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Remembering Will and Grace for What it Was and What it Continues to Be.

Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed write about the attack on gay memory, in their journal they say, "Such assaults are often overtly homophobic: initiatives to prevent affirmative acknowledgment of homosexuality in history classes, campaigns to obscure the same-sex attractions of historical figures in museum exhibitions, objections to the designation of gay neighborhoods, and so forth".

In a time when being gay on television was not fun or cool, especially after Ellen Degeneres and the show "Ellen" got cancelled because of the issue of being gay. Will and Grace brought homosexuality into the homes of America just one short year later and the show took off. It can be argued that though stereotypical at times, what won over and continues to win over audience members is the use of gay humor. Specifically the character Jack McFarland; who is wild and over the top really his character is like a walking pride parade, but on the other hand to calm it down and show that gay people are just like everyone else title character Will Truman who's "toned" down demeanor is a nice break from Jack.

Evan Cooper from Ithica College did a study on "heterosexual" college students, he found that more women watched the show then men and that more women thought the show was funny compared to the men. Cooper also poised the question, Who's your favorite character? His results show Karen, Grace, and Jack pretty much tied, more women liked Jack. Men preferred Grace most likely because of her physical looks, also found was that the Characters of Jack and Karen were both seen as embarrassments to their genders.