'Gay Secret' revs up - Variety

Contents:

• 'Q-FORCE': SEAN HAY ON BRGG 'GAY JAM BOND' TO NETFLIX WH ANIMATED SPY EDY
• 'Q-FORCE' TRAILER: NETFLIX INTRODUC THE FIRST ALL-GAY SPY TEAM
• SECRET AGENTS, GAY ALIENS AND ELF PS: 10 MOVI THAT HAVE EXCED FOR 2020
• SPY-ON-SPY ACTN: GAY LIFE ON ARCHER
• NETFLIX HAS ORRED A SPY SERI DCRIBED AS A ‘GAY JAM BOND’
• MAN WHO PROTECTED PRINTS WR TELL-ALL MEMOIR: BREAKG FREE, A SAGA OF SELF-DISVERY BY A GAY SECRET SERVICE AGENT
• Q FORCE REVIEW – NETFLIX’S GAY SPY PER IS DISASTROLY DATED
• BRENDAN FRASER IS GAY SECRET AGENT
• BT GAY ROMANCE WH A CRIMAL OR SECRET ORGANIZATN THEME
• ‘GAY SECRET’ REVS UP
• THE GAY LIV OF THE CAMBRIDGE 5
• WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
• J. EDGAR HOOVER: GAY OR JT A MAN WHO HAS SEX WH MEN?
• THREAD: GAY SECRET AGENT

'Q-FORCE': SEAN HAY ON BRGG 'GAY JAM BOND' TO NETFLIX WH ANIMATED SPY EDY

Early the first season of "Q-Force, " Netflix's rnchy and heartfelt new animated edy (now streamg), there's a poignant exchange between novice gay spi Steve (Sean Hay) and Deb (Wanda Syk). But the openly gay actor, who played the unapologetic Jack McFarland for 11 seasons of the s (cludg s recent revival), murely dismiss his "trailblazer" stat. '" "Q-Force" follows the adventur of a misf group of superspi led by Steve, a risg star the Amerin Intelligence Agency (AIA) who's punted to a low-level job Wt Hollywood after g out as gay.

For Liedman, was a chance to make somethg "fun and stupid" and full of queer joy, fog the gay trma we so often see film and televisn. " More:I'm jt a boy, standg ont of Hollywood, beggg for more joyful LGBTQ filmsThe adult-oriented seri also don't shy away om nudy and graphic, although still stylized, pictns of gay sex.

" In the weeks leadg up to release, "Q-Force" has gotten phback om crics and Twter ers for s at-tim dated gay stereotyp, which were on full display  the show's much-rid first teaser trailer. Acrdg to the synopsis, "Steve Maryweather, AKA Agent Mary, was once the Goln Boy of the Amerin Intelligence Agency (AIA), until he me out as gay.

'Q-FORCE' TRAILER: NETFLIX INTRODUC THE FIRST ALL-GAY SPY TEAM

“Q-Force, ” Netflix’s animated edy seri, is about a group of unrvalued LGBTQ superspi, cludg Steve Marywhether (also known as Agent Mary), a gay secret agent who is Jam Bonsque, who try to prove themselv on personal and profsnal adventur. “Steve Maryweather, AKA Agent Mary, was once the Goln Boy of the Amerin Intelligence Agency (AIA), until he me out as gay, ” the official scriptn reads. He won two awards and received a nomatn for his reportg on the lol LGBTQ muny, cludg a two-part vtigatn that exposed anti-gay bullyg of lol high school stunts and the school districts' failure to implement state mandated protectns for LGBTQ stunts.

SECRET AGENTS, GAY ALIENS AND ELF PS: 10 MOVI THAT HAVE EXCED FOR 2020

Ryan Murphy produc this adaptatn of the 2018 Broadway revival of Mart Crowley’s notor play about a dysfunctnal group of gay men livg New York. We’re hopg that this versn–which reportedly will clu the revised text of the 2018 revival as well–ton down the self-loathg of the characters, not to mentn the subtle homophobic elements that make the origal 1970 film crge-ducg.

