Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: RE: Re: Showtime's BROTHERS Message-ID: <171@ttidcc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Dec-84 22:42:13 EST Article-I.D.: ttidcc.171 Posted: Fri Dec 28 22:42:13 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Dec-84 23:29:20 EST Organization: TTI, Santa Monica, CA. Lines: 29 >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). -- The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe) Opinions expressed here are my own Transaction Technology, Inc. and unrelated to anyone else's. 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90405 United States (213) 450-9111, ext. 2483 ...{garfield,lasspvax,linus,cmcl2,seismo}!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe