Steve Bull once raced agast time to try to save the memoirs of one of Mae's gay rights pneers. His trip led him down memory lane.
Contents:
- LBGTQ TV: A HISTORY OF GAY CHARACTERS, OM STONEWALL TO ‘BATWOMAN’
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
LBGTQ TV: A HISTORY OF GAY CHARACTERS, OM STONEWALL TO ‘BATWOMAN’
Gay characters the post-Stonewall era go a lot wir and eper than ‘Will & Grace’ and ‘Ellen.’ * lgbt historical tv *
As a Vulture say about a groundbreakg “All the Fay” episo noted, “In a moment where crics pot to ss as a medium that helped change public opns about gay rights, we should remember that the procs didn’t beg wh ‘Will & Grace’ or ‘Glee. Long before that, though, there were signature, cludg the 1971 episo of “All the Fay” which the bigoted, homophobic Archie Bunker was stunned to disver that an old buddy was gay.
In 1972, Hal Holbrook played a divorced dad hidg the fact he was gay om his son “That Certa Summer, ” nsired one of the first sympathetic pictns of gay characters on televisn. The 1980s brought AIDS to the nversatn, wh movi such as “An Early Frost, ” an NBC movie about a gay lawyer who mt break the news about his AIDS diagnosis to his parents.
The same thg happened when ABC’s “thirtysomethg” beme the first seri to pict two gay men bed together 30 years ago, a dynamic that ed work officials to thk twice about approvg such storyl. Showsg gay leads Will and Jack -- and a bisexual one, the se of Karen -- helped move Ameri toward marriage equaly, a fact that was acknowledged by none other than Vice Print Joe Bin. The seri also clud Ilana's gay weed-lovg roommate, Jaime (Arturo Castro), and her gay brother, Elt (played by Glazer's actual brother Elt Glazer).
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal. * lgbt historical tv *
Dear Whe People featur a central gay character, Lnel (DeRon Horton), whose exploratn of the different queer scen on his llege mp is a mt-see lson tersectnaly. "God Hat Fangs" memorably appeared the openg creds, vampir were "g out of the ff" to mand rights, and Lafayette Reynolds (Nelsan Ellis) served up one of televisn's most beloved gay characters.
RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
Created by Eugene Levy (Wag for Guffman, Bt Show, A Mighty Wd) and his son Daniel Levy, who is gay, Scht's Creek brims wh absurdist humor that's (mostly) sadly missg om pop culture the days. Good Trouble ntu to move the needle forward for reprentatn wh both characters and st members who span inti of pansexual, lbian, bisexual, nonbary, trans, and gay. Wrers Marty Feldman and Barry Took e gay slang Polari the nuendo-laced Julian and Sandy sketch Round the Horne, wh leral straight-man Kenh Horne.
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