From: CarolM10@aol.com Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 18:23:46 -0500 Subject: Gay TV Shows 12/30/95 - 1/5/96 Hi, folks! This is note #1 (of 5) of the list of tv shows with gay, lesbian, other sexual minority, and gay/straight AIDS themes, for the tv week of Sat 12/30/95 - Fri 1/5/96. Be sure to read all 5 notes. Local shows are listed with local times; national shows are Eastern time zone. ******* KWANZAA GREETINGS & HAPPY NEW YEAR!! ******** *** Note: This week's list does NOT include NYC shows! ** The following shows air at multiple/various times: - IN THE LIFE. According to the IN THE LIFE member program guide, episode 502 includes: stories on gays & religion, holidays and family celebrations, and leadership issues; a visit to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum; and an interview with George Stephanopoulous about the Clinton "Administration's role in forging alliances between gay and straight communities". Upcoming airings: > Gainsville, FL: Sat.-Sun. 12/30-31/95, midnight, WUFT ch. 5 > Sacramento, CA: Sat. 12/30/95, 11:00 pm, KVIE ch. 6 - INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE (CC). Although it is based on a gay book, this movie does not strike me as gay. However, I'm listing the film because many readers of this column feel it IS gay. Airings include: > Sat. 12/30/95, 9:00 pm, Prism > Sat.-Sun. 12/30-31/95, 4:00 am, Prism - MAD TV (CC). TV Guide says that this comedy show will include a segment in which: "a ventriloquest's dummy 'outs' his operator". I'm not sure if this show is syndicated or a Fox network show. Airings include: > Sat. 12/30/95, 11:00 pm, Phila. PA Fox WTXF ch. 29 > Check your local listings for this show. - A CHORUS LINE. This musical film based on the Broadway show features a gay character. Airings include: > Mon. 1/1/96, 8:00 am, Cinemax > Mon. 1/1/96, 8:00 am and again at 6:00 pm, Prism - ALL MY CHILDREN (CC). The plot line around Michael Delaney, the gay high school history teacher, continues to be very active. Over the past week, some parents learned of his gayness and began efforts to get him fired. > Airs weekdays at 1:00 pm ET on ABC. - GUIDING LIGHT (CC). Guiding Light's story line involving HIV and AIDS continues. > Airs weekdays at 3:00 pm ET on CBS. - CHARLES PEREZ: HOW HIV AFFECTS RELATIONSHIPS. Airs Tues. 1/2/96 in many areas. Check local listings. (Delayed from last week.) Airings include: > Tues. 1/2/96, 10:00 am, on WPIX national cable ch. 11 > Tues. 1/2/96, 5:00 pm, on Phila. PA WPHL ch. 17 - THE QUESTION OF EQUALITY. WYBE's program guide says: "Going a step beyond the stereotypes and sensational headlines to present a deeper view of the gay/lesbian rights movement, this series of independent works uses personal testimony and recent history to show the importance of the modern gay movement." Airs on some PBS stations this week, so check local listings. Airs: > Tues. 1/2/96, 8:00 pm, on Phila. PA WYBE ch. 35 (parts 1 & 2) > next Tues. 1/9/96, 8:00 m, on Phila. PA WYBE ch. 35 (parts 3 & 4) ************** TO BE CONTINUED ON NOTE #2 ************** Be sure to read all 5 notes! Warmly, Carol Mortimer, NJ Prodigy ID = npwc08a <-- Please note that I am returning to my OLD Prodigy address!!! AmericaOnLineID = caroLm10 In IDs: 0 & 1 are numbers. Internet ID = caroLm10@aoL.com o & L are letters. WORLD WIDE WEB GAY TV HOME PAGE (case-sensitive): http://pages.prodigy.com/NJ/carol_mortimer/gay_tv_menu.html Hi, folks! This is note #2 (of 5) of the list of tv shows with gay, lesbian, other sexual minority, and gay/straight AIDS themes, for the tv week of Sat 12/30/95 - Fri 1/5/96. Be sure to read all 5 notes! Most times Eastern. *************** CONTINUED FROM NOTE #1 ***************** - AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE: ARMISTEAD MAUPIN'S TALES OF THE CITY (CC). This 6-hour miniseries about life in San Francisco airs this week on many PBS stations; check your local PBS listings. The series features gay and transgender characters. Airings include: > Tues. 1/2/96, 11:00 pm, on Phila. PA PBS WHYY ch. 12 (parts 1 & 2) > Wed. 1/3/96, 11:00 pm, on Phila. PA PBS WHYY ch. 12 (parts 3 & 4) > Thurs. 