SATC Revival ‘And Just Like That…’ Is Not The Show LGBT Fans Were Hoping For

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And Just Like That…, the Sex and the City revamp, is queering up an LGBTQI television favourite. With the addition of a major Queer character, the return of some favourite gay characters and the inclusion of a gender questioning teen, And Just Like That… aims to address the issues of its predecessor.

Unfortunately it doesn’t do it very well at all.Spoiler Alert: This story contains significant plot elements from And Just Like That… Sex and the City in its original six year, 99 episode run attracted a large LGBTQ fan base despite the fact that the show had few LGBTQ characters integrated into the show.Yes, there was Carrie’s (Sarah Jessica Parker) gay BFF, Stanford Blatch, (who, as Emma Spector noted in Vogue, Carrie treated really badly)  and her blink-or-you’ll miss him shoe friend (played by Murray Bartlett).Sarah Jessica Parker (left) and Murray Bartlett (right) in ‘Sex And The City’.Charlotte (Kristina Davis) had her own gay BFF, Anthony Marantino (played by Mario Cantone) and the “mean girls” power-suit lesbians Charlotte briefly befriends, before being dumped immediately after they learn she is straight.

These characters also relied on stale homosexual tropes…the men are bitchy and flamboyant and the women are just cold and mean.Sex And The CityAnd Just Like That… has also made headlines for adding four major characters of colour, in an effort to address the criticism that Sex and the City was too white…which it was.