6 The made-for-TV movie, Serving in Silence airs, featuring Glenn Close and Judy Davis. 10 An episode of My So Called Life airs featuring supporting gay character Rickie, played by Wilson Cruz, who crushes on boy classmate Corey.įeb.
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The series also features a reoccurring character, Nancy, played by Sandra Bernhard, who comes out as a lesbian during season five. ABC threatens not to air the episode, but does and 30 million people tune in. March 1 During an episode titled "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" of the popular sitcom, Roseanne, Mariel Hemingway kisses Roseanne Barr. This is the first TV commercial featuring an ordinary, gay couple. Top An Ikea ad runs on TV showing two men shopping for furniture together. The film develops a cult following, partly because of the lesbian seduction scene between Sarandon and Deneuve. The film features a love triangle between a doctor, played by Susan Sarandon, and a vampire couple, played by Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie. 13 On the primetime TV series Soap, Billy Crystal plays Jodie Dallas, a gay man.Īpril 29 The Hunger, a horror film, is released. On the show, the characters George and Gordon are an older gay couple. 24 ABC debuts Hot l Baltimore, a short lived Norman Lear series, which features the first gay couple on TV. Martin Sheen and Hal Holbrook, big name stars at the time, play lovers.
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It is the first TV movie to deal with the subject of homosexuality sympathetically. 1 That Certain Summer, a made for TV movie, airs as the ABC Movie of the Week. The Advocate begins publication in Los Angeles as a local newsletter by the activist group PRIDE (Personal Rights in Defense and Education). The film features a rookie senator with a homosexual past as one of its main characters. June 6 Advise and Consent, a film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, is released in theaters.
The play is a huge hit despite the fact that at the time it is illegal in New York to make any reference to homosexuality on stage. A student accuses the two women of having a lesbian affair, an accusation which destroys their lives. The play is set at an all-girls boarding school run by two women.
20 The Children's Hour, a stage play by Lillian Hellman, premieres on Broadway.