The Helpful Gallaghers: Directed by Randall Ehorn. Wh William H. Macy, Emmy Rossum, Jt Chatw, Ethan Cutkosky. Carl says his goodby as he heads off to ncer mp. Wh Frank on babystg duty, Sheila wants to troduce Jody to "toy time." Jimmy learns his parents are gettg divorced and his dad is gay." data-id="ma
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- THE GAY GUI TO GLEE, SEASON THREE, EPISO FIVE: “THE FIRST TIME”BY BRETT BERKNOVEMBER 9, 2011SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEJT WHEN YOU THOUGHT GLEE WAS BACK ON TRACK—HAVG LEARNED ALL THE LSONS NEED ORR TO SUCCEED (EXCEPT, PERHAPS, REMAG FUNNY)— THROWS A GODDAMN THEME EPISO TO THE MIX. I REFER TO THIS WEEK’S FLEDGLG FORNITN-FT THLY, AND WH DISDA, NOT BEE I’M SOME SORT OF P. (FAR OM !) NOR DO I DO SO BEE I REJECT THE EPISO’S ANK—AND AT TIM, EVEN WELL-RENRED—PICTN OF THE STGGL THAT SURROUND TEENS’ PLUNGE TO THE FETID ZON BELOW THE BELTLE. RATHER, THE SHOW FELT LIKE A CHEAP NOVELTY ACT BEE THE KIDS’ EFFORTS AT LOS’ IT DID NOT FLOW ANILLY OM THE EMOTNAL TTHS OF THEIR RELATNSHIPS, OR THE STGGL THEY WERE UNRGOG. RATHER THE SUATNS WERE SORT OF FOIE-GRAS-ED DOWN THEIR GULLETS (AND PANTS) SO THAT THE SHOW’S WRERS ULD E A LTLE CK AND GET SOME MEDIA ATTENTN.STILL, THE EPISO WAS NOT WHOUT S CHARMS. LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THE PAIRGS AND SEE WHO GOT ON, AND WHO SIMPLY GOT OFF.RACHEL/FN: YOU MAY RELL THAT RACHEL AND FN HAVE BEEN TENTNALLY NOT HAVG SEX FOR ALMOST AS LONG AS THEY’VE BEEN GOG OUT. YOU MAY NOT REMEMBER WHY—I CERTALY DON’T. YET AS SPERATE, NNIVG, AND MONOMANIAL AS RACHEL IS ABOUT ADVANCG HER ACTG REER, IS NEHER BELIEVABLE NOR EVEN AMG TO IMAGE THAT SHE MIGHT BE “NVCED” TO TRY OUT TERURSE ORR TO BETTER HER PORTRAYAL OF A CHARACTER LIKE MARIA THE HIGH-SCHOOL PRODUCTN OF WT SI STORY. (IT IS, FACT, GROTQUE.)STILL, THIS IS WHAT THE WRERS, VIA ACCLAIMED DRAMATURGE ARTIE, SUGGT AS HER MOTIVATN. LIKEWISE, AS UNNIABLY GALLANT AS FN HAS BEEN KEEPG HIS PUPPY OUT OF RACHEL’S YARD, SO TO SPEAK, WHEN SHE FALLY SISTS THAT PH E TO SHOVE, SEEMS ABSURD TO IMAGE THAT HE WOULD TURN DOWN HER ADVANC SOLELY BEE OF THE CYNIL REASONG BEHD THEM. WHEN ALL GETS SORTED OUT, AND THEY FALLY DO DO , RACHEL’S “REEMG” CISN TO GIVE UP NOT OUT OF AN OVERWHELMG PHYSIL SIRE FOR FN, OR SOME SOCIALLY MOTIVATED GOAL OF IMPRSG HER IENDS—THE TWO RE CENTIV FOR TEENS—BUT RATHER AS A MEANS OF CHEERG UP FN FOLLOWG HIS REJECTN BY THE FOOTBALL SUTS OM OH STATE. (?!) WHILE I APPRECIATED THAT SHE, AS THE GIRL, WAS THE STIGATOR, ALL OF THIS FELT AS LIFELS AS A DISRD NDOM. ALSO, I WISH I ULD UN-SEE THAT *ENDLS LOVE*REMAKE THE TWO CREATED