Will and grace first made it on the air, roundly criticised by gay and lesbian groups. The show is a relationship, a sexual relationship, withny sex. When casting eric we had to make sure that he was conceivable as a straight man. This is absurd. Maybe i don't wear my sexuality like a sash in a tiara the way jack does, but i am willing to put my gayness up against anybody. That was also a thing that we did very deliberately, was to show the world in casting eric,. We had to do that. And so too was the way the topic of sex was handled on the show.