Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!bbncca!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Showtime's BROTHERS Message-ID: <1232@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Thu, 27-Dec-84 18:59:48 EST Article-I.D.: bbncca.1232 Posted: Thu Dec 27 18:59:48 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Dec-84 05:51:13 EST References: <277@ahuta.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 17 TV, at least, seems unable to portray gay men (I can't remember seeing a lesbian character on TV) as other than queens or desexualized eunuchs. In both cases, the supposed "threat" is defused by compartmentalization or neutralization. Absent is any kind of role which integrates their being gay into a fully realized character--one that loves, hugs, works and plays. Though I agree that there are slim pickings even in other media, I can think of a couple of exceptions. Lanford Wilson's "The Fifth of July" contains a Vietnam veteran and his lover as major characters, and it was incredibly refreshing to see two together gay characters without a capital "G" participating in the story. "Making Love", a movie popular a few years ago, for all its high-camp mawkishness, at least had the two gay characters pretty swish-free (Harry Hamlin and Michael Ontkean, teen idols.) -- /Steve Dyer {decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca.ARPA