Subject: Gay TV Shows 9/29/95 -10/6/95
From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 03:35:10 -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 9/30/95 - Fri 10/6/95.
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. 9/30/95, 10:00 pm, on Phila. PA WYBE ch. 35
> Wed. 10/4/95, 9:00 pm, on Phila. PA WYBE ch. 35 (these
will be different episodes)

- ALL ABOUT EVE.  TV Guide says:  "A 1994 study of Eve Van
Grafhorst (1982-93), a New Zealand girl who contracted HIV
as an infant and spent her life promoting AIDS awareness.
Included:  interviews with Eve; home movies."  Airs:
> Sat. 9/30/95, 11:00 pm, on New Jersey Network PBS
stations, including (but NOT necessarily limited to)
Camden WNJS ch. 23 and Trenton WNJT ch. 52
> Wed. 10/4/95, 10:00 pm, on NJ Network PBS stations,
including Camden WNJS ch. 23 & Trenton WNJT ch. 52
> may air on some other PBS stations; check local listings

- LARRY KING LIVE:  GUEST IS BOY GEORGE.  Airs:
> Mon. 10/2/95, 9:00 pm, CNN (live)
> Mon.-Tues. 10/2-3/95, 2:00 am, CNN (rebroadcast)

- IN THE LIFE.  Quarterly g/l/b news/journal.  WYBE's
program guide says "In Beijing for the International
Conference of Women, IN THE LIFE visited the 'lesbian
tent' where women from around the world met to discuss
international gay rights.  Also Charles Busch reports on
the new mainstreaming of drag, interviewing Patrick Swayze
and Wesley Snipes about their recent roles as drag
queens."  TV Guide says this episode also has a segment on
the fight to legalize lesbian and gay marriages.  Airs
this month in many PBS and public access stations; check
your local listings.  Upcoming airings include:
> Mon. 10/2/95, 11:00 pm, Phila. PA PBS WHYY ch. 12
> Wed. 10/4/95, 10:00 pm, on NYC NY WNET ch. 13
> Next Wed. 10/11/95, 9:00 pm, on Phila. PA WYBE ch. 35

- ORLANDO (CC).  Surprisingly boring movie about a person
who lives for 400 years and manages to change genders in
the middle without the benefit of surgery.  Based on
Virginia Woolf's story.  This movie is an exercise in
tedium.  Airs:
> Wed. 10/4/95, 9:45 am and 6:25 pm, Showtime cable

- THE WEDDING BANQUET.  TV Guide calls this an "Engaging
farce involving an interracial gay couple who stage a
phony marriage ceremony to please one partner's tradition-
minded parents."  Airings include:
> Wed. 10/4/95, 8:00 pm, Prism
> Thurs. 10/5/95, 10:30 am, Prism

- GABRIELLE:  DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN SEXUAL IDENTITY AND
GENDER (CC).  Airs Thurs. 10/5/95:
> Thurs. 10/5/95, 11:00 am, on Phila. PA WTXF ch. 29 and
also on New Yor City, NY WNYW ch. 5.  (I don't know if
this is a Fox broadcast or a syndicated show, so check
your listings).

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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 9/30/95 - Fri 10/6/95.
Be sure to read all 4 notes!  Most times Eastern.

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- THE QUESTION OF EQUALITY.  A 4-part miniseries on past
and current efforts in the lesbian & gay rights movement.
Check your PBS stations, because this one is airing around
the country this month.  Upcoming airings include:
> Fri. 10/6, 10:00 pm - midnight local time, Los Angeles
KCET ch. 28.  Series continues on 10/13 and 10/20.
> Next Mon 10/9/95 - Thurs 10/12/95, 11:00 pm each day, on
Phila. PA WHYY ch. 12
> World Wide Web users:  For info on this series, see:
     http://www.itvs.org/ITVS/programs/QofE

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

- THE KATHY & MO SHOW.  Airs Sun. 10/1/95, 7:00 pm, Comedy
Central.  Very funny stand-up from Kathy Najimy & Mo
Gaffney.  Includes lesbian-positive sketches.
Recommended.

- MISERY LOVES COMPANY (CC).  Airs Sun. 10/1/95, 9:30 pm,
Fox.  An ad I saw tonight suggests that Sunday's debut of
this new show will have a plot line involving a
transgendered person.  If the whole show is like the clip,
this show should come with a transphobia alert.....

- MELROSE PLACE (CC).  Airs Mon. 10/2/95, 8:00 pm, Fox.
TV Guide says "Hobbs offers Matt an out-of-court
settlement."

- SOUTH BANK SHOW.  Airs Mon. 10/2/95, 10:00 pm, Bravo
cable.  TV Guide says this show will be a "profile of
author Alice Walker" ("The Color Purple", "Temple of My
Familiar", etc.)  Unknown if the show will discuss the
lesbian themes in these books and other writings of hers.
No promises.

- BIGGERS AND SUMMERS.  Airs Tues. 10/3/95, 11:00 am
(live), Lifetime cable.  TV Guide lists the scheduled
guest as gay actor/author Harvey Fierstein ("Torch Song
Trilogy", etc.).

