Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site wanginst.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!wanginst!evans From: evans@wanginst.UUCP (Barry Evans) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Showtime's BROTHERS (gay characters) Message-ID: <20435@wanginst.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Dec-84 04:32:45 EST Article-I.D.: wanginst.20435 Posted: Sun Dec 30 04:32:45 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 31-Dec-84 02:58:21 EST References: <171@ttidcc.UUCP> Organization: Wang Institute, Tyngsboro, Ma. 01879 Lines: 49 > Jerry Hollombe (ttidcc!hollombe) > ... Seems like a lot of progress from the "All in the Family" > episode I recall where the plot called for a woman to be mistaken for a man > in a non-speaking walk-on part (her being gay was really only faintly > implied). I don't recall see the episode mentioned above, but there was one episode which I remember where a relative of Edith (i think) died, and there was some sort of problem because this lady's 'live-in' friend didn't want to give up some crystal (or whatever)... it was finally revealed to Archie that this lady was her lover and had a right to the property. While I'm on the subject, there was a recent episode in Kate and Allie where they had a lesbian landlord. Went into some emotions on how Kate and Allie were to play the roles as lesbians just to keep the rent from being raised. The landloard finds out near the end. Last summer, I caught a strange program aired around 8pm on a Saturday night, called something like "All Together Now". It was about a middle aged couple whose son & friend, and grandfather come home for the weekend for the daughter's wedding. The son had just finished school and was about to start a well paying professional job. Just before the wedding, the daughter gets cold feet and runs off - her mother's in a frenzy by this time. A perfect time for her son to tell her that he's in love with Tony, his best friend. He ends up loosing his new job because he tells his boss of his gayness. The grandfather's retirement home gets flattened by a hurricane and the daughter returns alone and unmarried. So, what else? They all decide to live together. Strange program, and rather daring for a network to carry during Saturday evening primetime. Oh, and there was an episode of "Gimme a Break" where the chief's policeman pal reveals that he's gay (or the chief finds out somehow). A moving half hour - the guy gets shot and killed by a sniper before the chief is able to apologize for acting the way he did after he found out. I guess they're are more than I thought... I'd better stop before I remember another one. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Heard recently as the winning answer to Trivial Pursuit... What was the forbidden love during England's Victorian Era? --------------------------------------------------------------------- -barry -- Barry Evans - Wang Institute (617) 649-9731 x383 [apollo, bbncca, cadmus, decvax, harvard, linus, masscomp]!wivax!evans evans%Wang-Inst@Csnet-Relay