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Contents:
- SARA GILBERT REVEALS SHE FIRST REALIZED SHE WAS GAY WHILE DATG FORMER 'ROSEANNE' -STAR JOHNNY GALECKI
- THAT GAY EPISO: ‘ROSEANNE’ LNCH A LOW-KEY GAY REVOLUTN
SARA GILBERT REVEALS SHE FIRST REALIZED SHE WAS GAY WHILE DATG FORMER 'ROSEANNE' -STAR JOHNNY GALECKI
) Then was Ellen DeGener on her eponymo ABC show—though she would later actually e out as a lbian, breakg down barriers and makg room for everyone om the gays of Will & Grace to the ridg, wng, losg, cheat', kissg, thkg, dreamg women of The L before them, and fely before the 's-hip-to-be-queer characters of Riverdale and Runaways, LGBTQ kids didn’t have many folks on TV or movi to mol themselv after. ” The list uld go on, but the ia is the same: people who don’t often get reprented media tend to attach themselv to someone that's close his book The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lbians on TV, Stephen Tropiano lls the “gay-straight” characters, people who may seem queer but are prented as straight.
THAT GAY EPISO: ‘ROSEANNE’ LNCH A LOW-KEY GAY REVOLUTN
“There were no gay men or lbians livg next door to the Rirdos and the Kramns or wag to be rcued on Gilligan’s Island, ” Tropiano wr. “Gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr characters didn’t appear suatn edi until the early 1970s.
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