Rizzoli & Isl – gayer than you thought was. Sam Rutledge wr on the tratg experience of beg a queer fan of the ridiculoly named p procral.
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QUICK LOOK: SO ARE ‘RIZZOLI & ISL’ GAY OR WHAT?
Are they or aren’t they gay, that is. ” and ends wh Rizzoli and Isl pretendg to be gay to send said love tert on his forlorn way. Why do women always have to be sexualized, whether they”re straight or gay?
There are a whole lotta qutns I have now that I know will never be answered (were the girls gay an early draft? But this is not a gay show. ” That hasn’t stopped gay pop culture blog AfterEllen om dubbg the show, “totally gay, jt don’t know yet.
And of urse, there’s s reputatn for beg the gayt show on TV that wasn’t actually gay, and as someone who is extremely here for both Cabenson and Rolivia on SVU, I figured throwg one more crime fightg ship onto the pile wouldn’t hurt anythg. Rizzoli & Isl is so gay. SO GAY.
“RIZZOLI & ISL” AREN’T GAY, THEY JT ACT THAT WAY
I do not unrstand how a show wh that many straight people n be so thoroughly, queerly gay. But before I tly get to that, please enjoy a samplg of the ways this show immediately ma your iendly neighborhood lbian lose her very gay md.
This show go out of s way to make sure you know that the women are straight (like, for ser, no stray homosexual thoughts the mds, never, look at this para of men! To promote a show they kept sistg wasn’t super gay.
In the very next episo, Nikki clar that she n’t date a woman who isn’t 100% gay, as if lbians are the only queer women out there. If I n’t unt on a show that broke ground by puttg posive gay reprentatn on broadst televisn for a total of eleven seasons to give their noncially queer woman the same safe space afford to their gay male characters, how exactly am I supposed to have fah that thgs will get better?