Adam Reed, the creator of FX's Archer, talks about TV's only gay secret agent and why you should watch tonight's season four premiere.
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ARCHER AND HOMOPHOBIA: THE WD CRI MARY AND GAY PANIC.
"Archer's" openly gay spy Ray Gillette evolved om a cutaway gag to a fully formed regular player. * gay archer character *
This is a list of Archer characters that have been nfirmed as bisexual, lbian or gay. CHARACTER: Ray Gillette, openly gay field agent and equent voice of reason. And also gay.
SPY-ON-SPY ACTN: GAY LIFE ON ARCHER
In his review of "The Wd Cri Mary," last Thursday's episo of Archer, Todd VanDerWerff acced the show of "gay panic" and noted that "the sexual... * gay archer character *
But whether riffg on 1940s Hollywood noir narrativ s last season or embracg a Don Johnson meets Srface vibe Season Five's Archer Vice era, there's always been, at s re, Hollywood's go-to ia of a leadg man: a rtoonish versn of Ian Flemg's womanizg, dnken, hetero where Bond remas an opprsive bastn of heterosexual masculy—look no further than all this talk about how Bond uldn't, heaven forbid, everbe gay—FXX's animated seri has surround Sterlg Archer (name "Duchs, " don't ask) wh a wildly sexually provotive roster of characters. In fact, while Hollywood smugly pats self on the back for the cln of a queer Power Ranger or an "exclively gay" moment your favore splay-as-remake Disney project, FXX's R-rated show has been showsg the kd of plex and stereotype-smashg LGBTQ character we are seemgly always on the cp of seeg on a mastream pop culture Gillette (pronounced like the razor; don't let his hillbilly fay tell you otherwise) was first troduced a cutaway gag the show's first season. Always eager to e his spy missns to bed as many women as humanly possible, Archer is disappoted when his boss, who's also his mother, rms him the target is a gay Cuban secret agent.
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Cut to: our first look at ISIS's openly gay secret agent.
In an episo that both flnts and lls out gay stereotyp—Archer ially fails to attract closeted Cuban Ramon Limon by bleachg his hair, donng some roller skat, a skimpy pair of whe shorts, and a crop top that reads "Got Dick? Moreover, Archer walks a fe le between makg Ray's homosexualy an almost cintal character tra and makg a central part of his inty. Th, for every throwaway gag that merely plays up his gayns— his send appearance, he tells Aisha Tyler's bodac Lana Kane that she looks great her knock-off Fcchi drawers, elicg a "You're such a bch!
" retort—there are moments that broan our knowledge of how this once Olympic gold-medalist skier om Wt Virgia beme an ace bomb fer wh two nickel-plated M1911 pistols nicknamed Barbra and walks a fe le between makg Ray's homosexualy an almost cintal character tra and makg a central part of his an episo of the show's third season tled "Bloody Ferl, " we actually get to travel to the backwoods town where Ray grew up and where his father openly tried to still his young effemate son a much more socially acceptable visn of mascule strength, cludg killg a bear wh a bow and takg a be out of s heart. As we're learn later the show, he was eventually sent to a Pray Away the Gay Camp where he met his wife—a lbian, of urse ("That was a pretty weird time for me, " he adms).