In the actured, ntent tim, the one thg that we n all agree on is that Bewched was a super duper gay show. Right? It’s not jt me? Like the rt of you nerds, I’ve been thkg about Bewched a lot lately, ever sce got a ltle homage on WandaVisn. I ed to watch Bewched religly as a kid ( rens! I’m not that old) and my memori was extremely queer. But...
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‘BEWCHED’ AND BE GAY!
They give scholarships to gay and lbian stunts the muny. When to relatnships, Diane is openly gay. “Bewched” was load wh some of the gayt stuff around, jt brimmg unr the surface.
Good and betiful wch Samantha (played by Elizabeth Montgomery, who was the lovelit, most supportive queer iend imagable) marri the mortal Darr Stephens (who, after a restg, was portrayed by gay actor Dick Sargent). BewchedIn the actured, ntent tim, the one thg that we n all agree on is that Bewched was a super duper gay show.
It's a ltle strange to thk of as queer sce never actually had any explicly gay characters or same-sex upl.
HOW BEWCHED WENT GAY WHOUT EVER SAYG "GAY"
Other ss around the same time (M*A*S*H, All the Fay, Mary Tyler Moore) all had gay one-offs, but Bewched never did. So why do I remember as beg so gay — gayer, fact, than any of those other programs? I wish the show uld have gone gayer — to give Uncle Arthur, played extremely broadly by Pl Lyn, a boyiend.