Straight Guys for Gay Ey (2005) - The A.V. Club

Contents:

• THK YOU ARE GAY? IT SHOWS YOUR EY, ACRDG TO STUDY
• STRAIGHT GUYS FOR GAY EY
• STRAIGHT EYE FOR THE GAY GUY: POSG QUEERNS
• KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM

THK YOU ARE GAY? IT SHOWS YOUR EY, ACRDG TO STUDY

Somehow, the origal “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” premiered on Bravo two s ago this month, prentg five gay men – each specializg a specific liftyle area – as they scend upon a (ually) heterosexual male subject need of some support, whether was wh clothg choic, groomg, anizatn or perhaps an unrlyg issue around self nfince. It was a novel take on the makeover ncept, not only terms of beg one of the first monstroly succsful programs the then-nascent realm of realy TV, but also one of the first tl to feature not one – but five – gay people as the leads.

(For ntext, had only been five years sce the s “Ellen” got nceled, shortly after the ma character played by Ellen DeGener me out as gay. Krsley agreed, sayg, “We meet people all the time who are probably their thirti now, who say, ‘I me om a very nservative fay, we were very relig, “Gay” was not somethg that was ever spoken about our home, and your show allowed to at least have that nversatn, if not make easier for me to e out.

He add that of urse, isn’t only gay people who approach them wh spiratnal msag, and that at the time the origal show aired, the st saw how their visibily as gay people wh a larger straight world was beg received firsthand. “For many people, we were the first real, live, real life gay people that they actually enuntered, ” Krsley observed. You’re the first gay person I met!

STRAIGHT GUYS FOR GAY EY

“Of urse you’ve enuntered gay people! And anythg gay the zegeist has the potential to bee policized, then and now.

“And we were a very nocuo group of five gay men helpg a straight guy try to get the job, or the look, or the girl. And for those who cricized the origal seri for rercg stereotyp by havg a gay fashnista or bety expert swoop to tidy thgs up, Colls creds his rint foodie Allen for a memorable moment at the show’s first NBC upont Los Angel back 2003, when he faced a slew of reporters and had the perfect retort.

STRAIGHT EYE FOR THE GAY GUY: POSG QUEERNS

“Ted fally grabbed , really grabbed a hold of the answer, which was like, ‘Yeah, we are, as a matter of fact, owng the clich around the fact that gays have a different perspective, have a unique visn and perspective of a lot of different thgs. Create acuntENFully supportedEnglish (Uned Stat)Partially supportedFrançais (Canada)Français (France)Dtsch (Dtschland)हिंदी (भारत)Italiano (Italia)Português (Brasil)Español (España)Español (Méxi)Use appBackCast & crewIMDbProStraight Guys for Gay EyYearsUnknownContribute to this pageSuggt an ed or add missg ntentIMDb Answers: Help fill gaps our dataLearn more about ntributgEd pageAdd episoMore to explorePhotosBefore They Were Famo: Actors' Early RolSee the galleryPhotos'Fair Play' and More New StillsSee more stillsRecently viewedYou have no recently viewed pag. "In fact, not even a divisn to 'straight, ' 'bi, ' and 'gay' tells the full story, " he said.

KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM

"Men who intify as 'mostly straight' really exist both their inty and their pupil rponse; they are more aroed to mal than straight men, but much ls so than both bisexual and gay men. Sce the show wasn't terted hirg celebri for the ma rol, the -creators had to dig through the Esquire vertils to fd the dividuals who they scribed as gog om ordary gay men to superhero whenever they fixed up a straight man. Their search took them to var magaz where they asked the edors if they had any gay men suable for the five rol they need to fill.