Subject: Gay TV Shows 9/16/95 - 9/22/95
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 02:45:43 -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 9/16/95 - Fri 9/22/95.
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:

- NETWORK Q.  G/L/B show.  Check local listings.
Scheduled airings include (but aren't limited to):
> Sat. 9/16/95, 10:00 pm, on Phila. PA WYBE ch. 35
> Mon.-Tues., 9/18-19/95, midnight, on NYC NY WNET ch. 13
> Wed. 9/20/95, 9:00 pm, on Phila. PA WYBE ch. 35
(different episode from 9/16 show)

- GABRIELLE:  HETEROSEXUALS ATTRACTED TO HOMOSEXUALS (CC).
Airs Mon. 9/18/95 in some areas.  Check local listings.
Airings include:
> Mon. 9/18/95, 11:00 am, on Phila. PA WTXF ch. 29 and NYC
NY WNYW ch. 5.

- JERRY SPRINGER: TRANSSEXUALISM AND PROSTITUTION.  Also
airs Mon. 9/18/95 in most areas.  Check local listings.
Airings include:
> Mon. 9/18/95, 11:00 am, on Phila. PA WGBS ch. 57

- MARK WALBERG:  GAY COUPLES AND MARRIAGE.  Airs Mon
9/18/95 in some areas.  Check local listings.  Airs:
> Mon 9/18/95, noon, on Phila. PA WTXF ch. 29 (probable)
> Mon 9/18/95, 1:00 pm, on NYC NY WNYW ch. 5 (definite)

- CHARLES PEREZ: WOMEN WHO DISCOVER THAT THEIR FORMER
MATES ARE HOMOSEXUAL.  Airs Wed. 9/20/95 in some, but NOT
all, areas.  Check your local listings.  Airings include:
> Wed. 9/20/95, noon, Phila. PA WPHL ch. 17

- REGIS & KATHIE LEE.  Guests include Boy George.  Airs
Thurs. 9/21/95 in most areas.  Airings include:
> Thurs. 9/21/95, 9:00 am, on Phila. PA WCAU ch. 10, New
York City NY WABC ch. 7, and Wildwood NJ WMGM ch. 40

- PHIL DONAHUE:  BISEXUALITY (CC).  Airs Thurs. 9/21/95 in
many areas.  Check listings.  Airings include:
> Thurs.-Fri., 9/21-22/95, 1:35 am, on Phila. PA KYW ch. 3

- JUST ONE OF THE GUYS (CC).  A decent movie about a
female high school student who cross-dresses & enrolls as
a male student in another school, to research an article
on sexism.  When she falls for a male student at the other
school, the kids think that she is a gay male.  Airs:
> Fri. 9/22/95, 6:20 AM (NOT pm!) and 3:00 pm, on HBO

- CARNIE: TRANSVESTISM.  Airs Fri. 9/22/95 in some areas.
Airings include:
> Fri. 9/22/95, 10:00 am, on NYC NY WABC ch. 7
> Fri.-Sat., 9/22-23/95, 2:05 am, on Phila. PA WPVI ch. 6

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

- EAGLE SCOUT: THE STORY OF HENRY NICHOLS (CC).  Airs Sat.
9/16/95, 9:00 am (NOT pm!), on HBO.  TV Guide says:
"Uplifting story of an HIV-positive Boy Scout who achieved
his organization's top rank after spearheading an AIDS education project."

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Be sure to read all 4 notes!

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 9/16/95 - Fri 9/22/95.
Be sure to read all 4 notes!  Most times Eastern.

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- ARMISTEAD MAUPIN'S TALES OF THE CITY (Parts 4-6 of 6).
Airs in Los Angeles on Sat. 9/16/95, from 9:00 pm to
midnight, on KCET ch. 28.  (Followed at midnight by
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN IS A MAN I DREAMT UP, about the gay
author of the TALES series.)

- ROSIE O'DONNELL (CC).  Airs Sat.-Sun., 9/16-17/95, 12:05
am, on HBO cable.  I think this will be a rebroadcast of
the stand up routine in which Rosie offered her dead-on-
target thoughts about the homophobic murder of a gay Jenny
Jones guest by another guest.

- DAME EDNA EXPERIENCE.  Airs in San Francisco on
Sat.-Sun., 9/16-17/95, 1:25 am, on KQED ch. 9.  Hosted by
Australian cross-dresser Barry Humphries.

