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Then, in 2008, the California Supreme Court ruled that the Knight Initiative was unconstitutional and allowed same-sex couples to get married. But that was followed a few months later by yet another ballot measure, this one called Proposition 8, that ended marriage equality in California just months after it had begun. 👨🏽‍🤝‍👨🏿

While most TV executives were shying away from gay characters, Littlefield decided to give Mutchnich and Kohan a chance to buck the trend and prove everyone else wrong with a show now titled Will & Grace.

A gay proposal was a bold storyline for any sitcom to tackle at this point. Almost nobody was talking about marriage equality in the late 1980s; only a few years earlier, a Harvard law student named Evan Wolfson submitted his thesis about....

... Began in 1976 when two women fell in love in a physical education class at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. Sharon Kowalski had enrolled in a class taught by Karon Thompson, and the two women formed a close relationship over the....

In the early 1980s, NBC was in trouble. The network was last place in ratings by a large margin, and its shows were regarded as a joke, not just within the television, industry, but by NBC employees themselves.

Like most NBC shows at the time, it was an immediate flop.

The Message is, on balance, favorable to queer people—our hero rejects bigotry, and everyone learns a lesson about tolerance—but it's important to note that the gay....

In January 1977, Miami had passed a nondiscrimination law that protected queer people in jobs and housing. Conservatives were furious, and a beauty queen and Florida orange spoke model named Anita Bryant spearheaded a campaign to overturn the law.

A former Marine who served in the South Pacific, Danny Arnold started his career in showbiz as an actor with some small-time summer stock shows and as a vaudeville stand-up comic.