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HE-MAN IS A GAY IN AND A TREASURE
To celebrate this tone queer visibily, we looked back over the past three s and round up the 30 most inic LGBTQ characters TV history, om loveable gay uple Mchell and Cameron to trans trailblazers like Sophia Burset.
Even though Jack McFarland’s character has received a mixed receptn for perpetuatg gay stereotyp, he’s one of the longt nng and most inic queer characters on televisn, appearg ten seasons and 188 episos of Will & Grace to date.
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FROM SNDALO TO FABULO: THE INTRODUCTN OF THE GAY CHARACTER
Puttg his stamp on The Ln Kg — he played Timon to great acclaim the billn-dollar-earng Disney reboot — the out-and-proud funnyman will next play Matt Ddge Amerin Crime Story: Impeachment while his upg Judd Apatow-produced feature at Universal is set to be the first gay rom- om a major stud. Creator of the NBC s One Big Happy and her own YouTube talk show This Jt Out, Feldman recently ma her Netflix edy outright queer, as Dead to Me's sophomore season revealed a lead character to be bisexual. The queer Salvadoran edian translated the handful of breakout Saturday Night Live scen he wrote to multiple als at HBO — where he buted the edy special My Favore Shap 2019 and is readyg season two of Los Espookys, the half-Spanish, half-English, entirely absurd edy which he stars as the gay heir to a cholate fortune.
When a show has this many stori that n be boiled down to “don’t be mean to people who are different, ” and the champn of difference has so much gay subtext, what other terpretatn should we actually be gog for? Like Miss Frizzle, Velma, and pretty much every Disney villa there’s ever been, He-Man is part of a rich history of characters that feel gay and kd of are bee they have all the gredients of a gay character baked to them.
The acknowledgement of gays TV shows were few and far between and for the most part, they’d appear for one episo, ually as a punchle, the female protagonist would be pg over him the whole episo, only to fd out he was gay. Will and Grace may have been the first show to feature a gay ma character, but n’t be nied the reason the gay character has taken the stage now, nearly six years after the show went off the air: Glee.