The 25 Most Influential Gay & Lbian Atralians
Contents:
- WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY CHARACTERS ON ASIE TV? IS TE ‘GAY DON’T RATE’? FOUR SIRS WEIGH
- THE 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY & LBIAN ATRALIANS
WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY CHARACTERS ON ASIE TV? IS TE ‘GAY DON’T RATE’? FOUR SIRS WEIGH
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AUSTRALIAN televisn broke remarkable new ground 1972 by layg claim to the world’s first homosexual character a drama Sale was rponsible for creatg the boundary phg Number 96, about a un block filled wh an array of lourful rints, cludg the openly gay Don Flayson. “And at a time when homosexualy was illegal, ” Sale sce then, there’s been only a handful of meangful exampl of gays and lbians on the small screen.
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THE 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY & LBIAN ATRALIANS
Four gay and lbian creativ Atralian TV share their personal and profsnal WALKER - WRITERWHEN veteran TV wrer and script producer Sarah Walker was told that no one wanted to see gay people on the small screen prime time, she was jt as a lbian, but as a voted storyteller who believ the power of characters who reflect Atralia’s diverse was workg on a mastream drama when she wrote a same-sex relatnship to the script.
When aired, a storm of ntroversy epted and “everyone at the work eaked out” the aftermath, the wrers were told that there was never to be another gay storyle the show. “However there’s a big difference between acceptg they have to work wh gay people and beg fortable wh seeg that on screens. It was the famed Number 96 — rponsible for the world’s first gay character a drama — that she veloped an tert TV, and her first csh.
“I’m generally not allowed to plot gay characters or gay stori shows — not to the extent that I’d like to anyway.