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THE OFFICE’S GAY CARITURE
Anyone, that is, but the show’s token gay man, Osr, who has been margalized and mocked over seven seasons.
Osr (Osr Nunez), one of the three acuntants, is a rtoon gay man. He’s fsy, prissy, athetic, and cel – a sketch of a certa type of homosexual drawn by wrers who seem to know the type at which they’re aimg.
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Osr himself don’t rpond to his workers’ barbs, but the entire nversatn around him is about homosexualy. This was hard to take as anythg but a team effort agast the group’s most different member: Jim (John Krasski), that charmg rogue, bizarrely referred to Osr as a “smug gay Mexin. ” While Kelly n take her workers to a Diwali celebratn and still reta Kelly-ns, to be Osr is to be a double helix of other, a racial mory pound wh homosexualy, the strangt tra the Office wrers uld possibly image.
It was ever th: Osr, never a breakout character, did ltle, other than don wig and hoedrs for Halloween, until his homosexualy was revealed, the send season (like so much else about Osr, this stume is so clanggly obv, his drag so much a straight man’s notn of what a “smug gay Mexin” would do on Halloween). In the third-season premiere, entled “Gay Wch Hunt, ” Osr outs himself to the entire staff after filg a plat agast Michael for g a gay slur.
What happens this episo -– a gay-panic plot that culmat an Osr-Michael kiss -– is far ls important than what me after . The show was unwillg to wre for a gay character for a while, so Osr took a leave of absence; like Sal Romano (Bryan Batt) at Mad Men’s Sterlg Cooper, Osr at Dunr Miffl n be ma to disappear when nvenient.