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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WAS BAYARD TAYLOR AMERI’S FIRST GAY NOVELIST?
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? ” “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.
Like Ben, I spent years tellg close iends and, eventually, acquatanc and strangers about my gayns before I broached the topic wh my fay. It was easier for me to troduce myself to new people as a gay man than acunt for the s of prumed straightns I had wh my fay.
DAVID GAYLOR
Yeah, Rhoda’s le (“He’s gay! While this episo don’t h s msage as hard as Cheers‘ “Boys the Bar, ” ’s stealthily a more thentic pictn of gay issu.
The episo was -wrten by a gay man and featured a gay actor — both of whom had their important creative voic silenced by AIDS-related illns the ’80s. Wh “My Brother’s Keeper, ” Dick Clair, Jenna McMahon and Robert Moore livered a small peek to the daily anxieti of gay life — and 70s dienc didn’t see g.
That Gay Episo. Today, though, all seems rather, well, gay. Some historians have sce clared Ameri’s first gay novel.