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Contents:

• THAT GAY EPISO: ‘BARNEY MILLER’ GETS THE WRONG LGHS OUT OF A GAY EXTORTN PLOT
• IS GREGORY SIERRA GAY?
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

THAT GAY EPISO: ‘BARNEY MILLER’ GETS THE WRONG LGHS OUT OF A GAY EXTORTN PLOT

Wh That Gay Episo, I want to be able to look back at LGBTQ rep televisn and see a straight le of progrs om the villas of the ’50s to Ellen DeGener’ heroic g out 1997. Characters the ’70s e out and ’s no big al, but guys the ’90s are terrified of beg mistaken for gay. In between there are exampl of hysteril gay panic and sual reprentatn.

After spendg a few stallments the years leadg up to Ellen’s game-changg (and show-endg) cisn, I wanted to vis the more open-md ’70s–the when The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show troduced gay characters wh a re that puts Friends to shame. That diversy extend past havg the Ain-Amerin Ron Glass, Japane-Amerin Jack Soo, and Puerto Rin Gregory Sierra the regular st; Barney Miller also featured recurrg gay characters that appeared all the way om the show’s send to s last episo. Barney Miller didn’t have the gay-of-the-week problem that so many ss had.

It’s trouble tim two, and they’re both drsed like gay crayons. “Disvery” don’t tiptoe around the gay stuff.

IS GREGORY SIERRA GAY?

Marty and Darryl e to the precct (which Darryl lls “enemy terrory”) to report that a man is extortg gay men by posg as a police officer. Gay men and police officers most likely had a straed relatnship 1975. Barney Miller had two gay recurrg characters?

“Wojo” Wojciehowicz (Max Gail) beg aggrsively homophobic? Him thkg that beg gay is may be a “psychologil phenomenon that’s ticked off by anythg”?

Marty and Darryl are basilly s versns of my personal gay hero, Pl Lyn and Charl Nelson Reilly (okay, they’re a ltle more Liberace than Lyn, but still). Consirg how vert or closeted gay characters were treated later the ’80s, ’s rehg to see a pair of ’70s queens dolled up a salmon rdigan and powr blue leisure su and owng .

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

The problem is that, as far as I n tell, none of the actors or wrers volved were gay. That’s not a al breaker, and Barney Miller -creator Danny Arnold worked closely wh the Gay Media Task Force (which sounds like the Saturday morng rtoon that I need). But there’s a subtle specificy when a gay episo is wrten by and stars gay men, like  Mary Tyler Moore’s gay episo.

I tst a gay wrer the ’70s to wre om an thentic, personal experience, and I tst a gay performer to imbue their gay character wh digny. Headnon alert: Woj is totally gay. Yemena, unfazed by the gays, says, “It tak all kds to make a world.

” Later, Woj–still eakg out that there are gay men the precct–asks Miller “How do guys get like that? ” The mera then lgers on the gays across the room, observg them like a BBC documentary. After askg his superr officer if eatg somethg n make you gay, Woj adms that he actually wonrs about himself every once a while.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

You know what helps hatg gay people and beg plagued by pky gay thoughts? Woj isn’t nonilly gay. The episo ends wh Woj sred to teract wh a mascule and–surprise–gay police sergeant, and beg thankful that God gave him an tert bowlg stead of men (is Woj also havg erotic thoughts about bowlg ps?

The dience lov Woj’s homophobia. I get that the classic gay episos have to have a homophobe the st to prove wrong, but that don’t happen here. Barney Miller, who rocks the kd of mtache that should enter him to the Gay Lexin, don’t make as big of a pro-gay proclamatn like Sam Malone did.

And while Miller is unqutnably the voice of moraly this episo and the seri, he has some weird ias about gay people. He rponds to Woj’s qutn about where gay men e om by posg that uld be a “psychologil phenomenon that’s ticked off” by somethg.