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...
Contents:
- HOW BEWCHED WENT GAY WHOUT EVER SAYG "GAY"
- ‘BEWCHED’ AND BE GAY!
- HOLLYWOOD FLASHBACK: ‘BEWCHED’ HAS BEEN A GAY FAVORE SCE 1964
- A LOOK TO THE LIFE OF 'BEWCHED' STAR DICK SARGENT AND HOW HE CAME OUT AS GAY
HOW BEWCHED WENT GAY WHOUT EVER SAYG "GAY"
* darren on bewitched gay *
BewchedIn the actured, ntent tim, the one thg that we n all agree on is that Bewched was a super duper gay show.
‘BEWCHED’ AND BE GAY!
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. * darren on bewitched gay *
It's a ltle strange to thk of as queer sce never actually had any explicly gay characters or same-sex upl. 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.
HOLLYWOOD FLASHBACK: ‘BEWCHED’ HAS BEEN A GAY FAVORE SCE 1964
So why do I remember as beg so gay — gayer, fact, than any of those other programs? I wish the show uld have gone gayer — to give Uncle Arthur, played extremely broadly by Pl Lyn, a boyiend.
A LOOK TO THE LIFE OF 'BEWCHED' STAR DICK SARGENT AND HOW HE CAME OUT AS GAY
But as an artifact of the late '60s and early '70s, Bewched still succeeds whout explicly gay ntent.
Queerns is lible s central metaphor, far more than the one-off gay-of-the-week episos that TV would provi until the late '90s.