Insdie Amber Liu's Datg Stat: Gay & Genr Talks

Contents:

• IS LIL DICKY GAY? FX H COMEDY ‘DAVE’ SPARKS CONVERSATN ON LIL DICKY’S ROMANTIC INCLATN
• DENIS LEARY CALLS ‘RCUE ME’ CO-CREATOR PETER TOLAN ‘GAY’ — AND HE IS
• INSDIE AMBER LIU'S DATG STAT: GAY & GENR TALKS

IS LIL DICKY GAY? FX H COMEDY ‘DAVE’ SPARKS CONVERSATN ON LIL DICKY’S ROMANTIC INCLATN

Gay, straight, bi, whatever,  don’t matter.

DENIS LEARY CALLS ‘RCUE ME’ CO-CREATOR PETER TOLAN ‘GAY’ — AND HE IS

And yet, for s, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer people rarely ever saw displays of affectn. 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.

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.

INSDIE AMBER LIU'S DATG STAT: GAY & GENR TALKS

But he’s also supplied at least one murro (ghostly) gay man on Amerin Horror Story and too many crazi on Nip/Tuck to unt. 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. When her straight male roommate’s twentysomethg girliend, Francis, qutns why Leila is so terrified to tell anyone that she has sex wh both men and women, Leila tells her ’s plited bee ’s “a gay thg.