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• THAT GAY EPISO: AN OUT AND PROUD ‘WGS’ PLAYS ONE-ON-ONE WH BAD PARENTG
• BUFFALO WILD WGS WAS MY ONE-MAN GAY BAR
• GAY-WGS

THAT GAY EPISO: AN OUT AND PROUD ‘WGS’ PLAYS ONE-ON-ONE WH BAD PARENTG

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Bee g out is always a major thg, ss gravate towards that moment when time to do their gay episo. Ellen’s landmark g out episo picted the ial vertigo of first acknowledgg your gayns, Wgs took a different route seven years earlier. But as anyone that’s e out knows, that sh of self-aware phoria wh a chaser of stggle, and that’s the se  Wgs’ first gay episo.

BUFFALO WILD WGS WAS MY ONE-MAN GAY BAR

It’s not a blunt nmnatn of homophobia like Cheers’ gay episo, but actually gets a lot more right than Barney Miller’s misguid gay extortn plot. There’s one reason why the 1990 Wgs episo “There’s Always Room For Cello” works: was -wrten by out gay wrer (and Wgs and Frasier -creator) David Lee.

While workg on That Gay Episo, I’ve learned that the bt gay episos e om gay wrers. The Goln Girls, Ellen, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and now Wgs, are all episos om gay wrers that give their gay characters digny and posn them on the moral high ground pared to whoever the ma st is eakg out. Roy starts out the episo hella pumped bee his son is the papers for his burgeong football prows (which is the gayt way I n thk of puttg , bee my specialty is ss and not sports talk).

So, let’s h the pse button on the gay stuff for a sec.

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Is gay and we get a g out episo and not a s versn of Law & Orr: SVU.

And his g out: he says that while he hasn’t “found anybody to be gay wh, ” he knows he’s had the feelgs for a long time and he’s done a lot of readg about at the library (also an entire week’s worth of Donahue helped). It do feel great to fally stand up for yourself and say the words “I’m gay, ” and this is a si of g out that we didn’t always see on TV pre-Ellen. ’s face lights up when he says , and a few days later he’s already anizg the Nantucket’s gay pri para (“I’m the grand marshal!

The lively and elrly Fay (Rebec Schull) don’t get what gay means, the rakish Brian (Steven Weber) only ems the rmatn worthwhile bee he knows will vastate Roy, straight-laced Joe gets a ltle flummoxed, and Lowell (Thomas Han Church) approach R. That be hard to do a few days later after gay and proud R. Worried that fdg out his son’s gay om someone else will make Roy even madr, Helen arrang for a father and son heart-to-heart.