Marcia Gay Harn reflects on her TV reer, cludg rol on 'Law & Orr: SVU,' 'The Newsroom' and more seri. See photos.
Contents:
- MARCIA GAY HARN LOOKS BACK AT SVU, THE NEWSROOM, CO BLACK AND MORE
- THE NEWSROOM: CONVERSATNS ABOUT PRI, INTY, AND FDG THE GAY BARS
- GAY JOURNALISTS, OUT IN THE NEWSROOM
- 'THE NEWSROOM' NEW CHARACTERS: MARCIA GAY HARN, CONSTANCE ZIMMER AND MORE CAST ADDNS IN SEASON 2
- MARCIA GAY HARN JOS 'THE NEWSROOM' AND MORE CASTG NEWS
MARCIA GAY HARN LOOKS BACK AT SVU, THE NEWSROOM, CO BLACK AND MORE
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My qutn is, unr one of your princi, do you tend to circumvent the progrs that's been ma for gay and lbian soldiers the ary?
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THE NEWSROOM: CONVERSATNS ABOUT PRI, INTY, AND FDG THE GAY BARS
The Newsroom: Conversatns about Pri, inty, and fdg the gay bars. Soon after Deb Price joed the Detro News 1989, she wrote a piece about gay people beg expelled om the ary, an issue that was barely a blip on the journalistic radar screen.
"I did a lot of gay stori, but part of me felt fensive about , " she says. I was always aaid someone would say, 'Geez, Deb, how e you're wrg so many gay stori? Last sprg she beme the first staffer on a big-cy daily to wre a regular lumn on gay matters, which has been picked up by dozens of other papers.
GAY JOURNALISTS, OUT IN THE NEWSROOM
"It's an asset for a newspaper to have openly gay journalists the same way that havg Ain Amerins or Hispanics or people wh disabili is an asset. " As gay issu have bee the stuff of ont-page ntroversy, homosexuals are emergg as an creasgly visible force newsrooms around the untry. As the big gay rights prott unfolds here this weekend, many of the 700 members of the Natnal Lbian and Gay Journalists' Associatn are nvergg on the cy as well.
'THE NEWSROOM' NEW CHARACTERS: MARCIA GAY HARN, CONSTANCE ZIMMER AND MORE CAST ADDNS IN SEASON 2
Durg the last gay prott Washgton 1987, "I went nowhere near the Mall, " says Juan Palomo, a Hoton Post lumnist. The ia that a group of gay journalists n meet an open nventn, three years ago that would have been unheard of.
MARCIA GAY HARN JOS 'THE NEWSROOM' AND MORE CASTG NEWS
Andrew Sullivan, edor of the New Republic, which is publishg a special edn on gay issu this week, says he stggl to addrs two disparate dienc that lack a mon language. For gay reporters, 's so visceral for to wre about that we tend to censor ourselv.
"I thk 's possible to wre a piece that meets the Tim's standards of fairns, and yet has a ltle b of voice that shows you're a gay man. " But the sharpt divisns have emerged wh the gay muny self.