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Contents:
- HOLLYWOOD FLASHBACK: ‘BEWCHED’ HAS BEEN A GAY FAVORE SCE 1964
- ‘BEWCHED’ AND BE GAY!
- HOW BEWCHED WENT GAY WHOUT EVER SAYG "GAY"
- THE GAY SECRETS BEHD THE CLASSIC TV S “BEWCHED”
- A LOOK TO THE LIFE OF 'BEWCHED' STAR DICK SARGENT AND HOW HE CAME OUT AS GAY
HOLLYWOOD FLASHBACK: ‘BEWCHED’ HAS BEEN A GAY FAVORE SCE 1964
Amid Pri Month, The Hollywood Reporter tak a look back at the s, featurg Dick Sargent, who was a league wh Rock Hudson for livg the closeted Hollywood liftyle, and Pl Lyn, who played gay whout explicly g out as gay. * was darren on bewitched gay *
For a 1960s s that on the surface was about as straight as you n get — attractive woman who happens to be a wch wants to be normal hoewife, so she marri a high-stng ad exec — a lot of gay magic lurks jt beneath the surface of ABC’s Bewched.
‘BEWCHED’ AND BE GAY!
In the actured, ntent tim, the one thg that we n all agree on is that Bewched was a super duper gay show. Right? It’s not jt me? Like the rt of you nerds, I’ve been thkg about Bewched a lot lately, ever sce got a ltle homage on WandaVisn. I ed to watch Bewched religly as a kid ( rens! I’m not that old) and my memori was extremely queer. But... * was darren on bewitched gay *
But when he me out, he did big time: He and Montgomery were grand marshals of Wt Hollywood’s 1992 Gay and Lbian Pri Para. Then there was the mother--law, Endora (played by former rad star Agn Moorehead), a sharp-tongued, ftan-wearg gay favore long before Goln Girls h the air. Who better than the Mount Vernon, Oh-born funnyman to play gay whout explicly g out as gay?
HOW BEWCHED WENT GAY WHOUT EVER SAYG "GAY"
“Bewched” was load wh some of the gayt stuff around, jt brimmg unr the surface. Good and betiful wch Samantha (played by Elizabeth Montgomery, who was the lovelit, most supportive queer iend imagable) marri the mortal Darr Stephens (who, after a restg, was portrayed by gay actor Dick Sargent).
THE GAY SECRETS BEHD THE CLASSIC TV S “BEWCHED”
BewchedIn the actured, ntent tim, the one thg that we n all agree on is that Bewched was a super duper gay show. It's a ltle strange to thk of as queer sce never actually had any explicly gay characters or same-sex upl.
A LOOK TO THE LIFE OF 'BEWCHED' STAR DICK SARGENT AND HOW HE CAME OUT AS GAY
Other ss around the same time (M*A*S*H, All the Fay, Mary Tyler Moore) all had gay one-offs, but Bewched never did. So why do I remember as beg so gay — gayer, fact, than any of those other programs?