Julio Bonilla’s Reviews > Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture > Status Update

The Family Viewing Hour went into effect at the start of the fall season in 1975. America's children were safe.

The Family Viewing Hour went into effect at the start of the fall season in 1975. America's children were safe. Simple, right?

That was bad enough, but then the next year an episode of the same show titled "The Outrage" centers of a male teacher who assaults a 14-year-old boy. ... Activists were furious that the show reinforced the gay child-molester trope and organized ....

... Harvey Milk was elected to the board of supervisors in San Francisco. By that time, Milk had become an integral part of the community; locals knew him not only as an icon of queer empowerment, but on a personal level as a longtime neighbor....

Eve this old TV show foreshadowed discrimination against minorities: Gays, African-Americans....

Sitcoms, traditionally an escape for real-life turmoil, or slow to reflect the shift in American life. What, producers found, fantasy scenarios could provide a convenient metaphor for social change.

Life was better sans smartphones!

Definitely resembles Lois Griffin!

Marsha Posner was working late one night when the phone rang. She picked it up, and a man’s voice spelled, “I want the address of where I can write a letter about this show!” ☎️