That Gay Episo: ‘Barney Miller’ Gets The Wrong Lghs Out Of A Gay Extortn Plot | Decir

Contents:

• TOM HOLLAND’S THE CROWD ROOM GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS APPALLG HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH
• THAT GAY EPISO: ‘BARNEY MILLER’ GETS THE WRONG LGHS OUT OF A GAY EXTORTN PLOT
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
• KEV SPACEY FELT ‘PRSURED TO E OUT AS GAY’ AFTER SEXUAL MISNDUCT ALLEGATNS

TOM HOLLAND’S THE CROWD ROOM GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS APPALLG HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH

Tom Holland has been fend by fans over The Crowd Room backlash ( Picture: Apple TV)Tom Holland has been fend by fans om homophobic backlash over a sex scene The Crowd Room. While the moment set social media alight wh praise, also enuraged bigots to plague Twter wh homophobic remarks. ‘It only took Tom Holland dog one gay scene for Twter to explo to homophobic rants, agile masculy & toxic behavur, ’ wrote on fan.

Another agreed: ‘People makg homophobic jok about this need to unrstand that the hallmark of a good actor is lettg yourself be open to new rol that challenge you. ‘The way how y’all are rpondg to Tom Holland actg a f**kg SHOW is beyond juvenile and homophobic, ’ fumed a third, and their cri were thankfully echoed by so many others.

Wh That Gay Episo, I want to be able to look back at LGBTQ rep televisn and see a straight le of progrs om the villas of the ’50s to Ellen DeGener’ heroic g out 1997. Characters the ’70s e out and ’s no big al, but guys the ’90s are terrified of beg mistaken for gay.

THAT GAY EPISO: ‘BARNEY MILLER’ GETS THE WRONG LGHS OUT OF A GAY EXTORTN PLOT

In between there are exampl of hysteril gay panic and sual reprentatn. After spendg a few stallments the years leadg up to Ellen’s game-changg (and show-endg) cisn, I wanted to vis the more open-md ’70s–the when The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show troduced gay characters wh a re that puts Friends to shame.

That diversy extend past havg the Ain-Amerin Ron Glass, Japane-Amerin Jack Soo, and Puerto Rin Gregory Sierra the regular st; Barney Miller also featured recurrg gay characters that appeared all the way om the show’s send to s last episo. Barney Miller didn’t have the gay-of-the-week problem that so many ss had. It’s trouble tim two, and they’re both drsed like gay crayons.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

“Disvery” don’t tiptoe around the gay stuff. Marty and Darryl e to the precct (which Darryl lls “enemy terrory”) to report that a man is extortg gay men by posg as a police officer. Gay men and police officers most likely had a straed relatnship 1975.

Barney Miller had two gay recurrg characters? “Wojo” Wojciehowicz (Max Gail) beg aggrsively homophobic? Him thkg that beg gay is may be a “psychologil phenomenon that’s ticked off by anythg”?

Marty and Darryl are basilly s versns of my personal gay hero, Pl Lyn and Charl Nelson Reilly (okay, they’re a ltle more Liberace than Lyn, but still). Consirg how vert or closeted gay characters were treated later the ’80s, ’s rehg to see a pair of ’70s queens dolled up a salmon rdigan and powr blue leisure su and owng .

KEV SPACEY FELT ‘PRSURED TO E OUT AS GAY’ AFTER SEXUAL MISNDUCT ALLEGATNS

The problem is that, as far as I n tell, none of the actors or wrers volved were gay. That’s not a al breaker, and Barney Miller -creator Danny Arnold worked closely wh the Gay Media Task Force (which sounds like the Saturday morng rtoon that I need). But there’s a subtle specificy when a gay episo is wrten by and stars gay men, like  Mary Tyler Moore’s gay episo.

I tst a gay wrer the ’70s to wre om an thentic, personal experience, and I tst a gay performer to imbue their gay character wh digny. Headnon alert: Woj is totally gay. Yemena, unfazed by the gays, says, “It tak all kds to make a world.