ONT OF THE FIREPLACE AT THE HUDSON/HUMMELS, AND UN-HEAR RACHEL’S CREEPY PLEDGE TO “GIVE FN SOMETHG NO ONE ELSE WILL EVER GET.”KURT/BLAE: EVEN MORE NONSENSIL WAS THE PRE-AL PAS OUR SHOW’S HOMO HERO ENDURED THIS WEEK. IF WE’RE TO BELIEVE THE NARRATIVE OFFERED UP HERE, THE TWO ARE THE ONLY GAY MEN WORLD HISTORY NOT TO HAVE SEX AFTER PARTAKG THE FOLLOWG SUREFIRE APHRODISIACS: LISTENG TO “LOVE IS THE DG”; TALKG ABOUT TAYLOR LTNER; MEETG AN ADORABLE, AVAILABLE, AND TERTED THIRD; AND GETTG DNK AND DANCG TOGETHER AT A DRAG BAR. I RPECT THAT KURT DID NOT WANT HIS FIRST TIME TO BE THE BACK SEAT OF A TOYOTA CAMRY THE PARKG LOT OF SNDALS—NOT BEE THAT ISN’T HOT, BUT BEE FS WH HIS CHARACTER’S IMPOSSIBLE AND NAïVE LONGG FOR IALIZED ROMANTIC LOVE. SIARLY, I N UNRSTAND HOW BLAE WOULD WANT TO RPECT KURT’S UN-SIRO SIRE FOR THEM TO NOT GET NAKED, GIVEN ALL THE LAC, STRAPS, STREAMERS, BOWS, HOOKS, CLAMPS, AND ELASTIC FASTENERS THIS WOULD REQUIRE UNDOG OM SWEET PORCELA’S LAYERS OF “FASHN.” I EVEN GET HOW KURT IS JEALO OF ALL THE SOLICO ATTENTN THAT THE PROMISCUO NEWBIE TWK,SEBASTIAN, IS PAYG TO HIS BOBBLE-HEAD BOYIEND. WHAT I DON’T GET IS HOW BLAE, AFTER LIVG FOR YEARS AT WHAT IS PROBABLY THE LARGT CHICKEN FARM THIS SI OF SPRGDALE, ARKANSAS, ULD POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN A VIRG BEFORE THIS. IF WE’RE TO BELIEVE THE CLOSG MONTAGE, BY THE END OF THE EPISO HE ISN’T ANYMORE—THAT IS, IF LOSG ONE’S GAY VIRGY NSISTS SOLELY OF LYG UNR QUILTS AND WRAPPG ONE’S ARMS TENRLY AROUND ANOTHER MAN’S BARE BACK WHILE SHOW TUN PLAY THE BACKGROUND. AS THEY SAY CHECKERS, “QUEEN ME.”BITE/COOTER: I THK DOT MARIE JON IS AN UNTILIZED TREASURE. SO I THK SUCKS THAT EVERY TIME SHE’S AT THE CENTER OF A PLOTLE—LIKE THIS EPISO—SHE’S RELEGATED TO WRIGGLG ABOUT SI THE ONLY SAD SACK THE WRERS SEEM PABLE OF KNTG FOR HER: THE HUNT FOR A MAN. THEREFORE, I DON’T WANT TO SAY TOO MUCH ABOUT THIS WEEK’S B VOLVG HER CHASTE LOVE FOR THE RECTANGULAR OH STATE BUCKEY FOOTBALL TALENT SUT WHO APPEARS AT MCKLEY TO REC SHANE (AND NOT REC FN), EXCEPT THAT IF THE WRERS ARE SO HELL-BENT ON NVCG THAT THE BITE IS STRAIGHT, WHY DID THEY GIVE HER SUOR THE NAME COOTER?__FOR PLAY:__WHY, THE NAME OF THE HOLY TRY (BERNSTE, SONDHEIM, AND LRENTIS) WERE THE PLAY’S OPENG-NIGHT PERFORMANC NOT SHOWN AS A PLAY— A LEAR FASHN, THE DORIUM, WH AN DIENCE—BUT RATHER ALL TERSPERSED WH THIS WEEK’S ANE SEXUAL GOGS-ON? IT WAS ALMOST AS IF THE SHOW’S CREATORS HAD FILMED A WHOLE SEPARATE EPISO ABOUT THE KIDS PUTTG ON *WT SI STORY,*AND SCRAPPED , BUT THEN RETURNED TO THE EDG ROOM AND CHECKER-BOARD ALL . IT WAS JARRG AND CHEAP, AND DID A DISSERVICEBOTH TO THE SHOW’S PATIENCE SETTG UP THE MIL—STEAD OF JT STG, REHEARSG, AND PERFORMG ONE EPISO—AND TO THE PERFORMANC THEMSELV, ALL OF WHICH TOOK ON THE VERY UNFORTUNATE FEEL OF A MASH-UP.