Contents:
- THAT GAY EPISO: ‘MARY TYLER MOORE’ COM OUT OF THE CLOSET
- MARY L. TMP ON HER LIFE AS AN OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF THE FIRST FAY
THAT GAY EPISO: ‘MARY TYLER MOORE’ COM OUT OF THE CLOSET
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MARY L. TMP ON HER LIFE AS AN OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF THE FIRST FAY
” “When do I tell them I’m gay? ” Unlike Cheers‘ “The Boys the Bar, ” which tackled machismo and gay panic by makg half the st straight-up homophob, “My Brother’s Keeper” saved s big gay reveal for the very end. To get all meta, this is a gay episo that lerally plays straight for 24 of s 25 mut.
To get even meta-ier, “My Brother’s Keeper” was wrten by Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon, a fely-not-married duo (Clair was most likely gay) that performed hband-and-wife edy rout on variety shows. “My Brother’s Keeper” is also built around the dynamic between gay men and straight women. In the episo, which aired MTM‘s third season January 1973, Phyllis’ (Cloris Leachman) bachelor brother Ben Sutherland (Robert Moore) pays a vis for the first and — par for the urse for gay episos — only time.
A Tony-nomated stage veteran, there’s no doubt Robert Moore ed his experience as a gay man to rm Ben’s character. It turns out that a vis om a quasi-closeted homosexual is jt what Mary Tyler Moore need to ntrast Phyllis and Rhoda.