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- JUDD APATOW'S GAY ROMANTIC COMEDY CASTS A LOVE INTERT FOR BILLY EICHNER
- NBC DEVELOPG GAY COUPLE SMALL TOWN COMEDY ‘THE INN CROWD’ FROM JIM PARSONS & ‘YOUNG & HUNGRY’ CREATOR
- OH YOU SILLY THG, OF COURSE HE’S GAY
- NETFLIX’S 1ST GAY HOLIDAY ROM- BRGS LGHS — AND JENNIFER COOLIDGE
- 14 TV SHOWS THAT BROKE GROUND WH GAY AND TRANSGENR CHARACTERS
JUDD APATOW'S GAY ROMANTIC COMEDY CASTS A LOVE INTERT FOR BILLY EICHNER
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NBC DEVELOPG GAY COUPLE SMALL TOWN COMEDY ‘THE INN CROWD’ FROM JIM PARSONS & ‘YOUNG & HUNGRY’ CREATOR
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Fire Island (2022)Pri and Prejudice leans to pri Spa Night and Driveways director Andrew Ahn's magnificent rom- (wrten by star Joel Kim Booster) that loosely adapts Jane Aten for gay mec.
OH YOU SILLY THG, OF COURSE HE’S GAY
“Vic,” a Brish seri soon to be broadst on PBS, follows two partners a gay relatnship of nearly 50 years. * gay couple comedy *
Love, Simon (2018)You may never fd a film more quietly revolutnary than Love, Simon, the first-ever Hollywood stud-released picture centered on a gay teen. Rob's bt iend Simon is gay the seri and even has an entire storyle about what his life is like as an openly gay man who is also unlucky love. The seri is important LGBTQ+ reprentatn bee shows a realy where one's fay might not be as acceptg as they should be of their gay child.
A semi-tobgraphil retellg of his life, Special follows Ryan, an openly gay man wh d cerebral palsy as he navigat life and love the cy. On his qut for love, Ryan dat and teracts wh several other gay men, cludg Tanner, who is an open relatnship which offers Special another opportuny for reprentatn. On Wednday, Deadle reported that Le Macfarlane had signed on to star oppose Eichner the movie, which is beg billed as the first gay rom- to be released by a major stud.
“I thk we need to stop unrvalug that, the feelg that if a gay person plays a gay person ’s not actg, but if a straight person plays a gay person, we give them an Osr. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.
NETFLIX’S 1ST GAY HOLIDAY ROM- BRGS LGHS — AND JENNIFER COOLIDGE
Netflix jt dropped a full trailer for “Sgle All the Way,” s first holiday romantic edy featurg gay lead characters. * gay couple comedy *
'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".
And next year is gog to be even the first major stud gay rom-, to queer-clive horror, to Harry Styl playg a queer p, the next year will have a ton of great LGBTQ+ ntent on the big screen. Billy Eichner wrote and starred this gay rom- wh an all LGBTQ+ prcipal st, cludg Bowen Yang, Ts Madison, Guillermo Diaz, and Le Macfarlane as Eichner's love tert. The movie, which is beg lled the first gay romantic edy by a major stud, jt wrapped filmg and is schled to h theaters Augt 22, 2022.
Wrten by Holn, The Inn Crowd is spired by Tony Horwz’s 1999 New Yorker article and centers around a gay uple who divi a small town when they open a very succsful n. “Vic” was succsful enough to earn a send season, but was also cricized by Brish publitns like The Stage, which said that s “gay characters are nothg more than mp stereotyp” and that the scenars “bear no remblance to the liv of the viewers at home, ” while The Guardian wrote that the seri “cheerfully tras clichés of homosexualy.
14 TV SHOWS THAT BROKE GROUND WH GAY AND TRANSGENR CHARACTERS
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” As “Vic” arriv the Uned Stat, the bate over s pictns of gay men reopens an argument that has nonted Amerin edi like “Will & Grace, ” “Glee, ” “Morn Fay” and other shows wh gay a televisn character who exhibs stereotypilly gay quali a stereotype himself?
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That NBC edy also took flak for s pictn of Jack, a gay iend of Will’s played by Sean Hay, who was loud, excable and, to some viewers, an embodiment of ovesed gay tras.