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Steven Capsuto
United States
Registrace 8. 03. 2020
Steven is the author of the book Alternate Channels, a history of gay and lesbian images on 20th-century American television and of the few pioneering bi and trans roles on TV in those years.
He was the lead historical consultant for the Apple TV+ docuseries VISIBLE: OUT ON TELEVISION (2020) and was a researcher or consultant for other LGBT-themed documentaries.
His traveling lectures use video clips to trace the evolution of LGBTQ portrayals on TV from the early days to the streaming era.
He was the lead historical consultant for the Apple TV+ docuseries VISIBLE: OUT ON TELEVISION (2020) and was a researcher or consultant for other LGBT-themed documentaries.
His traveling lectures use video clips to trace the evolution of LGBTQ portrayals on TV from the early days to the streaming era.
4/2/2013, Marriage equality: Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and The New Normal
TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY - On April 2, 2013, marriage was in the air as the U.S. Supreme Court pondered whether to require every state in the union to recognize same-sex marriages. #lgbtq #MarriageEquality #television #TV
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Clip: 1982, CBS report on queer characters in films (CBS Evening News)
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY CBS EVENING NEWS - 4/1/1982, CBS Film historian Vito Russo is one of the interviewees in this report on the growing number of films dealing with homosexuality ("a controversial topic," Dan Rather reminds us in the introduction). At the height of Reagan-era conservatism, CBS felt the need to take a pro-versus-con approach to the story, preface it with something borderin...
Clip: 1960, A campy, queer-coded pirate in "Treasure Island" - George Rose, Richard O'Sullivan
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TODAY IN QUEER(ISH) TV HISTORY THE DuPONT SHOW OF THE MONTH: "Treasure Island" - 3/5/1960, CBS On early-1960s TV, back when the censorship rules banned explicitly queer characters, the line between "camp" and "gay" was awfully thin. Here's the late, great George Rose giving a campy portrayal of castaway pirate Ben Gunn in a TV adaptation of the classic novel. It sounds like he's channeling Kenn...
Clip: 1973, MARCUS WELBY, M.D. - Homosexuality as "disease of the week"
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY MARCUS WELBY, M.D.: "The Other Martin Loring" - 2/20/1973, ABC Back when most gay and bi characters on primetime dramas were violent criminals or mentally ill, this popular medical series did an episode where homosexuality was the disease of the week. The patient, Martin, is a depressive alcoholic with diabetes. In this scene, though, Dr. Welby lets on that he knows wh...
Clips: 1970, June Lockhart gently challenges homophobia on THE VIRGINIA GRAHAM SHOW w/Rev Troy Perry
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Happy 98th birthday to June Lockhart, who was an ally to the queer community long before that was an "in" thing to be! (Hat tip to pioneering gay activist Randy Wicker, who had a reel-to-reel home video recorder in 1970, and kindly lent me his recording of this rare show many years ago.) #TalkShows #gay #queer #LGBTQ #homophobia #JuneLockhart #VirginiaGraham #TroyPerry #1970s
Clip: 1992 talk show: How would you react if your kids were gay? THE JENNY JONES SHOW
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Old talk shows give us a window into earlier eras. This JENNY JONES SHOW clip from 1992 reminds us of the stigma that often still surrounded being gay or having a gay kid even in the early 1990s, decades into the activist struggle to destigmatize same-sex desire.
Clip: 1972, Meredith Baxter on OWEN MARSHALL, COUNSELOR AT LAW
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Happy birthday to Meredith Baxter, who was a regular on the TV series FAMILY and BRIDGET LOVES BERNIE and FAMILY TIES. Baxter came out publicly as a lesbian in 2009. Here's a clip of her in a fairly good 1972 episode of OWEN MARSHALL, COUNSELOR AT LAW, where she played a straight woman falsely accused of being a lesbian child molester. The episode also featured a likable lesbian activist charac...
Clip: Attempted video cleanup - 1956 talk show on homosexuality
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This fairly homophobic broadcast (however well meaning it might have been) was one of the first TV talk show segments to deal with any kind of gay issues, even negatively, and so it was a kind of progress. And at the time, "It should be seen as a disease, not a crime" was a passably progressive attitude, even, surprisingly, in the view of certain gay activists of that era. A globby, highly comp...
