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•  MORN LOVE EPISO 7 HERS WAS A WORLD OF ONE ANDREW STT OLIVIA COOKE PARENTS GAY ADOPTN

 MORN LOVE EPISO 7 HERS WAS A WORLD OF ONE ANDREW STT OLIVIA COOKE PARENTS GAY ADOPTN

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Pictured: Jonathan Groff | Photography by No MunozFor nearly a year after the premiere of Girls, when the words "Lena Dunham" began to crowd out all other nversatn topics, thoands of gay men New York Cy and Los Angel began walkg around wh the same half-wrten treatment for a televisn pilot the back of their heads. It stood to reason that someone would get rich and famo by makg a gay versn of Girls. Last May, HBO announced that person would be Andrew Haigh, the ltle-known director of the crilly acclaimed 2011 gay die-romance film Weekend.

Fally pullg the trigger on an ia that had been batted around for years, HBO orred eight episos of a dramedy about a group of gay iends livg San Francis. Contrary to expectatns, would not be lled Fags, Queers, 'Mos, Gays, or Boys; a nod, perhaps, to straight viewers' relentls fascatn wh the lgo and mechanics of gay hook-up apps, the seri would be lled Lookg, a word that ually appears on Grdr followed by a qutn mark. To those faiar wh Weekend, which chronicl 48 hours the life of a mismatched gay uple the dreary East Midlands cy of Nottgham (a cy most famo for a nasty sheriff om the Middle Ag, sometim picted as an animated gray wolf), was clear that the characters Lookg would be, the words of the show's adorable star, Jonathan Groff, lookg "for love" stead of "for right now.

"For legns of would-be project velopers, a gay-themed HBO edy has been a holy grail for s. The ncept went to pre-productn, but executiv eventually termed dienc would not accept a show celebratg gay sex the face of the worseng AIDS crisis (the novels were eventually turned to a miseri by Bra's Channel 4 and aired ntently on PBS). Seri, premiered on Showtime 2000, provg that a gay sex drama uld attract viewers somewhere on the rnchy g of premium GAY TV TIMELINE: HOW THE EVOLUTION WAS TELEVISEDHBO, though, was a class by self.

The rap agast Sex and the Cy, which stirred passns even as upend the culture, was that was already eply, monstroly "gay. "Runng through Sex and the Cy, " Siegel sld, is "a manifto for a certa kd of raw, rough, promiscuo, anonymo gay male sex. Instead of takg place New York or Los Angel, the show is shot sleepy San Francis, a cy wh a storied gay past and a boomg high-tech prent, but which hasn't hosted a major TV show nearly a Groff, who first vised the cy two years ago, San Francis feels like "the gay Oz.

" He says he was particularly stck by the legend that San Francis beme a gay haven for sailors returng om the Pacific after World War II: "It was the last port of ll for all the guys the Navy, and the on who were gay jt stayed there bee they didn't want to go back to their liv. AlvarezLookg follows three gay iends livg the Missn-Castro district as they navigate relatnships, reers, and iendships.

"All the characters are om different socenomic backgrounds, different ethnici -- that n happen a lot more readily the gay muny, " Haigh says. "In the openg scen of the first episo of Queer as Folk, the groundbreakgly graphic Showtime seri about a group of gay iends Ptsburgh, a tall, virile advertisg executive named Brian go to a club, picks up a blond twk still high school, tak him home, and lgually flowers his virg ass. I knew I was gay at the time, but I was still school and totally the closet.

This was not an art film, I huffed to iends, but artisanal cema -- an orthodox translatn of a sentimental format to a dismal gay ntext.