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSH__BEAR-LY LEGAL:__I WAS SO HAPPY TO SEE DAVE KAROFSKY APPEAR THIS EPISO, NOT ONLY BEE I ADORE THE MENSCH-Y MAX ADLER, BUT BEE I LIKE THE IA OF HIS GARNERG SOME REMPTN, AND HIS NVERSATN WH KURT AT SNDALS OFFERED JT THIS. BEG A CLOSETED HIGH SCHOOLER IS NOTHG TO BE ASHAMED OF, SO LONG AS YOU’RE NOT JURG ANYONE ELSE. ADOLCENCE IS HARD ENOUGH. SO I THOUGHT HIS REVEAL ABOUT HIS MOTIVATNS FOR LEAVG MCKLEY—HE WANTED TO BE SOMEWHERE WHERE HE WASN’T KNOWN, AND ULD JT PLAY FOOTBALL AND BE A KID—WAS HANDLED SENSIVELY. ALSO GREAT: HIS PICTN OF HIS POPULARY AT SNDALS. IT’S NOT EVERY DAY THAT A YOUNG, GAY SHTARKER LIKE DAVE GETS TO EXPLITE THE TRICI OF THE BEAR SUBCULTURE TO EVERY TWEEN AND HOEWIFE MIDDLE AMERI.SONG RATGS (* TO *****)“TONIGHT” (WT SI STORY)* FEEL THE FIZZLE.“UPTOWN GIRL” (BILLY JOEL)** UPTOWN GURRL, MAYBE. SEND STAR FOR SHEER DACY.“A BOY LIKE THAT” (WT SI STORY)* THE ACCENTS THIS RENDN KILLED CHA RIVERA. HAPPY, GLEE?“AMERI” (WT SI STORY)* WA, I THOUGHT I LIKED THE SONGS OM THIS SHOW?“ONE HAND, ONE HEART” (WT SI STORY) * THANKS FOR MAKG UNBEARABLY EXPLIC THE ONE HAND-JOB, ONE HARD-ON JOKE.GAYT MOMENTSNDALS!CATCHG UP ON THE SEASON'S REAPS? READ ;SGLEE ARCHIVE HERE.BRETT BERK
- GAYT EPISO EVER: HOW ‘ALL THE FAY’ GAVE US OUR FIRST GAY S CHARACTER
- ‘SHAMELS’ SEASON 9 TRAILER: GAY J GETS OUT OF HAND AND FRANK GIV EVERYONE STDS — WATCH
- SHAMELS SEASON 8 EPISO 10 REVIEW: CHURCH OF GAY J
- THAT GAY EPISO: ‘FRASIER’ IS GAY COMEDY BY GAY PEOPLE STARRG STRAIGHT CHARACTERS
THE GAY GUI TO GLEE, SEASON THREE, EPISO FIVE: “THE FIRST TIME”BY BRETT BERKNOVEMBER 9, 2011SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEJT WHEN YOU THOUGHT GLEE WAS BACK ON TRACK—HAVG LEARNED ALL THE LSONS NEED ORR TO SUCCEED (EXCEPT, PERHAPS, REMAG FUNNY)— THROWS A GODDAMN THEME EPISO TO THE MIX. I REFER TO THIS WEEK’S FLEDGLG FORNITN-FT THLY, AND WH DISDA, NOT BEE I’M SOME SORT OF P. (FAR OM !) NOR DO I DO SO BEE I REJECT THE EPISO’S ANK—AND AT TIM, EVEN WELL-RENRED—PICTN OF THE STGGL THAT SURROUND TEENS’ PLUNGE TO THE FETID ZON BELOW THE BELTLE. RATHER, THE SHOW FELT LIKE A CHEAP NOVELTY ACT BEE THE KIDS’ EFFORTS AT LOS’ IT DID NOT FLOW ANILLY OM THE EMOTNAL TTHS OF THEIR RELATNSHIPS, OR THE STGGL THEY WERE UNRGOG. RATHER THE SUATNS WERE SORT OF FOIE-GRAS-ED DOWN THEIR GULLETS (AND PANTS) SO THAT THE SHOW’S WRERS ULD E A LTLE CK AND GET SOME MEDIA ATTENTN.STILL, THE EPISO WAS NOT WHOUT S