Contents:
- A FEW WORDS WH KEV DANIELS, THE ACTOR BEHD ONE OF TV’S BT GAY CHARACTERS
- DENIS LEARY’S NEW S, SIRENS, AND THE FIVE STAG OF GAY TV WATCHG
- THE GAY TEEN'S GUI TO DEFEATG A SIREN: THE SIREN
A FEW WORDS WH KEV DANIELS, THE ACTOR BEHD ONE OF TV’S BT GAY CHARACTERS
A Few Words Wh Kev Daniels, the Actor Behd One of TV’s Bt Gay Characters. Sirens also featur one of the most tertg gay characters on televisn: There’s nothg generilly gay about Hank, played by Kev Daniels. As he tells a woman lookg for a “gay bt iend” early the new season, “I’m not that type of gay.
He is, however, openly, unrervedly, and boldly gay—and his orientatn affects the way he mov through life. Do you see Hank as a gay role mol? Lookg at your filmography, seems like the rol you ually get are men uniform or gay men.
I’m a gay man. In the send of the 21st century, we n now say that gay viewers have rpond to televisn wh those same emotns. Now, we seem fally to have reached prsn: There are que a few homosexuals on televisn, but we fd them borg.
DENIS LEARY’S NEW S, SIRENS, AND THE FIVE STAG OF GAY TV WATCHG
But gay TV don’t have to be a downer. If one small-screen versn of gay life offends, seek out another. Sirens isn’t exactly a gay show—’s a edy about three EMTs, one of whom is love wh a p—but one of the EMTs, Hank (played by Kev Daniels, Morn Fay’s Long), is a ankly, proudly, openly gay man.
He don’t eli pronouns when he talks about ex or hi the fact that he’s attracted to guys, but beg gay isn’t really a big al for him. I know ’s rctive to pare Sirens wh HBO’s Lookg—to do so is to live a world where gay material n only be nsired parison wh other gay fictn—but let’s do anyway.
Whereas Lookg is an Andrew Haigh matn on the private liv of a diverse bunch of young-ish gay men San Francis, Sirens is a rollickg Denis Leary edy about the work liv of a group of mostly whe, mostly straight guys Chigo. (Gay Hank is also Ain-Amerin. (In the origal, the gay character was played by Richard Madn, better known to Game of Thron fans as Robb Stark.
THE GAY TEEN'S GUI TO DEFEATG A SIREN: THE SIREN
” Fisher also told me, “I don’t thk that Hank beg gay led to any drama that was unique to beg gay.
” This is both a step forward—back the days of nial and anger, all too many gay plots revolved around bashg, bullyg, and blackmail—but also a b of a bummer. In the four episos that I’ve seen, there isn’t anythg uniquely gay about Hank—other than his sire to make out wh other men—and that’s too bad. When I asked Michael Mosley—I talked to Daniels, Fisher, and Mosley at the Televisn Crics Associatn gatherg this January—if there were any particular challeng to playg a straight character whose bt iend is gay, he lghed: “Not at all.