David Lynch tried adaptg Dune back 1984 wh disastro rults: the film ranks as one of the most herent, disgtg and homophobic movi ever ma. The story of teen lovers stroyed by rival gangs 1950s New York more or ls remas the same, though out-gay screenwrer Tony Khner (who wrote Angels Ameri) has hted that his script will adhere closely to the origal stage versn, and likely tegrate some of the revisns of the 2009 Broadway revival, which featured both Spanish language lyrics and dialogue. The creator of the popular FX animated spy seri Archer, which premier season four tonight on FX, has jt been asked if he n name an openly gay spy.

SPY-ON-SPY ACTN: GAY LIFE ON ARCHER

While Reed don't b shoulrs wh spi on a day-to-day basis, he assum we mean fictnal spi -- but nohels he is h wh this realizatn, Reed seems proud that he has created Ray Gillette, the smart, handsome, and openly gay spy on his seri.

"No proment gay spi e to md, " says Reed as he discs the upg fourth season of one of the most unr-celebrated animated edi on TV.

Wh this all-star team and no shortage of wty, rnchy one-lers, Archer has cemented self as one of the most shockg and hilar shows on Archer as a world-reknowned womanizer, Ray provis an tertg pot of ntrast as a petent, smart spy who happens to be gay.

NETFLIX HAS ORRED A SPY SERI DCRIBED AS A ‘GAY JAM BOND’

But Reed hts that Ray may walk aga (perhaps thanks to a pair of cyberic legs), and also allus that Ray may not be the only gay spy viewers see the new season. " On Archer, sults fly as fast as bullets, wh the spi nstantly ribbg each other on everythg om their choice of wardrobe to their bedroom manners -- wh Ray's sexualy ually feelg the bnt of his worker's won Bt Show You're Not Watchg at the New Now Next Awards back 2010, and while all the characters are fair game the ISIS offic, Reed was never serly ncerned about the gay backlash for the flak Ray tak at the office.

The star also serv as the shownner and executive producer for the project, which follows his journey the world as a gay man wh cerebral palsy. Ncuti Gatwa stars the show as Otis’s openly-gay bt iend Eric, who fac homophobia as he to terms wh his sexualy durg the programme’s first season.

Telligence muny that once forced out gays and lbians for secury reasons now se clivy as the bt way to protect the untry, and seeks to rec spi om a wir talent pool that clus the LGBT a ssn tled Ameri’s LGBT Spi (Secret Agents of Change) held at the South by Southwt tech summ At, Texas, the panelists said for the U. She was ially ostracized by the agency she has served and seen evolve over 30 years or so of said unr Cold War thkg, beg gay uld subject someone to blackmail, and g out meant someone would be seen as a viant who uld not be tsted. If we nnot ntue to brg talent, we nnot brg the bt telligence, " said panelist Kris Gill, global programs manager for the Natnal Geospatial-Intelligence dividual spy agenci have sometim ma prentatns or statements publicly welg gay employe, the prentatn was the first time the U.

MAN WHO PROTECTED PRINTS WR TELL-ALL MEMOIR: BREAKG FREE, A SAGA OF SELF-DISVERY BY A GAY SECRET SERVICE AGENT

Katra Gossman, a senr FBI special agent, said 2004 she beme the first FBI employee to marry her partner unr Massachetts' gay marriage law. Netflix has orred 10 episos of Q-Force, an animated edy seri based on a gay secret agent and his team of LGBTQ super project has been spearhead by Will & Grace star Sean Hay and producer Todd Miller, who has scribed the seri as "gay Jam Bond". “We were thkg how do we get to do gay spy and every week, and the only way to do that is animated, bee we n do all of the fun parts of a Jam Bond film.

”Hay echoed his pot, sayg: “I don’t know that the studs would greenlight a feature wh a leadg character that’s gay that genre.

The animated adult edy seri, created by Sean Hay (Will and Grace) and Michael Schur (The Good Place, Brooklyn Ne-Ne), foc on a the adventur of gay secret agent Steve Maryweather, a. Homophobia is not so much wispread this world as enmic, and at every turn, Mary and his iends are held back bee they are gay. There n be a snobbishns and hostily, particularly onle, about mastream gay culture, as if all LGBTQ+ people are the same and the only te way to exprs queerns is to bate Judh Butler.

