I wouldn’t say 15 years. The garbage on today was not on when I was growing up. We had our own garbage, but it wasn’t this bad. I don’t recall any gay agenda on the more successful shows like Seinfeld or Friends... though definitely some metrosexual pimping.
The one I could think of, from that time period, was Will and Grace.
—I don’t recall any gay agenda on the more successful shows like Seinfeld or Friends... though definitely some metrosexual pimping.—
When I had TV, any homosexual (I refuse to use the word “gay”) characters were comic relief. They were overly effeminate and silly, and great with interior design.
Now they are portrayed as “normal” quite often. In the Movie “Best of Show”, one half of the buggering couple IS the over the top, over sexed “queer” “female side” (but a woman who acts like that is an embarassment) and the “butch” side was a “normal” guy that you would never know preferred men.
When one has been away from TV as long as I have been, when you ARE exposed to it and see a homosexual character and how they are portrayed, they are repulsive.
Interestingly, my oldest daughter’s best friend is a homosexual and he is the classic “one of the girls, let me do your hair” funny guy pervert. A lot of them are, actually.
It’s been WELL documented on FR over the years how Hollywood was going to change the ‘Perception’ of Gays, and create a “Gay Civil Rights’ movement, where gays get the same government benefits that minorities do.
Today, Gay is the the only ‘Minority’ you can CHOOSE to be a part of.
I have heard it said that it began with “Three’s Company” which first aired in 1976. The John Ritter character, although not gay in fact, pretended he was so as to be able to share the apartment with the two women. I rarely watched the show, so I couldn’t tell you too much about it. This was 36 years ago!
Seinfeld—”Not that there’s anything wrong with that!” Friends— The mother of Ross’s child leaves him for a woman.
It really started in the 60s, when there were people on tv who were not openly gay, but were definitely “flamboyant.” I think of Alan Sues on Laugh-In, Charles Nelson Reilly, Paul Lynde, Jonathan Harris on “Lost In Space,” and others. In the 80s there was Jim J Bullock on “Too Close For Comfort,” and it has gone downhill from there. I’m sure that I’m missing some, but those are the ones I remember. Heck, even Gilligan may have been a little light in the loafers, as he constantly spurned Ginger’s advances. Robert Reed was a surprise.
“I wouldn’t say 15 years. The garbage on today was not on when I was growing up. We had our own garbage, but it wasn’t this bad. I don’t recall any gay agenda on the more successful shows like Seinfeld or Friends... though definitely some metrosexual pimping.”
It started with Three’s Company.
Seinfeld—”Not that there’s anything wrong with that!” Friends— The mother of Ross’s child leaves him for a woman.
It really started in the 60s, when there were people on tv who were not openly gay, but were definitely “flamboyant.” I think of Alan Sues on Laugh-In, Charles Nelson Reilly, Paul Lynde, Jonathan Harris on “Lost In Space,” and others. In the 80s there was Jim J Bullock on “Too Close For Comfort,” and it has gone downhill from there. I’m sure that I’m missing some, but those are the ones I remember. Heck, even Gilligan may have been a little light in the loafers, as he constantly spurned Ginger’s advances. Robert Reed was a surprise.
um... Ross’s ex wife was gay on friends...
and Will and Grace which was entirely about gay people started in 1998, almost 15 years ago.