Clip: 1956, Franklin Pangborn as a gay-coded comedic photographer on PRIVATE SECRETARY
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY PRIVATE SECRETARY: "Susie's Crusade" - 5/27/1956, CBS Gay-coded roles were the specialty of comic actor FRANKLIN PANGBORN (1889-1958), who made a career playing prissy, giddy, cheerful characters in 1930s-40s movies and later on television. In a few episodes of PRIVATE SECRETARY, he guest stars as Henry Hollis, originally seen as a fussy secretary though here he has op...
Clip: pr. 1956, Christine Jorgensen, 1st famous openly trans person in the US, on HY GARDNER CALLING
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26 SECONDS WITH CHRISTINE JORGENSEN - pr. 1956 Here's the first famous openly trans person in the U.S., interviewed on HY GARDNER CALLING in the 1950s. Before the media turned its attention on her, most of the public had no idea trans people existed. Jorgensen had been outed to the press in 1952, leading to years of mockery by comedians and journalists. But she made the best of her unsought fam...
Clip: 2008, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, Kevin proposes to Scotty, played by Matthew Rhys & Luke Macfarlane
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY BROTHERS AND SISTERS: "Moral Hazard" - 5/4/2008, ABC In the 2000s, when US broadcast TV tended to keep queer characters single, or else filmed their stories in apologetic, distancing ways, this excellent ensemble family drama told the love story of regular characters Kevin and Scotty in the same matter-of-fact way it handled its heterosexual couples' stories. Here, Kev...
Sitcom clip: 1980, THE ASSOCIATES - Gay activist meets with TV executives
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY THE ASSOCIATES: "The Censors" - 4/10/1980, ABC A gay activist meets with TV executives in this clip from a 1979-80 sitcom about a law firm. In the 1970s and 80s, the major American TV networks often used consultants from the Gay Media Task Force to make sure queer content in scripts was plausible and didn't overuse straight people's stereotypes of queer people. This ep...
Clip: 1986, 20/20: "Homophobia" - Violence and hatred against gay & bi people in early years of AIDS
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY 20/20: "Homophobia" - 4/10/1986, ABC A 1986 ABC News report on the spike in brutal anti-gay and anti-bi violence, hatred, and discrimination, much of it against queer men, in the early years of the AIDS epidemic. The report rightly points out that bigots were using the outbreak as a pretext to justify prejudices they had already harbored for years. This is the beginnin...
Clip: 1991, ABC NEWS 20/20 - Gay people in the military - ''Secrets in the Service''
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY ABC NEWS 20/20: "Secrets in the Service" - 3/29/1991, ABC Occasionally, an issue arises that keeps queer news in the headlines for months or years on end. In the early 1990s, starting during the Gulf War, that issue was whether the U.S. military should end its ban on LGB servicemembers. Back then, the Armed Forces were kicking out more than 1,000 servicemembers a year ...
Clip: 2011, PRETTY LITTLE LIARS - Emily & Paige - Should Paige come out?
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY PRETTY LITTLE LIARS: "Someone to Watch Over Me" - 3/7/2011, ABC Family Emily and Paige were one of the main romantic couples in seasons 3 to 7 of this teen drama, but as this clip from season 1 begins, they're still just friends. Emily is out of the closet and Paige is considering whether to tell people she's gay. Note the angsty coming-out-story conventions central to...
Clip: 1981, premiere of DYNASTY - Confrontation between Blake and his gay son, Steven
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Clip: 1981, premiere of DYNASTY - Confrontation between Blake and his gay son, Steven
Clip: 1994, Wilson Cruz as gay teen Rickie on MY SO-CALLED LIFE
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Clip: 1994, Wilson Cruz as gay teen Rickie on MY SO-CALLED LIFE
Clips: 2000, Closeted lesbian teen Bianca on ALL MY CHILDREN plots secret trip to NYC
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Clips: 2000, Closeted lesbian teen Bianca on ALL MY CHILDREN plots secret trip to NYC
Clip: 1986, After SCOTUS's anti-LGB ruling in Bower v Hardwick, VISIONS looks at legal status
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Clip: 1986, After SCOTUS's anti-LGB ruling in Bower v Hardwick, VISIONS looks at legal status
Clips: 2021, Andre (trans male regular role) and Shanice on 4400 - w/TL Thompson, Brittany Adebumola
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Clips: 2021, Andre (trans male regular role) and Shanice on 4400 - w/TL Thompson, Brittany Adebumola
Clip: 2000, NORMAL, OHIO premiere with John Goodman as a gay man moving back to his small hometown