Q FORCE REVIEW – NETFLIX’S GAY SPY PER IS DISASTROLY DATED

Sign up today for our ee To Top12776Entertament News2004-06-16 Brendan Fraser may go unrver Gay Secret AgentVariety reports that Brendan Fraser is negotiatg to star the pnage spoof Gay Secret Agent, about an openly queer spy. "He is the bt secret agent the world, and beg gay helps him the job, bee he is charmg and well-mannered, a great dancer, and an impecble drser, " Suzanne Todd told Variety. While agents like Jam Bond and At Powers have been recidivist romancers of femme fatal, Fraser's agent will be flamboyantly gay.

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BRENDAN FRASER IS GAY SECRET AGENT

But whether riffg on 1940s Hollywood noir narrativ s last season or embracg a Don Johnson meets Srface vibe Season Five's Archer Vice era, there's always been, at s re, Hollywood's go-to ia of a leadg man: a rtoonish versn of Ian Flemg's womanizg, dnken, hetero where Bond remas an opprsive bastn of heterosexual masculy—look no further than all this talk about how Bond uldn't, heaven forbid, everbe gay—FXX's animated seri has surround Sterlg Archer (name "Duchs, " don't ask) wh a wildly sexually provotive roster of characters. In fact, while Hollywood smugly pats self on the back for the cln of a queer Power Ranger or an "exclively gay" moment your favore splay-as-remake Disney project, FXX's R-rated show has been showsg the kd of plex and stereotype-smashg LGBTQ character we are seemgly always on the cp of seeg on a mastream pop culture Gillette (pronounced like the razor; don't let his hillbilly fay tell you otherwise) was first troduced a cutaway gag the show's first season.

Always eager to e his spy missns to bed as many women as humanly possible, Archer is disappoted when his boss, who's also his mother, rms him the target is a gay Cuban secret agent. In an episo that both flnts and lls out gay stereotyp—Archer ially fails to attract closeted Cuban Ramon Limon by bleachg his hair, donng some roller skat, a skimpy pair of whe shorts, and a crop top that reads "Got Dick? Moreover, Archer walks a fe le between makg Ray's homosexualy an almost cintal character tra and makg a central part of his inty.

BT GAY ROMANCE WH A CRIMAL OR SECRET ORGANIZATN THEME

Th, for every throwaway gag that merely plays up his gayns— his send appearance, he tells Aisha Tyler's bodac Lana Kane that she looks great her knock-off Fcchi drawers, elicg a "You're such a bch! " retort—there are moments that broan our knowledge of how this once Olympic gold-medalist skier om Wt Virgia beme an ace bomb fer wh two nickel-plated M1911 pistols nicknamed Barbra and walks a fe le between makg Ray's homosexualy an almost cintal character tra and makg a central part of his an episo of the show's third season tled "Bloody Ferl, " we actually get to travel to the backwoods town where Ray grew up and where his father openly tried to still his young effemate son a much more socially acceptable visn of mascule strength, cludg killg a bear wh a bow and takg a be out of s heart. As we're learn later the show, he was eventually sent to a Pray Away the Gay Camp where he met his wife—a lbian, of urse ("That was a pretty weird time for me, " he adms).

Whether seeg him shirtls and wheelchair-bound at a circu party, wieldg Barbra and Liza while rockg a biker leather outf, sportg his "crISIS" vt , well, a crisis suatn, or remiscg about his bronze-medal glory as an Olympic skier, Gillette is the clost you n get to what an unabashedly gay Jam Bond would look 's pecially groundbreakg about Raymond Q.

The inty of the anonymo IRS whistleblower allegg polil misnduct throughout the Hunter Bin vtigatn was revealed on Wednday as special agent Joseph Ziegler — a gay Democrat wh more than a dozen years servg wh the agency’s crimal vtigative divisn. Ziegler said he is a 13-year special agent wh the IRS’ Crimal Invtigatn Divisn and scribed himself as a "gay Democrat married to a man. "REPUBLICANS’ IRS ‘WHISTLEBLOWER X’ IS A GAY DEMOCRAT IN CRIMINAL DIVISION WITH 13 YEARS AT THE AGENCY IRS Crimal Invtigator Joseph Ziegler ttifi durg a Hoe Oversight Commtee hearg related to the Jtice Department's vtigatn of Hunter Bin, on Capol Hill July 19, 2023 Washgton, D.

