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Bonus video! Television's long, mostly-awful history of gay teens
🕑 Added 2024-09-15 16:00:12 +0000 UTCHello there!
For today's bonus video, we're taking a look at the history of gay teens on TV -- going alllllll the way back to Dobie Gillis in the early 1960s, then wandering through the groovy vibes of Richard Dreyfuss into the 1970s with lesbian-teacher scares. And of course, who can forget young Ryan Phillippe as a troubled soap opera youth? And that's just to name a few.
I'm sure there are a bunch I've left out in this video, so let me know if there are others I should've mentioned!
Comments
Matt Baume
Oh wow, were they like local celebrities/infamous?
Zardogs! Zardogs!
I grew up in Santa Barbara where American Family was shot. It was legendary, but I didn't get to see clips of it until it started showing up on the Internet. The fact that there was a gay son almost always got mentioned, also the divorce. That letter nearly made me cry. Wow.
Matt Baume
Oh that's a good idea -- there's very few gay actors I can think of who took roles like those! Ian McKellen came out during a radio interview and hasn't been afraid of taking more daring roles, and Rupert Everett comes to mind. But I'm struggling to think of others!
Johnny Townsend
Consenting Adult was written by the same author who wrote Gentleman's Agreement, Laura Z. Hobson, about antisemitism. On another note, have you done a video on queer actors who took on queer roles despite the risk? For instance, I remember Robert Reed of The Brady Bunch playing a transgender doctor on Medical Center (1975?).
