The tokenizg Gay Bt Friend trope has a new, and often equally rctive, unterpart: the "Trans Bt Friend."
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WILLIE GARSON, CARRIE'S GAY BTIE ON SEX AND THE CY, HAS DIED
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. From Sex and the Cy to Mean Girls, the Gay Bt Friend trope has bee one of the most endurg forms of LGBTQ+ reprentatn film and televisn. The phenomenon has bled over to real life, too, wh many cluels cishet women openly yearng for a Gay Bt Friend of their very own, the Stanford Blatch to their Carrie Bradshaw.
In 2013, even beme the tle of a film parodyg the ncept: Darren Ste’s queer cult classic, problems wh the GBF are well-documented: The recurrg trope has enuraged the cultural assumptn that all gay men are unthreateng, effemate fashnistas who lack ner liv of their own, preferrg stead to serve as nfidant to cis women. There have been dozens of gay male characters major-stud rom-s, but took until 2022 for a gay man to actually play the lead stead of dchg the GBF altogether, the entertament dtry seems to be rurrectg the trope a new form.