On the ABC edy's 40th anniversary, Michael Montlack reflects on how he learned to be gay om a straight actor playg a straight character pretendg to be gay.
Contents:
- SO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO FROM CLASSIC TV WAS GAY?
- THREE'S COMPANY MA ME THE GAY MAN I AM TODAY
- WAS DON KNOTTS GAY
- IS DON KNOTTS GAY?
SO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO FROM CLASSIC TV WAS GAY?
* was don knox gay *
Every old televisn show was about gays, and I n prove . Now, if you want an example of Gay Ricky and And They Were Roommat Lethel (terrible ship name, Siri please revise) you n watch S1 Ep18 “Vatn From Marriage”.
THREE'S COMPANY MA ME THE GAY MAN I AM TODAY
And a good thg too, I served to see Don Knotts play a homo.
Every person who participated was eher a gay clockg on the low sgle digs of the Valid Sle, or a terrifyg heterosexual.
WAS DON KNOTTS GAY
I jt googled the actor, Raymond Burr, and apparently he was humongoly gay! Now M*A*S*H is possibly too recent to clu, but ’s a firmly gay tv show so legally I mt.
Who’s gay? Fd the gays you wish to see your oldi tv. Note: This say ntas discsn of homophobia and mentn of suici.
Outsi of the safe darkns of the theater, the Mordor-like wasteland of middle school, the movi were synonymo wh the favored sult of the time — “gay. Early-2000s preteen Ameri was a time of gay jok, of “no homo, ” of mockg voic and slurs, and secret, punive vlence enacted the locker room agast anyone who had a whiff of otherns. He never would have wrten about gay people!
IS DON KNOTTS GAY?
He faced a urt-martial 1918 after one of his letters scribed “homosexual relatns wh men his pany. Two years before The Lord of the Rgs was published, war-wng breaker and geni mathematician Alan Turg stood trial for “homosexual acts and gross cency” — that is, beg ught his own home wh another man. Lewis wrote a letter to Sheldon Vanken (later reprted Vanken’s tobgraphy) that Lewis had received a letter om a “p male homosexual [...
The only mentn is a bland reference his bgraphy by Humphrey Carpenter: “As to homosexualy, Tolkien claimed that at neteen he did not even know the word. Tolkien wrote of the openly gay poet W. As scribed by thor Reynolds Price, at least one member of Tolkien’s iend group, the Inklgs, “separated om his wife and lived a quietly homosexual life.
She beme an in the gay male muny for wrg sympathetilly about same-sex relatnships ancient Greece. Bilbo and Frodo’s home of Bag End is scribed by other hobbs as “a queer place, and s folk are queerer” — an adjective which had a strong nnotatn of homosexualy by the late 1800s.