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Clip: 2000, NORMAL, OHIO premiere with John Goodman as a gay man moving back to his small hometown
Clip: 2011 - Brittany and Santana on GLEE (Heather Morris, Naya Rivera)
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Clip: 2011 - Brittany and Santana on GLEE (Heather Morris, Naya Rivera)
Clip: 1972, Male hero ''rescues'' a woman from a lesbian relationship - THE BOLD ONES, Donna Mills
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Clip: 1972, Male hero ''rescues'' a woman from a lesbian relationship - THE BOLD ONES, Donna Mills
Clips: 1975, Darryl & Marty on BARNEY MILLER, one of the 1st ongoing same-sex couples on US TV
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Clips: 1975, Darryl & Marty on BARNEY MILLER, one of the 1st ongoing same-sex couples on US TV
Clip: 2014 - Max, presumably gay research whiz on THE MYSTERIES OF LAURA, played by Max Jenkins
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Clip: 2014 - Max, presumably gay research whiz on THE MYSTERIES OF LAURA, played by Max Jenkins
Clip: 1980, CBS News's non-apology for "Gay Power, Gay Politics"
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Clip: 1980, CBS News's non-apology for "Gay Power, Gay Politics"
Clip: 2000, Lesbian sidekick Original Cindy (Valarie Rae Miller) on DARK ANGEL starring Jessica Alba
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Clip: 2000, Lesbian sidekick Original Cindy (Valarie Rae Miller) on DARK ANGEL starring Jessica Alba
Clip: 1996, News - "Talk show murder trial," antigay murder after appearance on THE JENNY JONES SHOW
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Clip: 1996, News - "Talk show murder trial," antigay murder after appearance on THE JENNY JONES SHOW
Clip: 1977, Travis the dorky gay lawyer on THE SANFORD ARMS, played by Lisle Wilson
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Clip: 1977, Travis the dorky gay lawyer on THE SANFORD ARMS, played by Lisle Wilson
Clip: 1998, 20/20 report on Matthew Shepard murder
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Clip: 1998, 20/20 report on Matthew Shepard murder
What is the name please
Decades later, this is still funny as hell.
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Being Gay and Trans is really not very different, except one involves surgery and one doesn't. We are who we are due to Chimerism. When you have a twin sibling in Utero who dies and you absorbed their Tissue and body and so on you become the Twin. In her case it was her twin brother who died in utero and she absorbed his body therefore she was born Male, even though she was conceived to be female. It's sort of like Fetus in situ where a child is born with a parasitic twin sticking out of them. Also as for being Gay same thing you absorb the sexual orientation of the opposite sex. So as Trans we're born with the body of the opposite twin and for Gay people we are born with the sexual orientation of the opposite sexed twin. Not sure who is going to except this but as a Gay Trans man I do cause it lets me know I was right all along. i am a Boy not a girl and I am Gay not Straight. It's not a choice, it's biological and its something that happened to us in Utero that we had no control over. Neither did she.
Archies always right
6 years later Monty Python did this, "The Mouse Problem". czcams.com/video/uK92NYwBMts/video.htmlsi=cObF1GJw-te7BIJ0
Wow. What crap
Thats Asa from one life to live.
"I am a woman, my gynecologist can attest to that." Most likely this Doctor is a man. No female gyno at the time would have lied like this. Renee Richards set the precedent for trans ID men to lie about their sex.
That's all fine and dandy, so the closet door was opened,late 70's and 80's, the fruit flies were free. Where did it get us? Under the pretext of bullying, the public schools targeted our youth to learn this lifestyle,why? Oh in ca. It didn't stop there, now let's teach them as young as 5 years old, why. Didn't stop there, now it's transgender, putting young kids who feel like opposite sex on puberty blockers W/OUT parents permission. In the 80' s my attitude was whatever 2 adults do is fine with me. BUT,LEAVE THE CHILDREN ALONE, WHATS NEXT BEASTIALITY? ALOT OF YOU ARE GOING TO HATE THIS, BUT ITS THE TRUTH. NOW GET ME BANNED, BUT I WILL BE BACK, COUNT ON IT
Oh boy, Paar isn't coming off very well here, is he? YIKES
Another tv lesbian using friendship for something more.
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A man's brain has 6,000% more gray matter This is just stupid
possession
Boy that aged well
crazy
If u are born a man u should be a man that's my opinion and i don't care what people say I don't accept that lifestyle
OH, how I LOVE All in the Family! And fantastic when Edith said she was going to disobey Archie. Case Closed!❤❤❤❤❤😂
Holy, that dramatic music 😂
Brutally rebuffed. That hurts.
I always thought that Dynasty was made up for that movie Hollywood Shuffle.
