David Hy Pierce is Gay Former Frasier star David Hy Pierce officially me out of the closet (untentnally or tentnally?) an Associated Prs article published on ;
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- ‘JULIA’ STAR DAVID HY PIERCE LLS GAY IN JULIA CHILD’S HOMOPHOBIA ‘NFG’
- DAVID HY PIERCE REVEALS HE IS GAY
- DAVID HY PIERCE IS GAY
‘JULIA’ STAR DAVID HY PIERCE LLS GAY IN JULIA CHILD’S HOMOPHOBIA ‘NFG’
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"We did not know at that time that eher one of was gay, and we jt hung out as bt iends, " David Hy Pierce tells PEOPLE about first meetg his now-hband, Brian Hargrove, 1982.
DAVID HY PIERCE REVEALS HE IS GAY
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We did not know at that time that eher one of was gay, and we jt hung out as bt iends. Dan Butler played Frasier and Roz's chvistic and very heterosexual -worker Bob "Bulldog" Brise on the show, so he shocked fans when he me out publicly as a gay man early on the show's n. It was jt procsg what gay means, if anythg, " Butler explaed.
David Hy Pierce knew all about Julia Child’s homophobia gog to HBO Max’s “Julia, ” but he still lls “nfg.
“It’s nfg bee so many ways she’s an in, or was an in, to the gay muny, ” he tells Page Six a new terview.
DAVID HY PIERCE IS GAY
That said, Pierce 62, not that he is sure both Julia and Pl had “plenty of gay and lbian people their liv, both Paris [where they lived for five years] and the Stat, ” addg, “So those stanc are jt, you know, a sort of unnsc prejudice. Pierce explas that he was not surprised by the Childs’ homophobia when he joed “Julia” bee a “ar iend who is gay” worked wh the late “French Chef” host and allegedly “experienced that” firsthand.
“The fact that she had the abily to change and see as human begs is important, ” the openly gay actor says, notg he do not know if Pl ever changed his views, too. In one scene of the new show, Pl risively refers to gay men as “fairi, ” a le that Pierce says he felt “was very important” to be clud. He me out as gay 2007, three years after the show end, and married his long-term love, wrer, director and producer Brian Hargrove 2008.
Wh his directorial but on Broadway, It Shoulda Been You, he sat down wh HuffPost Live to discs what he's been workg on, and how some of the episos of Frasier people nsir the bt are, fact, centered around gay jok. As he explaed:"The reason they had those gay jok Frasier, pecially about Nil [Crane] and Frasier [Crane] was was examg stereotyp and those two were very neat and persnickety and was acknowledgg the fact that a lot of their behavr [like] we tastg and gog to the opera and all, would be seen as gay by a lot of people. It was never jok at the expense of gay people.