Subject: Gay TV 7/22/95 - 7/28/95
From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 23:45:51 -0400

Hi, folks!  This is note #1 (of 4) of the list of tv shows
with gay, lesbian, other sexual minority, and gay/straight
AIDS themes, for the tv week of Sat 7/22/95-Fri. 7/28/95.
Be sure to read all 4 notes.  Local shows are listed with
local times; national shows are Eastern time zone.

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The following shows air at multiple/various times:

>> THE STATE.  A reader wrote:  "A show you might want to
add to your listings: MTV's sketch comedy show 'The
State.' One of the eleven cast members, Kevin Allison
(he's the only male with red hair) is openly gay. While
the gay content of episodes isn't nearly as high as, say,
Kids in the Hall, there is some, plus lots of
crossdressing (as the cast features only one woman). It's
kind of silly and aimed at the MTV crowd...but is
occasionally hysterical."  (Thanks for the info, Alan.)
Note:  This is one of those MTV shows that airs A LOT, so
I won't list it every week.  Look for it if you are
interested, but this week's show times include:
- Sat. 7/22/95, 7:00 pm & 11:00 pm, MTV
- Sun. 7/23/95, 8:30 pm & 11:30 pm, MTV
- Fri. 7/28/95, 10:00 pm, MTV

>> NETWORK Q.  New weekly gay tv program.  Airs:
- Sat. 7/22/95, 10:00 pm, on Phila. PA WYBE ch.35 (show#2)
- Mon.-Tues., 7/24-25/95, midnight, NYC NY WNET ch. 13
- Wed. 7/26/95, 9:00 pm, on Phila. PA WYBE ch. 35 (#3)

>> SOAPDISH (CC).  Parody of tv soap operas.  One of the
many villians is transgendered.  Airs:
- Sun. 7/23/95, 12:45 pm, HBO
- Wed. 7/26/95, 9:00 am, HBO

>> AND THE BAND PLAYED ON (CC).  Great HBO adaptation of
Randy Shilts' superb book about the early years of the
AIDS epidemic.  HIGHLY recommended!  The all-star cast
includes Sir Ian McKellen, Lily Tomlin, Alan Alda, Matthew
Modine, Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Phil Collins, and
Steve Martin.  Airs:
- Mon. 7/24/95, 1:30 pm, HBO
- Fri. 7/28/95, 5:30 pm, HBO

>> RICHARD BEY.  According to TV Guide, this talk show has
two topics of likely interest this week:
1) "HOMOSEXUALITY."  Airs in some (not all) areas on Tues.
7/25/95.  Check local listings.  Airings include:
- Tues. 7/25/95, 11:00 am, Phila. PA WGBS ch. 57
- Tues. 7/25/95, 4:00 pm, WWOR national cable ch. 9
2) "DISAPPROVING OF A TEENAGE DAUGHTER'S LIFESTYLE."  No
promsies on this one, but "lifestyle" is a frequent TV
listing euphemism for gayness.  Airs Wed. 7/26/95 in some
areas, including:
- Wed. 7/26/95, 11:00 am, WWOR national cable ch. 9

>> CHARLES PEREZ: A DISCUSSION OF WHETHER HIV-POSITIVE
COUPLES SHOULD CONCEIVE CHILDREN.  This aired last week in
most areas, but it will air on Tues. 7/25/95 in other
areas.  Airings include:
- Tues. 7/25/95, 11:00 pm, on Phila. PA WPHL ch. 17

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Warmly, Carol Mortimer, NJ
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Hi, folks!  This is note #2 (of 4) of the list of tv shows
with gay, lesbian, other sexual minority, and gay/straight
AIDS themes, for the tv week of Sat 7/22/95-Fri. 7/28/95.
Be sure to read all 4 notes!  Most times Eastern.

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>> ORLANDO (CC).  TV Guide says:  "Visually striking
adaptation of Virginia Woolf's historical fantasy about an
individual (Tilda Swinton) who lives variously as a man or
a woman over the course of four centuries."  Airs:
- Thurs. 7/27/95, 9:00 am & again at 9:00 pm, The Movie
Channel

>> GERALDO:  CONSIDERING A SEX CHANGE.  Airs Fri. 7/28/95
in most areas, including:
- Fri. 7/28/95, 4:00 pm, on NYC NY WCBS ch. 2 and Phila.
PA WCAU ch. 10

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

>> BITTER HARVEST.  Airs Sat.-Sun., 7/22-23/95, 1:20 am,
Cinemax.  "A menage a trois between a naive rancher
(Stephen Baldwin) and two drifters (Jennifer Rubin, Patsy
Kensit)."-TV Guide

>> PRICK UP YOUR EARS.  Airs Sat.-Sun. 7/22-23/95, 2:00
am, Encore cable.  "Revealing look at the life of British
playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) who was murdered by his
lover Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina)."-TV Guide

>> SUZANNE WESTENHOEFER (CC). Airs Sun. 7/23/95, 5:30 am
(NOT pm), HBO.  Stand up comedy from the out lesbian
comic.

>> THE PELICAN BRIEF (CC). Airs Sun. 7/23/95, 5:30 pm,
Cinemax.  It's incidental to the plot, but one of the
Supreme Court Justices who gets killed turns out to have
been a closeted gay man.

