Gay Comedy Seri Starrg Ian McKellen to Air on PBS

Contents:

• “THE OTHER TWO” IS ONE OF THE BT SHOWS ABOUT GAY MEN ON TV RIGHT NOW
• 14 TV SHOWS THAT BROKE GROUND WH GAY AND TRANSGENR CHARACTERS
• GAY COMEDY SERI STARRG IAN MCKELLEN TO AIR ON PBS

“THE OTHER TWO” IS ONE OF THE BT SHOWS ABOUT GAY MEN ON TV RIGHT NOW

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” So begs the h sgle “My Brother's Gay” performed by fictnal tween heartthrob Chase Dreams (played by TikTok star Case Walker), whose skyrocketg fame bewilrs his two olr siblgs — newly sgle, self-volved Brooke and the song’s spiratn, stgglg actor Cary — Comedy Central’s new s The Other Two. A bg satire about the state of fame and celebry 2019, The Other Two is also arguably one of the most astute televisn portrayals of what ’s like to be a gay man livg a big first glance Cary Dubek looks like many other gay male characters who have graced the small screen this past . But while Billy and Elijah prid themselv on their quick-wted sass, arguably a fense mechanism to survive the thlsns of the cy and of their chosen reers, Cary is cidly ’s the kd of fumblg, slightly secure guy who gets his sister to shave his lower back hair before appearg shirtls on TV, and who p for his super-hot straight roommate, and bumbl away any opportuny for ep nnectn wh other gay men around him.

As he croons about how beg gay is okay (“and if you thk that’s gross / then I thk you’re wrong”), he’s surround by photographs of Cary at var ag, a visual metaphor of the “It Gets Better” rea. By makg Cary a workg actor, a rather niche slice of life, The Other Two also manag to ment not jt on a very specific type of gay man, but also on the way Hollywood (mis)unrstands LGBTQ reprentatn.

14 TV SHOWS THAT BROKE GROUND WH GAY AND TRANSGENR CHARACTERS

That she’s willg to play up and play to Cary’s sexualy shows how far Hollywood may have e, but also reveals how such progrs n be uched hilarly limed ias of what gay men n look like.

It’s the verse of what we’d seen a few episos earlier, when a stg agent asked Cary to butch up his livery orr to book the fart-smellg gig, and a mere ht of what we see later the season when Cary pantomim gay sex onstage: “Listen, class, ” his actg teacher says, “to w awards, you mt do gay sex scen. In The Other Two’s world, Chase’s ll for tolerance and cln (however PR-targeted may have been) exists alongsi a slew of anti-gay microaggrsns that chip away at Cary’s own sense of self-worth.

GAY COMEDY SERI STARRG IAN MCKELLEN TO AIR ON PBS

Such platus n be cripplg when he don’t actually engage or participate the larger gay muny around ’s failed romantic life is perhaps the bt example of how The Other Two is playg wh faiar gay trop to unearth all-too-hilar tths about them.

Matt requir such quotatn marks bee spe spendg his ee time watchg Survivor rens and boastg about cleang his junk ahead of dat wh women, he tak any chance he n get to kiss, grope, and at one pot, even blow what’s ostensibly a much-fantasized gay porn premise, The Other Two spends a few episos breakg apart what means to vet a seemgly straight du. Common topics like body image are betifully plited on the show, thanks part to The Other Two’s wrg team, which clus fellow funny gay men like Jordan Firstman, Cole Esla, and Joel Kim Booster.

Aptly scribed by Brooke as beg those guys “that, like, n around wh no shirt on, postg song lyrics that have nothg to do wh the pic he’s put up, ” Instagays are a particular brand of social media fluencers who have bee easy straw men when to bat about toxic trends wh the gay male muny. Trashed for beg va and shallow, and chastised for promotg an airbshed, platu-filled, unattaable image of gay life, Instagays and everythg they stand for would’ve been a low-hangg target for The Other Two to h.

And ’s all the more palatable for s ank approach to sex, securi, and the many ways we gay men are sometim hampered by our own unrealistic notns of what gayns should look like 2019. 16, 2017Last year was a remarkable time when me to the reprentatn of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr or queer regular characters on televisn, acrdg to the latt Glaad report monorg diversy on the small screen. People, or beg able to help people unrstand who we are, pecially those tim when so many people lived hidn and visible, ” said Sarah Kate Ellis, the print and chief executive of Glaad (formerly known as the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn).

1972 — ‘THAT CERTAIN SUMMER’ A divorced father (Hal Holbrook) his his lover (Mart Sheen) om his teenage son Lamont Johnson’s movie for ABC, nsired the first sympathetic pictn of gay people on televisn. ”)1977 — ‘SOAP’ In this ABC s, Billy Crystal plays Jodie Dallas — a gay man havg an affair wh a famo quarterback and ntemplatg genr-reassignment surgery — who be one of the first gay dads on televisn.