1/4/96, 11:00 pm, on Phila. PA PBS WHYY ch. 12 (parts 5 & 6) - AMERICA UNDERCOVER (CC). Documentary about NYC cabbies. Features several gay and transgender individuals. Airs: > Tues. 1/2/96, 11:00 pm, HBO-2 > Wed. 1/3/96, 5:50 am, HBO-2 - COACH (CC). Hayden learns that one of his student players is gay, and he freaks a bit. Things get worse for him when he learns that he's coached other gay players. This was a good show. Airs on syndicated daily reruns in some areas this week. Check local listings. Airings include but are not limited to: > Wed. 1/3/96, 6:30 pm, on Phila. PA WTXF ch. 29 - SEINFELD (CC). A college reporter overhears a remark that leads her to believe Jerry and George are a gay couple - "not that there's anything wrong with that". This was also a good episode. Airs this week on daily syndicated reruns; check local listings. Airings include: > Wed. 1/3/96, 7:30 pm, on Phila. PA WTXF ch. 29 The following shows air once this week as far as I know: - ELEANOR, FIRST LADY OF THE WORLD. Airs Sat. 12/30/95, 4:00 pm, Lifetime cable. This made-for-tv film does NOT address Eleanor Roosevelt's reported relationship with reporter Lorena Hickok. See the book "THE LIFE OF LORENA HICKOK, E.R.'S FRIEND" for details. - SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION. Airs Sat 12/30/95, 11:00 pm, Prism. Allegedly fact-based story about a gay con man (Will Smith). Donald Sutherland, Stockard Channing, and Sir Ian McKellen co-star. - TEEN SUMMIT. Airs Sat.-Sun. 12/30-31/95, 3:00 am, Black Entertainment Television. TV Guide lists the topic as AIDS. - ED WOOD (CC). Airs Sun-Mon. 12/31/95-1/1/96, 2:30 am, Showtime cable. Hysterical 1994 movie about Edward D. Wood Jr., a 1950s film director who created such classics as the transgender exploration "Glen or Glenda?" and the schlock cult sci-fi film "Plan 9 from Outer Space". Wood (Johnny Depp) was a straight man who usually directed films while dressed in his wife's clothes; his friends included gay & transgender individuals. Martin Landau gives a superb (& Oscar winning) performance as Bela Lugosi, and Bill Murray plays Bunny Breckinbridge (sp?). Highly recommended. ************* TO BE CONTINUED ON NOTE #3 ************** Be sure to read all 5 notes! Warmly, Carol Mortimer, NJ Prodigy ID = npwc08a <-- Please note that I am returning to my OLD Prodigy address!!! AmericaOnLineID = caroLm10 In IDs: 0 & 1 are numbers. Internet ID = caroLm10@aoL.com o & L are letters. WORLD WIDE WEB GAY TV HOME PAGE (case-sensitive): http://pages.prodigy.com/NJ/carol_mortimer/gay_tv_menu.html Hi, folks! This is note #3 (of 5) of the list of tv shows with gay, lesbian, other sexual minority, and gay/straight AIDS themes, for the tv week of Sat 12/30/95 - Fri 1/5/96. Be sure to read all 5 notes! Most times Eastern. *************** CONTINUED FROM NOTE #2 ****************** - ED WOOD: A LOOK BACK IN ANGORA. Airs Mon. 1/1/96, 5:45 AM (NOT pm!), on Phila. PA PBS WHYY ch. 12. May or may not air on other PBS stations. A companion documentary profile, which includes interviews and film clips. - MELROSE PLACE (CC). Airs Mon. 1/1/96, 8:00 pm, Fox. TV Guide says: "Matt considers asking Alan (Lonnie Schuyler) to move in with him". - ZORRO THE GAY BLADE. Airs Mon. 1/1/96, 8:00 pm, Comedy Central cable. Very stereotypical but also very funny movie about the twin sons of the legendary swordsman, who take over as Zorro when their father dies. One is straight, and the other is a flaming queen. (Picture Zorro in a lavender tassled hat!) - M. BUTTERFLY (CC). Airs Tues. 1/2/96, 1:15 pm, HBO-2. TV Guide says: "Adaptation of David Henry Hwang's Tony- winning play about the deceptive love affair between a French diplomat (Jeremy Irons) and a Chinese opera singer." What they don't say is that the opera singer turns