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Contents:
- GAY M/M THAILAND - (DRAMAS)
- BL/GAY SERI AND MOVI
- I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
- 14 TV SHOWS THAT BROKE GROUND WH GAY AND TRANSGENR CHARACTERS
GAY M/M THAILAND - (DRAMAS)
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And yet, for s, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer people rarely ever saw displays of affectn. It may appear quat now, when we have TV seri like Hulu’s Love, Victor (about a Latx teen explorg sexual fluidy) or Netflix’s Bondg (about sex work and alternative sexualy), but the great gay panic set off by Ellen DeGener g out on her s 1997 was a bombshell that didn’t necsarily nvce the works that they’d open the gat to LGBTQ experienc. Luckily Will & Grace buted 1998 and the groundbreakg NBC seri nvced many that gay people might not be so toxic (and wouldn’t sre off advertisers) — so much so that Vice Print Joe Bin later creded wh changg his md about same-sex marriage.
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BL/GAY SERI AND MOVI
Wh over half of teens intifyg as queer, ’s about time televisn shows started reflectg their dienc. Luckily, there’s been an flux of media that actually pict real, queer liv (and don’t go for the classic fx pas of killg off gay characters). Here’s what we’re watchg and actually seeg ourselv . * gay series 2017 *
From the Roy Cohn-flected Army-McCarthy heargs — which was the first time many people heard the word “homosexual” uttered on TV — through the “don’t ask, don’t tell” Neti, that clud The Goln Girls and Digng Women, to our current glter-and-glam era of RuPl’s Drag Race and almost-anythg-go pansexualy.
In that way, ’s breakg siar ground to the Sundance Now seri This Close, om af actors Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman, about a straight woman and gay man who are bti lookg for love and unrstandg. And while the seri received as much hate mail as adoratn — an evable byproduct of beg the first show to have openly gay male lead characters — lasted eight seasons before endg 2006.
It was Cher-lovg Jack (Sean Hay) and alholic, right-wg sociale Karen (Megan Mullally) as much as Will (Eric McCormack) and Grace (Debra Msg) that enared Amerins to the sassy s, wh l like: “Commandment number one the gay bible: Thou shalt not vet my ex’s ass.
I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
Adapted om gay director Jt Simien’s breakout film of the same name, about black llege stunts g to terms wh a “post-racial Ameri, ” the seri explor them of race, genr, and sexualy by skewerg jt about everyone for hypocrisy and double standards.
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14 TV SHOWS THAT BROKE GROUND WH GAY AND TRANSGENR CHARACTERS
Thomas manag to upend nventnal storyl and tackl everythg om mental illns to gay-guy/straight-girl iendships to the g-out procs. Matilda has high-functng tism, and some of the bt scen revolve around her explorg her fluid sexualy, while both girls embrace their gay half-brother’s relatnship failur as send nature. Pl, managed to change many nservative viewpots the black muny — cludg Timbaland, who crafted the seri’ tchy origal tracks — and was a rare moment which a gay character of lor had so much visibily.
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