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ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT
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… * looking gay movie cast *
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. The show was marketed as a new take on what means to be a gay male morn tim.
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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.
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The scen play out a strange equivotn; there is regnn of a gay cultural legacy, but s ins are handled half-heartedly, as though they were ironic props. The show seems to be announcg that is alg wh a new generatn of gay men, who require a new mo of reprentatn that is distct om the tablished cultural narrativ. Such rtraed and sober realism is not trailblazg and of self, but is te that we haven’t seen an enormo share of gay reprentatns on TV.