>> OUT THERE 2.  Airs Sun. 7/23/95, 7:00 pm, Comedy
Central.  An hour of lesbian, gay, & bi comedy.

>> READY OR NOT (CC).  Airs Sun. 7/23/95, 7:35 pm,
Showtime.  TV Guide says "Busy (Lani Billiard) has a crush
on her karate teacher, but is crushed when she finds out
he's gay."  This was a pretty good show.

>> THE NANNY (CC).  Airs Mon. 7/24/95, 8:00 pm, CBS.
"Fran (Fran Drescher) doesn't have her facts straight when
she assumes a charming male nanny with whom she's
perfectly compatible must be gay."-TV Guide

>> LARRY SANDERS SHOW (CC).  Airs Mon. 7/24/95, 10:30 pm,
HBO.  A rebroadcast of the new season opener.  Look for
new cast member Scott Thompson (the openly gay actor from
the KIDS IN THE HALL series).  He will play Hank
Kingsley's gay assistant this season.

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Please be sure to read all 4 notes.

Warmly, Carol Mortimer, NJ
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Hi, folks!  This is note #3 (of 4) of the list of tv shows
with gay, lesbian, other sexual minority, and gay/straight
AIDS themes, for the tv week of Sat 7/22/95-Fri. 7/28/95.
Be sure to read all 4 notes!  Most times Eastern.

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>> POSITIVE HEALTH.  Airs in Phila. PA every Tuesday
(including 7/25/95) at 7:30 pm, on WYBE ch. 35.  Locally
produced show by and for PWAs and people who are HIV+.

>> DEAR JOHN (CC).  Airs Tues. 7/25/95, 11:35 pm, Phila.
PA WTXF ch. 29.  May or may not air in other areas as
well.  "The group tells John that the knockout who's
knocking him out is really a new member's transvestite
husband."

>> EAGLE SCOUT:  THE STORY OF HENRY NICOLS (CC).  Airs
Wed. 7/26/95, 4:30 pm, HBO.  "Henry Nicols is an avid
mountain climber and water-skier, disciplined karate
student and Eagle Scout.  He is also a hemophiliac who was
diagnosed with HIV when he was 12 years old.  Henry, now
21 and battling AIDS, simply and powerfully tells his
story (with comments from his devoted family) without a
trace of bitterness."- TV Guide

>> ROSEANNE (CC).  Airs Wed. 7/26/95, 7:00 pm, NYC NY WNYW
ch. 5.  This is the episode in which Roseanne and Jackie
go with Nancy and her partner to a gay bar, and Nancy's
partner (Mariel hemmingway) kisses Roseanne.

>> GRIEF.  Airs Wed. 7/26/95, 8:00 pm, Cinemax.  TV Guide
says that this show is about "lust and ambition among the
ranks of a tabloid TV show."  A correspondent who alerted
me to this one described it as a "gay indie hit".  (Thanks
for the info, Jason.)

>> DREAM ON (CC).  Airs Wed. 7/26/95, 10:00 pm, HBO.  On
pg. 37 of this week's TV Guide, reviewer Paul Droesch
says: "Bumbling book editor Martin Tupper (Brian Benben)
is back (he returned last week).  This week, guest star
Annette O'Toole wants to 'lesbianize' with his Junior
Leaguey ex-wife, Wendie Malick.  It's as smirky, infantile
and borderline smutty as ever, but still fun and clever
enough to give it that 'I-buy-it-for-the-articles' sort of
acceptibility."  Elsewhere, TV Guide says:  "Judith's best
friend (Annette O'Toole) from college, who Martin
considers 'the one that got away' visits - and brings
surprising news."

>> HILL STREET BLUES.  Airs in Phila. PA on Thurs.
7/27/95, 7:00 pm, on WGTW ch. 48.  Joe Coffey's high
school coach (James Tolkan) tries to pick him up when
Coffey goes undercover as a male prostitute.

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Please be sure to read all 4 notes.

Warmly, Carol Mortimer, NJ
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Hi, folks!  This is note #4 (of 4) of the list of tv shows
with gay, lesbian, other sexual minority, and gay/straight
AIDS themes, for the tv week of Sat 7/22/95-Fri. 7/28/95.
Be sure to read all 4 notes!  Most times Eastern.

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>> AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE:  "ARMISTEAD MAUPIN'S 'TALES OF THE
CITY'" (CC).  Part 2 (of 6) airs in NYC on Thurs. 7/27/95,
10:00 pm, WNET ch. 13.  May or may not air on other PBS
stations, so check your local listings.

>> JUST ONE OF THE GUYS.  Airs Fri. 7/28/95, 9:00 pm,
Encore cable.  Joyce Hyser plays a high school teen who
goes undercover as a male student in another high school,
to research a newspaper article on sexism.  When she falls
for a guy she meets at the other school, their friends
assume that "he" is a gay male.  Fun & funny.

>> THREESOME (CC).  Airs Fri. 7/28/95, 9:45 pm, Showtime
cable.  Three college roommates:  Male #1 is in love with
Female.  Female is in love with Male #2.  Male #2 is in
love with Male #1.

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That's it for this week's tv shows.  But check out the 
article on pg. 4 of this week's TV Guide, about Bill 
Brochtrup's role as the gay receptionist John Irvin on
NYPD Blue.

Please be sure to read all 4 notes.

Warmly, Carol Mortimer, NJ
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