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- 'TICKLED PK': GAY-FRIENDLY TV THROUGH THE YEARS
- FRANCE LNCH GAY TV CHANNEL
- IN FRANCE, GAY TV CHANNEL IS A 'SMALL STEP HEELS'
'TICKLED PK': GAY-FRIENDLY TV THROUGH THE YEARS
Our Day to Day televisn cric reviews the new TV Land documentary Tickled Pk, which exam the history of televisn shows that ronated wh the gay muny long before homosexualy was openly discsed on the air. * pink tv gay tv *
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One of the standout characters is Mateo Liwanag, a gay Filipo undocumented worker played by Ni Santos, who navigat his cizenship and relatnship stat throughout the show’s n. 'Tickled Pk': Gay-Friendly TV Through the Years Our Day to Day televisn cric reviews the new TV Land documentary Tickled Pk, which exam the history of televisn shows that ronated wh the gay muny long before homosexualy was openly discsed on the air.
'Tickled Pk': Gay-Friendly TV Through the Years. Our Day to Day televisn cric reviews the new TV Land documentary Tickled Pk, which exam the history of televisn shows that ronated wh the gay muny long before homosexualy was openly discsed on the air. Gay people on TV, once a shock, are now more like stock.
FRANCE LNCH GAY TV CHANNEL
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Tonight, the ble channel TV Land reviss the earlier days of gays popular culture jt emergg. ANDREW WALLENSTEIN reportg: News flash: Gay people did exist before "Will & Grace.
But as the documentary "Tickled Pk" shows, that never stopped gay viewers om disverg the tly homo-sensatnal, which means certa shows and characters they uld ll their own.
The fact that the shows rarely addrsed homosexualy directly was immaterial.
IN FRANCE, GAY TV CHANNEL IS A 'SMALL STEP HEELS'
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"Tickled Pk" lls on a variety of actors, wrers, ics and producers--some gay, some not--to salute those they em homo-sensatnal on the small screen. The first to earn the honor were actrs om the 1970s, who may not have been gay but broke away om the happy homemaker mold that fed too many adult female rol the medium's early years. She earned her strip wh the gay muny by addrsg the topic head on.
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CONRAD BAIN: (As Arthur) Do you approve of homosexuals? There's no such thg as gay dwarfs. " (Soundbe of lghter) WALLENSTEIN: Arthur was part of another st emed homo-sensatnal, the 1980s s "The Goln Girls.
" I know, a quartet of sgle senr cizens wouldn't seem the stuff of gay dreams, but their same-sex mararie and fiance of stereotyp were highly homo-sensatnal, settg a template for other shows that drew rav the gay muny, like "Digng Women" and "Sex and the Cy. " Of urse, homo-sensatnal shows weren't always about empowerment. Even more unlikely as gay ins were the protagonists of supernatural shows like "Bewched" and "I Dream of Jeannie.
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But they also offered a powerful allegory for the gay experience. The characters posssed a magil gift they had to hi away om the real world, jt as many gay people kept their te selv the closet.