"Rizzoli & Isl" aren't gay, they jt act that way - AfterEllen

Contents:

• QUICK LOOK: SO ARE ‘RIZZOLI & ISL’ GAY OR WHAT?
• QUICK LOOK: SO ARE ‘RIZZOLI & ISL’ GAY OR WHAT?
• WAS RIZZOLI AND ISL GAY?
• “RIZZOLI & ISL” AREN’T GAY, THEY JT ACT THAT WAY

QUICK LOOK: SO ARE ‘RIZZOLI & ISL’ GAY OR WHAT?

Are they or aren’t they gay, that is. ” and ends wh Rizzoli and Isl pretendg to be gay to send said love tert on his forlorn way. Why do women always have to be sexualized, whether they”re straight or gay?

There are a whole lotta qutns I have now that I know will never be answered (were the girls gay an early draft?

QUICK LOOK: SO ARE ‘RIZZOLI & ISL’ GAY OR WHAT?

Buzzfeed named the show the "gayt non-gay show on TV, " referrg to the blatant on-screen chemistry of s leadg ladi.

"As long as we’re not beg acced of beg homophobic, which is not any way te and pletely furiatg, I’m okay wh . There is arm rsg and eye ntact over a ad body, not to mentn a nversatn about “if” the two were gay.

And of urse, there’s s reputatn for beg the gayt show on TV that wasn’t actually gay, and as someone who is extremely here for both Cabenson and Rolivia on SVU, I figured throwg one more crime fightg ship onto the pile wouldn’t hurt anythg. Rizzoli & Isl is so gay.

WAS RIZZOLI AND ISL GAY?

SO GAY. I do not unrstand how a show wh that many straight people n be so thoroughly, queerly gay. But before I tly get to that, please enjoy a samplg of the ways this show immediately ma your iendly neighborhood lbian lose her very gay md.

“RIZZOLI & ISL” AREN’T GAY, THEY JT ACT THAT WAY

This show go out of s way to make sure you know that the women are straight (like, for ser, no stray homosexual thoughts the mds, never, look at this para of men! To promote a show they kept sistg wasn’t super gay. In the very next episo, Nikki clar that she n’t date a woman who isn’t 100% gay, as if lbians are the only queer women out there.

If I n’t unt on a show that broke ground by puttg posive gay reprentatn on broadst televisn for a total of eleven seasons to give their noncially queer woman the same safe space afford to their gay male characters, how exactly am I supposed to have fah that thgs will get better?

’s “All the Thgs She Said, ” which was promptly tated later years, thanks to the disvery that their manager cid to rope a uple of teenagers to a gay for pay stunt and the fact that half of this duo turned out to be pretty homophobic as an adult. Even takg all of the “gayt straight show” factors out of the equatn, I thk really is everythg a good crime procral should be, and ’s pletely worth the time tak to go through all seven seasons. Would have been that hard to give a crime show and a gay show at the same time?