Gay and Lesbian Visibility in Movies and Television

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Social Issues

 

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Curtis H

 

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March 18, 2012

 

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University

 

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A

 

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It wasn't until the 1970s that gay characters and lifestyles began to emerge. In 1973, An American Family, a PBS series featured one of the family's sons revealing his homosexuality. In 1977, the television show Soap costarred Billy Crystal as an openly gay man. In the 1980s, it became trendy to feature gay and lesbian characters in ensemble casts...
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If you watch reruns, you can always find the token gay, that is, the really flaming homo or the butch lesbian gym teacher. The motion picture Mannequin, starring Andrew McCarthy and Kim Catrall, featured Meshach Taylor as Hollywood, an eccentric, finger-snapping homosexual. Many stereotypes such as these continued until the early nineties...
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