From: CarolM10@aol.com Date: Sat, 04 Jun 94 01:12:05 EDT Hi, folks! This is the list of tv shows with gay, lesbian, other sexual minority, and gay/straight AIDS themes, for the tv week of Sat 06/04/94-Fri 06/10/94. Be sure to read note #2 also. All times are Eastern. ********************************************************* The following shows air at multiple/varied times: >> IN THE LIFE. Lesbian/gay variety & entertainment series. Check with your local PBS, but airings include: - Phila., PA: Will air on some June Saturday at 5:30 pm on Phila. PA WYBE ch. 35, but I don't know which one. - Pittsburgh, PA: Sat. 6/4/94, 11:30 pm, WQEX ch. 6 - Phila. PA: STONEWALL 25TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL airs Fri. 6/10/94, 7:30 pm, WYBE ch. 35 Note: Beware - this is pledge week on many PBS stations! >> RICKI LAKE: HOMOSEXUALITY. Will air in some areas on Tues. 6/7. Phila. airing is Tues-Wed., 6/7-8/94, 3:35 am, on KYW tv ch. 3. >> CENTURY OF WOMEN: IMAGE AND POPULAR CULTURE (CC). Part 3 of a three part documentary series. One of the women profiled in this episode, singer Bessie Smith, had relationships with women. Unknown if the show will address this fact. Airs: - Thurs. 6/9/94, 8:05 pm, TBS - Thurs-Fri., 6/9-10/94, 12:05 am, TBS >> VICTIM. 1961 film in which Dirk Bogarde plays a lawyer who risks his career by tracking down a ring of black- mailers that targets his gay ex-lover. Microsoft Cinemania says this movie was considered daring in its day for its treatment of homosexuality, but some readers of this column have had negative things to say about it. I've never seen the movie, so I don't know. Airs: - Thurs-Fri, 6/9-10/94, midnight, Bravo cable - Fri. 6/10/94, 12:30 pm, Bravo >> GREETINGS FROM OUT HERE. Ellen Spiro, AIDS activist and filmmaker, traveled through the South for a year, capturing on film the "richness, vitality and courage of out gay southerners." Airs on the following dates: - Fri. 6/10/94, 8:00 pm, Phila. PA WYBE ch. 35 - Sat. 6/11/94, 7:00 pm, WYBE ch. 35 - Tues. 6/14/94, 11:30 pm, Phila. PA WHYY ch. 12. The following shows air once this week as far as I know: >> HEALTHWORKS. Airs Sat. 6/4/94, 2:00 pm, CNN. Update on AIDS research. >> THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE. Airs Sat. 6/4/94, 4:00 pm, Lifetime cable. Oprah Winfrey stars in this 4 hour movie based on Gloria Naylor's book. The story focuses on about 8 women who live in a ghetto neighborhood in the 1960s. Two of them are a lesbian couple. Recommended. >> CITIZEN COHN. Airs Sun. 6/5/94, 1:00 pm, on Phila. PA WTXF ch. 29. Made-for-HBO movie about repugnant lawyer Roy Cohn (James Woods), who was Jewish & yet anti-Semitic, homosexual & yet homophobic. Cohn was an aide to Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s HUAC trials. >> GOLDEN GIRLS (CC). Airs Sun. 6/5/94, 6:00 pm, on New York City NY WNYW ch. 5. This is the episode in which Blanche's brother (Monte Markham) tells her that he's gay. >> LIFESTORIES: FAMILIES IN CRISIS (CC). Airs Mon-Tues, 6/6-7/94, 3:35 am, HBO. No promises here. My TV Guide doesn't specify the episode, but HBO is advising viewer discretion. I've only seen them do that on two shows in the past, one of which was about a lesbian teenage couple. >> (+) HEALTH. Airs every Tuesday, 8:00 pm, on Phila. PA WYBE ch. 35. Local weekly show on HIV & related issues. >> SILENCE...BROKEN. Airs Tues. 6/7/94, on Philadelphia PA WYBE ch. 35. This is part of a 9:00 pm "Through the Lens 4" series of short films, and will begin at approximately 9:10 pm, after another short called "Mother's Hands". Silence... Broken is an 8-min/ 1993 film by African-American lesbian Aisha Shahidah Simmons, on the topics of racism, sexism and homophobia. Features the poetry of the very talented Jourdan Keith. >> THE VISIT. Airs Wed. 6/8/94, 9:30 pm, on New Jersey PBS channels 23 (Camden WNJS) and 52 (Trenton WNJT). TV Guide describes this as "a drama about a young mother with AIDS." May or may not air on other PBS stations, so check your local listings. >> GAY RIGHTS IN COLORADO: THE UNCIVIL WAR. Airs Thurs. 6/9/94, 9:00 pm, on Phila. PA WYBE ch. 35. >> BROADCAST TAPES OF DR. PETER (CC). Airs Thurs. 6/9/94, 5:45 pm, HBO. By now, most people probably know that this HBO production is a compilation of tv news reports made by a Canadian physician who had AIDS, and who died of the disease. ********************************************************** Note: Remember to allow for pledge breaks for PBS shows! And be sure to check your local PBS station listings to see if they have any special programming for gay pride month. Most PBS stations do. Happy Gay Pride month, everyone. Warmly, Carol Mortimer, NJ Prodigy ID = npwc08a In IDs: 0 & 1 are numbers. AmericaOnLineID = caroLm10 o & L are letters. Internet ID = caroLm10@aoL.com PS: This note actually would have gone out two days ago, but my entire PC setup went south this week and I've only just now recovered. Send good thoughts my way. My PC could use them!!!!