I liked Will's character, as it showed not every homosexual spends all his time hunting down men. People are always going to look at you a certain way. “[When Will & Grace premiered], LGBTQ representation in the media was largely abysmal, both in quantity and quality,” says Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of GLAAD. And as Schiappa's research has shown, that connection can lead to boosts in people's ability to empathize with people they might not otherwise relate to. Last year, a big survey by the Public Religion Research Institute found that most white Americans have just one black friend, one Latino friend and one Asian friend — overall, 91 percent of their friends are white. And now, 11 years after its initial series finale, Will & Grace has returned to the air for a super hyped revival, which premiered on September 28 after an equally nostalgic and enthusiastic promotional tour. Five gay and five straight men spent an hour mingling with dozens of people. From that point on, the two ladies were inseparable, exchanging harsh banter that masked their mutual love and respect. Will & Grace, despite what NBC says, isn’t the same show that ended 11 years ago. When I talked through my own complex feelings on the revival with Vice editor Pilot Viruet, they pointed out that its jokes about anyone who isn’t a white cis gay man are a little more questionable when the show rarely included the subjects to be part of the joke rather than just its punchline. Get our newsletter in your inbox twice a week. They said it so often, however, that their soundbites almost transcended reassurance to become something more like defiance. It turns out that as we grow emotionally attached to characters who are part of a minority group, our prejudices tend to recede. Psychologists have consistently found that the most effective way to rid people from majority groups of bigoted ideas about, say, black people, immigrants or queer folks, is to have them interact with people from those groups. While Will & Grace was once a rarity for featuring an openly gay character at all, it’s now returning having missed over a decade of news and rapid developments affecting the LGBTQ community, both in the real world and on TV. Candace Owens group pays for some attendees' travel to Trump's White House event, Trump planning to host 1st in-person event at White House on Saturday: Sources, Biden dodges court-packing questions as SCOTUS nomination moves forward, After foiled kidnapping plot, Michigan Gov. "It's not enough to just have a diversity of characters portrayed on TV," says Srividya Ramasubramanian, an associate professor of communication at Texas A&M University. That's why, in 2013, she founded Media Rise, a nonprofit group that aims to connect the folks behind the camera with social scientists, teachers and activists. It’s been credited with shifting a nation’s consciousness toward greater tolerance of gay people, as Joe Biden said in 2012 when coming out in support of gay marriage, and condemned for perpetuating tired stereotypes, as some critics have been saying for years. A comprehensive timeline of Donald Trump encouraging hate groups and political violence. Debra Messing, Eric McCormack and Sean Hayes in a scene from Will & Grace. Despite the trite clichés and insults that were thrown her way, Rosario proved to be one of the most powerful characters on the series. "There's no obvious reason why sexual orientation should be associated with how masculine or feminine one is, but it is in our species. Chris Haston/NBC via Getty Images What's more, these findings square with the way people overcome prejudice in the real world. However I also think Will was a bit less stereotypical, as he was portrayed as also being able to do business without tacking his sexuality onto it (most of the time). After all, how many men, even gays ones, act like Will and Jack do? (Laura Dern, who played Ellen’s love interest, revealed in April that she couldn’t find work for a good year after the two-part coming out episode aired.) After moving to the Bronx, she worked with a then-unknown Jennifer Lopez where they put on a production of “Tea for Two” at a retirement center. And in the leadup to its launch, both NBC and creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick repeatedly promised Will & Grace’s longtime fans that the new show would be identical in spirit to its original flavor. You are working around beautiful women all day that are half naked. The president’s scattershot performance squandered any goodwill he may have garnered. It very much exists today, and we even discussed personal experiences of it in class. He looked into whether shows that prominently feature gay men could lower prejudice toward LGBTQ people.
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