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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. 👨🏽‍🤝‍👨🏿

— Jan 12, 2026 05:35PM

Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture

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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.

— Jan 11, 2026 06:56PM

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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....

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... 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....

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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.

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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....

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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.

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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.