An Atralian TV prenter has e out as gay on her 31st birthday - and is celebratg wh rabow ke.
Contents:
- WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY CHARACTERS ON ASIE TV? IS TE ‘GAY DON’T RATE’? FOUR SIRS WEIGH
- TRACY GRIMSHAW PERSONAL LIFE; MARRIED, GAY, FAY, SALARY
- ABC SHOWS THE PRI AND DIVERSY OF THIS YEAR’S SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY CHARACTERS ON ASIE TV? IS TE ‘GAY DON’T RATE’? FOUR SIRS WEIGH
AUSTRALIAN televisn broke remarkable new ground 1972 by layg claim to the world’s first homosexual character a drama Sale was rponsible for creatg the boundary phg Number 96, about a un block filled wh an array of lourful rints, cludg the openly gay Don Flayson.
TRACY GRIMSHAW PERSONAL LIFE; MARRIED, GAY, FAY, SALARY
“And at a time when homosexualy was illegal, ” Sale sce then, there’s been only a handful of meangful exampl of gays and lbians on the small screen. Sale believ the dtry is far ls progrsive today - and he’s not is there a reluctance to clu homosexual characters mastream shows?
ABC SHOWS THE PRI AND DIVERSY OF THIS YEAR’S SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
Is the adage that “gay don’t rate” really te? And what’s like to be gay and work an dtry unwillg to reprent people like you? Four gay and lbian creativ Atralian TV share their personal and profsnal WALKER - WRITERWHEN veteran TV wrer and script producer Sarah Walker was told that no one wanted to see gay people on the small screen prime time, she was jt as a lbian, but as a voted storyteller who believ the power of characters who reflect Atralia’s diverse was workg on a mastream drama when she wrote a same-sex relatnship to the script.