Mart Mull (born Augt 18, 1943) is an Amerin actor who has appeared many televisn and film rol. He is also a edian, pater, and rerdg artist. He appears as Leon Carp, Roseanne's gay boss on Roseanne. Mull was born Chigo, Illois, and moved wh his fay to North...
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- SARA GILBERT REVEALS SHE FIRST REALIZED SHE WAS GAY WHILE DATG FORMER 'ROSEANNE' -STAR JOHNNY GALECKI
- ROSEANNE BARR ARGU SHE N E GAY SLURS PRIVATE AS SHE CLAIMS SHE’S ‘QUEER’
- THAT GAY EPISO: ‘ROSEANNE’ LNCH A LOW-KEY GAY REVOLUTN
SARA GILBERT REVEALS SHE FIRST REALIZED SHE WAS GAY WHILE DATG FORMER 'ROSEANNE' -STAR JOHNNY GALECKI
Sara Gilbert's Darlene wasn't gay, but she beme an in to the LGBTQ muny. * roseanne gay *
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ROSEANNE BARR ARGU SHE N E GAY SLURS PRIVATE AS SHE CLAIMS SHE’S ‘QUEER’
Roseanne Barr claimed she n e gay slurs private and seemgly nfed queer and strange now leted YouTube vios. * roseanne gay *
“There were no gay men or lbians livg next door to the Rirdos and the Kramns or wag to be rcued on Gilligan’s Island, ” Tropiano wr.
“Gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr characters didn’t appear suatn edi until the early 1970s. Around the same time, ss began to vote sgle-episo story l to mature subjects and them, such as racism, alholism, abortn, anti-Semism, and homosexualy. Before ss like All the Fay, Barney Miller, and M h the airwav, gay viewers had to settle for shows exhibg a certa ‘gay appeal.
THAT GAY EPISO: ‘ROSEANNE’ LNCH A LOW-KEY GAY REVOLUTN
A show like Murphy Brown or The Dick Van Dyke Show uld have gay-but-not characters whom queer dienc uld see themselv if they squted enough, but who never actually had to be gay, let alone sayg they were.
Durg s nearly -long n, the show had several queer characters, Roseanne (Roseanne Barr) herself kissed a woman on-air a 1994 episo, and had one of the first-ever gay weddgs on primetime a year later when Leon (Mart Mull) married Stt (Fred Willard).