- BITTER HARVEST.  Airs Sat.-Sun., 9/16-17/95, 2:00 am, on
Showtime cable.  "A rancher (Stephen Baldwin) and two
drifters (Jennifer Rubin, Patsy Kensit) form a menage a
trois."-TV Guide

- FAMILY STORIES.  Airs Sun. 9/17/95, 5:00 pm, on Phila.
PA WHYY ch. 12.  May or may not air on other PBS stations!
TV Guide calls this "A look at the ways the changing
definition of family affects the children of interracial,
divorced, gay and lesbian, and traditional parents."

- MELROSE PLACE SHOW #1 (CC).  Airs Mon. 9/18/95, 8:00 pm,
Fox.  According to TV Guide, "Matt fights with Paul, and
later with Jake".  Another show airs Wed.  [Note:  In the
9/8/95 issue, Entertainment Weekly said: "WHAT'S OUT NOW:
The lone gay lead in a prime-time drama series is Melrose
Place's Matt Fielding, played by Doug Savant.  A year ago,
Fox snipped his kiss; this season, he'll have something
bigger - a juicy seduction-and-murder story line."]

- MAURICE.  Airs Mon. 9/18/95, 11:00 pm, Bravo cable.
Beautiful film about a gay man coming to terms with his
sexuality in Edwardian England.

- NO REWIND.  Airs in San Francisco on Mon. 9/18/95, 11:39
pm, on KQED ch. 9.  A show to educate teens about how to
prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS.

- TODAY SHOW (CC).  Airs Tues. 9/19/95, 7:00 am, NBC.
Guests include Boy George.

- POSITIVE HEALTH.  Airs in Phila. PA on Tues. 9/19/95,
7:30 pm, on WYBE ch. 35.  A local weekly show by and for
people with AIDS and HIV disease.  This week's topic:
"Frank McClellan, professor of law at Temple University
and author of 'Medical Malpractice: Law, Tactics, and
Ethics', will answer your questions about malpractice,
HMOs, medical ethics, and the law." (WYBE program guide)

- ROSEANNE (CC).  Airs Tues. 9/19/95, 8:00 pm, ABC.
Sandra Bernhard appears as Roseanne's friend Nancy in this
8th season opener, as Roseanne "is eager to invite 'every
sucker [she] can think of,' including old friends - and
potential gift-givers - Nancy, Crystal and Anne Marie
(Sandra Bernhard, Natalie West, Adilah Barnes)" to her
baby shower.  (TV Guide)

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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 9/16/95 - Fri 9/22/95.
Be sure to read all 4 notes!  Most times Eastern.

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

- PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS (CC).  Airs Tues. 9/19/95, 9:30 pm,
NBC.  TV Guide doesn't list any gay plot for this new
series' debut, but pg. 42 says the show's premise is this:
"Idealistic lawyer copes Job-like with the complexities of
modern life:  His wife loses her job, his best friend and
law colleague announces he's gay, his secretary gives him
no respect, his annoying brother-in-law moves in, and his
beloved grandma wrestles with aging."  According to
Entertainment Weekly, Brad Garrett plays the gay lawyer.

- MELROSE PLACE SHOW #2 (CC).  Airs Wed. 9/20/95, 9:00 pm,
Fox.   TV Guide says:  "Matt's lawyer (Anne-Marie Johnson)
objects to his plan for Paul (David Beecroft)".

- UNHAPPILY EVER AFTER (CC).  Airs Wed. 9/20/95, 9:30 pm,
Warner Brothers network (incl. Phila. PA WPHL ch. 17 and
national cable WPIX ch. 11).  Again, no gay plot line
listed this week, but look for out gay stand-up comic ANT,
who has a regular role in this series.

- COURTHOUSE (CC).  Airs Wed. 9/20/95, 10:00 pm, on CBS.
See pgs. 50 & 146 of the 9/16 TV Guide for info on the
lesbian couple who will be in this new show.  On pg. 146,
TV Guide notes that the original plan was for the lesbian
couple to be interracial, but that the relationship will
now be between two Black women.  No gay plot is mentioned
for this week's show, but look for actresses Jennifer
Lewis and Cree Summer, who will play the couple.

- PHILADELPHIA (CC).  Airs Wed. 9/20/95, 10:00 pm,
Showtime cabe.  Tom Hanks won an Oscar for his role as a
gay lawyer who is fired from his job when he develops AIDS
and his gayness is discovered.  Denzel Washington costars,
& the gay a cappella group The Flirtations appear briefly.

