Gay guy on sex and the city
617. The Cold War
When it gets frosty outside,
New Yorkers leader inside.
And look for ways to produce heat.
Hey. Watch those hands, mister.
They are cold, and you are warm, so..
People are looking.
No one is looking.
Petrovsky.
Hey, hi.
You're seated at the star table, I see.
Where else would I be?
- Enter and join us. - No, we wouldn't wanna..
- Yes, come. - You saved our lives.
There's ten thousand restaurants in New York and everyone's at Pastis.
Introductions.
This is John Paul Sandal,
the most fantastic painter in New York.
I'm not paying for lunch.
You know my assisstant Lee.
Yes, hi.
Audra Clark, she's the editor of Artlife magazine.
- Carrie Bradshaw. - Hi.
Handsome Lee has just informed us of your upcoming show in Paris.
Congratulations.
Yeah, right, a solo exhibit at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume.
Just another day.
You are so full of shit.
I never said I wasn't.
It's your first new exhibit in what, four years?
Six.
Well, the planet is waiting with breath that is baited.
We need menus and a wine list.
So how are they?
The oysters are very good.
No, his pieces.
Oh, um, I don't know.
I haven't seen them yet.
- Are you an artist as well? - No, I'm a writer.
Novels?
No
Sara Ramirez is — and always has been — a queer magnet, even before they came out as pansexual and then neutrois. They are just… electric. I can’t get enough. You can’t get enough. And that’s why we’ve gotten about ten billion tweets and comments from readers who desire to know if they need to watch the originalSex and the City to understand/enjoy them in And Just Like That. Honestly? Probably not. But I am surrounded on all sides by completionists, so I understand the impulse. Riese tracks all queer TV in a comprehensive database. Drew tracks every single show and TV demonstrate she watches in an app. One time Valerie Anne spent an entire summer binging — no joke — 171 episodes of The Vampire Diariesjust so she wouldn’t miss any references when she started Legacies, which isn’t even a spin-off, but exists in the same universe! But look, Sex and the City was a product of its period and if you haven’t watched it, you don’t require to. I sense you — but I’m here to help.
What’s The Sex and What’s The City?
Photo by Getty / 1999 Paramount Pictures
In 1998, when TV still existed in a 4:3 ratio (you comprehend, lik
In her recent film review “Sex and the City 2: Materialistic, Misogynistic, Borderline Racist,” Hadley Freeman makes a pretty convincing argument re: the Sex & the City film franchise’s betrayal of the television series’ (marginally more) feminist roots.
Although I’d probably be a lot more measured in my praise of the series, I agree w/ many of her points.
Although set in a whitewashed capitalist fantasia, and though racist (I’d argue SATC’s racism is more than just “borderline” — anybody who remembers Samantha tangling with a “dragon lady” Asian housekeeper, or her ebony boyfriend’s shrew-like sister, knows the series’ racism was abt inclusion as well as omission, was overt as well as subtle), the original series was often built upon more complex characterizations and fueled by emotional realism.
Its frank depiction of sexuality also felt liberatory, and this is what the series’ seems to lose when viewed retrospectively. I think maybe this is because whatever sexual radicalism the demonstrate exhibited was too “of its time” to remain radical. But even moreso, I think the show f
Late actor Willie Garson famously portrayed Stanford Blatch, the gay best friend of Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City—but in genuine life, he actually once dated the actress.
In reality, Garson—whose death at 57 was announced on Tuesday—worked hard at keeping his heterosexuality quiet, for dread of offending gay fans of the show.
The actor spoke of his sexuality in an interview with Page Six in 2020, saying: "For years I didn't talk about it because I found it to be offensive to gay people.
"People playing queer characters jumping up and down screaming that they're not gay, like that would somehow be a bad thing if they were."
To divert attention away from the personal subject, Garson even had a stock answer whenever his sexuality was brought up or questioned in interviews.
"When the question would show up up during the display I would say, 'When I was on White Collar no one ever asked me if I was a conman, and when I was on NYPD Blue, nobody ever asked me if I was a murderer. This is what we execute for a living, portray people.'"
However, while he was able to successfully evade such enquiries when operational, his beloved role did put something of