{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "That Neil Patrick Harris coming out as a gay Broadway-lover would help his career reinvention as an onscreen avatar of...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/83276817435/", "html": "<p>That Neil Patrick Harris coming out as a gay Broadway-lover would help his career reinvention as an onscreen avatar of hyper-heteromasculinity is kind of weird, but then \u201ctaking artifice to 11\u201d has a long tradition at the intersection of gay and performance arts<br/><br/>That George Takei debuting an offscreen personality as \u201cgay memejoker\u201d would help land him a bunch of Serious Patrician roles is even more weird, but I guess the guy knew how to read the zeitgeist<br/><br/>That Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen would use their existing recognition in Serious Patrician roles to launch an offscreen brand as a mixed-sexuality pair of South Beach queens is just\u2026 well, helllllo, postmodernity</p>"}