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I have to nfs that I never thought Barney Miller was a show for me. A child of the '80s, I would nstantly see on the syndited afternoon TV schle, but bee of s lack of aliens, puppets, or nja turtl I never gave a moment’s thought. Of urse, that’s before I learned about the show’s subversive gay backstory. Barney Miller buted 1975 as a mid-season replacement after ABC axed a whole...

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HOW BARNEY MILLER’S GAYS DEFEATED ABC’S NETWORK CENSORS

Of urse, that’s before I learned about the show’s subversive gay backstory. But Barney Miller charged right to relatively uncharted terrory, openg s first episo after the pilot wh a gay purse-snatcher storyle.

”) Personally, I love the character: He’s smart, he’s funny, he’s nfint, and he’s unambiguloly gay. So Danny Arnold, the shownner, brought a nsultant om the Gay Media Task Force, a new anizatn that advoted for better pictns of gay characters.

Gay dienc were miffed by Marty’s pictn: A sassy flamboyant crimal who leered at straight men, many viewers felt that Marty rerced negative stereotyp about gay people.

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