One Vogue writer reflects on why Carrie Bradshaw's 'gay boyfriend' Stanford deserved so much more.
As I grew up and began to grapple with my sexuality, I realized I was even further afield of the, shining emblems of compulsory heterosexuality, and the show was part of a blaring set of societal messages telling me I couldn’t have the life I saw onscreen unless I was straight.
In fact, as I watched Carrie repeatedly overlook and disappoint her “gay boyfriend” Stanford Blatch without ever being forced to reckon with the reality of what she was doing, I was all the more torn. As I watched Carrie drag Stanford to parties in between boyfriends, ignore his problems, and blow him off from a big night out by telling him that “tonight is just the girls,” I unwittingly absorbed the idea that being gay meant being sidelined from the real story.
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