HBO’s Lookg: the men on TV who jt 'happen to be gay'

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Show a gay man on TV, and you immediately open yourself up to a gree of scty that other artists ually have the privilege of avoidg. Reprentatns of margalised subjects on screen or lerature…

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Show a gay man on TV, and you immediately open yourself up to a gree of scty that other artists ually have the privilege of avoidg. When I watched the first season of Lookg 2014, HBO’s origal seri about a group of young gay men ntemporary San Francis (season two is currently airg Atralia), I was keenly aware of the burn that such expectatns mt have posed for the show’s creators. I uld already tect a distct self-nscns about how to approach the “gay issue” when I listened to the st terviewed on CNN last year, where they each went at lengths to strs the universaly of the them that the seri addrs.

The actors assured potential viewers that the pot of the show was not to enpsulate gay life per se, but rather, to explore the liv of characters who “happen to be gay”. The st of Lookg talk about how the seri approach s gay characters on CNN. there’s been gay characters and gay shows on TV before, but never told this sort of way.

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The show was marketed as a new take on what means to be a gay male morn tim. The dual terts set up a sense of ambivalence wh the seri about jt how “gay” tends to be. Even s tle is refully d for both “gay” and “mastream” dienc.

Those who have ed gay social workg vic will be faiar wh the term “lookg” as a shorthand exprsn for “lookg for sex”. Often, Lookg dramatis the extent to which s characters appear tranged om the history of gay culture. Later, Patrick claims he is terted an OkCupid profile bee clus a Frank O’Hara quotatn, but then nfs that he actually had to google the famo gay poet.

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