Actress Alex Borstein has addressed whether her character Susie in The Marvelous Mrs Maisel is gay. The period comedy drama on Amazon Prime Video has attracted Golden Globe and Emmy Award wins and secured a huge fanbase.
The show focuses on the relationship between Mrs Midge Maisel – a Jewish housewife turned professional comic – and her agent Susie Myerson.
And many LGBT+ fans have wondered from the start whether Susie is lesbian or bi. When the pair meet, Susie is managing a club in Greenwich Village, New York.
The real-life Gaslight Café attracted sexually fluid poets including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Diane di Prima. And not only was the neighborhood the center of LGBT+ life in the city, the Gaslight was in a particularly