In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.
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GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
Even if weren't packed wh the most well-known queer people on TV, Visible: Out on Televisn do an excellent job of trackg how gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and non-bary people have been picted on televisn om s earlit days -- cludg the antic, hyper-paranoid news reports of the 1950s clarg queer people a menacg threat. In this heartwarmg and often hilar drama, the trans women who started the ballroom scene -- the scene that's ma black/Latx gay lgo like "slay, " "read, " and "spill the tea" mastream -- get their due, makg them the subject of the story stead of the afterthoughts. Jeremy Pope giv a mcular and tenr turn as Ellis French, a young gay man whose Mare drill stctor promis to break French and his fellow recs.
G Van Sant’s Milk provis a timely remr of the timate relatnship of gay rights to the civil rights movement. Milk was one of the first openly gay elected officials the natn. This stud-ma gay romantic edy starrg openly gay actors Billy Eichner and Le Macfarlane was a mercial bomb — too bad, bee ’s a hoot!
A film wh a gay lead character is a sea change for the director, who is gay but has ma no secret of beg bter about . SNL’s Bowen Yang plays Howie, the gay bt iend of — y! — a gay lead character this serly rnch-posive (if were theaters, would get a hard R) twist on Pri and Prejudice set durg a week at New York’s storied Fire Island.