"Undrsed" He A't Gay, He's My Brother (TV Episo 1999) - IMDb

Contents:

• THAT GAY EPISO: ‘MARY TYLER MOORE’ COM OUT OF THE CLOSET
• I'M GAY BUT I DIDN'T MOLT MY BROTHER
• HE A'T GAY, HE'S MY BROTHER
• IS YOUR BROTHER GAY?

THAT GAY EPISO: ‘MARY TYLER MOORE’ COM OUT OF THE CLOSET

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? ” “Wa, do this make me seem gay?

” “When do I tell them I’m gay?

I'M GAY BUT I DIDN'T MOLT MY BROTHER

” 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.

HE A'T GAY, HE'S MY BROTHER

“My Brother’s Keeper” is also built around the dynamic between gay men and straight women.

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.

IS YOUR BROTHER GAY?

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.