Wdy Cy Tim News - Llie Jordan—the openly gay actor who rose to fame on Will & Grace as the enemy of Megan Mullally's Karen Walker and was immediately regnizable by his Southern accent—died a sgle-r crash Hollywood on
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- QUEER FANS MOURN LLIE JORDAN, A SYMBOL OF A 'LOST GENERATN' OF GAY MEN
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- TWO CHECHEN GAY MEN 'MORTAL DANGER' AFTER ARRT RSIA
QUEER FANS MOURN LLIE JORDAN, A SYMBOL OF A 'LOST GENERATN' OF GAY MEN
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”He began to get TV rol 1986 — guts spots on “The Fall Guy, ” “Murphy Brown, ” “Newhart” and others, then recurrg rol on “The People Next Door, ” “Top of the Heap, ” “Reasonable Doubts, ” “Hearts Afire” and ma a particular imprsn on the s “Will & Grace, ” about the iendship between a gay lawyer and a straight terr signer sharg a New York Cy apartment.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
His Southern drawl was as distctive a part of his résumé as his Jordan said he knew om early life that he was gay — he liked to say that he went directly om his mother’s womb to her high heels and had been “on the prance ever sce.
TWO CHECHEN GAY MEN 'MORTAL DANGER' AFTER ARRT RSIA
Richard Perry/The New York TimAs he wrote his book “My Trip Down the Pk Carpet” (2008), he knew that beg gay might not help his prospects Hollywood. “I cid I was gog to make a real effort to ‘butch up’ and hi any signs that I was a Big Homo, ” he wrote. “The funny thg is, I am, whout a doubt, the gayt man I know.
“Many gay r-of-passage stori are echoed here: hostile small-town environment (Chattanooga, Tenn.