Contents:
- THAT GAY EPISO: ‘MARY TYLER MOORE’ COM OUT OF THE CLOSET
- WAS BAYARD TAYLOR AMERI’S FIRST GAY NOVELIST?
- TWO AND A HALF MEN ACTRS HOLLAND TAYLOR OPENS UP ABOUT BEG GAY
- DAVID GAYLOR
THAT GAY EPISO: ‘MARY TYLER MOORE’ COM OUT OF THE CLOSET
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Gay people worry about how they’re perceived — not for vany reasons, but survival reasons. The perd of a gay person’s life — be they mut, months or years — between acknowledgg their queer inty and proudly flyg a rabow flag are a nonstop ternal Q(ueer) & A ssn. ”Do they know I’m gay?
WAS BAYARD TAYLOR AMERI’S FIRST GAY NOVELIST?
” “Wa, do this make me seem gay? ” “When do I tell them I’m gay?
” Unlike Cheers‘ “The Boys the Bar, ” which tackled machismo and gay panic by makg half the st straight-up homophob, “My Brother’s Keeper” saved s big gay reveal for the very end. To get all meta, this is a gay episo that lerally plays straight for 24 of s 25 mut. To get even meta-ier, “My Brother’s Keeper” was wrten by Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon, a fely-not-married duo (Clair was most likely gay) that performed hband-and-wife edy rout on variety shows.
“My Brother’s Keeper” is also built around the dynamic between gay men and straight women.
TWO AND A HALF MEN ACTRS HOLLAND TAYLOR OPENS UP ABOUT BEG GAY
In the episo, which aired MTM‘s third season January 1973, Phyllis’ (Cloris Leachman) bachelor brother Ben Sutherland (Robert Moore) pays a vis for the first and — par for the urse for gay episos — only time. A Tony-nomated stage veteran, there’s no doubt Robert Moore ed his experience as a gay man to rm Ben’s character.
It turns out that a vis om a quasi-closeted homosexual is jt what Mary Tyler Moore need to ntrast Phyllis and Rhoda. Y, is believable that the gay guy would h off wh the person that snaps to the beat of her own classil dmmer.
DAVID GAYLOR
Like Ben, I spent years tellg close iends and, eventually, acquatanc and strangers about my gayns before I broached the topic wh my fay.