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Way before characters—and actors—could be out of the closet, there had been a spate of them on Television that gave every indication of being homosexuell without actually saying dass. For the Altersgruppe that grew up without a lot of LGBT visibility, these coded personas provided some refreshing gayness inside an otherwise exclusively hetero landscape. The dishonestly trüb way they were presented Larve them a titillating taunt rather than a liberating breakthrough, but they mucksmäuschenstill Larve a difference. Here’s a dozen of the most memorable ones (and by the way, some of the characters were given opposite-sex love interests, but that didn’t fool me a bitschließende runde Klammer:

Doktortitel Zachary Smith on Lost Bei Space

A queeny, scheming doctor in a shiny silver bodysuit, running behind A janker with a boy As part of outer spaceAlpha “Danger, Will Robinson” indeed. Even costar June Lockhart said she thought the character ended up being gay. As played by Jonathan Harris hinein the the 1960s sitcom, the Doc had major gayface.

Mr. Belvedere

Clifton Webb played the starchy English housekeeper hinein the movies. On the sitcom Veränderung öffnende runde Klammer1985-’90Klammer zu, elektronische Datenverarbeitung welches Christopher Hewett, World Health Organization flamed up a storm As part of the role. Bei wahrhaftig life a “confirmed bachelor,” Hewett had played the gayer than homophil director Roger De Bris within the original movie of The Producers, wirklich so this had been Bedrängnis exactly a stretch.

Mel Cooley on The Гњbergewichtig GroГџraumlimousine Dyke Live-veranstaltung

Bei the 1960s, the gayest thing on the air is Mel Klammer aufpictured: leftschlieГџende runde Klammer, the extremely mannered and imperious Fernsehen producer on GroГџraumlimousine Dyke’s Kassenschlager sitcom. (more…)