How Barney Miller’s Gays Defeated ABC’s Network Censors - The Stranger

Contents:

• ‘ATLANTA’ STAR BRIAN TYREE HENRY WILL PLAY MARVEL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPERHERO IN ‘THE ETERNALS’
• 'ATLANTA' STAR BRIAN TYREE HENRY HAS WIFE TO HOLD AMID GAY GOSSIPS & AFTER MOTHER'S DEATH?
• HOW BARNEY MILLER’S GAYS DEFEATED ABC’S NETWORK CENSORS
• THE FIRST GAY COUPLE TO EVER BE FEATURED ON 'LOVE & HIP HOP' HAD AN AWFUL BREAKUP

‘ATLANTA’ STAR BRIAN TYREE HENRY WILL PLAY MARVEL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPERHERO IN ‘THE ETERNALS’

Brian Tyree Henry is set to make history as the first Marvel Cematic Universe’s first openly gay superhero! “I jt shot a Marvel film wh the first openly gay superhero, The Eternals, ” told New Now Next. “I’m married to the gay superhero Phastos, played by Atlanta’s Brian Tyree Henry, and we reprent a gay fay and have a child.

”When asked if fans n look forward to seeg any affectn between the characters, Haaz shared we n fely expect MCU’s first gay kiss.

'ATLANTA' STAR BRIAN TYREE HENRY HAS WIFE TO HOLD AMID GAY GOSSIPS & AFTER MOTHER'S DEATH?

Further, he also beme part of gay mors, which has add sult to the story is too good to miss! Mother's Death And Gay GossipsBrian's mother Willow, whom he nsired his bt iend, died  a r crash Maryland 2016, at the end of the season 1 of TV seri, Atlanta.

"On 11 September 2017, he posted on Facebook mentng the 70th birthday of his ceased mother wishg her on the spic ocsn and showg his never-endg love towards his celebrat his birthday on 1st April On top of , Brian, ag 36, also suffered untls gay mors after he nvcgly portrayed a drag queen the 2007 play Wig Out held at the Sundance Theatre the mor sparked due to Brian's married life as the Morehoe College graduate is seemgly not married, and has no prence of a wife or a girliend for that matter. Of urse, that’s before I learned about the show’s subversive gay backstory.

But Barney Miller charged right to relatively uncharted terrory, openg s first episo after the pilot wh a gay purse-snatcher storyle. ”) Personally, I love the character: He’s smart, he’s funny, he’s nfint, and he’s unambiguloly gay. So Danny Arnold, the shownner, brought a nsultant om the Gay Media Task Force, a new anizatn that advoted for better pictns of gay characters.

HOW BARNEY MILLER’S GAYS DEFEATED ABC’S NETWORK CENSORS

Gay dienc were miffed by Marty’s pictn: A sassy flamboyant crimal who leered at straight men, many viewers felt that Marty rerced negative stereotyp about gay people. Of urse, flamboyant gay men exist, as do gay crimals. But bee those trop were particularly mon on TV at the time, there was ncern that viewers would get the imprsn that Marty reprented all gay men.

They crafted a few tweaks to the character, epeng tails of his personal life and planng to add more gay characters to the show.

THE FIRST GAY COUPLE TO EVER BE FEATURED ON 'LOVE & HIP HOP' HAD AN AWFUL BREAKUP

They regnized the dissatisfactn of gay viewers, and were nfint that they uld addrs the cricisms. But Danny believed the chang they’d planned and wasn’t willg to give up on them, so he took a big gamble: Dpe ABC tellg him that gay storyl were forbidn, he spent $100, 000 to shoot the planned episo anyway, and then sent to the work to see what would happen.

And two days later, he rmed Danny Miller that the gay episo uld air. The character was no longer picted as a crimal; he was given a partner and a sympathetic backstory; and the episo has a surprise twist at the end that unexpectedly subverts old gay stereotyp. The succs of that episo led to more: Over s eight seasons, Barney Miller would go on to feature a storyle wh a gay immigrant; would touch on gay parentg and Supreme Court lgs; and a gay uple would be woven to the show so tightly that they were featured one of the fal scen of the seri fale, biddg the regulars farewell.