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What was it like to be a lesbian activist in 1965 on a TV talk show? What ridiculous questions were they asked? And how did audiences react?
Check out my 1991 interview with pioneering lesbian activists Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, who founded the Daughters of Bilitis in 1955.
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May 16: Today in Queer TV History - LOVE, SIDNEY (1983), ALL MY CHILDREN (2002), WILL & GRACE (2002)
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Video: 1983 - The first ongoing gay role on a US daytime soap opera: psychologist Lynn Carson (Donna Pescow) on ALL MY CHILDREN.
The video starts with the October 31 episode, in which Lynn answers questions about lesbianism from her straight best friend, who she just came out to.
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY - 1/31/1980
On the sitcom SOAP, Jodie (Billy Crystal), a gay man who'd had a one-night fling with a woman friend, learns that Carol plans to fight him for custody of their daughter, launching an unprecedented months-long story line about a queer parent fighting to keep custody of their child.
Ultimately, the judge would award custody to Jodie, finding him the more fit parent, despite the homophobic arguments used by Carol's lawyer.
#LGBTQ #queer #gay #sitcom #LGBTQparents #QueerParents #GayParents
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY - 1/31/1980
On the sitcom SOAP, Jodie (Billy Crystal), a gay man who'd had a one-night fling with a woman friend, learns that Carol plans to fight him for custody of their daughter, launching an unprecedented months-long story line about a queer parent fighting to keep custody of their child.
Ultimately, the judge would award custody to Jodie, finding him the more fit parent, despite the homophobic arguments used by Carol's lawyer.
#LGBTQ #queer #gay #sitcom #LGBTQparents #QueerParents #GayParents
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY - 1/31/1980
On the sitcom SOAP, Jodie (Billy Crystal), a gay man who'd had a one-night fling with a woman friend, learns that Carol plans to fight him for custody of their daughter, launching an unprecedented months-long story line about a queer parent fighting to keep custody of their child.
Ultimately, the judge would award custody to Jodie, finding him the more fit parent, despite the homophobic arguments used by Carol's lawyer.
#LGBTQ #queer #gay #sitcom #LGBTQparents #QueerParents #GayParents
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY - 1/31/1980
On the sitcom SOAP, Jodie (Billy Crystal), a gay man who'd had a one-night fling with a woman friend, learns that Carol plans to fight him for custody of their daughter, launching an unprecedented months-long story line about a queer parent fighting to keep custody of their child.
Ultimately, the judge would award custody to Jodie, finding him the more fit parent, despite the homophobic arguments used by Carol's lawyer.
#LGBTQ #queer #gay #sitcom #LGBTQparents #QueerParents #GayParents
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY - 1/31/1980
On the sitcom SOAP, Jodie (Billy Crystal), a gay man who'd had a one-night fling with a woman friend, learns that Carol plans to fight him for custody of their daughter, launching an unprecedented months-long story line about a queer parent fighting to keep custody of their child.
Ultimately, the judge would award custody to Jodie, finding him the more fit parent, despite the homophobic arguments used by Carol's lawyer.
#LGBTQ #queer #gay #sitcom #LGBTQparents #QueerParents #GayParents
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
AS THE WORLD TURNS - 1/23/1989, CBS
Eighties daytime soaps had very few queer regular characters or AIDS storylines, so this well-meant, likeable, underused, and kind of bland gay male regular, Hank Eliot (Brian Starcher), was a baby-step in the right direction.
Hank's partner was hospitalized, long term, with AIDS complications, which let the writers work in information about an epidemic that had the public terrified and panicked. In this episode, Hank is awaiting the results of a follow-up HIV test.
Hank was mostly there as a complication and learning opportunity for his presumably straight neighbors, and their conversations about him generally got more screen time than he did. I've written an essay about Hank in the Notes on the video's YouTube page.
