Gay/bisexual actors in old tv shows

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Minx (1970s)

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This woefully under-appreciated gem finds earnest young female journalist Joyce Prigger (Ophelia Lovibond), thwarted in her crusade to launch a staunchly feminist magazine, instead joining with a low-rent publisher to create the first erotic magazine for women.

Beginning as their paths cross in 1950s D.C at the height of the Lavender Scare, their love struggles through Hawkins’ marriage and Timothy’s political activism as we push forward through the Vietnam war era and the growing HIV/AIDS criris of the 1980s. Dresses up as a male, etc.... Series set in San Francisco.

As the World Turns (daytime serial drama) CBS 1956-2010

• Hank Elliot 1988-1989 (Brian Starcher)

But it’s also smarter than a lot of similar shows that posture intelligence. Longtime straight gay favorite Julianne Moore and new straight gay favorite Nicholas Galitzine are both so fun to watch and the whole thing is a scrumptious dessert with just enough bite.

Our Flag Means Death (1710s)

Set amid the Golden Age of Piracy, Our Flag Means Death is a comedic series following the misadventures of “Gentleman Pirate” Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby) and his dysfunctional crew as they aim to prove themselves, eventually crossing paths with and falling for infamous pirate captain Blackbeard (Taika Waititi).

Prisoner Bonnie was a gay English hooker.

Hooperman (police sitcom/drama) ABC 1987-1989

• Rick Silardi (Joseph Gian) police officer
• Rudy 1988-1989 (Rod Gist)

Then we have Max Chapman (Chanté Adams), a Black ballplayer excluded from the AABL due to its racist bylaws, whose work at a munitions factory introduces her to members of her town’s thriving underground Black queer and trans scene. He was a minor regular, appearing in virtually every episode.

• Tom Snyder 1988 (Mark McManus) hockey coach

Here’s how to immerse yourself in the past to remind yourself that even when people hated us more than they do now, we lived.

Mary & George(1610s)

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While other period pieces modernize with pop music and other anachronisms — to various success — this seemingly modest series about George and May Villiers instead leans into timeless faithfuls: sex and violence.

And who could forget Sense8, the groundbreaking series by the Wachowskis that connects eight individuals around the globe not just through shared psychic abilities, but also through shared bonds of love and identity?

Now, it’s your turn to make your voice heard. Others have arrived from situations like a 1970s cult, a second-generation reverend from the 1990s and a Civil rights organizer from the late ’50s.

Rose was bisexual and occasionally slept with Greta, a male doctor's girlfriend. original series hit takes place between 1929-1931, in the run-up to Spain’s 1931 Republic, with a last season time jump forward seven years, to the final months of the Spanish Civil War. It centers on four female switchboard operators who meet in the National Telephone Company in Madrid including bisexual heiress Carlota, whose romantic relationships run the gamut over the course of the program, including a polyamorous relationship and a girlfriend who eventually comes out as a trans man.

(It’s difficult to discuss the queer elements of this series without giving you spoilers!) Bustle called it Netflix’s most progressive Spanish drama, “an exploration of female independence and suffrage, gender identity, sexuality, and sisterhood.”

4400 (1920s – 1990s)

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The CW’s short-lived 4400, a reboot of the 2004-2007 USA series, finds 4,400 humans who “disappeared at some point within the last century” suddenly dropped into a Detroit park in the present day with no knowledge of where they are or what has happened to them.

(Produced simultaneously in French as Lance et Compte for Quebec, France and Switzerland.)

Doctor, Doctor (medical sitcom) CBS 1989-1991

• Richard `Dick' Stratford (Tony Carreiro)
• Hugh Persons (Brian George)

Another recurring sketch took place on the steps of a coffee house.