- POSITIVE HEALTH.  Airs in Phila. PA on Tues. 10/3/95,
7:30 pm, on WYBE ch. 35.  A local weekly show by and for
people with AIDS and HIV disease.  This week, WYBE's
program guide says "Join Carol Rogers and Arnold Jackson
as they interview Andrew Weil, M.D., the author of
Spontaneous Healing.  A Harvard-trained physician, Dr.
Weil also holds a doctorate in alternative healing
methods."

- ARTHUR ASHE CC).  Airs Wed. 10/4/95, 7:00 am (NOT pm!),
HBO.  This profile of the late tennis star discusses his
fight against AIDS.

- AND THEN THERE WAS ONE.  Airs Thurs. 10/5/95, 2:00 pm,
Lifetime cable.  "(Made for Cable, 1994)  A couple (Amy
Madigan, Dennis Boutsikaris) face their own mortality when
they - and their infant daughter - are diagnosed with
AIDS."-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 3) of the list of tv shows
with gay, lesbian, other sexual minority, and gay/straight
AIDS themes, for the tv week of Sat 9/30/95 - Fri 10/6/95.
Be sure to read all 3 notes!  Most times Eastern.

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- OUT THERE 1  (Thurs. 10/5/95, 8:00 pm, Comedy Central)
- OUT THERE 2  (Thurs. 10/5/95, 9:00 pm, Comedy Central)
Two hours of lesbian & gay humor, featuring Suzanne
Westenhoeffer, Bob Smith, Lea DeLaria, Amanda Bearse,
Marga Gomez, and many other l/g/b comics & performers.
Taped during two National Coming Out Day celebrations.
(Comedy Central is filming another segment on 10/11/95.)

- THE CREW (CC).  Airs Thurs. 10/5/95, 8:30 pm, Fox.  Gay
character Paul (David Burke) is featured.  TV Guide says
"Paul's visiting father (Michael Fairman) treats Randy
like the son he really wanted."

- CAROLINE IN THE CITY (CC).  Airs Thurs. 10/5/95, 9:30
pm, NBC.  Frasier fans may want to know that out actor Dan
Butler is guest starring in this episode, in which
"Richard takes his paintings out of the closet when a
gallery owner (Dan Butler) considers them for an exclusive
show."  No promises on gay content.

- ER (CC).  Airs Thurs. 10/5/95, 10:00 pm, NBC.  TV Guide
says "Ross treats a child with AIDS."

- DAVID LETTERMAN (CC).  Airs Thurs. 10/5/95, 11:35 pm,
CBS.  Scheduled guests include lesbian singer k.d. lang. 

- CITIZEN COHN (CC).  Airs Thurs.-Fri. 10/5-6/95, 4:20 am,
HBO.  James Woods gives an incredible performance as Roy
Cohn.  Cohn was a virulent anti-Semite & hompohobe who
worked with Sen. Joseph McCarthy & the House Un-American
Activities Committee in the 1950s.  What's most amazing is
that Cohn was both Jewish and homosexual.

- MADONNA: TRUTH OR DARE.  Airs Fri.-Sat., 10/6-7/95, 3:35
am, HBO.  This documentary of one of Madonna's tours has a
lot of coverage of her mostly gay male dance troupe.

- BITTER HARVEST.  Airs Fri.-Sat., 10/6-7/95, 3:50 am, The
Movie Channel.  "A rancher (Stephen Baldwin) and two
drifters (Jennifer Rubin, Patsy Kensit) form a menage a
trois."-TV Guide

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That's it for this week's gay tv shows, but check out note
#4 for the non-gay ALL ISMS ARE RELATED Department.

Warmly, Carol Mortimer, NJ
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World Wide Web GAY TV HOME PAGE:
 http://pages.prodigy.com/NJ/carol_mortimer/gay_tv_menu.html

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 9/30/95 - Fri 10/6/95.
Be sure to read all 4 notes!  Most times Eastern.

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In the "ALL ISMS ARE RELATED" category, check out these
non-gay diversity-related tv shows:

- JERRY SPRINGER:  RACISM.  Airs Mon. 10/2/95 in most
areas, including 11:00 am on Phila. PA WGBS ch. 57.

- LEEZA: RACISM.  Airs Wed. 10/4/95 in most areas,
including:
> Wed. 10/4/95, 10:00 am on Phila. PA WCAU ch. 10 and New
York City WNBC ch. 4.
> Wed. 10/4/95, 3:00 pm, on Wildwood NJ WMGM ch. 40

- GREAT DEPRESSION (CC).  Airs Wed. 10/4/95 on Phila. PA
PBS WHYY ch. 12.  May or may not air on other PBS
stations.  TV Guide says:  "'Mean Things Happening'
examines the development of the labor movement.  While the
Southern Tenant Farmers Union met with violent employer
opposition in its efforts to unionize sharecroppers, FDR
allied himself with labor to help secure his reelection in
1936.  'To Be Somebody' looks at early battles against
racial discrimination."

- A BUNNY'S TALE.  Airs Thurs. 10/5/95, 4:00 pm, Cinemax.
1985 tv-movie based on Gloria Steinem's magazine expose of
sexism in the Playboy Club.

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That's it for this week!  Happy viewing.

Please be sure to read all 4 notes.

Warmly, Carol Mortimer, NJ
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