Julia Child, James Beard, and a drag queen walk into a gay bar…
Julia Child singing a Frank Sinatra duet with her drag doppelgänger at a gay bar has to be just about the queerest thing on straight television this year, thus far.
Somebody better tip a b*tch with filet mignon. Spoiler Alert: In episode 5 of HBO’s Julia, fellow chef James Beard (Christian Clemenson) invites Julia (Sarah Lancashire) for an exciting night out during her weekend trip in San Francisco, though he fails to mention the venue’s theme of men who have sex with men.
What can possibly go wrong? Julia immediately glances around the visibly queer space with unease and discomfort, expressing to James that he should’ve warned her.
Talk about a hetero buzzkill. He responds sheepishly, “I was afraid you wouldn’t come.” But thankfully, it’s fiction based on facts, and the show writers knew the last thing we need on our screens is another LGBTQ hindered person.
