'I Had a Baby For My Gay Bt Friend'

Contents:

• 'I HAD A BABY FOR MY GAY BT FRIEND'
• MEET BRANDI AND LAWRENCE: GAY BT FRIENDS WHO HAD A BABY TOGETHER
• WE FOUND JASON BATEMAN’S SHORT-LIVED 2001 GAY CBS S TODAY, AND YOU SHOULD WATCH
• TO NSIR HAVG A BABY WH MY GAY BT IEND?
• HOW TO DEAL WHEN YOUR BT FRIEND IS GAY

'I HAD A BABY FOR MY GAY BT FRIEND'

” Those are the words that Esme Shaller, now 36, rells sayg to her llege iend Ben Kfmann-Malaga, who’s gay.

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“I had a lot of discsns wh the surance pany, explag the surrogacy and how was unfair that other upl uld have two IVF cycl vered but gay upl uldn’t take advantage — I would have had to add Esme as a pennt for to work. ”Shaller’s hband Gary, Ben and Eduardo all acpanied Shaller to the hospal, where one special moment was wh a nurse who had grown up bt iends wh a gay man who died of AIDS the 1980s.

MEET BRANDI AND LAWRENCE: GAY BT FRIENDS WHO HAD A BABY TOGETHER

As Gay bt iends who cid to have a baby together, their story prov there is no such thg as too much love when to buildg a fay. We then found out that Lawrence, beg a gay man, was seen legally unf to donate sperm or blood.

As “some of my bt iends are gay, ” the thg that homophob wh gay iends say when they’re acced of beg homophob. Now, a most ltle s on CBS (of all plac) was never gog to be the place where send-wave issu of tolerance-vs-actualizatn would be hashed out, so the tle don’t make a ton of sense beyond s wkg nod towards gay stuff, but, aga: tradnal three-mera s on CBS.

WE FOUND JASON BATEMAN’S SHORT-LIVED 2001 GAY CBS S TODAY, AND YOU SHOULD WATCH

The important part: Jason Bateman starred a CBS s adaptatn of the gay rom- Kiss Me Guido (executive produced by Marc Cherry! It’s not like the succs of Will & Grace led to an flux of gay-themed shows the followg year, the way that Friends spawned urban-hangout shows and Lost spawned nonsensil-nspiracy shows (TWO separate wav of them!

Still, Will & Grace was clearly a template for the type of gay show that would work on work TV.

The plot: clean-cut gay man (Jason Bateman) acquir straight roommate (Tanic‘s Danny Nucci) the wake of breakup wh long-term boyiend. Gay man has exponentially more effemate bt iend (Alec Mapa).

TO NSIR HAVG A BABY WH MY GAY BT IEND?

Consirg Some of My Bt Friends lasted all of seven episos (only five of which ma to air), and further nsirg was a gay s on CBS, I have to adm I was expectg worse. Bateman fs the Eric McCormack mold of “nonthreateng, sexls gay man, ” and all the problems that e wh that, but there’s a lovelorn wears about the character that feels more natural on him a way felt performative on McCormack.

HOW TO DEAL WHEN YOUR BT FRIEND IS GAY

There’s a lot more “straight” edy this, wh a good majory of the lghs g om Nucci not realizg his new roommate is gay, then he do, then his parents and bt iend e over.

Only this se, the dog-whistle of domtic hoework is leralized as actual homophobia, which I would ll progrs for 2001.

My bt iend is a gay man.