'All the Fay' Was the First Show to Take on Gay Reprentatn

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The outrage is gone. Today, ’s rare to hear a plat about shows like “Morn Fay” or the drama “Smash,” which has five gay characters.

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‘ALL THE FAY’: INSI THE EARLY EPISO THAT CHALLENGED ARCHIE BUNKER’S VIEW OF GAY PEOPLE

Judgg Books by Covers: Directed by John Rich. Wh Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reer, Sally Stthers. Archie is irrated at Mike's offbeat iend, who drs and behav a way that leads him to mistakenly nclu he is a homosexual. But Archie soon learns that one of his bt iends is gay." data-id="ma * gay on tv it's all in the family *

) And Kate McKnon, playg a so-lled Weird Barbie who experienced an extreme haircut and makeover at the hands of an experimental child, never actually answers the qutn anybody would have upon seeg her gay-ass haircut and knowg the actor’s sexualy. Yet even if no one says , Weird Barbie is clearly Gay Barbie.

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In s earlit days, one of the ntroversial topics 'All the Fay' tackled was Archie Bunker's view of gay reprentatn. * gay on tv it's all in the family *

All the FayCast & crewUser reviewsTriviaEpiso aired Feb 9, 1971TV-PG26mArchie is irrated at Mike's offbeat iend, who drs and behav a way that leads him to mistakenly nclu he is a homosexual. Read allArchie is irrated at Mike's offbeat iend, who drs and behav a way that leads him to mistakenly nclu he is a homosexual. But Archie soon learns that one of his bt iends is is irrated at Mike's offbeat iend, who drs and behav a way that leads him to mistakenly nclu he is a homosexual.

One example is episo five, “Judgg Books by Covers, ” which prented an unexpected take on the subject of homosexualy — at a time that nobody was alg wh . The All the Fay wiki offers up this plot scriptn: “Archie thks he knows a homosexual when he se one and when Mike v his flamboyant photographer iend Roger (Anthony Geary) to the Bunker hoehold, Archie tomatilly assum that Mike’s iend is a “flamer. ” Retreatg to the safety of Kelcy’s Bar, Archie choos to spend time wh his “he-man” pals, notably his old arm-wrtlg crony Steve (Philip Carey), who, when hearg about Roger, reveals himself to be gay — which Archie never spected.

Televisn historian and thor Jim Colucci, who is currently -wrg wh Norman Lear a 50th-anniversary book voted to All the Fay, ments, “This was a brand new show g blazg out of the gate, bee if they were gog to tackle touchy issu 1971, gay reprentatn was certaly among the touchit. Jim mentns that when he wrote his book Goln Girls Forever, he mented that the first regular gay character on televisn was the short-lived s The Corner Bar, which aired 1972.

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'All the Fay' Was the First Show to Take on Gay Reprentatn.

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