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I’m like human transition lenses.
The Advocate, December 2015/January 2016 issue.
IfTinaFey had it her away, there'd have been a spinoff to 2004's " Mean Girls" that would have focused exclusively on the film's memorable gay character, Damian. He was too broke to go out, so he’d literally sit inside and sew Barbie clothes to kill time.
We’re both thrilled to be there, and hopefully that’s reflected in the work. Getting in trouble with the Internet is not real. If a person exists, it’s fair game. Why do you have the power to sexually confuse straight women?
I think I might’ve lost it.
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Fey skipped Kate & Allie to paint the audience a picture of The Beverly Hillbillies: “Jane Hathaway and Granny made a poultice one night, drank some moonshine out by the cement pond, both kind of picturing Ellie Mae and making it work.”
She also promised that “The moment 30 Rock is canceled, I’m getting [Rachel Maddow’s] haircut.”
When accepting her award she asserted that her creation, 30 Rock, offered not only a “truly diverse, inclusive and positive workplace;” it also had “nothing but respect for the [LGBT] community.”
Other highlights of the Awards included Outstanding Digital Journalism—Multimedia for “Bridal Bliss: Aisha and Danielle” by Essence.com, activist Janice Langbehn’s moving address on her experience of spousal visitation rights denied, and Ricky Martin’s touching address on being out, in which he publicly thanked his partner for the first time.
GLAAD Media Award recipients were announced in 25 of this year’s 32 media categories.
Reteaming with comedy cohort Amy Poehler for Sisters,in theaters December 18, the Saturday Night Live alum explains why she always has the LGBT audience in mind.
By Brandon Voss
The Advocate: What did gay men quote at brunch before Mean Girls?
Tina Fey: I don’t know, but I hope that’s still going on.
The 30 Rock creator and actress made a surprise appearance at the 74th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City Sunday, where she presented an award to Comedy Central's Inside Amy Schumer. I like that. Maybe because it looks like I’m halfway there? "We should’ve made another movie about Damian."
It's no surprise, then, that the 45-year-old "Saturday Night Live" veteran defended the inclusion of what some have criticized as stereotypically gay characters in her work.
Jokingly describing her dream project as “a movie about Stonewall where I play all the people,” she then suggested that she and Poehler would be great in a comedic "lesbian period piece" like "Carol," the much-buzzed-about romantic drama in which Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara play a same-sex couple. When you’re writing jokes, you’re always thinking of your friends.
Some have criticized Titus in Kimmy Schmidt for being a gay stereotype.
"Someone once asked me, 'How come everyone’s sort of paired off at the end but we don’t see what happens to Damian?' I said, 'Because it’s a movie about girls,'" Fey told The Advocate of the character, played by Daniel Franzese.
We'd be first in line to catch either of those, Tina!
I have a really weird marketing point in my deal that I don’t get any money when it shows on TBS, but I do get money when it’s quoted at brunch.
Did you anticipate that it would become such a gay classic?
I didn’t, but Damian, the gay character, was in every draft. I’ve also been a stepping-stone to help a lot of men realize that they’re gay, so I may just be a transitional person.
Really, we should just do a movie with all the women of SNL and set it on the Isle of Lesbos.
Charlene Kaye has a song called “I’d Go Gay for Tina Fey,” a sentiment shared by many ladies on social media. The Internet is not a force you have to obey."
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Fey, who quipped that she's been a "stepping-stone to help a lot of men realize that they’re gay," hasn't ruled out playing gay on the big screen herself.
She and I haven’t really talked about this, but I don’t know if we could ever do a series together. "I try to base everything in some kind of truth." As for the criticism, she added, "I don’t worry about what the Internet says.