Neda Ulaby looks at the current landspe of gay characters on televisn, om the hight brows of Downton Abbey to the surprisgly welg world of realy shows.
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WHO'S GAY ON TV? DADS, JOURNALISTS, INVTIGATORS AND FOOTMEN
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He later starred The Tony Randall Show (1976) as a Philalphia judge, and Love, Sidney (1981) as a gay artist. Why did people thk actor Tony Randall was gay?
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Although he spent the show's five-year n longg to w back his wife, Gloria, wh whom he had two teenage children (she had divorced him on the groundbreakg legal basis of ''pts''), the character embodied almost every cliché of the urban gay man: he was natty, neat and trim, obssed wh opera and gourmet food, repelled by sports and booze.