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In s earlit days, one of the ntroversial topics 'All the Fay' tackled was Archie Bunker's view of gay reprentatn.

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GAYT EPISO EVER: HOW ‘ALL THE FAY’ GAVE US OUR FIRST GAY S CHARACTER

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Not only that, gave Ameri s first gay s character — and que likely, the first LGBT character on a show of any kd that was portrayed sensively and posively. In short, if you’re an otherwise pop culture-savvy gay guy who’s never seen an episo of All the Fay, at least know about this one.

On Febary 9, 1971, jt five episos to All the Fay’s first season, “Judgg Books by Covers” turned Archie Bunker’s anger toward gay men — or as he lls them many tim throughout the episo, fags. While the episo begs wh Archie fumg that he has to teract wh his dghter’s effemate male iend, he’s shocked later on to fd out that Steve (Philip Carey), the manly ex-football player who hangs out at the lol bar, is himself gay.

‘ALL THE FAY’: INSI THE EARLY EPISO THAT CHALLENGED ARCHIE BUNKER’S VIEW OF GAY PEOPLE

What’s remarkable about this episo is that most prev TV pictns of gay people were fairly negative. But give this episo of my podst, Gayt Episo Ever, a sp. And if not, you’ll at least know the story of the first gay character to ever gut-star on a s.

You n subscribe to Gayt Episo Ever on iTun, on Google Play and on Soundcloud. One example is episo five, “Judgg Books by Covers, ” which prented an unexpected take on the subject of homosexualy — at a time that nobody was alg wh . The All the Fay wiki offers up this plot scriptn: “Archie thks he knows a homosexual when he se one and when Mike v his flamboyant photographer iend Roger (Anthony Geary) to the Bunker hoehold, Archie tomatilly assum that Mike’s iend is a “flamer.

” Retreatg to the safety of Kelcy’s Bar, Archie choos to spend time wh his “he-man” pals, notably his old arm-wrtlg crony Steve (Philip Carey), who, when hearg about Roger, reveals himself to be gay — which Archie never spected. Televisn historian and thor Jim Colucci, who is currently -wrg wh Norman Lear a 50th-anniversary book voted to All the Fay, ments, “This was a brand new show g blazg out of the gate, bee if they were gog to tackle touchy issu 1971, gay reprentatn was certaly among the touchit.

‘ALL THE FAY’: INSI THE EARLY EPISO THAT CHALLENGED ARCHIE BUNKER’S VIEW OF GAY PEOPLE

Jim mentns that when he wrote his book Goln Girls Forever, he mented that the first regular gay character on televisn was the short-lived s The Corner Bar, which aired 1972. Gay liberatn and Stonewall had been 1969, so certaly was somethg the world was talkg about. And the gay muny had started to fd s very nascent voice, but wasn’t beg reprented mastream media and certaly not on televisn.

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“Not only did they have gay reprentatn, but they also were breakg the harmful stereotyp that were the only thg that day and age people knew about gay people.

"ALL THE FAY" ARCHIE BUNKER EXPLIANS THAT ENGLAND IS GAY

In 1971 people probably thought all gay people were ty, feme, limp-wristed men wh lisps — jt all the stereotyp. While any stereotype has some tth, what the episo took pas to show is that never tells you whether Roger, Mike’s iend who wears the ast and is very boistero, and ee talks wh his hands, is gay or not.

But what do show is that the macho man, the nfirmed bachelor who’s an arm wrtler and big and beefy, and a former play player, whom Archie idoliz and hangs out wh the bar all the time, has been gay all the years. “So there was jt so much that the show did, ” Jim pots out, “to give reprentatn to a gay character, which would have been ground breakg enough, but also showed multi-dimensns to what beg gay meant.

