jt e through the [AIDS] crisis and every reprentatn of gay was kd of dark, and spoken hhed ton, ” Garson add.
SATC’S WILLIE GARSON SHAR WHY HE NEVER ‘CAME OUT’ AS STRAIGHT WHILE PLAYG CARRIE’S GAY BT FRIEND
“But Stanford was like, ‘Hey, I’m gay. “But the gay muny really rose up, and said ‘We know people like this, this is real. No show about life at the turn of the lennium — pecially not one lled “Sex and the Cy” — would be plete whout the so-lled gay B.