Was Cloris Leachman Television’s First Beard?
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 were countless revolutionary stories being told. And there was also Phyllis. Wait, who?
Phyllis: A short-lived spinoff of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Cloris Leachman played a widow who moved from Minnesota to San Francisco to start her life anew, at the same time that a real-life queer revolution was underway in SF. And she ran right into it.
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Watch this episode of Phyllis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85NuWb46NEE
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Watch the gay episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Season 3, Ep 17): https://amzn.to/2JynEEK
Watch the gay episode of The Golden Girls (Season 3, Ep 9): https://amzn.to/38KvJif
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