Carrie bradshaw gay best friend
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 concrete life, he actually once dated the actress.
In truth, Garson—whose death at 57 was announced on Tuesday—worked hard at keeping his heterosexuality quiet, for terror 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 lgbtq+ 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 arrive up during the exhibit 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 productive, his beloved role did put something of
Sarah Jessica Parker Pays Tribute to Late Willie Garson: ‘It’s Been Unbearable’
Sarah Jessica Parker paid tribute to her “Sex and the City” co-star Willie Garson, whose death on Sept. 21 at the age of 57 shocked Hollywood, in a touching Instagram post.
Garson played Stanford, the stylish, gay foremost friend of Parker’s main character Carrie Bradshaw, in the “Sex and the City” TV reveal, films and the upcoming sequel series “And Just Enjoy That.”
“It’s been unbearable,” Parker wrote on Friday, three days after Garson died of pancreatic cancer. “Sometimes silence is a statement. Of the gravity. The anguish. The magnitude of the impairment of a 30-plus year friendship. A real friendship that allowed for secrets, adventure, a distributed professional family, reality, concerts, road trips, meals, late blackout phone calls, a mutual devotion to parenthood and all the heartaches and joy that accompany, triumphs, disappointments, anxiety, rage and years spent on sets (most especially Carrie’s apartment) and laughing late into the night as both Stanford and Carrie and Willie and SJ.”
The post continued:
Willie Garson’s Stanford in Sex and the City felt monumental for a closeted gay teen like me
As well-known drag queen Lady Bunny crowned Stanford Blatch (Willie Garson) and his top friend Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) joint LGBTQ+ prom queens in an episode of Sex and the Municipality, I watched in awe and private longing.
At the day, I was a closeted gay teen gawking at the show with my older sister – who always commandeered the TV remote – and I pretended to begrudgingly accommodate.
In reality, I loved the present for its refreshing discussions around sex and sexuality, but particularly because Stanford was one of the first openly gay characters I’d ever seen on the small screen.
So when I heard the news this morning about the death of Willie Garson, a pang of deep sadness swept over me.
He had a extended list of memorable acting credentials, including recurring roles on police dramas NYPD Blue and Alabaster Collar, as adequately as Big Mouth. The actor, who identified as vertical, was a father and a robust advocate for adoption, as well as a progressive voice on social media.
But it was his role as the spectacled sassy same-sex attracted best friend in Sex and the City that was
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If you are a gay guy, then you will be very, very used to friends starting a conversation with 'so... I think you'll love my companion Matthew.'*
*We'll call him Matthew, because half of the gay men in London are called Matthew.
'Oh really?' You ask, intrigued. 'Why?'
'Does he share a mutual interest?' you wonder. 'Is he a similar physical type to people I've dated previously? Are our personalities complementary?' Your friend cuts off your thought process just as your mind's eye visualises the wedding - small, yet chic. Wilson Phillips will complete - with the usual response.
'He's gay too!'
Groundbreaking.
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