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
THE ELLEN SHOW: Premiere - 9/24/2001, CBS
After her famous nineties ABC sitcom (during which she and her character came out as gay), Ellen DeGeneres was back in this one-season CBS series with a fantastic supporting cast.
This time she played Ellen Richmond, who after a breakup and the failure of her business in the dot-com bust, moves back to her quaint small hometown and takes a job at her old high school. Martin Mull plays her boss, the principal, and Jim Gaffigan is her old high school sweetheart, who would love to get back together with her.
Ellen Richmond is gay, too, and it's largely treated as a nonissue.
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
On the Korean series SQUID GAME, released today in 2021, we learn that the murderous games exist to entertain amoral zillionaires, embodied in a creepy, sexually predatory old white American gay man who says things like "If you can satisfy me in 5 min., I'll change your life."
The equation between same-sex desire, violence, and sexual predation - so common on US television in the 1970s - is still sadly alive on Korean TV.
#gay #queer #homophobia #MediaStudies #series #TV #LGBTQ #SquidGames
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
HEAD OVER HEELS: "Vice Guy" - 9/16/1997, UPN
Bisexual regular roles were rare on 20th-century TV series. One exception was Ian (Patrick Bristow), who identified as bi and celibate, on HEAD OVER HEELS: a UPN sitcom set in the offices of a dating service in Miami.
It featured talented actors trying to make the most of scripts that were often dreadful. Some critics called it the worst new sitcom of the fall 1997 season.
Bristow previously had a recurring role on Ellen DeGeneres's 1990s sitcom ELLEN, playing Ellen Morgan's gay friend Peter on seasons 2 to 5.
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For those of you who know Spanish:
Otto Mas devoted a recent episode of his queer history podcast to iconic TV characters and queer-friendly series of the 1980s-2020s, with emphasis on US and UK shows. I've listened to the first half and it's well done.
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
ALL MY CHILDREN - 9/8/1995, ABC
Soap opera. RuPaul guest stars as RuPaul, who visits Pine Valley to appear on Erica Kane's TV show.
Meanwhile, Michael, a mid-1990s regular character who is a gay high-school teacher, worries about his sister's safety. Michael will come out to his history students a few months later, in a story arc based partly on the real-life case of teacher Rodney Wilson.
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
MY SO-CALLED LIFE - 8/25/1994, ABC
This wonderful teen drama series debuted 30 years ago today. Wilson Cruz (of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY fame) played the supporting character of gay boy Ricki Vasquez.
Ricki was one of American TV's first queer teen regular roles, one of the first queer Latino regular roles, and one of the first gay regulars played by an "out" actor.
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
MY SO-CALLED LIFE - 8/25/1994, ABC
This wonderful teen drama series debuted 30 years ago today. Wilson Cruz (of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY fame) played the supporting character of gay boy Ricki Vasquez.
Ricki was one of American TV's first queer teen regular roles, one of the first queer Latino regular roles, and one of the first gay regulars played by an "out" actor.
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
MY SO-CALLED LIFE - 8/25/1994, ABC
This wonderful teen drama series debuted 30 years ago today. Wilson Cruz (of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY fame) played the supporting character of gay boy Ricki Vasquez.
Ricki was one of American TV's first queer teen regular roles, one of the first queer Latino regular roles, and one of the first gay regulars played by an "out" actor.
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
MY SO-CALLED LIFE - 8/25/1994, ABC
This wonderful teen drama series debuted 30 years ago today. Wilson Cruz (of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY fame) played the supporting character of gay boy Ricki Vasquez.
Ricki was one of American TV's first queer teen regular roles, one of the first queer Latino regular roles, and one of the first gay regulars played by an "out" actor.
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
MY SO-CALLED LIFE - 8/25/1994, ABC
This wonderful teen drama series debuted 30 years ago today. Wilson Cruz (of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY fame) played the supporting character of gay boy Ricki Vasquez.
