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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: RE: Re: Showtime's BROTHERS
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Date: Fri, 28-Dec-84 22:42:13 EST
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>From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
>Newsgroups: net.motss
>Subject: Re: Showtime's BROTHERS
>
>                                          ... (I can't remember seeing a
>lesbian character on TV...

In this end of the world, "St.  Elsewhere" recently had a lesbian character
on  for  a  few episodes.  I recall at least one turning up on the original
"All in the Family" show.  No others come to mind at the moment.

I didn't see all the relevant episodes of "St.  Elsewhere", but in those  I
saw,  the  character  was  portrayed  as a competent professional woman who
happened to be gay.  The episodes were partly about how this  affected  her
relationship with the people she worked with and how she chose to deal with
the situation.  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).

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