Gay Life on 'Archer'

Contents:

• NEW SOCIAL-FIRST DATING APP "ARCHER" LAUNCHES FOR GAY, BISEXUAL, AND QUEER MEN
• MATCH GROUP BUTS ARCHER, A NEW FACE-FIRST GAY DATG APP FOR MEN
• SPY-ON-SPY ACTN: GAY LIFE ON ARCHER
• NEW SOCIAL-FIRST DATING APP "ARCHER" LAUNCHES FOR GAY, BISEXUAL, AND QUEER MEN
• ARCHER AND HOMOPHOBIA: THE WD CRI MARY AND GAY PANIC.
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• MATCH GROUP’S ‘ARCHER’ APP WANTS TO OFFER GAY MEN SO MANY TARGETS THEY CAN’T MISS
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

NEW SOCIAL-FIRST DATING APP "ARCHER" LAUNCHES FOR GAY, BISEXUAL, AND QUEER MEN

This is a list of Archer characters that have been nfirmed as bisexual, lbian or gay. The App Offers Multiple Disvery Mos — om Grid Views to a Lear Layout — wh Mandatory Selfie-Verified Profile Photos, /PRNewswire/ -- Archer, the new social-first datg app for gay, bisexual, and queer men, today announced s lnch, pneerg a new way to meet, date, and celebrate the muny. Archer was created partnership wh gay, bisexual, and queer muny advot.

Through the velopmental phase, Archer worked wh over 1, 200 gay, bisexual, and queer men through surveys, terviews, and feature ttg.

MATCH GROUP BUTS ARCHER, A NEW FACE-FIRST GAY DATG APP FOR MEN

"When I first tried datg apps almost a ago as a closeted gay man, the optns available only rerced the ia that love and nnectn our muny should be hidn, " add Michael Kaye, Director of Brand Marketg and Communitns at Archer.

About ArcherArcher, the social-first datg app for gay, bisexual, and queer men, creat a celebratory place, signed wh safety md, where ers n exprs themselv and build nnectns eely.

SPY-ON-SPY ACTN: GAY LIFE ON ARCHER

Onle datg behemoth Match Group is troducg a new gay datg app, jt time for Pri. The pany, which owns the ln’s share of the global datg market, is lnchg Archer, a “social-first” datg experience for gay, bi and queer men.

While ’s sort of surprisg that Match Group — which owns everythg om OkCupid and Tr to BLK and Plenty of Fish — took this long to add a gay-specific app to s massive portfol, Archer do offer a few twists. Unlike gay hookup apps like Grdr, Scff and their ilk, Archer aims to be datg app necsi (msagg, the grid, etc.

NEW SOCIAL-FIRST DATING APP "ARCHER" LAUNCHES FOR GAY, BISEXUAL, AND QUEER MEN

The lack of torsos and relative arth of dicks certaly sets a different tone om what gay men have mostly e to expect hookup apps, but Archer is makg a bet that s relatively (and lerally) buttoned-up approach will st a wir . Detractors of yet another app om Big Datg might cricize the cisns for sanizg the gay datg experience.

ARCHER AND HOMOPHOBIA: THE WD CRI MARY AND GAY PANIC.

That cricism is probably fair pendg on what you’re lookg for, but Archer do seem to be signed wh the unique needs of gay, bi and queer men md. ) That volved surveyg, terviewg and product ttg wh more than 1, 000 men om the muny ’s lookg to serve — somethg you’d certaly hope a slick new gay datg app hopg to build goodwill wh a margalized muny would do, of urse.

“I know so many people who are monogamo relatnships, but have download gay datg apps when movg to New York for the first time to fd their chosen fay the area.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Archer is bettg that gay men might want to hook up, fd love, build muny and nnect around shared terts a one-stop shop of an app. But whether riffg on 1940s Hollywood noir narrativ s last season or embracg a Don Johnson meets Srface vibe Season Five's Archer Vice era, there's always been, at s re, Hollywood's go-to ia of a leadg man: a rtoonish versn of Ian Flemg's womanizg, dnken, hetero where Bond remas an opprsive bastn of heterosexual masculy—look no further than all this talk about how Bond uldn't, heaven forbid, everbe gay—FXX's animated seri has surround Sterlg Archer (name "Duchs, " don't ask) wh a wildly sexually provotive roster of characters.

In fact, while Hollywood smugly pats self on the back for the cln of a queer Power Ranger or an "exclively gay" moment your favore splay-as-remake Disney project, FXX's R-rated show has been showsg the kd of plex and stereotype-smashg LGBTQ character we are seemgly always on the cp of seeg on a mastream pop culture Gillette (pronounced like the razor; don't let his hillbilly fay tell you otherwise) was first troduced a cutaway gag the show's first season. Always eager to e his spy missns to bed as many women as humanly possible, Archer is disappoted when his boss, who's also his mother, rms him the target is a gay Cuban secret agent.

Cut to: our first look at ISIS's openly gay secret agent.

MATCH GROUP’S ‘ARCHER’ APP WANTS TO OFFER GAY MEN SO MANY TARGETS THEY CAN’T MISS

In an episo that both flnts and lls out gay stereotyp—Archer ially fails to attract closeted Cuban Ramon Limon by bleachg his hair, donng some roller skat, a skimpy pair of whe shorts, and a crop top that reads "Got Dick?

Moreover, Archer walks a fe le between makg Ray's homosexualy an almost cintal character tra and makg a central part of his inty. Th, for every throwaway gag that merely plays up his gayns— his send appearance, he tells Aisha Tyler's bodac Lana Kane that she looks great her knock-off Fcchi drawers, elicg a "You're such a bch! " retort—there are moments that broan our knowledge of how this once Olympic gold-medalist skier om Wt Virgia beme an ace bomb fer wh two nickel-plated M1911 pistols nicknamed Barbra and walks a fe le between makg Ray's homosexualy an almost cintal character tra and makg a central part of his an episo of the show's third season tled "Bloody Ferl, " we actually get to travel to the backwoods town where Ray grew up and where his father openly tried to still his young effemate son a much more socially acceptable visn of mascule strength, cludg killg a bear wh a bow and takg a be out of s heart.

As we're learn later the show, he was eventually sent to a Pray Away the Gay Camp where he met his wife—a lbian, of urse ("That was a pretty weird time for me, " he adms).

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Whether seeg him shirtls and wheelchair-bound at a circu party, wieldg Barbra and Liza while rockg a biker leather outf, sportg his "crISIS" vt , well, a crisis suatn, or remiscg about his bronze-medal glory as an Olympic skier, Gillette is the clost you n get to what an unabashedly gay Jam Bond would look 's pecially groundbreakg about Raymond Q. Gillette is how, his swishy-ns, he's also a hilar terrogatn of the very obv gay male stereotype he embodi.

He's the bleach-blond gay om a s-ready plot whose nservative fay still believ he has a wife. He's the clean-cut and mcle-ripped poster homo likely to be featured Pri floats and gay bar flyers. He's a flamboyant gay who n pass, and who jt so happens to be a kickass cyb actn hero.

As Christopher Rudolph wr over at The Advote, 's difficult to name an openly gay spy.

But wh the popular FX animated spy seriArcher--which premiered s fourth season on FX this week--the smart, handsome, and openly gay spy Ray Gillette may be a "lear the field, " acrdg to the show's creator Adam show revolv around Sterlg Archer, the reckls, pompo, womanizg Jam Bond-wannabe protagonist (voiced by H. "Well, you know homosexuals are unrreprented spy fictn, " Reed tells The Advote, who created and voic Ray. So this guy will be an openly gay agent, and I actually liked him -- he me across as smart, -ntrol, and as a foil to Archer.

But Reed hts that Ray may walk aga (perhaps thanks to a pair of cyberic legs), and also allus that Ray may not be the only gay spy viewers see the new season. The creator of the popular FX animated spy seri Archer, which premier season four tonight on FX, has jt been asked if he n name an openly gay spy. While Reed don't b shoulrs wh spi on a day-to-day basis, he assum we mean fictnal spi -- but nohels he is h wh this realizatn, Reed seems proud that he has created Ray Gillette, the smart, handsome, and openly gay spy on his seri.

"No proment gay spi e to md, " says Reed as he discs the upg fourth season of one of the most unr-celebrated animated edi on TV.

Wh this all-star team and no shortage of wty, rnchy one-lers, Archer has cemented self as one of the most shockg and hilar shows on Archer as a world-reknowned womanizer, Ray provis an tertg pot of ntrast as a petent, smart spy who happens to be gay. "Well, you know homosexuals are unrreprented spy fictn, " says Reed, who created and voic Ray. " On Archer, sults fly as fast as bullets, wh the spi nstantly ribbg each other on everythg om their choice of wardrobe to their bedroom manners -- wh Ray's sexualy ually feelg the bnt of his worker's won Bt Show You're Not Watchg at the New Now Next Awards back 2010, and while all the characters are fair game the ISIS offic, Reed was never serly ncerned about the gay backlash for the flak Ray tak at the office.

My gay iends love Ray, they want to see more Ray-centric episos, like he should bee a pilot or thgs like that. "A gay character on TV who is a secret spy and a pilot? 'Formula K', a pound that he tted on Danny the Intern, which supposedly turns subjects gay.