- THE CREW (CC).  Airs Thurs. 9/21/95, 8:30 pm, Fox.  Gay
flight attendant Paul is featured.  TV Guide says "Unable
to provide a urine sample for a random, company-ordered
drug test, Randy uses part of the one that Paul submitted,
but their tests don't yield the same results."

- RIGHTS & WRONGS:  HUMAN RIGHTS TV.  Airs in NYC NY on
Thurs. 9/21/95, 8:30 pm, on WNET ch. 13.  The scheduled
topic is AIDS.

- THREE OF HEARTS (CC).  Airs Thurs. 9/21/95, 9:00 pm, on
The Movie Channel cable.  Very weird movie in which a
lesbian (Kelly Lynch) hires a male gigolo (William
Baldwin) to seduce, and then drop, her bisexual ex
(Sherilyn Fenn), in the hopes that the ex would give up on
men and return to women.

- COMMUNITY FORUM: OUT OF THE CLOSET.  Airs in Phila. PA
on Thurs. 9/21/95, 9:30 pm, on WYBE ch. 35.  Monthly show
by and about the local Phila. area lesbian, gay, bisexual,
and transgender community, with particular focus on our
communities of color.

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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 9/16/95 - Fri 9/22/95.
Be sure to read all 4 notes!  Most times Eastern.

*************** CONTINUED FROM NOTE #3 ******************

- CONFRONTING AIDS IN RURAL AMERICA.  Airs in Phila. PA on
Fri. 9/22/95, 8:00 pm, on WYBE ch. 35.  WYBE's program
guide says "This documentary examines attitudes about AIDS
and homosexuality in rural America, reflecting the ongoing
debate on moral issues surrounding the disease."

- THE PELICAN BRIEF (CC).  Airs Fri. 9/22/95, 9:40 pm,
Cinemax.  It is incidental to the plot, but one of the US
Supreme Court Justices who gets killed in this movie turns
out to have been a closeted gay man.

- LISTENING TO CHILDREN: A MORAL STORY WITH ROBERT COLES.
Airs in Tampa FL on Fri. 9/22/95, 10:00 pm, on WEDU ch. 3.
According to a correspondent, WEDU's program guide says:
"Pulitzer Prize-winning author and child psychiatrist
Robert Coles explores the lives of eight American children
who are struggling to make sense of an all-too-turbulent
world. Each child must draw upon inner resources to
resolve difficult issues, including deteriorating famlies,
alcoholism, affluence, the uncertainties of migrant life,
AIDS, racism, poverty, violence and riots."

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That's it for this week's shows.  A few notes:

1. Many thanks to all of you who wrote to congratulate me
on the 6th annniversary of my weekly gay tv listings.  I
appreciate your kinds words, and am glad that you find the
lists helpful.

2. I'd like to share the thanks with the wonderful people
who help by reposting my lists on other boards, sending me
tv show listings for their local viewing areas, etc. 

   EXTRA SPECIAL THANKS to Michael Biocco of Delphi and
GLCF Pat of AOL, who have been incredibly helpful &
generous with their time and support!!!!!!

3. I've gotten lots of reader info this past week, so I'll
be posting it on the web site later this weekend. (There's
too much info to include it in the email and BB lists.) If
you have web access, check it out in a couple of days:

 http://pages.prodigy.com/NJ/carol_mortimer/gay_tv_menu.html

4. New shows with gay characters this season include (but
aren't necessarily limited to!) the following:

> Live Shot (Tues. UPN) - closeted gay male sportscaster

> Pursuit of Happiness (Tues., NBC) - gay male lawyer

> Courthouse (Wed., CBS) - Black lesbian judge & partner

> The Crew (Thurs., Fox) - out white gay male flight
attendant Paul

5. Returning shows with regular or fairly regular gay
characters include:

> Melrose Place (Mon., Fox) - Matt, out white gay man

> Larry Sanders Show (Mon & Wed., HBO) - old show, but a
new white gay male charactor (played by out gay actor
Scott Thompson)

> Roseanne (Tues., ABC) white lesbian Nancy & white gay
male Leon, plus partners (including Leon's fiance-to-be)

> Party of Five (Wed., Fox) - gay man

> Unhappily Ever After (Wed., WB) - gay man (& out gay
actor/comic ANT)

> Friends (Thurs., NBC) - white lesbian couple & child

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Please be sure to read all 4 notes.

Warmly, Carol Mortimer, NJ
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