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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.
THAT GAY EPISO: ‘ROSEANNE’ LNCH A LOW-KEY GAY REVOLUTN
” 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. “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.