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Contents:
- RSELL TOVEY: GAY MALE BACKLASH TO ‘LOOKG’ ‘BROKE ME, HONTLY’
- RSELL T. DAVI EXPLAS WHY HE ONLY CASTS GAY ACTORS GAY ROL
- RSELL TOVEY OPENS UP ABOUT GAY MALE BACKLASH ON ‘LOOKG’ SERI
- 'IT'S A S' BRGS A LOST GENERATN OF GAY MEN TO LIFE
- ‘IT’S A S’ CREATOR RSELL T DAVI SAYS IT’S IMPORTANT TO CAST GAY ACTORS AS GAY CHARACTERS
RSELL TOVEY: GAY MALE BACKLASH TO ‘LOOKG’ ‘BROKE ME, HONTLY’
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Creator Michael Lannan’s seri about the s and outs of three gay bt iends San Francis ran for two seasons 2014 and 2015, followed by a 2016 straight-to-HBO movie place of a third season. And those hopg “Lookg” would be HBO’s gay answer to “Sex and the Cy” might have been disappoted wh what they received stead: an die film-style dramedy that played to the often driftg rhythms of s characters’ liv, seekg love and sex a Bay Area beg swallowed by the tech boom.
RSELL T. DAVI EXPLAS WHY HE ONLY CASTS GAY ACTORS GAY ROL
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RSELL TOVEY OPENS UP ABOUT GAY MALE BACKLASH ON ‘LOOKG’ SERI
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It may appear quat now, when we have TV seri like Hulu’s Love, Victor (about a Latx teen explorg sexual fluidy) or Netflix’s Bondg (about sex work and alternative sexualy), but the great gay panic set off by Ellen DeGener g out on her s 1997 was a bombshell that didn’t necsarily nvce the works that they’d open the gat to LGBTQ experienc.
'IT'S A S' BRGS A LOST GENERATN OF GAY MEN TO LIFE
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Luckily Will & Grace buted 1998 and the groundbreakg NBC seri nvced many that gay people might not be so toxic (and wouldn’t sre off advertisers) — so much so that Vice Print Joe Bin later creded wh changg his md about same-sex marriage.
Dpe the fact that lns of Amerins wnsed two men raise a happy and healthy dghter om the fort of their livg room sofas, took a fan mpaign to lobby Disney-owned ABC to fally allow Mchell (gay actor Jse Tyler Fergon) and Cameron (straight actor Eric Stontreet) to kiss ( fally happened 2010). For years, ranged, perverse, and spible homosexuals were on full display — pecially om Ryan Murphy, who remas our most proment culture czar when to queer characters on TV.
‘IT’S A S’ CREATOR RSELL T DAVI SAYS IT’S IMPORTANT TO CAST GAY ACTORS AS GAY CHARACTERS
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From the Roy Cohn-flected Army-McCarthy heargs — which was the first time many people heard the word “homosexual” uttered on TV — through the “don’t ask, don’t tell” Neti, that clud The Goln Girls and Digng Women, to our current glter-and-glam era of RuPl’s Drag Race and almost-anythg-go pansexualy.
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In that way, ’s breakg siar ground to the Sundance Now seri This Close, om af actors Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman, about a straight woman and gay man who are bti lookg for love and unrstandg. And while the seri received as much hate mail as adoratn — an evable byproduct of beg the first show to have openly gay male lead characters — lasted eight seasons before endg 2006. It was Cher-lovg Jack (Sean Hay) and alholic, right-wg sociale Karen (Megan Mullally) as much as Will (Eric McCormack) and Grace (Debra Msg) that enared Amerins to the sassy s, wh l like: “Commandment number one the gay bible: Thou shalt not vet my ex’s ass.