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One of the earlit h shows to center around gay characters, “Will & Grace” foced on the tense, more than a ltle -pennt iendship between gay lawyer Will (Eric McCormack) and straight terr rator Grace (Debra Msg). Although the show has been dged recent years for the perceived stereotypg of s gay characters — pecially Sean Hay’ bed-hoppg queen Jack — ’s origal eight-season n holds up as a fun, sharply wrten s, and one of the first of s kd to give gay characters the full spotlight they serve. Based on the Black gay thor’s unfished mancript “Remember This Hoe, ” Raoul Peck’s geoly produced documentary brgs the work — focg on Civil Rights lears like Medgar Evers, Mallm X, and Mart Luther Kg Jr.
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Ford employed the same productn sign team that worked on “Mad Men, ” envisng a sexy midcentury LA teemg wh, y, hot gays, but also an irreprsible air of sadns that mt be what ennui looks like.
A film so good that we n’t qu almost 20 years later, “Brokeback Mounta” was a watershed moment LGBTQ cema, markg the turng pot where gay love stori began to enter mastream cema. Though Eichner and the film’s PR mpaign end up upstagg the actual movie (this may have been a rare se of too much prs), “Bros” was a breakthrough moment for mastream gay storytellg, and a pretty entertag one, at that. Set the prent day wh a bold retro athetic, Jamie Babb’s cult edy stars a young Natasha Lyonne as Megan, an nocent cheerlear sent to a rehab for gay and lbian teens where patients wear pk and blue uniforms to learn about genr rol and perform straight-sex simulatns.