Here's How 'Quantum Leap' Depicted Gay Rights In The Milary In 1992 | HuffPost Voic

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• HERE'S HOW 'QUANTUM LEAP' DEPICTED GAY RIGHTS IN THE MILARY IN 1992
• MASON ALEXANR PARK PARTNER: IS QUANTUM LEAP CAST GAY? GENR AND SEXUALY
• NBC TAK H OVER GAY ISSUE ON ‘LEAP’ SHOW

HERE'S HOW 'QUANTUM LEAP' DEPICTED GAY RIGHTS IN THE MILARY IN 1992

Debate over “ Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell ” ― the sce-repealed policy banng gay and lbian people om servg the U.

Tommy/Beckett disvers that his iend, Phillip (Sean O’Bryan), has been expelled om their naval amy bee he intifi as gay. By the ncln of the episo, Tommy mt prevent Phillip om beg murred a hate crime and, dog so, prove to the naval amy that s l prohibg gay recs are wrong. ”“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was enacted some two years after the episo aired 1994 and, at the time, was nsired by some to be a step forward for gays and lbians the ary.

MASON ALEXANR PARK PARTNER: IS QUANTUM LEAP CAST GAY? GENR AND SEXUALY

“I was a queer youth activist the '90s, before we had Gay Straight Allianc schools. [There] was this moment where I was a 10-year-old kid stg on the uch wh my parents talkg about how 's OK for people to gay, ” Shaka said. Quantum LeapCast & crewUser reviewsTriviaEpiso aired Jan 15, 1992TV-PG48mAt a Naval llege, Sam mt prevent a gay fellow classmate om beg killed by a gang of other a Naval llege, Sam mt prevent a gay fellow classmate om beg killed by a gang of other a Naval llege, Sam mt prevent a gay fellow classmate om beg killed by a gang of other productn, box office & pany Review an hont and effective anti-homophobia treatmentMy brother told me about this episo when aired Atralia the early neti - but I had to wa for the DVD ( 2007) to see myself.

I'm imprsed wh how entertag this episo is, while also alg wh a wi range of the issu around homophobia (cludg ternalised homophobia). I particularly appreciate that Sam is totally at ease his temporary new sk as naval sports jock Tommy - readily acceptg Ziggy's strong predictn (86%) that Tommy is gay.

This show has relevance to gays to the ary - but 's really a universal statement that homophobia is everyone's problem. Sourc at NBC said Thursday that the work lost about $500, 000 on Wednday’s disputed “Quantum Leap” episo about gays and gay bashg. However, Brd said that the “make-good” was not ma rponse to a reported suggtn by the work that the stud help unrwre any advertisg loss curred as a rult of airg the a squabble wh the work over productn of the episo last September, “Quantum Leap” executive producer Don Bellisar had asserted that NBC officials raised the possibily of the stud pensatg NBC for airg the episo the event of a sponsor had nied makg such a suggtn, but even so, there would have been a basis for ncern, given the recent history of advertiser whdrawals om ntroversial programs--cludg an episo of ABC’s “thirtysomethg” pictg two gay men bed and NBC’s own movie “Roe vs.

NBC TAK H OVER GAY ISSUE ON ‘LEAP’ SHOW

Wednday found him surfacg at a naval llege 1964 and assumg the inty of a t faced wh savg the life of a iend beaten by stunt vigilant bee of his homosexualy. Although NBC and Bellisar had mataed that only mor chang were ma the shootg script that origally was submted for work approval, Wednday’s versn appeared to have been signifintly altered om the script that was rejected by NBC’s standards and practic partment and acced by gay rights activists of beg “negative and unbalanced. ”In the proposed shootg script, Sam’s harassed gay iend was a teen-ager who hanged himself, acrdg to Richard Jenngs, executive director of the Los Angel chapter of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn.

In Wednday’s versn, he was “over 21, ” a potential martyr talked out of suici by Sam and the school’s track ach--a big bear of a man and a posive gay character whom Jenngs says was not the earlier script that he read. Jenngs had argued then that the character’s suici would send a dangero msage to real-life gay another change, moreover, Wednday’s episo left the imprsn that Sam’s character--a 21-year-old track star who jeopardized his own life and future to aid his iend--was almost certaly gay. ” Color that vague, if not flat-out as unclear is what Bellisar meant by “both sis, ” for his show ridiculed the bigotry of s anti-gay characters.

Such anti-gay ephets as queer and the three “F” words-- u, fag and fairy --were ed agast Sam and his iend by their creto tormentors. The naval officer headg the school sisted that gays “lack learship quali. ” And the episo troduced TV’s first homophobic hologram the person of Albert (Dean Stockwell), Sam’s time-travelg mentor, who repeatedly ma stereotype-driven remarks about the body language and other habs of Sam’s Sam aggrsively unterattacked.