Reflectg on Queer Cema's Goln Age: The Gay '90s

Contents:

• 'THAT '90S SHOW' VIEWERS TORN OVER GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX SPOFF
• IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?

'THAT '90S SHOW' VIEWERS TORN OVER GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX SPOFF

Although LGBTQ+ reprentatn the days is much more prevalent among viewers, let's take a look at the 13 characters who reprented the muny durg a time when the topic of beg gay was still a ltle taboo. His ma storyle was his stggle as a gay man a nservative society.

Will & Grace’s succsful eight-season n proved pays off to give screen time to gay characters. Will & Grace’s Jack McFarland loved himself, and he loved beg gay. When we’re first troduced to Enrique “Rickie” Vasquez on My So-Called Life, he intifi as bi, but later out to iends Angela and Rayanne as gay.

Jack McPhee on Dawson’s Creek gave voice to the difficulty of g out as a teen a fay that’s already dysfunctnal and has a whole lot of homophobia to work through. Remember alternate realy Willow om "The Wish" and "Doppelgangland" who Buffyverse realy Willow thought might be “a ltle gay”? The ias were also troduced by the films of Marlon Riggs, whose evotive portras of Black gay men livg through the AIDS crisis are unparalleled spe and artistry.

IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?

” Set the prent day wh a bold retro athetic, the film stars a young Natasha Lyonne as a cheerlear sent to a rehab for gay and lbian teens. ) Igned by an dtrial post-punk soundtrack, “The Livg End” follows two queer kids wh HIV as they take off on the lam after murrg a homophobic p. A native San Francisn, Williams blsed the gay edy fans aga wh “The Birdge” (1996), which saw him actually playg gay oppose the powerhoe Nathan Lane a Mike Nils and Elae May’s fabulo Amerinized “La Cage Aux Foll.

” The end wh the more down to earth “In & Out” (1997), which saw Kev Kle play a teacher disverg his sexualy after a stunt assum he’s gay. Starrg Tom Hanks as a gay man wh HIV sug his former employer for wrongful termatn, “Philalphia” is wily nsired the first mastream gay movie, and the first to portray a gay character a posive light. Hanks won the Osr for Bt Actor for his portrayal, lnchg the unfortunate trend of straight actors playg gay for awards.

Portrayed wh subtlety and grace by now-retired gay actor Jaye Davidson, Dil was a tragic figure but not a il one, a revolutnary ia 1992. No, they don't have a clue that he's gay. The fact that Lee is straight don't terfere wh his handlg of the subject matter, and he would go on to show his directorial expertise films as varied as <em>Sense and Sensibily, Life of Pi, The Ice Storm, </em> and of urse, one of the bt gay-themed movi ever, <em>Brokeback Mounta.

I don't rell exactly, but I'm pretty sure that after the movie we went for drks at the Flame, a fun and iendly dive that was then Ann Arbor's only gay bar.

It was the first I'd learned of Hollywood's rtrictive Hays Co, censorship that ma nearly impossible to pict overt homosexualy on screen.