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”. 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.
THREE'S COMPANY MA ME THE GAY MAN I AM TODAY
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.
WAS DON KNOTTS 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 [...