Queer Clicks: November 0, 2016 | CBS Announces Plans For A Gay Legal Drama, ‘Rebel Law’, Johnny Depp May Play Gay Wizard In Next ‘Harry Potter’ Spin-Off, & Other News

CBS Announces Plans For A Gay Legal Drama, ‘Rebel Law’

“A new gay legal drama could break fresh ground at CBS.

On Monday, the network acquired “Rebel Law,” which follows an openly gay attorney who returns to his Mississippi hometown to join his family’s multigenerational law practice, Deadline reports. Written by Kit Williamson, the series will be executive produced by Michael Rauch, Lisa Kudrow and Dan Bucatinsky. No casting has been announced.” Huffington Post

Johnny Depp May Play Gay Wizard In Next ‘Harry Potter’ Spin-Off

“Johnny Depp has been cast in the Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and there is some serious speculation from fans that he might be playing dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald, gay love interest to Professor Dumbledore.” Queerty

Rent’s Late Jonathan Larson Reveals Power of Straight-Gay Friendship in Esoteric Revival

“onathan Larson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and three-time Tony Award winner for Rent, originally wrote Tick, Tick… BOOM! as a rock monologue. After his death in 1996, David Auburn (author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Proof) streamlined the piece and reconfigured it into a three-person show that premiered Off-Broadway in 2001. Now, Keen Company’s Off-Broadway revival of the show is leaving audiences spellbound.” Out

AIDS Activist Larry Kramer On ‘Patient Zero’ Myth, HIV Stigma

” Like an entire generation of gay men devastated by the AIDS epidemic, Gaetan Dugas died too young — a mere 31 years old.

Before his death in 1984, the Canadian flight attendant disclosed to researchers that he averaged 250 sexual partners a year between 1979 and 1981. Dugas — whose case was documented in the best-selling book “And the Band Played On,” which chronicled the spread of AIDS in the U.S. — was then vilified as “Patient Zero.” ” NBC News

Gay Penguins In ‘Gotham’: Fox’s Superhero Show Finally Gets Queer Right

“Though it has spent the majority of its three years on air as a punching bag for comic book fans, Fox’s Batman origins drama Gotham recently performed one of the rarest feats imaginable in our overcrowded superhero culture. It turned its gay subtext into straight-up text.” Decider