50 years on, Joe Hasham reflects on his ground-breakg role as TV's first gay character, as part of a new documentary on the Queer History of Atralian TV.
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“COULD I PULL OFF AS A STRAIGHT GUY…. ULD I BE A BELIEVABLE GAY MAN?”
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Those noisy gay neighbours were seri heartthrob Don Flayson, a succsful lawyer portrayed by Joe Hasham, and his first of several onscreen boyiends, photographer and bisexual man Bce (Pl Wegott). Homosexualy would not be crimalised NSW until 1984. “It mt have been surreal for Michael to be stg there, as a gay lawyer himself watchg this reprentatn on TV, wh many of those early episos showg Don reprentg gay men urt, ” Merdo says.