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‘THE GOLN GIRLS’ AND ‘GILMORE GIRLS’ TEAM TO DEVELOP GAY SENR CIZEN COMEDY ‘SILVER FOX’
Although nearly every character’s sexualy was addrsed at some pot throughout her six seasons as the mastermd of The CW seri, Michel’s (Yanic Tdale) — Lorelai Gilmore’s (Lren Graham) right hand man at the Dragonfly Inn — largely remaed a mystery, though a majory of viewers have e to assume that he is gay. But wh the first episo of the four-part revival, Sherman-Pallado addrs the longstandg query about the Frenchman a nversatn between Michel and Lorelai at the Inn: he is gay and is planng to adopt a son wh his hband, Freric.
In s ial rnatn, Gilmore Girls wasn’t exactly gay-iendly. Like many shows of jt a ago, Gilmore Girls was ls anti-gay than culturally placent: the sually homophobic jokg, the total absence of explicly queer characters om begng to end. A Year the Life do so by revealg Michel (Yanic Tdale), long Gilmore Girls’ most sexually ambiguo character, as gay, married, and preparg for the possibily of parenthood.
Instead, the more extensive treatment of Gilmore Girls’ relatnship to gayns the form of a long, awkward, go-nowhere Stars Hollow town meetg “Sprg, ” or Episo 2. The way A Year the Life handl Michel suggts a sire to naturally tegrate gay characters and life to s i, while the clunky town meetg furthers the Gilmore Girls tradn of awkwardly skirtg the issue—the only difference beg that do so knowgly.