‘The Sopranos’ Belongs to the Gays Now

Contents:

• A STRANGE LOOP, BILLY PORTER, AND MORE MAKE THE TONYS GAY
• ‘THE SOPRANOS’ BELONGS TO THE GAYS NOW
• ‘NOT JT FOR GAYS’: THE YEAR THE TONYS DARED TO GO THERE
• IS TONY GAY '13 REASONS WHY'? HERE'S HOW THE TV SHOW ADDS LGBTQ CHARACTERS.
• GAY TONY
• ESPE – DATO FOLAND & TONY GYS | GAY ACTN | SHORTS GAY

A STRANGE LOOP, BILLY PORTER, AND MORE MAKE THE TONYS GAY

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‘THE SOPRANOS’ BELONGS TO THE GAYS NOW

And while some of the Gays of Gabagool have been fans sce the begng, seems many of them have only disvered recently, via word of mouth. But this new realy rais qutns: How did a show about vlent straight men bee so popular wh queer and trans people, pecially given the racism, misogyny and homophobia shows?

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‘NOT JT FOR GAYS’: THE YEAR THE TONYS DARED TO GO THERE

There’s a lot of shared terrory between this branch of 1990s/2000s Italian-Amerin ultra-macho culture and gay men’s club culture of the same perd. — hawaiian k-hole (@TheGayChgy) April 3, 2021.

IS TONY GAY '13 REASONS WHY'? HERE'S HOW THE TV SHOW ADDS LGBTQ CHARACTERS.

— hawaiian k-hole (@TheGayChgy) October 14, 2020.

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GAY TONY

But wrer and gay porn performer Ty Mchell says “g at the end” might be exactly why The Sopranos has bee so beloved queer circl now.

”And they all me the first six mut of the broadst, urty of an impish Neil Patrick Harris’s showstoppg show opener, “It’s Not Jt for Gays Anymore” (“” beg Broadway). Subsequent Tonys numbers have been more ep-cuttish (Jam Corn riffg off “Be More Chill” a bathroom stall) or more spontaneo (L-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Kail’s end-of-show rep) or jt pla bigger (Harris aga , well, “Bigger”) “Not Jt for Gays, ” wrten by Adam Schlger (who died of the ronavis April) and David Javerbm, set a new template for what the Broadway muny would accept terms of self-mockery.

When Schlger appeared on the edian Marc Maron’s “WTF” podst 2012, he creded this surge work to the succs of “Not Jt for Gays, ” which won an Emmy Award that year. “Hontly, Adam was pable of wrg far more imprsive melodi” than “Not Jt for Gays, ” Javerbm said.

ESPE – DATO FOLAND & TONY GYS | GAY ACTN | SHORTS GAY

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