'M3GAN' Gains Instant 'Gay Icon' Status, Stars a Hot Out Actor

The horror movie "M3GAN," which features a homicidal AI doll in the title role, has become an instant gay classic – and it stars an out gay actor.

Instinct Magazine noted that Brian Jordan Alvarez appears in the film in a quite different role from the "quirky, effeminate steward" he embodied on "Will & Grace" during the popular sitcom's three-season revival run.

The outlet recalled that Alvarez "had an epic career before joining 'Will & Grace' in 2018 as Jack McFarland's future husband, Estefan." The article enumerated his "numerous guest spots," his "lengthy character arc in 'Jane the Virgin,'" and his role on "the cult web-series 'The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo.'"

"M3GAN" is such a juggernaut – already barreling toward the half-billion dollar mark in box office business – that his role in the film as a robotics engineer could "remain one of his claims to fame," Instinct predicted.

Check out the actor on Insta:

But the killer doll itself is the big draw. Why?

Instinct thumbnailed the film's plot as "the story of a young girl who loses her parents in a snowplow accident. Now living with her awkward aunt, she befriends a new artificial intelligence prototype who takes its job of safeguarding the child a little too seriously."

That circumstance – losing one's family through no fault of one's own and having to forge new bonds with those to come to fill the gap – is essential to "M3GAN's" mix of sci-fi, drama, and horror, and it speaks to LGBTQ+ audiences, many of whom have similarly lost their families of origin – not to snow plows, but to homophobic prejudice and rejection. That, at least, was the take screenwriter Akela Cooper offered in comments she made to SFX Magazine.

Some on social media took her point.

However, LGBTQ+ publication Pride said that Akela's psychological perspective missed what, for many viewers, is the most essential ingredient of all for a gay cinematic classic: Camp.

As proof of this, Pride pointed to the comments and memes that have proliferated on social media, as fans of the flick celebrate the film's gleeful blend of robotics, malice, and humor.

Or, as one user had it, "she's a vicious murderer who does a dance."

Others agreed. Check out their tweets below.