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EY VALENTE, ER CHRISTE ELISE, IS BACK 90210—AND SHE'S GAY
While Beverly Hills, 90210 had a few special episos wh gay characters, this versn featur Gabrielle Carteris explorg her attractn to women. People who didn't feel spoken for by the ma st of that show, whether they were punk rock kids, or gay kids, or a different relign or fancial level, or race, jt different, other than, felt reprented by her on that show.
Currently, there is a big bate about what chicken sandwich to eat other than homophobic Chick-fil-A. As a "pregay" tween, my readg of Ey Valente may not have been nscly queer, but there was somethg about her that pelled me. Although Ey Valente was not wrten as a gay character, she neverthels embodied many queer signifiers – tomboy, non-nformist, outsir.
"McCarthy, who dated Pritley for five years back the day, acknowledg that she didn't realize the particular image she was nveyg triggered people's "gaydar. McCarthy tells me that over the years, nearly every gay and lbian iend of hers and lots of strangers have exprsed gratu for Ey Valente. “The legacy of that character for me has been that everybody school, or kids that felt not spoken for, disenanchised kids, whether they were disenanchised by race or enomic stat or relign or beg punk rock or gay or whatever ma them feel other than, Ey held a place for those kids on that show.