"Will & Grace" It's the Gay Pumpk, Charlie Brown (TV Episo 2002) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb

Contents:

• 'I WOULDN'T GET THIS ROLE TODAY': WILL & GRACE'S STRAIGHT 'GAY' STAR
• WILL AND GRACE STAR CONFIRMS HE’S GAY
• A GAY/DECEMBER ROMANCE

'I WOULDN'T GET THIS ROLE TODAY': WILL & GRACE'S STRAIGHT 'GAY' STAR

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WILL AND GRACE STAR CONFIRMS HE’S GAY

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A GAY/DECEMBER ROMANCE

Hay didn't publicly e out as a gay man until 2010, four years after Will & Grace wrapped s ial n. After he saw the Will & Grace pilot 1998, Deamer says he felt "chagred, embarrassed, and vastated" when he realized that the character based on him was picted as "flamboyantly gay, nstantly over the top, promiscuo, and irrponsible. Everyone remembers the basics: bt iends Will, a gay man, and Grace, a straight woman, live and love Manhattan wh their quirkier iends Jack and Karen.

Mutchnick and Eisenberg dated real life, and then beme close iends after Mutchnick revealed he was gay. She also told Kg that McCormack didn't origally want to play a gay character. Actor Sean Hay, who portrayed openly gay character Jack on Will & Grace, didn't e out real life until five years after the show end.

More recently, Hay has revealed that he's "ashamed and embarrassed" he stayed the closet for so long when he might have ma a difference young gay people's liv by g out sooner.

Fellow executive producer David Kohan and producer-director Jam Burrows agreed, notg that the show had troduced and normalized gay people for a swath of the public.

Yup, he's gay real life, too. The rolutely private actor recently gave his first terview to gay newsmagaze The Advote after many nied requts. You're gonna shoot the gay guy down?

The star of the popular, Emmy-wng gay s adds, "I feel like I've ntributed monumentally to the succs of the gay movement Ameri, and if anyone wants to argue that, I’m open to .

Beg the first show to feature two promently gay characters, the seri foced on the liv of the ma st and how they navigated their reers and relatnships.

The album featured gay classics like “I Will Survive, ” and songs by gut stars of the show like Cher’s “Gypsi, Tramps and Thiev. Oddly enough, the producers believed Barrowman was "too straight" to play the character and thought McCormack was more nvcg as a gay man. In realy, Barrowman is gay while McCormack is straight.

To this day, "Will & Grace" is still nsired "one of the most succsful televisns seri wh gay prcipal characters" acrdg to the show's Wikipedia page. " The show has won several GLAAD Media Awards for s support of the gay muny. In an terview wh Gay Star News, Hay revealed that an attempt to lm the star's nerv durg a table readg of the script, he started "praisg her" to which she sarstilly rpond "Thank you.

" Fearg for his safety, Hayn remaed quiet about his personal life until 2010 when he publicly me out as homosexual.

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Durg the terview, host Megyn Kelly asked Turner "is te that you beme a lawyer-- and you beme gay-- bee of Will?