The David Dk: Benton Qut and Race Bannon: TV's First Gay Fay?

Contents:

• AMERIN QUEER LIFE: HOW CULTURE SAVED A LTLE GAY BOOMER BOY: TV
• CNN'S RICHARD QUT PROPOS TO HIS GAY LOVER
• CNN'S RICHARD QUT TALKS HOW BEG GAY CHANGED LIFE FOR GOOD
• RICHARD QUT MARRIED, GAY, CNN, SALARY, NET WORTH, FAY

AMERIN QUEER LIFE: HOW CULTURE SAVED A LTLE GAY BOOMER BOY: TV

)There was also the gay subtext of the relatnship between Dr.

Harvey Birdman, Attorney-at-Law, satirized the gay possibili wh Race sug Benton for ctody of the boys.

I was subjected to a brilliant marketg strategy, but ltle did Disney know they were also marketg to a ltle gay boy ral Colorado who was thrilled wh Sp and Marty, a serial that aired equently on the Club about bt iends at the Triple R Ranch.

CNN'S RICHARD QUT PROPOS TO HIS GAY LOVER

There wasn’t anythg gay about the relatnships; they were partnerships of love and loyalty, adventure, and mentorship that I sired and found missg life. Two other seafarg seri om the 60s were not the least homoerotic: McHale’s Navy and Gilligan’s Island (well, the Profsor was kd of handsome). Starvg for cmbs of inty, I hungrily absorbed the touchstone programs: That Certa Summer (1972), a posive portrayal of a mted, gay relatnship; The Naked Civil Servant (1975), the bgraphil film based on Quent Crisp’s life; Dynasty (80s), a soap set Denver.

CNN'S RICHARD QUT TALKS HOW BEG GAY CHANGED LIFE FOR GOOD

Y, squeamish terrori, but at least I saw portrayals of gay characters, urageo and humoro. I also didn’t know that some of the actors had gay experienc.

” Tommy Kirk, Disney star of The Hardy Boys, and Moketeer Dennis Day, were gay; the reers of both nosedived as a rult.

RICHARD QUT MARRIED, GAY, CNN, SALARY, NET WORTH, FAY

I would learn what meant to be a gay man om other arts.

' Rick is the wner of the John Prton Award for his short story “The Lady the Hatbox, ” clud Bt Gay Eroti of 1997.