Longtime TV cric Dan Avery charts the history of gay, queer, and transgenr reprentatn popular Amerin seri om 1971 to today, om Ellen to Pose.
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FOR ALL MANKD EPISO 7 REVIEW REP ELLEN WAVERLY LBIAN FORCED MARRI LARRY GAY WORKER 70S
I nnot rrect my past mistak, but I n stop lyg to you right here, right now, and give you the simple tth. I'm gay, and I have been sce the day I was born. Ellen Wilson (née Waverly) is an Amerin polician servg as the 41st and first female print of the Uned Stat. Ellen... * gay characters for all mankind *
However, the sual-seemg revelatn by Major Will Tyler — astront, Detroer, Black man — that he’s gay, and how his disclosure reverberat through anizatns cludg NASA, the U. In fact, they are the characters through whose ey we’ve seen what navigatg closeted gay life is like the show’s timele. It’s been particularly hard on Ellen, and we see a b of that when she tears up, alone the Oval Office, as she watch Will’s full statement on his life as a gay man.
He all but storms to the Oval Office high anger, remdg everyone prent that fully 73 percent of Amerins polled recently nsir homosexualy very bad. The armed forc will no longer vt time, money, and human rourc so much as askg active-duty ary personnel about their sexualy, and so long as the gay on don’t let be known, they n ntue to serve.
Rolan’s homophobia is que leral; he’s aaid of the vanishgly small likelihood that Will might be HIV-posive, puttg everyone he has ntact wh at risk.