'Fellow Travelers' on Showtime Explained in Out Magazine September/October 2023 AOC Fashion

In a fashion story and interview for Out magazine, cover stars Matt Bomer, Jonathan Bailey, Jelani Alladin, and Noah J. Ricketts reflect on the familial bonds formed by the actors in the upcoming limited eight-episodes series ‘Fellow Travelers’, with its premier October 27 on ‘Showtime’.

This fashion story and narrative by Mey Rude was created for Out before the Hollywood actor’s strike.

The quartet is styled by Michael Miller in images by Jason Hetherington [IG]. Brands in the polished, sartorial glamour images include Dior, Fendi, Givenchy, Hermes, Maxime, People of All Nations, Valentino and more.

‘Fellow Travelers’ Story Line

In the story line of ‘Fellow Travelers’, as narrated by Out:

. . . actors Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey play Hawk Fuller and Tim Laughlin, two men who meet while working in Washington, D.C., at the start of McCarthyism. They fall in love. For Hawk, this means living an existence of discipline and barriers, hiding who he is so he can build a life working in the government. For Tim, it means losing his career and finding a path that allows him to follow his truth.
In order to survive, Hawk and Tim form a chosen family with two other gay men swept up in the big political and cultural changes happening: journalist Marcus Hooks (Jelani Alladin) and drag-queen-turned-activist Frankie Hines (Noah J. Ricketts).

The family configuration seems improbable, but a certain amount of creative license must be taken to communicate one of the most hate-filled and divisive American issues in eight episodes that cover a period of 40 years.

70 Years Later, the Same Anti-LGBTQAI+, MAGA Hatred Is On Fire in America

On Friday, August 18, 2023 Laura Ann Carleton, a mother of nine children and married to the same man for 28 years, was shot dead in Lake Arrowhead, California because she displayed a Pride flag in her clothing store.

America’s religious crusaders believe she has no right to do that.

The Hollywood Reporter quotes Paul Feig’s IG, with his picture of Carleton in a ‘toasting’ moment among friends, writing that a young man [not yet identified] ripped down the flag in Mag.Pi, the popular progressive woman’s store. When Carleton confronted him about his actions in her store [or outside at the front of her store], the defender of the anti-gay faithful took out his gun and killed her on the spot.

The idea of just shooting us dead for our evil ways has gained much traction in Donald Trump’s America. I will never forget the wooden cross being shoved through the shattering glass of the US Capitol, by Americans determined to overturn the legal and not-fraudulent 2020 presidential election results.

A Den of Denial Among 1950s Men

A mindblowing fact about the focus of the Showtime series ‘Fellow Travelers’ is the probable deceptions between the two leading figures in the purge of homosexuals in the US federal goverment in 1953: Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his chief counsel, Roy Cohn.

Even then, Roy Cohn was the subject of hush-hush, anecdotal rumours about his homosexual identity. Cohn was eventually diagnosed with AIDS and died in 1978.

Two more men with interesting biographies are tied to the key figures of ‘Fellow Travelers’. The first is America’s head of the FBI during the 1950s J. Edgar Hoover. The second — years later — is a younger man named Donald J. Trump.

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