‘GAY SECRET’ REVS UP

While agents like Jam Bond and At Powers have been recidivist romancers of femme fatal, Fraser’s agent will be flamboyantly gay. “He is the bt secret agent the world, and beg gay helps him the job, bee he is charmg and well- mannered, a great dancer and an impecble drser, ” Jennifer Todd said. When Rupert Everett stole scen oppose Julia Roberts “My Bt Friend’s Weddg, ” Sony Pictur Entertament rpond by buyg his pch for a drama which he’d play a gay Brish telligence officer.

Eher theory is Apostl at the time were noted for a largely queer membership (both Blunt and Burgs were openly homosexual, spe the law), and for s Marxist leangs. Some Republins once said Joseph Ziegler, the Internal Revenue Service agent who ttified before Congrs Wednday about possible terference the vtigatn of Hunter Bin, was biased Bin’s favor bee he’s a gay man and a Democrat. “People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda.

THE GAY LIV OF THE CAMBRIDGE 5

The report clud a photo of Joseph Ziegler and his hband, Newsweek not, pl the assertn that the hband was nnected “at least socially” to Demetre Daskalakis, a gay physician who has worked the New York Cy health partment and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, and later was appoted by Joe Bin as puty ordator of the rponse to the mpox outbreak.

He had been anonymo until Wednday's his openg statement, Ziegler emphasized that he is a gay man and a registered Democrat who has been acced of betrayg his party. i'm bi and am aware of the e of sweater weather to know if someone is bi is there any other secret s to know if someone is gay?

WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?

K-6 LGBT people weren’t mentned at all, 7th and 8th gra the only thg mentned was “oh yeah, gay people were persecuted Nazi Germany too” and sce I went to a Catholic school of urse the “you n be gay as long as you’re miserable” lson relig ed. In high school aga the only time LGBT topics where brought up was when there was a blk-and-you’ll-miss- gay character a book, and they had some HR guy give “don’t beat up someone for beg a different lor or sexual orientatn” sensivy trag but that’s . That’s why I fd so hard to believe that the two years I’ve been out of K-12 school there’s sudnly a nefar plot to “groom” kids to beg LGBT, hontly seems like another wave of “SpongeBob and Teletubbi will make your kids to homos” moral panic.

J. EDGAR HOOVER: GAY OR JT A MAN WHO HAS SEX WH MEN?

Filmgoers never see the s-long romance between the former FBI director, and his number two, Cly Tolson, nsummated, but there's plenty of lovg glanc, hand-holdg and one scene wh an aggrsive, long, ep was the most powerful man Ameri, who died 1972 -- three years after the Stonewall rts marked the morn gay civil rights movement -- homosexual? Jack Drcher, a New York Cy psychiatrist who is an expert genr and wh strong attractns to other men n have different gre of acceptance om beg fully closeted to beg openly gay. "Even the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn (CDC) tracks a group that is not labeled "gay" but "men who have sex wh men.

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THREAD: GAY SECRET AGENT

"In a 2004 bgraphy by Richard Hack, "Puppetmaster, " which was culled om the not of Tman Capote, who had begun terviews on Hoover and Tolson's relatnship, the thor says Hoover was not gay, but suggts the man was virly turned on by the smut he llected on 200-page secret document was on the extracurricular activi of Capote himself, who was openly Anthony Summers, who exposed the secret sex life of Hoover his 1993 book, "Official and Confintial: The Secret Life of J. And Bra are issug a remake of the medil expert told Summers that Hoover was "strongly predomant homosexual orientatn" and another tegorized him as a "bisexual wh failed heterosexualy.

"Hoover promoted men cled to homosexual discretns, cludg Tolson, who had barely 18 months experience wh the FBI when he beme Hoover's pair ed to make "scy jok" about some of the other agents, like Melv Purvis, who was a hero for arrtg John Dillger, acrdg to 's son shared his father's 500-letter rrponnce wh Hoover, who teased the good-lookg, blond-haired agent as "the Clark Gable of the FBI, " even though he was were timate and one was highly charged wh nuendo, as Hoover referred to himself as the "Chairman of the Moral Uplift Squad. In 1978 when the actrs was asked to ment on Ana Bryant's anti-gay mpaign, Merman told the reporter, "Some of my bt iends are homosexual. "Harry Hay, founr of the Mattache Society, one of the first gay rights anizatns, nfirmed that Hoover and Tolson sat box owned by and ed exclively by gay men at their racg hnt Del Mar California.