CHARMS. LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THE PAIRGS AND SEE WHO GOT ON, AND WHO SIMPLY GOT OFF.RACHEL/FN: YOU MAY RELL THAT RACHEL AND FN HAVE BEEN TENTNALLY NOT HAVG SEX FOR ALMOST AS LONG AS THEY’VE BEEN GOG OUT. YOU MAY NOT REMEMBER WHY—I CERTALY DON’T. YET AS SPERATE, NNIVG, AND MONOMANIAL AS RACHEL IS ABOUT ADVANCG HER ACTG REER, IS NEHER BELIEVABLE NOR EVEN AMG TO IMAGE THAT SHE MIGHT BE “NVCED” TO TRY OUT TERURSE ORR TO BETTER HER PORTRAYAL OF A CHARACTER LIKE MARIA THE HIGH-SCHOOL PRODUCTN OF WT SI STORY. (IT IS, FACT, GROTQUE.)STILL, THIS IS WHAT THE WRERS, VIA ACCLAIMED DRAMATURGE ARTIE, SUGGT AS HER MOTIVATN. LIKEWISE, AS UNNIABLY GALLANT AS FN HAS BEEN KEEPG HIS PUPPY OUT OF RACHEL’S YARD, SO TO SPEAK, WHEN SHE FALLY SISTS THAT PH E TO SHOVE, SEEMS ABSURD TO IMAGE THAT HE WOULD TURN DOWN HER ADVANC SOLELY BEE OF THE CYNIL REASONG BEHD THEM. WHEN ALL GETS SORTED OUT, AND THEY FALLY DO DO , RACHEL’S “REEMG” CISN TO GIVE UP NOT OUT OF AN OVERWHELMG PHYSIL SIRE FOR FN, OR SOME SOCIALLY MOTIVATED GOAL OF IMPRSG HER IENDS—THE TWO RE CENTIV FOR TEENS—BUT RATHER AS A MEANS OF CHEERG UP FN FOLLOWG HIS REJECTN BY THE FOOTBALL SUTS OM OH STATE. (?!) WHILE I APPRECIATED THAT SHE, AS THE GIRL, WAS THE STIGATOR, ALL OF THIS FELT AS LIFELS AS A DISRD NDOM. ALSO, I WISH I ULD UN-SEE THAT *ENDLS LOVE*REMAKE THE TWO CREATED ONT OF THE FIREPLACE AT THE HUDSON/HUMMELS, AND UN-HEAR RACHEL’S CREEPY PLEDGE TO “GIVE FN SOMETHG NO ONE ELSE WILL EVER GET.”KURT/BLAE: EVEN MORE NONSENSIL WAS THE PRE-AL PAS OUR SHOW’S HOMO HERO ENDURED THIS WEEK. IF WE’RE TO BELIEVE THE NARRATIVE OFFERED UP HERE, THE TWO ARE THE ONLY GAY MEN WORLD HISTORY NOT TO HAVE SEX AFTER PARTAKG THE FOLLOWG SUREFIRE APHRODISIACS: LISTENG TO “LOVE IS THE DG”; TALKG ABOUT TAYLOR LTNER; MEETG AN ADORABLE, AVAILABLE, AND TERTED THIRD; AND GETTG DNK AND DANCG TOGETHER AT A DRAG BAR. I RPECT THAT KURT DID NOT WANT HIS FIRST TIME TO BE THE BACK SEAT OF A TOYOTA CAMRY THE PARKG LOT OF SNDALS—NOT BEE THAT ISN’T HOT, BUT BEE FS WH HIS CHARACTER’S IMPOSSIBLE AND NAïVE LONGG FOR IALIZED ROMANTIC LOVE. SIARLY, I N UNRSTAND HOW BLAE WOULD WANT TO RPECT KURT’S UN-SIRO SIRE FOR THEM TO NOT GET NAKED, GIVEN ALL THE LAC, STRAPS, STREAMERS, BOWS, HOOKS, CLAMPS, AND ELASTIC FASTENERS THIS WOULD REQUIRE UNDOG OM SWEET PORCELA’S LAYERS OF “FASHN.” I EVEN GET HOW KURT IS JEALO OF ALL THE SOLICO ATTENTN THAT THE PROMISCUO NEWBIE TWK,SEBASTIAN, IS PAYG TO HIS BOBBLE-HEAD BOYIEND. WHAT I DON’T GET IS HOW BLAE, AFTER LIVG FOR YEARS AT WHAT IS PROBABLY THE LARGT CHICKEN FARM THIS SI OF SPRGDALE, ARKANSAS, ULD POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN A VIRG BEFORE THIS. IF WE’RE TO BELIEVE THE CLOSG MONTAGE, BY THE END OF THE EPISO HE ISN’T ANYMORE—THAT IS, IF LOSG ONE’S GAY VIRGY NSISTS SOLELY OF LYG UNR QUILTS AND WRAPPG ONE’S ARMS TENRLY AROUND ANOTHER MAN’S BARE BACK WHILE SHOW TUN PLAY THE BACKGROUND. AS THEY SAY CHECKERS, “QUEEN ME.”BITE/COOTER: I THK DOT MARIE JON IS AN UNTILIZED TREASURE. SO I THK SUCKS THAT EVERY TIME SHE’S AT THE CENTER OF A PLOTLE—LIKE THIS EPISO—SHE’S RELEGATED TO WRIGGLG ABOUT SI THE ONLY SAD SACK THE WRERS SEEM PABLE OF KNTG FOR HER: THE HUNT FOR A MAN. THEREFORE, I DON’T WANT TO SAY TOO MUCH ABOUT THIS WEEK’S B VOLVG HER CHASTE LOVE FOR THE RECTANGULAR OH STATE BUCKEY FOOTBALL TALENT SUT WHO APPEARS AT MCKLEY TO REC SHANE (AND NOT REC FN), EXCEPT THAT IF THE WRERS ARE SO HELL-BENT ON NVCG THAT THE BITE IS STRAIGHT, WHY DID THEY GIVE HER SUOR THE NAME COOTER?__FOR PLAY:__WHY, THE NAME OF THE HOLY TRY (BERNSTE, SONDHEIM, AND LRENTIS) WERE THE PLAY’S OPENG-NIGHT PERFORMANC NOT SHOWN AS A PLAY— A LEAR FASHN, THE DORIUM, WH AN DIENCE—BUT RATHER ALL TERSPERSED WH THIS WEEK’S ANE SEXUAL GOGS-ON? IT WAS ALMOST AS IF THE SHOW’S CREATORS HAD FILMED A WHOLE SEPARATE EPISO ABOUT THE KIDS PUTTG ON *WT SI STORY,*AND SCRAPPED , BUT THEN RETURNED TO THE EDG ROOM AND CHECKER-BOARD ALL . IT WAS JARRG AND CHEAP, AND DID A DISSERVICEBOTH TO THE SHOW’S PATIENCE SETTG UP THE MIL—STEAD OF JT STG, REHEARSG, AND PERFORMG ONE EPISO—AND TO THE PERFORMANC THEMSELV, ALL OF WHICH TOOK ON THE VERY UNFORTUNATE FEEL OF A MASH-UP.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSH__BEAR-LY LEGAL:__I WAS SO HAPPY TO SEE DAVE KAROFSKY APPEAR THIS EPISO, NOT ONLY BEE I ADORE THE MENSCH-Y MAX ADLER, BUT BEE I LIKE THE IA OF HIS GARNERG SOME REMPTN, AND HIS NVERSATN WH KURT AT SNDALS OFFERED JT THIS. BEG A CLOSETED HIGH SCHOOLER IS NOTHG TO BE ASHAMED OF, SO LONG AS YOU’RE NOT JURG ANYONE ELSE. ADOLCENCE IS HARD ENOUGH. SO I THOUGHT HIS REVEAL ABOUT HIS MOTIVATNS FOR LEAVG MCKLEY—HE WANTED TO BE SOMEWHERE WHERE HE WASN’T KNOWN, AND ULD JT PLAY FOOTBALL AND BE A KID—WAS HANDLED SENSIVELY. ALSO GREAT: HIS PICTN OF HIS POPULARY AT SNDALS. IT’S NOT EVERY DAY THAT A YOUNG, GAY SHTARKER LIKE DAVE GETS TO EXPLITE THE TRICI OF THE BEAR SUBCULTURE TO EVERY TWEEN AND HOEWIFE MIDDLE AMERI.SONG RATGS (* TO *****)“TONIGHT” (WT SI STORY)* FEEL THE FIZZLE.“UPTOWN GIRL” (BILLY JOEL)** UPTOWN GURRL, MAYBE. SEND STAR FOR SHEER DACY.“A BOY LIKE THAT” (WT SI STORY)* THE ACCENTS THIS RENDN KILLED CHA RIVERA. HAPPY, GLEE?“AMERI” (WT SI STORY)* WA, I THOUGHT I LIKED THE SONGS OM THIS SHOW?“ONE HAND, ONE HEART” (WT SI STORY) * THANKS FOR MAKG UNBEARABLY EXPLIC THE ONE HAND-JOB, ONE HARD-ON JOKE.GAYT MOMENTSNDALS!CATCHG UP ON THE SEASON'S REAPS? READ ;SGLEE ARCHIVE HERE.BRETT BERK
