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You're kind of a renaissance man-- podcaster, writer, video maker, journalist. Producer: Melissa Roth. I'm Sharon Johnson. Boy, yeah, it's true. [2] ". Welcome to 80s TV Ladies, where we love to celebrate female driven-television of the s and beyond. But you know, I tell stories about the making of iconic TV and film, and about the incredible people behind some of the most interesting stories and interesting pieces of entertainment out there.

Clearly, chastity was the price gay characters paid for admission to prime-time television in the s. Streaming on Pluto. So I was really embedded in all that. His first book Defining Marriage tells personal stories of the people who fought for decades for marriage equality, and his latest book, Hi, Honey, I'm Homo explains how subversive queer comedy and TV creators transformed the American sitcom.

And somewhere in there, I really started to get interested in, as a total side thing, some of the political stuff that was going on around gay marriage, or marriage equality, because there was a lot of, you know, litigation and legal stuff happening. I worked for Lucasfilm up in San Francisco.

And so after that, you know, my interest was really in, you know, every aspect of movies and TV. And, you know, from the, from the, we got a great foundation of history stuff. In the New York of the late '80s and early '90s, this is a story of ball culture and the gay and trans community, the raging AIDS crisis, and capitalism.

Revisit the first major TV shows to introduce gay characters to mainstream audiences. Associate Producer: Sergio Perez. And I guess, you know, I guess I got started, you know, my origin story, 20 years ago, so as a film student, and went to Emerson College in Boston, studied film, a little bit of television in there.

And this, these are these the olden days, when we were actually like cutting pieces of celluloid on a bench. I'm your producer Melissa Roth. Although LGBTQ + representation these days is much more prevalent among viewers, let's take a look at the 15 characters who represented the community during a time when the topic of being gay was.

How did you get started? Guest: Matt Baume. And I'm Susan Lambert Hatem. I worked for Jim Henson Productions. [1] In , "The Puppy Episode" of Ellen aired, in which lead character Ellen Morgan came out concomitant with series star Ellen DeGeneres coming out in her public life.

What's your story? And then I went into the, you know, moved to Los Angeles, was working in the industry. We were sparked to this discussion when we visited with the Rainbow Remix Podcast and started talking about these issues and episodes with JD Danner and Denise Warner. Our guess today is Matt Baume, a Seattle-based writer, podcaster and video maker whose work focuses on queer culture, geeks and all things strange and wonderful.

All Rights Reserved. Sound Engineer and Editor: Kevin Ducey. I do a little bit of everything. Music by Amy Engelhardt. And in researching for these episodes, I came across our next guest, who is an expert on queer representation in pop culture, and a fantastic storyteller. But basically, I make content for the internet.

We're very happy to have you on the show. I make podcasts, make videos, I write, often about pop culture from a queer perspective. We are so excited to look at an important part of retro pop culture, the representation of the LGBTQ community in television history.