Subject: Gay TV Shows 4/8-14/95
From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 23:54:46 -0400

Hi, folks!  This is note #1 (of 3) of the list of tv shows
with gay, lesbian, other sexual minority, and gay/straight
AIDS themes, for the tv week of Sat 4/08/95- Fri 4/14/95.
Be sure to read notes #2&3 also.  Most times are Eastern.

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The following shows air at multiple/various times:

>> IN THE LIFE.  According to the IN THE LIFE program
guide, episode 403 "looks at the experience of gay and
lesbian veterans - veterans of the military, veterans of
the battle against AIDS, and veterans in the Stonewall
movement for lesbian and gay equal rights."  It also
includes a preview of "A Language of Their Own" (which is
a new play about a gay male Asian couple) and reports on
the 5th annual OutWrite conference for gay & lesbian
writers.  Upcoming airings (local times) include:
- MIAMI, FL:  Airs Sun. 4/9/95, noon, WLRN ch. 17
- NORTH DAKOTA TV:  Airs Sun. 4/9/95, 10:00 pm, on Fargo
KFME ch. 13, Grand Forks KGFE ch. 2, Bismark KBME ch. 3,
Minot KSRE ch. 6, Dickinson KDSE ch 9, Williston KWSE ch.
4, Ellendale KJRE ch. 19
- SAN FRAN., CA:  Airs Mon. 4/10/95, 11:00 pm, KQED ch. 9
- CHICAGO, IL:  Airs Tues. 4/11/95, 11:00 pm, WTTW ch. 11
- TACOMA, WA:  Airs Fri. 4/14/95, 11:00 pm and again on
Fri. 4/28/95, 11:00 pm, KBTC ch. 28
- SPRINGFIELD/NORTHAMPTON, MA:  Airs Sat. 4/15/95, 11:30
pm, WGBY ch. 57
- SACRAMENTO, CA:  Airs Sat-Sun., 4/15-16/95, midnight,
KVIE ch. 6
- MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, MN:  Airs Mon. 4/17/95, 10:00 pm,
KTCI ch. 17
- NEW YORK CITY, NY:  Airs Tues. 4/18/95, 10:00 pm, WNET
ch. 13

>> MY SO-CALLED LIFE (CC).  This show will begin airing
weeknights at 7:00 pm on MTV, starting Monday 4/10/95.  If
you haven't seen it before, check it out.  One of the
characters, Rickie, is a teen character who is either gay
or bi.  NOTE:  This show is NOT listed in my TV Guide, but
it is being promoted with on-air tv commercials.  I don't
know if it will be just reruns of this past season's
short-lived ABC series episodes, or if MTV will also be
commissioning brand new episodes.

>> INDEPENDENT IMAGES short films on Philadelphia PA's
WHYY ch. 12.  According to WHYY's SEVEN ARTS program guide
for April, the following interesting shows will air on
WHYY this week, as part of the Independent Images series:
- "Inside: Picking Thorns" which "views the complexities
of a gay relationship."  Approximate air time:  Mon-Tues,
4/10-11/95, midnight.
- "About John and Andre" which "focuses on the lives of
two, elderly gay artists living in a small town in
France."  Approximate air time:  Wed. 4/12/95, 11:55 pm. 

************** TO BE CONTINUED ON NOTE #2 **************

Be sure to read notes #2 & 3 for more shows!

Warmly, Carol Mortimer, NJ
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Hi, folks!  This is note #2 (of 3) of the list of tv shows
with gay, lesbian, other sexual minority, and gay/straight
AIDS themes, for the tv week of Sat 4/8/95 - Fri 4/14/95.
Be sure to read notes #1 & 3 also.  Times are Eastern.

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

>> ROSEANNE (CC).  This is the great episode in which
Roseanne thinks that Rodbell's is giving lie detector
tests to employees to try to find out if Leon is gay.  (He
is, but they aren't.)  Airs Tuesday 4/11 in some areas in
daily syndication.  Check local listings, but airings
include Tues. 4/11/95, 7:00 pm, on Phila. PA WGBS ch. 57.

>> RICKI LAKE:  "HOMOSEXUALS WHO WANT TO RAISE CHILDREN."
Airs Wed. 4/12/95 in most areas.  Airings include:
- Wed. 4/12/95, 10:30 am, on Phila. PA WPVI ch. 6
- Wed. 4/12/95, noon, NYC-based national cable WWOR ch. 9
(likely, but not definite airing)

>> CHEERS (CC).  Harvey Fierstein appears as Rebecca's
high school sweetheart.  She thinks he has come back into
her life to pick up where they left off, but he turns out
to be gay.  Airs in some areas in daily syndication on
Wed. 4/12/95.  Check local listings.  Airings include Wed.
4/12/95 at 11:00 pm on Phila. PA WTXF ch. 29.