WHAT NIXON HAD TO SAY ABOUT GAYS AND ARCHIE {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}TVBY NEWNOWNEXT STAFFMARCH 8, 2007/7:07 PMBY NEWNOWNEXT STAFFMARCH 8, 2007 / 7:07 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"WHAT NIXON HAD TO SAY ABOUT GAYS AND ARCHIE BUNKER","DATEPUBLISHED":"2007-03-09T00:07:47.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2007-03-09T00:07:47.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"NEWNOWNEXT STAFF","KEYWORDS":"THE BACKLOT","ARTICLESECTN":"TV"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ONE PARTICULAR TAPE RERDG (OM MAY 14TH, 1971) HAS PRINT NIXON SHARG HIS VIEWS ON GAYS WH JOHN EHRLICHMAN AND H.R. HALMAN. THE TRANSCRIPTN BELOW IS RENSTCTED OM AN ARTICLE THE CHIGO TRIBUNE RAN 1999, WRTEN BY JAM WARREN. THE FULL TEXT OF THAT ARTICLE N BE FOUND AT THE FOLLOWG LK. BUT THE MOST TERTG PART (FOR ME) IS A DISCSN OF HOW A CBS TELEVISN SHOW WAS GLORIFYG HOMOSEXUALY, AND HOW GAYS WERE THREATENG SOCIETY -- AND LADI' FASHN:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HALMAN: IT'S ON EVERY WEEK. IT'S UALLY JT DONE THE GUY'S HOME. IT'S UALLY JT THAT GUY, WHO'S A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NIXON: THAT'S RIGHT, HE'S A HARD-HAT. LOOKS LIKE JACKIE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HALMAN: HE HAS THIS HIPPIE SON--LAW AND UALLY THE GENERAL TREND IS TO DOWNGRA HIM AND UPGRA THE SON--LAW, MAKE THE SQUARE HARD-HAT OUT TO BE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}EHRLICHMAN: WHAT'S LLED?.{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NIXON: ARCHIE'S GUYS. [SIC] ARCHIE IS STG HERE WH HIS HIPPIE SON--LAW, MARRIED TO THE SCREWBALL DGHTER. THE SON--LAW APPARENTLY GO BOTH WAYS. THIS GUY (ENTERS). HE'S OBVLY QUEER, WEARS AN AST, BUT NOT OFFENSIVELY SO. VERY CLEVER. US NICE LANGUAGE. SHOWS PICTUR OF HIS PARENTS. AND SO ARCH GO DOWN TO THE BAR. SE HIS BT IEND, WHO ED TO PLAY PROFSNAL FOOTBALL. VIRILE, STRONG, THIS AND THAT. THEN THE FAIRY TO THE BAR-- NOW, I DON'T MD THE HOMOSEXUALY, I UNRSTAND . . . NEVERTHELS, GODDAMN, I DON'T THK YOU GLORIFY ON PUBLIC TELEVISN, HOMOSEXUALY, EVEN MORE THAN YOU GLORIFY WHOR. WE ALL KNOW WE HAVE WEAKNS. BUT, GODDAMN , WHAT DO YOU THK THAT DO TO KIDS? YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GREEKS! HOMOSEXUALY STROYED THEM. SURE, ARISTOTLE WAS A HOMO. WE ALL KNOW THAT. SO WAS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}EHRLICHMAN: BUT HE [SOCRAT] NEVER HAD THE FLUENCE TELEVISN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NIXON: YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ROMANS? THE LAST SIX ROMAN EMPERORS WERE FAGS. NEHER A PUBLIC WAY. YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE POP? THEY (HAD SEX WH) THE NUNS, THAT'S BEEN GO' ON FOR YEARS, CENTURI. BUT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WENT TO HELL, THREE OR FOUR CENTURI AGO. IT WAS HOMOSEXUAL, AND HAD TO BE CLEANED OUT. THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENED TO BRA, HAPPENED EARLIER TO FRANCE. LET'S LOOK AT THE STRONG SOCIETI: THE RSIANS. GODDAMN, THEY ROOT 'EM OUT. THEY DON'T LET 'EM AROUND AT ALL. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY DO WH THEM. LOOK AT THIS UNTRY. YOU THK THE RSIANS ALLOW DOPE? HOMOSEXUALY, DOPE, IMMORALY ARE THE ENEMI OF STRONG SOCIETI. THAT'S WHY THE MUNISTS AND LEFT-WGERS ARE CLGG TO ONE ANOTHER. THEY'RE TRYG TO STROY . WE HAVE TO STAND UP TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}EHRLICHMAN: IT'S FATAL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NIXON: HUH?.{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}EHRLICHMAN: IT'S FATAL LIBERALY. AND WH S E ON TELEVISN, HAS SUCH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NIXON: [ASKG EHRLICHMAN TO NSIR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.] YOU KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}EHRLICHMAN: SAN FRANCIS HAS JT GONE CLEAR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NIXON: BUT 'S NOT JT THE RATTY PART OF TOWN. THE UPPER CLASS SAN FRANCIS IS THAT WAY. THE BOHEMIAN GROVE [AN ELE, SECRECY-FILLED GATHERG OUTSI SAN FRANCIS], WHICH I ATTEND OM TIME TO TIME. IT IS THE MOST FAGGY GODDAMNED THG YOU ULD EVER IMAGE, WH THAT SAN FRANCIS CROWD. I N'T SHAKE HANDS WH ANYBODY OM SAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}[AT THIS POT THE DISCSN TURNS TO GAY MEN WORKG THE LADI FASHN DTRY.]{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NIXON: DERATORS. THEY GOT TO DO SOMETHG. BUT WE DON'T HAVE TO GLORIFY . YOU KNOW ONE OF THE REASONS FASHNS HAVE MA WOMEN LOOK SO TERRIBLE IS BEE THE GODDAMNED SIGNERS HATE WOMEN. DIGNERS TAKG OUT ON THE WOMEN. NOW THEY'RE TRYG TO GET SOME MORE SEXY THGS G ON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}EHRLICHMAN: HOT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NIXON: [MURMURG] J {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;} {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

In lettg Archie spout off his tiras, Lear prented an opportuny for those who might not have had a platform the early 1970s – women, black men, homosexuals – to challenge Archie’s closed-md ias. The post ‘All the Fay’: Insi the Early Episo That Challenged Archie Bunker’s View of Gay People appeared first on DoYouRemember? ‘All the Fay’: Insi the Early Episo That Challenged Archie Bunker’s View of Gay People.

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