Before anyone had ever even heard of the show Friends, the Fox sitcom Living Single was all about a group of friends living together in a huge apartment in New York. It featured Queen Latifah, a lot of very ’90s fashion choices, and on one episode, a surprise lesbian wedding. […]
Gay San Francisco in the 1970s: A disco-fueled cauldron of sex, art, power, riots, and liberation. There was the grassroots rise of Harvey Milk; the seductive music of Sylvester, Queen of Disco; the bawdy theater of the Cockettes; the invention of the Pride flag; the first Gay Liberation march. There […]
In 1977, the popular cop show Starsky and Hutch tackled a murder mystery centered around a Los Angeles gay bar, complete with a depiction of queer life that’s surprisingly nuanced for the late 70s. Then, less than a decade later, an episode of Murder She Wrote featured a similar storyline, […]
Over Dynasty’s nine-season run, the challenge of getting a gay man on television’s most popular show was nothing compared to the multi-year battle it took to keep him there. This is the story of the fights on-screen and behind-the-scenes over one of TVs first recurring gay characters, and the kiss […]
Star Trek’s Mister Sulu: The galaxy’s greatest helmsman, captain, and swordfighter. Although the future depicted by Star Trek is one of peace and freedom, for most of his life George Takei’s reality was the exact opposite. But like his character, George refused to take unfair treatment lying down. First as […]
Today, Norman Lear and his shows are famous — or infamous, depending on who you ask. But in 1971, he was an obscure TV writer and producer. A college dropout and former Nazi hunter, Norman turned to comedy after World War II. And after years of writing jokes for some […]
All in the Family is one of the most controversial shows ever broadcast. It featured a typical American family, arguing over topics that most other shows didn’t dare go near, and shocked America as well as the network executives who tried to do everything they could to stop it. But […]
Psycho’s Norman Bates: one of the most memorable movie characters in history. Brought to life by Anthony Perkins, Alfred Hitchcock, and a protégée of HP Lovecraft, Norman shocked audiences when he first appeared in 1960, and found an unexpected second life in sequels and TV series. And while Norman the […]
If you grew up in the 80s & 90s, you probably remember watching PBS for shows like Sesame Street, Carmen Sandiego, and The Magic School Bus. But your parents might remember PBS for very different reasons — the debauchery of I Claudius… the dancing men of Steambath … and the […]
Allow me to introduce you to some of the strangest Oz adaptations ever created! You’ve probably always dreamed of seeing Dorothy captured by an evil space witch while a drunken Bill Cosby looks on, then meeting a sexy lady robot and defeating cave men before killing the Wicked Witch with […]
