In the actured, ntent tim, the one thg that we n all agree on is that Bewched was a super duper gay show. Right? It’s not jt me? Like the rt of you nerds, I’ve been thkg about Bewched a lot lately, ever sce got a ltle homage on WandaVisn. I ed to watch Bewched religly as a kid ( rens! I’m not that old) and my memori was extremely queer. But...
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- PL LYN GAVE THE GAYS WHAT THEY NEED ON ‘BEWCHED’ 55 YEARS AGO
- TODAY GAY – HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNCLE ARTHUR!: ACTOR PL LYN WOULD BE 91 TODAY
- HOW BEWCHED WENT GAY WHOUT EVER SAYG "GAY"
PL LYN GAVE THE GAYS WHAT THEY NEED ON ‘BEWCHED’ 55 YEARS AGO
"Spyg, Hidg, and Eatg": 'Charlotte's Web's' Templeton Is a Big Gay Mood. That Gay Episo: 'Barney Miller' Gets The Wrong Lghs Out Of A Gay Extortn Plot. But let’s talk about that s-fg but 55 years ago—bee if there’s one thgs gays should love as much as Halloween, ’s Uncle Arthur.
TODAY GAY – HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNCLE ARTHUR!: ACTOR PL LYN WOULD BE 91 TODAY
There’s a reason why Pl Lyn as Uncle Arthur is so inic, practilly graed our shared gay DNA.
Uncle Arthur was the role that let Pl Lyn be Pl Lyn—and was the role that let gay men see themselv on TV, perhaps for the first time. Asher beme a fan of Lyn’s unique, bg (re: gay) w.
” Thankfully for gay history, the rt of the st and crew thought so, too—pecially star Elizabeth Montgomery. To be blunt: as a barely closeted gay man, this was the role Lyn was lerally born to play. The rol didn’t work for him bee, well, they weren’t gay enough.
HOW BEWCHED WENT GAY WHOUT EVER SAYG "GAY"
They weren’t gay at all! Now, has to be said that gay actors n play straight characters. Uncle Arthur is never explicly labeled as gay.
Uncle Arthur is gay, even if Bewched uldn’t e out and say 1965. This word rri extra weight the gay muny—so much weight that my generatn felt the need to e up wh another term, guncle, to lighten the load. I’m a gay uncle, my hband is a gay uncle—and that’s how we’ll rema as we, like so many other gay upl, choose to not have children.