Discs Phish and The Wire: Rawls the gay bar wh other live mic and jam band enthiasts on Phantasy Tour
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WHAT GAY BARS TELL ABOUT THE GOLN AGE OF TELEVISN
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I've only watched the seri once so far, but they showed him at the gay bar when they were lookg for Omar an episo and then nothg really me of ... Remember when Rawls was shown the gay bar! In S3E10 of The Wire, we briefly see Rawls the background of a gay bar.
Not once is ever explicly stated Rawls is gay and I love how nuanced the flhg out of his character is. Rawls om The Wire, a gay bar. I'm slowly makg my way through Season 3, and briefly seeg Deputy Commissner (or whatever his rank is) Rawls at a gay bar lerally ma me yelp out loud.
Rawls is a married man wh children and a closeted homosexual. In a scene which tak place a gay bar, Rawls is shown briefly the background. But as I have been watchg through “Friday Night Lights” for the first time, stck me that some of the shows have another element mon: surprisg enunters gay “Friday Night Lights, ” Julie Taylor (Aimee Teegarn) acpani her iend Dev Boland (Stephanie Hunt) to the gay bar clost to their small town of Dillon, Tex., as a gture of solidary.
GAY GRAND EST
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Another character spots him havg a drk a gay bar.
“The Wire” do not rencile Rawls as a gay man, Rawls as a married man (we see pictur of him wh his fay on his sk) and Rawls as a btally amb man. But as wh “Friday Night Lights, ” I am left cur about both Stan and Rawls, and about navigatg both Texas football and the Baltimore Police Department as closeted gay men.
WAS RAWLS ON "THE WIRE" GAY?
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Aaid for his life, Vo fle to New the shows that would follow , “The Sopranos” follows Vo as he tri to shake off the psychologil effects of the closet and the culture of the mob and to live as an openly gay man.
But Vo is lonely and bored exile: Ultimately, he cis his work and his fay are more important and tri to return “The Sopranos” is also about how anizatns that thk of themselv as bastns of heterosexualy rpond when a man they thought was straight turns out to be gay. And when Vo is murred by another gangster, the crime is about both homophobia and mob anizatnal prtige televisn, gay bars act as a kd of portal: Straight characters step to them and are surprised by what they learn, not only about men they thought they knew, but about themselv. It is a measure of both the promise and limatns of the so-lled Goln Age of Televisn that the treatment of gay men homophobic anizatns by “The Sopranos” did not prove que as fluential as Jam Gandolfi’s performance as the tular mobster.