“Either I would have to become a girl or be married with a kid, but that’s not me,” he says. Marcus yearned to see something more of himself on-screen, but he knew that adapting his own life would mean watering it down or even turning himself straight. Network Person, you can’t do this,’ but you do get the rules conveyed to you at some point.” “There’s a lot of political pressure on those characters…to be ‘good’ representations,” explains Marcus of the limits he sees imposed by broadcasters. The openly gay producer, who has worked on such indie films as Boys Don’t Cry and Hedwig and the Angry Inch and such network TV fare as Scoundrels, feels that he isn’t seeing himself on-screen.
