Ben Aldridge to play gay tective ITV's The Long Call

Contents:

• BE GAY DO CRIME
• BEN ALDRIDGE AND PEARL MACKIE ON THE SUBTLE WAY THEIR GAY CRIME DRAMA IS HELPG QUEER KIDS BELONG
• BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021
• THE INTER IS LOSG IT OVER TOM HOLLAND'S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM'
• DETECTIVE SERI ABOUT GAYS
• FLEABAG STAR BEN ALDRIDGE TO PLAY GAY TECTIVE WH DADDY ISSU MAJOR NEW ITV THRILLER

BE GAY DO CRIME

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Matthew is portrayed by actor Ben Aldridge, who me out publicly as gay last summer. But a crime drama starrg a gay tective and two openly queer actors feels like new terrory for Brish televisn particular. They’re makg gay characters gay but they’re really not necsarily explorg how that affects their life or how that chang their life.

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BEN ALDRIDGE AND PEARL MACKIE ON THE SUBTLE WAY THEIR GAY CRIME DRAMA IS HELPG QUEER KIDS BELONG

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BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021

B: In The Long Call we’re fely seeg a gay man existg a different space than we have before. 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.

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THE INTER IS LOSG IT OVER TOM HOLLAND'S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM'

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. When her straight male roommate’s twentysomethg girliend, Francis, qutns why Leila is so terrified to tell anyone that she has sex wh both men and women, Leila tells her ’s plited bee ’s “a gay thg.

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DETECTIVE SERI ABOUT GAYS

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.

FLEABAG STAR BEN ALDRIDGE TO PLAY GAY TECTIVE WH DADDY ISSU MAJOR NEW ITV THRILLER

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.

An utter charmer about a gay, reverg addict edian (-creator Mae Mart) and a prevly straight teacher (Charlotte Richie) who fall eply, dangeroly love wh each other. Holm), hers some of origal-recipe Rob’s most memorable obssns and quirks — among other thgs, Simon is the one who giv the speech about patibily pendg on what you like, not what you are like — even as his story is very different, startg wh the fact that he and the new Rob break up bee he’s gay.

The show, always handipped by expectatns would be the “gay Girls, ” never que found a large enough dience who tly embraced the sensive and slow-burng storytellg. And the fale’s most powerful subplot, he says the words “I’m gay” aloud — a first not only for him, but for a teen televisn character (and one played by an out actor Wilson Cz).