{"id":95145,"date":"2026-06-07T23:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=95145"},"modified":"2026-06-07T23:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:13:16","slug":"karamos-queer-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/06\/07\/karamos-queer-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Karamo&#8217;s Queer Complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turning my attention to a non-menstruating queer group, the cast issues with now-defunct <strong><em>Queer Eye<\/em><\/strong> are back in the news.&nbsp; The unemployed <strong>Karamo Brown <\/strong>finally spoke out, exclusively to <em>People<\/em> magazine (in return for a cover, no doubt).&nbsp; As had been rumored, the final straw came when Brown\u2019s mom was in the control room during a taping and heard several of his costars criticizing him (<strong>Van Ness<\/strong>, <strong>France<\/strong> and <strong>Porowski <\/strong>were in the conversation).&nbsp; \u201cThe thing I know is the tears I saw in my mother\u2019s eyes.&nbsp; She kept repeating, \u2018I thought they were your friends.\u2019&nbsp; It made me realize I can no longer stay silent about how often I was made to feel like an outsider.\u201d&nbsp; Karamo also reveals that a sexual harassment complaint was filed during the first days of the show when he was \u201cfun and flirty\u201d with a costar.&nbsp; He claims the complaint came from a third party and was resolved (but insiders say that is not exactly what happened).&nbsp; Karamo adds, \u201cI think we all deserve a bit of grace for how we handled ourselves and one another.&nbsp; We were just doing our best.&nbsp; It may not have felt like that in the moment, but it\u2019s very clear to me now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some people work together and create real friendships.&nbsp; Take <strong>Jonathan Groff <\/strong>and <strong>Daniel Radcliffe<\/strong>.&nbsp; They got extremely close during their time <em>on <\/em>and <em>off-Broadway <\/em>in <strong><em>Merrily We Roll Along<\/em><\/strong> in 2023 and 2024 (which earned them each a <em>Tony Award<\/em>).&nbsp; They both went on to do other <em>Broadway <\/em>projects (Groff in <strong><em>Just In Time<\/em><\/strong> and Radcliffe in <strong><em>Every Brilliant Thing<\/em><\/strong>).&nbsp; But they are reuniting for a film project.&nbsp; Radcliffe was already signed for <strong><em>Trust the Man<\/em><\/strong>, which is termed as a \u201cVietnam War thriller\u201d.&nbsp; And now, Groff has signed on to costar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning my attention to a non-menstruating queer group, the cast issues with now-defunct Queer Eye are back in the news.&nbsp; The unemployed Karamo Brown finally spoke out, exclusively to People magazine (in return for a cover, no doubt).&nbsp; As had been rumored, the final straw came when Brown\u2019s mom was in the control room during<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95146,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95145\/revisions\/95146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}