Subject: gay tv lists (fwd)
From: [email-masked] (Darci Chapman, Paradise Cowgirl x5930)
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 16:39:22 -0800

The following shows may air at various/multiple times.
Check your local listings for air date/time in your area:

>> IN THE LIFE. Lesbian/gay variety & entertainment
series.  Episode #305 is on opera queens, the Gay Games,
AIDS, drag, and other topics is airing.  #304 covers gay
Asian movies (The Wedding Banquet, M. butterfly, Farewell
My Concubine, etc.) and lesbian hip hop singer Me'shell
NdegeOcello.  Upcoming airings include:
- Vermont:  2/26/94, 12:30 am, #305 airs on:  Burlington
WETK ch. 33, Rutland WVER ch. 28, St. Johnsbury WVTB ch.
20, Windsor WVTA ch. 41
- Nebraska:  2/27/94 midnight (Sat night? Sun night? not
sure), #305 airs on:  Alliance ch. 13 KTNE, Bassett KMNE
ch. 7, Hastings KHNE ch. 29, Lexington KLNE ch. 3, Norfolk
KXNE ch. 19, North Platte KPNE ch. 9, Omaha KYNE ch. 26
- Flint, MI:  Sun. 2/27/94, 11:00 pm, WFUM ch. 28 #305
- PBS Transponder B Satellite Feed:  2/28/94, 17:30 #307
- Pittsburgh, PA:  Sat. 3/5/94, 11:30 pm #304

>> ROLONDA:  TEENS AND HOMOSEXUALITY.  Airs Wednesday in
many tv areas.  Check local listings for this syndicated
show, but airings will include Wed. 3/2/94, 10:00 am, on
Phila. PA ch. 3 (KYW) and NYC NY ch. 7 (WABC).

>> PRELUDE TO A KISS (CC).  Alec Baldwin and Meg Ryan play
a straight couple who get married at the beginning of this
1992 movie.  However, at the wedding reception an old man
kisses the bride and their souls magically exchange
bodies.  It takes a while for Baldwin to figure out that
his wife's body is housing an old man's brain &
personality.  Not a gay film, but has a few interesting
moments.  Airs:
- Wed., 3/2/94, noon, HBO
- Fri., 3/4/94, 12:30 pm, HBO-2

The following shows air once this week:

>> OPEN MIND.  Airs Sat., 2/26/94, noon, New York City NY
ch. 13 (WNET).  The guest is Mathilde Krim, chairwoman of
the American Foundation for AIDS Research.

>> DESERT HEARTS.  Airs Sat. 2/26/94, 1:00 pm, Bravo
cable.  1985 movie about an uptight 1950s New York City
professor (Helen Shaver) who goes to Reno to get a divorce
from her professor husband, and winds up falling in love
with another woman (Patricia Charbonneau).

Be sure to read note #2 for more shows! 

Warmly, Carol Mortimer, NJ
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Hi, folks!  This is note #2 (of 2) of the list of tv shows
with gay, lesbian, other sexual minority, and gay/straight
AIDS themes, for the tv week of Sat 02/26/94-Fri 03/04/94.
Be sure to read note #1 also.  All times Eastern.

*************** CONTINUED FROM NOTE #1 ******************

>> ROSEANNE.  Airs Tues. 3/1/94, 9:00 pm, ABC.  (Note that
ABC is airing 2 Roseannes Tuesday night.  This one is
going to be the 9:00 show, not the 8:30 show.)  This is
the episode that's gotten so much publicity lately.  TV
Guide says:  "Roseanne is kissed by Nancy's lesbian lover
(played by Mariel Hemingway) in a scene that prompted ABC
to consider refusing to air this episode.  Controversy
aside, the episode is both thoughtful and amusing, and the
kiss leads Roseanne to do some soul-searching over matters
of trust, with Nancy and with Dan."  Later, they write:
"Roseanne is the life of the party at a gay bar, until
Nancy's girlfriend (Mariel Hemingway) plants a kiss on
her."  The rest of the episode deals with her reactions to
this kiss (which apparently freaks her out a bit), and
with her telling husband Dan about it.

>> BRAIN SEX.  Airs Tues. 3/1/94, 10:00 pm, Discovery
cable.  The influence of hormones on sexual identity.

>> BASIC INSTINCT.  Airs Tues-Wed., 3/1-2/94, midnight,
The Movie Channel.  Incredibly homophobic 1992 film about
a murder investigation.  The film has four lesbian and
bisexual women characters - all of whom are murderers or
mass murderers!

>> PICKET FENCES.  Airs Wed.-Thurs., 3/2-3/94, 12:35 am,
CBS.  The second network tv this week to focus on a
woman-woman kiss.  CBS is using this late night slot to
rerun the episode in which teen daughter Kimberly kisses a
female friend (off-camera), and then questions her own
sexuality.  Kimberly decides she's straight, the friend
decides she's gay, & their parents all freak out a bit.

>> JFK (CC).  Airs Wed-Thurs., 3/2-3/94, 2:45 am, HBO.
Oliver Stone's conspiracy theories about JFK's
assassination.  Among the numerous suspects he provides
are some incredibly stereotyped homosexual men.

>> MEDUSA: DARE TO BE TRUTHFUL.  Airs Thurs. 3/3/94, 11:30
pm, Showtime cable.  Parody of the Madonna Truth or Dare
movie, with comedienne Julie Brown playing Madonna.  I've
never seen this, but folks who have say that it also
parodies the gay content of the Truth or Dare movie.

>> GREAT PERFORMANCES.  Airs Fri. 3/4/94, 9:00 pm, most
PBS stations.  A tribute to Broadway composer Jerry
Herman.  The night of performances include George Hearn's
version of "I Am What I Am", the powerful song from the
gay Tony-winning musical LA CAGE AUX FOLLES.

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One final note:  A Masterpiece Theater series, TO PLAY THE KING, is still
airing in some places.  The king's advisor in this series is gay and has a
long-term partner, and gay plot themes have been seen in the series.  Check
your local PBS listings if you're interested in more details.

That's it for this week's tv shows.  Read note #1 also!

Warmly, Carol Mortimer, NJ
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