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WILLIE GARSON, CARRIE'S GAY BTIE ON SEX AND THE CY, HAS DIED
Garson, born William Garson Paszamant, played Carrie Bradshaw's gay bt iend the HBO show "Sex and the Cy," which aired om 1998 to 2004. * carrie bradshaw gay best friend *
Willie Garson, the actor known for playg Carrie Bradshaw's gay bt iend, Stanford Blatch, on Sex and the Cy, has died at age died "after a short illns, " People reports.
His character, a talent agent, was always well-drsed and ready wh a wty was straight but stayed the closet about his sexualy durg the n of the show, sayg he didn't want to offend gay people. In a Page Six terview last year, he referred to "people playg gay characters jumpg up and down screamg that they're not gay, like that would somehow be a bad thg if they were. Garson played Stanford Blatch, a gay talent agent and the pendable, wty and always well-drsed nfidant of Carrie Bradshaw, played by Sarah Jsi like the four lead characters (some fans lled him “the fifth lady”), Stanford was put through the datg rger.
He was one of the few openly gay characters on TV at the time. Garson, who was not gay, told The Huffgton Post. “But the gay muny really rose up, and said ‘We know people like this, this is real.
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”He said another terview: “I always felt that there’s nothg worse than straight actors playg gay characters televisn and then dog rtwheels to tell people that they’re straight all the time — as if they were gay, that’d be a bad thg. "Garson, born William Garson Paszamant, played Carrie Bradshaw's gay bt iend the HBO show "Sex and the Cy, " which aired om 1998 to 2004.