out to be a man in drag. - POSITIVE HEALTH. Airs in Philadelphia PA on Tues. 1/2/96, 7:30 pm. on WYBE ch. 35. Local weekly show by and for people with AIDS and HIV disease. - WINGS (CC). Airs Tues. 1/2/96, 8:00 pm, NBC. TV Guide says: "a big TV star comes to promote the island, and his open homosexuality surprises fans Casey and Antonio." - LIVE SHOT (CC). Airs Tues. 1/2/96, 9:00 pm, on some UPN channels (including Phila. PA's WPSG ch. 57). This show has officially been cancelled, but it is still listed in next week's TV Guide, so they may still be airing reruns from this season. TV Guide describes this episode as: "Lou (Tom Byrd) refuses to allow an old teammate to come out of the closet during an interview". What they don't say is that at the end of the episode, alert viewers will learn that sportscaster Lou is also gay & closeted. - JUST ONE OF THE GUYS (CC). Airs Wed. 1/3/96, 2:30 pm, HBO. Fun movie about a teen woman who poses as a male and enrolls in another high school, to research a newspaper article on sexism. When she falls for a male friend at that school, the other students think she's a gay man. - THE PELICAN BRIEF (CC). Airs Fri. 1/5/96, 5:30 pm, Cinemax. It is incidental to the plot, but one of the 2 US Supreme Court justices who are killed at the beginning of this movie turns out to have been a closeted gay man. - FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL (CC). Airs Fri.-Sat., 1/5-6/96, midnight, Showtime cable. The readers of this column have loved this movie's great portrayal of a gay male couple. ***************** CONTINUED ON NOTE #4 **************** Be sure to check out all 5 notes! Warmly, Carol Mortimer, NJ Prodigy ID = npwc08a <-- Please note that I am returning to my OLD Prodigy address!!! AmericaOnLineID = caroLm10 In IDs: 0 & 1 are numbers. Internet ID = caroLm10@aoL.com o & L are letters. WORLD WIDE WEB GAY TV HOME PAGE (case-sensitive): http://pages.prodigy.com/NJ/carol_mortimer/gay_tv_menu.html Hi, folks! This is note #4 (of 5) of the list of tv shows with gay, lesbian, other sexual minority, and gay/straight AIDS themes, for the tv week of Sat 12/30/95 - Fri 1/5/96. Be sure to read all 5 notes! Most times Eastern. *************** CONTINUED FROM NOTE #3 ****************** - BOUND AND GAGGED: A LOVE STORY. Airs Fri.-Sat., 1/5-6/96, 2:00 am, Prism cable. I've never even *heard* of this movie before, but TV Guide says: "(1993) Sexual situations, strong language. Offbeat satire about a battered wife (Ginger Lynn Allen) kidnapped by her lover (Elizabeth Saltarrelli) and a suicidal friend (Chris Denton)." - THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT. Airs Fri.-Sat. 1/5-6/96, 2:10 am, Showtime cable. TV Guide calls this a "Delightfully campy account of three transvestites' offbeat escapades as they traverse the Australian outback in their ramshackle bus, 'Priscilla'." According to a reader, however, the movie is "actually about two transvestites and a transsexual." ********************************************************* A few gay tv notes this week: 1. Check out the following articles in the 12/30/95-1/5/96 issue of TV Guide: > Page 10: TV Guide gives a jeer to ABC for rescheduling the gay Roseanne wedding episode at the last minute. They also note that there will be a lesbian wedding episode of Friends on 1/18/96 (and that NBC will air it at 8:00 pm). > Pg. 30-31: Note the 'favorite lines delivered' quotes from Katherine Helmond and Holland Taylor in the article on "Television's Senior Class." Especially Helmond's! 2. A reader asked me to remind everyone that the British sitcom "ARE YOU BEING SERVED (CC)" - which airs on some PBS stations - has a gay/bi character. I don't normally list this show because I don't know when gay content will appear. I won't repeat this note, so check your PBS listings if you're interested. Airings include: > Detroit, MI: airs weeknights at 11:00 pm on ch. 56 > Phila. PA: airs Mondays at 7:30 pm on WHYY ch. 12 3. A reader reports that there will be a 20/20 segment on transgendered police & fire officers sometime in January. 