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Contents:
- IT'S THE GAY PUMPK, CHARLIE BROWN
- WILL & GRACE BROKE GROUND FOR GAY REPRENTATN—CAN IT DO IT AGA?
- A GAY/DECEMBER ROMANCE
- POCKET GAY
- ‘WILL & GRACE’ IS BACK. WILL ITS PORTRA OF GAY LIFE HOLD UP?
- ‘WILL & GRACE’ FANS ARE STILL UNSURE IF ERIC MCCORMACK IS GAY REAL LIFE
IT'S THE GAY PUMPK, CHARLIE BROWN
It's the Gay Pumpk, Charlie Brown is the 5th episo of the fifth season and 103rd overall. A bicyclg adventure tts Will and Grace while up the Catskills wh Leo and his pal a qut for Halloween pumpks. Jack notic that Karen is still bothered by the guilt of almost havg an... * will & grace pocket gay *
It's the Gay Pumpk, Charlie Brown is the 5th episo of the fifth season and 103rd overall. Jack notic that Karen is still bothered by the guilt of almost havg an affair wh Lnel Banks so he tak her to his gay group therapy for help. In 2012, former Vice Print Joe Bin ced the NBC s Will and Grace as a reason for Ameri's "evolvg" attu on homosexualy 2012: "I thk Will and Grace probably did more to te the Amerin public than almost anybody has ever done so far.
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Will's portrayal has gone on to be the blueprt for most gay men on televisn sce then, whereas Jack is somehow seen as negative, and regrsive.
WILL & GRACE BROKE GROUND FOR GAY REPRENTATN—CAN IT DO IT AGA?
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As portrayed by Megan Mullally, Karen was the boozy, outspoken bch of the NBC s, often ed as a gay male surrogate the way that the women of Sex and the Cy uld often be.
A GAY/DECEMBER ROMANCE
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POCKET GAY
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It's as much looked down upon the gay muny to be "femme" as is the straight muny.
The stereotyp are nstantly nonted by seri like RuPl's Drag Race and films like Moonlight, but there are still gay men who prefer to date a "mascule" man, one who do not project to the world like a Bat signal that he's a homosexual.
If Karen were a gay man, would have been a tly revolutnary portrayal and one of the first steps towards fantastilly three-dimensnal characters like T on The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Lafayette on Te Blood.
‘WILL & GRACE’ IS BACK. WILL ITS PORTRA OF GAY LIFE HOLD UP?
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A much bolr portrayal of Jack would've shown how a brash, no-nonsense feme gay man uld enjoy sex and relatnships jt as anyone else. But an attempt to make gays palatable to mastream dienc, the homo part of Jack's personaly beme ripe for jok but the sexual part remaed behd closed doors.
‘WILL & GRACE’ FANS ARE STILL UNSURE IF ERIC MCCORMACK IS GAY REAL LIFE
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A much bolr portrayal of Jack would've shown how a brash, no-nonsense feme gay man uld enjoy sex and relatnships jt as anyone exists a long le of female characters wrten by gay men who keep you tung wh their outrageo behavr and snappy one-lers.
Ryan Murphy has practilly ma a reer out of the women (Jsi Lange, Nene Leak, Jane Lynch, and Ellen Bark have all portrayed one or many), whereas his gay men tend to be sad, tortured begs like the perpetually sacchare Kurt and Blae on Glee or Fd's pictn of gay actor Victor Buono.