Nothing queer about queer television: televized construction of gay masculinities
@article{AvilaSaavedra2009NothingQA, title={Nothing queer about queer television: televized construction of gay masculinities}, author={Guillermo Avila-Saavedra}, journal={Media, Culture \& Society}, year={2009}, volume={31}, pages={21 - 5} }
The longest-running gay character in American television is Will Truman, played by Erick McCormick on NBC’s Will & Grace for eight seasons from 1998 until 2006. Will Truman is an attractive and successful Manhattan lawyer in his mid-thirties. However, the American public never sawWill Truman go to bed with another man. In addition, for most of those eight years, Will Truman was sitting by himself in America’s prime-time network television gay bar. However, starting in 2003 American television…
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