Ricki was one of American TV's first queer teen regular roles, one of the first queer Latino regular roles, and one of the first gay regulars played by an "out" actor.
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In memory of the great Gena Rowlands: Clips of her and Jane Alexander giving excellent performances as a lesbian couple in the 1978 TV movie "A Question of Love," based on a real-life court case in Texas.
#lesbian #gay #queer #QueerParents #GenaRowlands #LGBTQ #MediaStudies #TVmovies
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
The wonderful BBC/HBO series GENTLEMAN JACK had its U.S. premiere on today's date in 2019.
This entertaining, well-made show puts a gender-nonconforming lesbian front and center. The scripts are based on the life and diaries of Anne Lister (1791-1840).
This was the BBC's second dramatization of Lister's diaries in less than a decade (the first being a 2010 TV movie called THE SECRET DIARIES OF MISS ANNE LISTER).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukPBfkh2LUg
#lesbian #gay #queer #LGBTQ #television #TVseries #GentlemanJack
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
On 4/16/2019, a Mexican soap opera featuring gay-teen supercouple Aristóteles and Temo, MI MARIDO TIENE MÁS FAMILIA, ended its US run on Univisión. A later spinoff followed the young couple to Mexico City.
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
THE NEW NORMAL - 4/2/2013, NBC
Finale of Ryan Murphy's sitcom about a male couple (Andrew Rannells & Justin Bartha) and the woman who agrees to be a surrogate mother for their baby (Georgia King). Here's the series trailer:
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
THE NEW NORMAL - 4/2/2013, NBC
Finale of Ryan Murphy's sitcom about a male couple (Andrew Rannells & Justin Bartha) and the woman who agrees to be a surrogate mother for their baby (Georgia King). Here's the series trailer:
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
THE NEW NORMAL - 4/2/2013, NBC
Finale of Ryan Murphy's sitcom about a male couple (Andrew Rannells & Justin Bartha) and the woman who agrees to be a surrogate mother for their baby (Georgia King). Here's the series trailer:
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
THE NEW NORMAL - 4/2/2013, NBC
Finale of Ryan Murphy's sitcom about a male couple (Andrew Rannells & Justin Bartha) and the woman who agrees to be a surrogate mother for their baby (Georgia King). Here's the series trailer:
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
THE NEW NORMAL - 4/2/2013, NBC
Finale of Ryan Murphy's sitcom about a male couple (Andrew Rannells & Justin Bartha) and the woman who agrees to be a surrogate mother for their baby (Georgia King). Here's the series trailer:
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I didn't know this: There's an online video of one of my lectures about LGBT characters on 20th-century U.S. television, with lots of video clips. 😊
It's a virtual talk I gave last year for the Union Public Library in New Jersey. This was a condensed version of what is usually a longer presentation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRHm3uRvePI
#LGBTQ #MediaStudies #TelevisionStudies #TV #TVseries #gay #lesbian #bisexual #queer #trans
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There have been several ongoing trans characters on American daytime soap operas. Here's the first one I remember seeing: Zoe on ALL MY CHILDREN in the 2000s.
As generally happened before the late 2000s, the character was a trans woman played by a male actor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM2C9ZPhtZU
#SoapOperas #TVseries #MediaStudies #trans #LGBTQ #AllMyChildren
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
P.O.V.: "Tongues Untied" - 7/16/1991, PBS
Marlin Riggs' acclaimed 1989 film mixes conventions of performance art, poetry and documentary to explore lives of Black gay men in a society that seeks to silence and marginalize both of those identities.
The 1991 broadcast of TONGUES UNTIED became a centerpiece of right-wing attempts to defund PBS in the 1990s.
Many PBS stations ran disclaimers before the show (like the one seen at the start of this clip, from WHYY-TV in Philadelphia), and some refused to air the film at all.
https://youtu.be/iP2LVdQX5eg #Black #gay #queer #LGBTQ #BIPoC #PBS #MediaStudies #television #1990sTV #90sTV