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Contents:
- HOW BARNEY MILLER’S GAYS DEFEATED ABC’S NETWORK CENSORS
- 17 GAY SEX SNDALS THAT ROCKED AMERIN POLICS
- 20 STRAIGHT CHARACTERS WE DIDN'T KNOW WERE OPENLY GAY IN REAL LIFE
- THAT GAY EPISO: ‘BARNEY MILLER’ GETS THE WRONG LGHS OUT OF A GAY EXTORTN PLOT
- MY LIFE AS A GAY CONGRSMAN
- BARNEY FRANK IS THE FIRST MARRIED, OPENLY GAY CONGRSMAN
- STRAIGHT FOR PAY: TEN GAY ACTORS WHO PLAYED IT STRAIGHT
- RERD 13 CONGRS MEMBERS INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
HOW BARNEY MILLER’S GAYS DEFEATED ABC’S NETWORK CENSORS
I have to nfs that I never thought Barney Miller was a show for me. A child of the '80s, I would nstantly see on the syndited afternoon TV schle, but bee of s lack of aliens, puppets, or nja turtl I never gave a moment’s thought. Of urse, that’s before I learned about the show’s subversive gay backstory. Barney Miller buted 1975 as a mid-season replacement after ABC axed a whole... * gay barney *
Of urse, that’s before I learned about the show’s subversive gay backstory. But Barney Miller charged right to relatively uncharted terrory, openg s first episo after the pilot wh a gay purse-snatcher storyle.
17 GAY SEX SNDALS THAT ROCKED AMERIN POLICS
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”) Personally, I love the character: He’s smart, he’s funny, he’s nfint, and he’s unambiguloly gay. So Danny Arnold, the shownner, brought a nsultant om the Gay Media Task Force, a new anizatn that advoted for better pictns of gay characters. Gay dienc were miffed by Marty’s pictn: A sassy flamboyant crimal who leered at straight men, many viewers felt that Marty rerced negative stereotyp about gay people.
20 STRAIGHT CHARACTERS WE DIDN'T KNOW WERE OPENLY GAY IN REAL LIFE
Barney Frank beme the first stg member of Congrs to enter to a same sex marriage on Saturday eveng. Frank married Jim Ready, who he's been wh sce 2007, and The New York Tim gave them the full nuptial treatment. Frank was also the first Congrsman to openly e out as a gay man 1987. * gay barney *
But bee those trop were particularly mon on TV at the time, there was ncern that viewers would get the imprsn that Marty reprented all gay men. They crafted a few tweaks to the character, epeng tails of his personal life and planng to add more gay characters to the show.
THAT GAY EPISO: ‘BARNEY MILLER’ GETS THE WRONG LGHS OUT OF A GAY EXTORTN PLOT
They regnized the dissatisfactn of gay viewers, and were nfint that they uld addrs the cricisms.
MY LIFE AS A GAY CONGRSMAN
But Danny believed the chang they’d planned and wasn’t willg to give up on them, so he took a big gamble: Dpe ABC tellg him that gay storyl were forbidn, he spent $100, 000 to shoot the planned episo anyway, and then sent to the work to see what would happen.
And two days later, he rmed Danny Miller that the gay episo uld air.
The character was no longer picted as a crimal; he was given a partner and a sympathetic backstory; and the episo has a surprise twist at the end that unexpectedly subverts old gay stereotyp.
BARNEY FRANK IS THE FIRST MARRIED, OPENLY GAY CONGRSMAN
The succs of that episo led to more: Over s eight seasons, Barney Miller would go on to feature a storyle wh a gay immigrant; would touch on gay parentg and Supreme Court lgs; and a gay uple would be woven to the show so tightly that they were featured one of the fal scen of the seri fale, biddg the regulars farewell.
C., and the forc of homophobia only amplify the nsequence when gay enunters make headl.
STRAIGHT FOR PAY: TEN GAY ACTORS WHO PLAYED IT STRAIGHT
Many a gay sex sndal ret the urse of Amerin history and transformed the way natnal lears will be remembered for time immemorial. Pl Internatnal Airport known by thori as a popular spot for gay trysts saw s most notor occupant ever on June 11, 2007.
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RERD 13 CONGRS MEMBERS INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
But the New York Post reported that the polician fact was payg for gay sex an tablishment n by Nazi foreign agents. Alben Barkley that the Army handle such sndal by offerg an officer the tools for suici, acrdg to Charl Kaiser's The Gay Metropolis. But the cint would be jt one mark on a sndal-plagued reer and he would eventually rign due to tax evasn by SndalIt would be nice if the first out ngrsman to serve Washgton's halls of power fact ma his own cisn to make his homosexualy known to the world.