"NYPD Blue" Don We Now Our Gay Apparel (TV Episo 1995) - IMDb

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• ‘NYPD BLUE’ STAR BILL BROCHTP ON HOW STEVEN BOCH PNEERED GAY CHARACTERS ON TV
• BILL BROCHTP, ACTOR BEHD <EM>NYPD BLUE</EM>'S 'GAY TEMP' CHARACTER, STILL AT WORK HOLLYWOOD (AUDIO)
• NYPD BLUE TRODUC NEW GAY CHARACTER
• DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL
• DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL

‘NYPD BLUE’ STAR BILL BROCHTP ON HOW STEVEN BOCH PNEERED GAY CHARACTERS ON TV

John Irv joed the 15th Precct as a temporary replacement for Donna Abandando 1995; he was iends wh Bobby Simone om their prev work at 1 Police Plaza, but Andy Sipowicz's homophobia ially led him to be to John. I’m the one who said, “Is this OK to have a gay guy on televisn?

There were no gay characters on TV at the time.

BILL BROCHTP, ACTOR BEHD <EM>NYPD BLUE</EM>'S 'GAY TEMP' CHARACTER, STILL AT WORK HOLLYWOOD (AUDIO)

He me up wh this ia for a character who was very openly gay and unapologetilly so, and he wanted to show that ntrast to Det. He gave me nfince that I uld do this and have a reer — not only as an openly gay guy but as an actor general.

I jt got an email om a guy sayg that he and his son are watchg , and the father ed my character as an example of what might be like to be iends wh a gay guy to help his son wh a iendship of his own.

Openly gay actor Bill BrochtpMost famo for his role as the "gay temp" and then a seri regular for 10 years on televisn's NYPD Blue, actor Bill Brochtp is still at work and n be seen on the WIGS seri Kendra and Showtime's Dexter and Shamels, and perdilly on stage. I ught up wh the pneerg openly gay actor on n listen to this episo on the BlogTalkRad Kendra:Download SnowbizNow podsts for ee om iTun. Brochtp, who’s had several stts playg openly gay assistant John Irv on the ABC p drama, has been ked as a seri regular by “Blue” executive producer Steven Boch, acrdg tra prs reports.

NYPD BLUE TRODUC NEW GAY CHARACTER

Then, 1997, Brochtp -starred as a gay office manager another Boch stker – ABC’s short-lived “Total Secury, ” which failed to attract much of an dience s Saturday-night timlot. Brochtp broke to the “NYPD Blue” lp as John Irv, a gay admistrative clerk known the precct hoe as “Upstairs John” bee his office was upstairs, although he liked to hang around the squad room.

Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz), who had a problem wh Irv’s homosexualy. Her lbianism is beg unrplayed, and, tertgly, John, the other gay character on the show, dont like her at all. He claims to know her om GOAL, the gay police officers associatn, and threatens to qu if sh put charge.

NYPD BlueCast & crewUser reviewsTriviaEpiso aired Jan 3, 1995TV-1447mSimone and Sipowicz vtigate the murr of a gay bar owner durg the Christmas holidays.

DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL

Read allSimone and Sipowicz vtigate the murr of a gay bar owner durg the Christmas holidays. Breen breaks his promise to Sipowicz by checkg up on his son and cis to go back to him, which turns out to be fatal when Breen's son kills him and Sipowicz has to arrt productn, box office & pany PhotosReview Disfort 1995The owner of a gay bar is killed durg a robbery. The openly gay character (Brochtp himself me out People magaze 1997) expand Sipowicz's limed horizons and offered a rare, non-stereotypil portrayal of a homosexual person on work televisn.

For gay men, was even worse. The early years of NYPD Blue relegated gay men to ocsnal gut-starrg rol, and equently those rol were limed to an early appearance as a rpse.

DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL

A typil send-season episo, “Don We Now Our Gay Apparel, ” featur the murred -owner of a gay bar whose body is disvered by a transsexual baret performer that Sipowicz (te to his character) ntually refers to as a “he-she. ” When asked by the tectiv about any fancial troubl that the bar might be havg, the (straight and alive) survivg owner remarks sually, “If you’ve got a gay bar, you’ve got a bank.