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Contents:
- THAT GAY EPISO: HOW SAM MALONE SHOWED ACCEPTANCE IS MACHO ON ‘CHEERS’
- SNDALS’ FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE MAK ITS “GAY CHEERS” REPUTATN FEEL ACCURATE INSTEAD OF EYE ROLL-INDUCG
THAT GAY EPISO: HOW SAM MALONE SHOWED ACCEPTANCE IS MACHO ON ‘CHEERS’
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Cheers‘ first gay-centric episo is all about judgg a book by s ver — lerally. This fictnal book kicks off a wave of gay panic Cheers, the bar where everyone knows your name and also your sexualy — or so the regulars thk. Halfway to the first season of Cheers, wrers Ken Leve and David Isaacs ed the real life g out of Los Angel Dodgers and Oakland Athletics player Glenn Burke as spiratn to tackle homophobia an episo tled “The Boys the Bar.
When ’s revealed that Catcher’s Mask is about Kenrson’s double life as a womanizg athlete and closeted gay man, the bar be home to a major moment for Boston’s gay muny. Once the photos of bar-owner Sam wh major league gay Tom h newspapers, the regulars —led by Norm (Gee Wendt) and Cliff (John Ratzenberger)— fear that Cheers will bee a gay bar. Norm worri that Cheers will go the way of Vo’s Pub, a bar that me out after they hosted one Gays for the Metric System meetg.
SNDALS’ FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE MAK ITS “GAY CHEERS” REPUTATN FEEL ACCURATE INSTEAD OF EYE ROLL-INDUCG
Norm, who brags about havg gaydar, surveys the bar and se no gay men: “Looks like a straight crowd to me. Too ugly to be gay. After all, as she explas, Cheers has always been equented by gay men — and there are two the bar at that very moment.