Frank the Plumber: Directed by Mark Mylod. Wh William H. Macy, Emmy Rossum, Jt Chatw, Ethan Cutkosky. Fna starts a new office job but has a hard time ftg wh the rporate culture. Frank advertently be volved the gay rights movement where he meets Abraham Paige (Bradley Whford)." data-id="ma * frank gallagher gay episode *
”Kurt/Blae: Even more nonsensil was the pre-al pas our show’s homo hero endured this week. If we’re to believe the narrative offered up here, the two are the only gay men world history not to have sex after partakg the followg surefire aphrodisiacs: listeng to “Love Is the Dg”; talkg about Taylor Ltner; meetg an adorable, available, and terted third; and gettg dnk and dancg together at a drag bar.
GAYT EPISO EVER: HOW ‘ALL THE FAY’ GAVE US OUR FIRST GAY S CHARACTER
If we’re to believe the closg montage, by the end of the episo he isn’t anymore—that is, if losg one’s gay virgy nsists solely of lyg unr quilts and wrappg one’s arms tenrly around another man’s bare back while show tun play the background. In an attempt to earn his own retirement, Frank creat t-shirts to sell at Ian Gallagher's church ralli labeled "Gay J, " and pockets almost all the sh for himself.
‘SHAMELS’ SEASON 9 TRAILER: GAY J GETS OUT OF HAND AND FRANK GIV EVERYONE STDS — WATCH
However, a vlent rt ends up breakg out between the whe supremacists and members of the Church of Gay J.
Church of Gay J. Not only that, gave Ameri s first gay s character — and que likely, the first LGBT character on a show of any kd that was portrayed sensively and posively. In short, if you’re an otherwise pop culture-savvy gay guy who’s never seen an episo of All the Fay, at least know about this one.
SHAMELS SEASON 8 EPISO 10 REVIEW: CHURCH OF GAY J
On Febary 9, 1971, jt five episos to All the Fay’s first season, “Judgg Books by Covers” turned Archie Bunker’s anger toward gay men — or as he lls them many tim throughout the episo, fags. While the episo begs wh Archie fumg that he has to teract wh his dghter’s effemate male iend, he’s shocked later on to fd out that Steve (Philip Carey), the manly ex-football player who hangs out at the lol bar, is himself gay.
What’s remarkable about this episo is that most prev TV pictns of gay people were fairly negative. But give this episo of my podst, Gayt Episo Ever, a sp.
THAT GAY EPISO: ‘FRASIER’ IS GAY COMEDY BY GAY PEOPLE STARRG STRAIGHT CHARACTERS
And if not, you’ll at least know the story of the first gay character to ever gut-star on a s.