Being that Sherman was gay, this episode hits even harder. 💜 I always wondered why they chose this topic to express on the show. 🌹
This show helped me a lot growing up. TY MTV❤
Had Paar waited about 12 years, he'd have been great in the tabloid talk show emergence. if he would let them answer, he might have had a dialogue.
LOL Archie didn’t mind thinking she was a hooker but when Beverly revealed “she” was a man it was a whole other matter.
Edith was a true example of a compassionate Christian soul!! She loved all people with no judgement.
What’s his name? 🙏
The brainwashing started that early .. ...
Stupid now. Stupid in 1999.
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She tried it 🫠
That laugh track is way to much.
I'm pretty sure that most or all episodes of "Love, Sidney" were taped with a studio audience.
It wasn't a bad show but its not as funny as the studio audience would have us believe.
@@davidmitchell6873 Funny is largely a matter of incongruity. And what seems laughably incongruous in one era is not necessarily what seems laughably incongruous in another.
I would have been about 15 or 16 when this show was on and I remember watching it a few times. I am fully aware that humor is subjective and I have always liked Tony Randall but this just ain't that funny. This audience sounds like it is in a laughing frenzy. This is definitely canned laughter.
Now I remember this happening from years ago. It took the second scene to refresh my memory lol.
This came out when i was 4 years old but i only looked for this video cause Enrique "Rickie" Vasquez is in star trek: discovery. He's come a long way i see.
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What a beautiful woman Sarah is in and out. I wonder if she's around today and if so, I also wonder how she's doing.
I loved this show!!
This is the best representation of gay men in any series I've ever seen. We're normal guys with normal wants acting normal. We have lots of jokes and we aren't fairies or freaks or dancing around in our pink underwear. We're just guys who happen to be gay. Being gay isn't our entire existence. I think modern LGB people have never realized that you're a large number of things before you're gay, you are a fully fleshed out person who happens to be gay.
Jeanette had to hold back her " hunger" here as portrayed by her eyes changing color and her fangs protruding from her mouth
Any info on what became of them since?
omg I love this
Reed was a drama queen in real life.
When Archie told her, Edith's reaction was "That big football player, is a flower?" LOL!!
Marty is one of the best.
Paar seems to have stepped out of a time machine from 1953 into 1973, and he has no idea anything has changed. He's just kind of bewildered. He reminds me of the Ugandan "Why are you ghey?" television interviewer.
Yeah. His autobiography from the 1960s devoted a whole chapter to the threats posed by communists and homosexuals, and he was still doing "fairy" jokes in the 1970s. It's a shame, because Paar was, otherwise, a smart, engaging, funny TV host and often a good interviewer.
@stevencapsuto873 I share his dislike for communism, but it seems bizarre to me in a modern context, making LGBTQ people part of some grand conspiracy with the Soviets or whatever. Paar's career peak was before I was born, but, from the clips I have seen, he seems to have been fairly intelligent. It's a shame he was blinkered by his own personal animus towards a group he likely knew very little about.
@@julianhermanubis6800 As far as I know, Paar said nothing about LGBTQ people as a group. His remarks were just about sexual orientation (and obsessively about gay men, for some reason). Paar's conflation of homosexuality with communism was common during the Red Scare of the 1950s and 1960s. The popular myth at the time was that everyone is naturally hard-wired for heterosexuality, that homosexuality is unnatural and immoral behavior. Right wingers, especially those with a John Birch Society mindset, got it into their heads that Soviet agents were encouraging such behavior in the US in a conspiracy to destroy American civilization. As evidence, they pointed to the fact that one of the first homophile rights organizations was founded by someone who had been a communist or socialist. There's a now-astonishing quote from 1950 from the then-head of the Republican National Committee to the effect that "homosexuals are as dangerous as the actual communists," as if we were some sort of pseudocommunists by dint of who we're attracted to. Just bizarre.
@@stevencapsuto873 Ah, the John Birch Society, that explains a large part of it. I once found a stack of their magazines someone had left at a small shopping center (maybe in an attempt to gain supporters), and I think they're still into weird conspiracy theories decades later. I was flabbergasted by what i was reading. That's interesting: I had no idea about the communists converting people to be homosexual conspiracy theories. That's very interesting from a psychological point of view really. Despite the Red Scare and its abuses, I do think Soviet communism was an actual threat to the West, and the declassification of Soviet state papers since the end of the Cold War has proven they did take part in international espionage on a large scale. However, admitting this as a reality and conducting witch hunts against convenient scapegoats is completely unjustifiable.
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