The following shows air once this week as far as I know:

>> PELICAN BRIEF (CC).  Airs Sat. 4/8/95, 1:30 pm, HBO.
It's incidental to the plot, but a US Supreme Court
Justice who is assassinated in this movie turns out to be
a closeted gay man.

>> FIRST EDITION.  Airs Sat. 4/8/95, 4:00 pm, on NYC WNET
ch. 13.  TV Guide says:  "Debut.  Shari Belafonte and
Chralie Rose host a weekly series in which authors discuss
their books.  First up: a 1984 interview with Randy Shilts
('AND THE BAND PLAYED ON')."

>> SISTERS (CC).  Airs Sat. 4/8/95, 10:00 pm, NBC.  This
episode features Norma (Nora Dunn), who "asks Alex and
family for support when she's hired to produce a public-TV
station's pledge drive."  I don't watch this show and I'm
not 100% sure, but I *THINK* that Norma is the lesbian
character.  No promises (& no gay plotline is indicated).

>> JUST ONE OF THE GUYS (CC).  Airs Mon. 4/10/95, 1:15 pm,
HBO.  This film depicts a female high school student who
decides to dress as a male and enroll in another school,
to investigate sexism for a newspaper article.  When she
falls for a male she meets at the other school, the
students there believe that she's a gay male.

>> OCEAN PLANET.  Airs Mon. 4/10/95, 10:00 pm, Discovery
channel.  "Marine life that may yield drugs to fight
diseases like AIDS and Alzheimer's."-TV Guide

*********** TO BE CONTINUED ON NOTE #3 *****************

Please be sure to read notes 1 & 3 for more shows.

Warmly, Carol Mortimer, NJ
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Hi, folks!  This is note #3 (of 3) of the list of tv shows
with gay, lesbian, other sexual minority, and gay/straight
AIDS themes, for the tv week of Sat 4/8/95- Fri 4/14/95.
Be sure to read notes #1 & 2 also.  All times Eastern.

*************** CONTINUED FROM NOTE #2 ******************

>> THE FOX (CC).  Airs Tues. 4/11/95, 9:00 am, Cinemax.
TV Guide says "Sexual situations.  Intriguing adaptation
of the D.H. Lawrence novella about a lesbian relationship
disrupted by a male intruder."

>> MRS. DOUBTFIRE (CC).  Airs Tues. 4/11/95, 1:00 pm,
Cinemax.  Robin Williams appears as a divorced man who
pretends to be an elderly woman so he can be around his
children.  Harvey Fierstein and gay CA comic Scott Capurro
appear as the gay male couple and makeup experts who
assist with the transformation.

>> POSITIVE HEALTH.  Airs in Phila. PA every Tuesday at
7:30 pm, including Tues. 4/11/95, 7:30 pm, on Phila. PA
WYBE ch. 35.  A local show by and for people who are HIV+.

>> RED HOT AND COUNTRY.  Airs Wed. 4/12/95, 8:00 pm, The
Nashville Network.  TV Guide says:  "Country artists in a
concert to promote AIDS awareness.  Performers include
Kathy Mattea, Suzy Boguss, Billy Ray Cyrus, Earl Scruggs,
Carl Perkins, Duane Eddy and the Mavericks, Levon Helm,
John Hiatt, and Clint Black."

>> OVERKILL: THE AILEEN WUORNOS STORY.  Airs Wed. 4/12/95,
9:00 pm, Lifetime.  Jean Smart plays a real-life serial
killer "whose victims were older men who pickekd her up
along the roads."  I'm not sure if it is mentioned in this
movie, but Wuornos made headlines in part because she also
had a female lover.

>> ER (CC).  Airs Thurs. 4/13/95, 10:00 pm, NBC.  Among
the stories: "Carter does some soul-searching regarding
his treatment of a transvestite (Vondi Curtis-Hall)."-TV
Guide

>> ED WOOD:  LOOK BACK IN ANGORA.  Airs Thurs-Fri.,
4/13-14/95, 4:15 am, Cinemax.  Documentary about the film
director who is widely regarded as the worst director in
Hollywood history, and who is also remembered as a
straight cross-dresser who liked to make his movies while
wearing dresses and his wife's angora sweaters.

>> BITTER HARVEST.  Airs Fri. 4/14/95, 11:00 pm, Showtime
cable.  TV Guide says:  "A menage a trois between a naive
rancher (Stephen Baldwin) and two drifters (Jennifer
Rubin, Patsy Kensit)."

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That's it for this week!  Be sure to read notes #1 & 2 for
more shows.  Happy viewing.

Warmly, Carol Mortimer, NJ
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