The first trailer for Sean Hay and Michael Schur’s animated gay spy seri Q-Force outraged a lot of people wh s open embrace of gay stereotyp and dated portrayals. The actual show is more of a medcry, not offensive so much as rny and unimagative. But queer dienc still wag to be acknowledged by the mastream, through endls Disney "first gay character" teas and sexls bt-iend characters, serve better. Q-Force is streamg on Netflix now.
Contents:
- SO WHAT'S NEW ABOUT GAY SPI?
- ANTHONY BLUNT AND GUY BURGS, GAY SPI
- YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD OF THE RED SRE, BUT THE LSER-KNOWN, ANTI-GAY 'LAVENR SRE' IS RARELY TGHT SCHOOLS
- WASHGTON AND LONDON ARE LOOKG FOR A FEW GOOD GAY SPI
- Q FORCE REVIEW – NETFLIX’S GAY SPY PER IS DISASTROLY DATED
SO WHAT'S NEW ABOUT GAY SPI?
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ANTHONY BLUNT AND GUY BURGS, GAY SPI
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YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD OF THE RED SRE, BUT THE LSER-KNOWN, ANTI-GAY 'LAVENR SRE' IS RARELY TGHT SCHOOLS
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WASHGTON AND LONDON ARE LOOKG FOR A FEW GOOD GAY SPI
In other words, ll me the gay Mart Srse, rejectg Q-Force as cema.
But somehow, never meant more to me than did when performed by this drag queen who hadn’t e out until age 37, who had been through more than I uld even image, now lookg out across a room filled wh young, openly gay people havg a night on the town. I’ve sce learned that Darcelle’s partner, Roxy Nhardt, died 2017, a mere two years after the legalizatn of gay marriage the Uned Stat, and long before Q-Force was even a thought Sean Hay and Michael Schur’s mds.
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Q FORCE REVIEW – NETFLIX’S GAY SPY PER IS DISASTROLY DATED
Jt as you didn’t choose to be gay and have the feelgs you have. "So the news last week that the secret servic have relaxed their ban on gays to attract recs om a broar sectn of the populatn - "MI5 brgs homosexuals back om the ld", as one headle put - is a ltle all spywatchers know, they have never been out there. Right om their formatn 1909, Bra's secret servic have been thick wh homosexual officers, as has the opposn.
At the peak of the Cold War we had been so perated by gay agents workg for the Comtern that they privately referred to their spy rg as "the Homtern" Burgs, of Burgs and Maclean notoriety, was a proment Homtern member and such a dited homosexual that even the Rsians, pdish about such matters, had to provi him wh a boyiend after he fected to Mosw Anthony Blunt, an MI5 officer wh a fe war rerd, Keeper of the Queen's Pictur, a distant relative of hers, and an art historian of ternatnal renown, also had a secret gay life. Alex Kellar, director of MI5's F Branch (Communist subversn) the mid-1960s, was homosexual, and there are doubts about the sexual orientatn of Sir Mrice Oldfield, who retired as chief of MI6 1978.