The '70s were a different era for the gay muny, and the world was not as acceptg of other sexual preferenc as is today. So when Jim Nabors opened up about his sexualy, beme a topic of mockery.
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PRIDE TV: THE QUIET GAY HEROES OF SIXTIES SITCOMS
Wh this year’s Gay Pri Month markg the fiftieth anniversary of the uprisg at the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village, the acplishments of LGBT hero of the past fifty years have been wily celebrated. But along wh polil activists and social revolutnari, there were a number of entertaers who, the s surroundg the rebelln, brought a clear, if often exaggerated, gay prence to Amerin hom. He was a gay man.
In Hollywood the 1960s, life was played out the shadows for Dean and other gay actors who often played heterosexual hbands and fathers on televisn and movi.