20/20 airs on Fridays at 10:00 pm ET on ABC. TV Guide doesn't list their stories ahead of time, so interested readers may want to check for this segment each week. 4. Readers report that there's a new syndicated show called "THE JIM J. AND TAMMY FAYE SHOW", co-starring Tammy Faye Messner (formerly Bakker) and Jim J. Bullock, an out gay man. I don't know when or where this show airs, so look for it if you're interested. ********************************************************* In the "ALL ISMs ARE RELATED" category, check out these non-gay, diversity-related tv shows: - CHOICES OF THE HEART: THE MARGARET SANGER STORY. Airs Sun. 12/31/95, 10:00 am, Lifetime. TV Guide says: "Fact- based dramatization of the life and work of Margaret Sanger (Dana Delany), the New York nurse and mother of three who championed the birth-control movement in the early 1900s." *********** TO BE CONTINUED ON NOTE #5 ************ Please be sure to read all 5 notes! Warmly, Carol Mortimer, NJ Prodigy ID = npwc08a <-- Please note that I am returning to my OLD Prodigy address!!! AmericaOnLineID = caroLm10 In IDs: 0 & 1 are numbers. Internet ID = caroLm10@aoL.com o & L are letters. WORLD WIDE WEB GAY TV HOME PAGE (case-sensitive): http://pages.prodigy.com/NJ/carol_mortimer/gay_tv_menu.html Hi, folks! This is note #5 (of 5) of the list of tv shows with gay, lesbian, other sexual minority, and gay/straight AIDS themes, for the tv week of Sat 12/30/95 - Fri 1/5/96. Be sure to read all 5 notes! Most times Eastern. *************** CONTINUED FROM NOTE #4 ****************** Continuation of non-gay ALL ISMs ARE RELATED diversity- related tv show list: - ANOTHER VIEW. Airs in NJ on Sun. 12/31/95, 11:30 am, on New Jersey Network public tv stations (incl. Camden WNJS ch. 23, Trenton WNJT ch. 52, and WNJM Channel 50 in northern NJ). TV Guide says: "An exploration of issues facing the African-American community in the 90s." - MOREHOUSE MAN (CC). Airs Tues. 1/2/96, 9:00 pm, on some PBS stations (including Phila. PA WHYY ch. 12). WHYY's program guide says: "Follows a group of students during the academic year at Atlanta's Morehouse College, the only African-American men's college in the country, where the late Martin Luther King Jr and Spike Lee were educated." - LAW & ORDER (CC). Airs Wed. 1/3/96, 10:00 pm, NBC. TV Guide says: "A hidden anti-Semitic message in a high school yearbook offers a clue to an art teacher's murder and leads to a case in which McCoy (Sam Waterston) is challenged by 'Klan lawyer' Roy Payne (Chris Cooper)." - SKOKIE. Airs Wed.-Thurs. 1/3-4/96, 12:05 am, on some ABC stations, including Phila. PA WPVI ch. 6. TV Guide says: "Constitutional and moral questions are addressed when a Holocaust survivor (Danny Kaye) confronts resurgent Nazism in an Illinois suburb." That description does not begin to do this movie justice. This is one of the most chilling movies I've ever seen, because it is based on a real incident of a Nazi movement in Skokie IL. I urge anyone who hasn't seen this movie to look for it. This film shows how easy it is to stir up hate and violence. ******************************************************** One last note: folks who have web access should periodically check out my web site IN ADDITION TO THESE LISTS. The web site has room for much more info than can fit into these tv show lists, including detailed information from readers about shows across the US and Canada, upcoming plot lines, etc. ******************************************************** Please be sure to read all 5 notes. Happy viewing! Warmly, Carol Mortimer, NJ Prodigy ID = npwc08a <-- Please note that I am returning to my OLD Prodigy address!!! AmericaOnLineID = caroLm10 In IDs: 0 & 1 are numbers. Internet ID = caroLm10@aoL.com o & L are letters. WORLD WIDE WEB GAY TV HOME PAGE (case-sensitive): http://pages.prodigy.com/NJ/carol_mortimer/gay_tv_menu.html