M - Season 6 Episo 9: The Gay Bar - Metacric

Contents:

• GAY TELEVISN HISTORY 12/3/77 – MAUDE: “THE GAY BAR” (FULL EPISO)
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY BARS.
• M SEASON 6, EPISO 9, THE GAY BAR, IS WTY & WELL DONE
• THE GAY BAR
• MAUDE: THE GAY BAR (TV)
• THE GAY BAR

GAY TELEVISN HISTORY 12/3/77 – MAUDE: “THE GAY BAR” (FULL EPISO)

Uptight neighbor Arthur has lnched a csa to close a nearby gay bar, so M nvc him he should vis the bar before nmng . A classic 1970s s “gay episo” and still unfortunately somewhat relevant today. The landspe before, durg, and after 2021, a gay bar is hardly a niche venue.

However accurate that superlative may be, though, gay bars have long served a much eper, weightier purpose: They’re a safe space, a gatherg grounds, a venue for muny anizg. At the time, gay men and women were beg openly persecuted — and the medil muny amed same-sex marriage as a diagnosable malady. As a rult, a small nstuency of nightlife venu, bars, and theatr cropped up prewar “bohemian districts” to give refuge to self-intifyg gay lols (thk: New Orleans’ French Quarter, New York’s Greenwich Village, San Francis’s Barbary Coast) the war was full swg, the persecutn of homosexual behavr began to dimish (slightly).

There were a uple of factors at play, here: the same-sex livg ndns fundamental to the ary allowed self-intifyg gay men a space to ngregate large numbers, women gaed more fancial pennce on the home ont, and the release of the Ksey Report 1948 tailed homosexualy as entirely normal (and th, not a disease).

A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY BARS.

S began to spearhead whole swaths of unrground gay bars and clubs alongsi their newfound this time, due to the Ksey Reports, several gay rights anizatns began to emerge — and naturally, nservativ panicked. And th me “The Lavenr Sre” — Senator Joseph McCarthy’s obscene anti-gay “wch-hunt, ” which prsed the larger Amerin populatn to associate beg gay wh “viance” or “anti-Amerin behavr.

” So naturally, at this time, gay bars were not jt important but sential. Safe spac were cril for members of the gay muny — and folks were mobilizg to make nightlife venu gatherg spac for queer-intifyg Amerins statned all over the said, In the ’50s and the ’60s when the existence of gay bars skyrocketed, thgs were hardly easy.

Fortunately, as time went on and mobily around the e of gay rights creased — pecially the wake of the Civil Rights Movement — folks began to e gay bars as anizg spac to rally for the e. And a strange twist, Mafia fai on the East Coast saw a rare opportuny to moize here: They uld pay off the police and keep them at bay while earng big bucks om the gay muny for up-charged drks served guaranteed p-ee venu (one of which was no other than the Stonewall Inn) this stage, large-sle protts and movements were takg place, and bs owners were buildg alns ci like Los Angel, San Francis, and New York — which brgs to the Stonewall Rts on June 28, 1969. Afterward, as the quanty of LGBTQ+ bs owners ntu to crease, and police raids were outlawed, more and more gay bars began to open their doors.

M SEASON 6, EPISO 9, THE GAY BAR, IS WTY & WELL DONE

The emergence of platforms like datg apps mak far simpler to nnect wh other members of the gay muny, whout requirg a dited, physil space.

THE GAY BAR

And wh the emergence of more gay bars a broar market — which some folks are llg the gentrifitn of gay the same, is undoubtedly te that the powerful, long-standg history of the gay bar is ccial to LGBTQ+ liberatn as we know . From is fed up wh nservative Arthur’s reactnary ways when he attempts to shut down a gay bar ahead of s time. Y, “My Brother’s Keeper” was a great episo of MTM which aired a few years earlier than M’s gay Anonymoreply 5January 15, 2023 8:06 PM.

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The Gay Bar was the nth episo of Season 6 of M, and the 126th overall episo the seri.

MAUDE: THE GAY BAR (TV)

Arthur do not like havg a gay bar town.

Meanwhile, Arthur be obssed when he learns that a gay bar has opened up the neighborhood and he sets out to do all that he n to get closed down, somethg that M is stnchly agast.

THE GAY BAR

This episo marks televisn's first look si a gay bar. The name of the gay bar is The Gay Caballero.

Arthur's claim that the patrons of the gay bar s around lookg at pictur of Al Paco is a reference to his role Dog Day Afternoon (1975) which he played a bisexual bank robber. Syndited versns durg the 1980s elimated all mentn of gays and homosexuals. Arthur: Do you approve of homosexuals?

M: [answerg Arthur's qutn about whether she approv of homosexuals] That's like askg me if I approve of dwarfs. Arthur: Well, that's different, there's no such thg as gay dwarfs.

Arthur: [prumg what men do gay bars] They're there dancg wh each other. Arthur: [sutg the gay bar wh M] There are laws that prohib plac like this and this one should be closed down.

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