Classic TV


A

Absolutely Fabulous

Adam-12: Cops bonding before CHIPS

Alf: From Melmac to West Hollywood

Alias Smith and Jones

Alice, and Tommy: There's a new girl in town, with a teen idol son

The Almighty Johnsons: Norse gods kissing girls in New Zealand.

All in the Family: The Gay Episode



American Horror Story:

 A school for boys run by gay men

  Gay World

 The top ten gay hunks of New York




The Andy Griffith Show: Looking for muscles

Asian Beefcake

B

Bangkok Love Stories: Lots of cute Thai guys, but no temples or gay bars

 Batman and the Boy Wonder

 Batman: The Boy Wonder's beneath the belt bulk




 Battlestar Galactica: Star-fighting boyfriends 

Beat: Bisexual Bohemian James Bond in Berlin

Beefcake Dads of 1950s Sitcoms

The Beverly Hillbillies

Bewitched, bewildered, and gay

The Big Bang Theory: 10 homophobic things

Big Valley: Show me Tom Barkley's guts!

BJ and the Bear: A trucker named after a s*x act and his chimp sidekick

Black Beefcake

Black Summer: First days of a gay-free zombie apocalypse

The Bob Cummings Show: Bob and his "nephew" Chuck

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Burns and Allen: Meredith Wilson is "not the marrying kind"

Busting Loose: Spring 1977, on the brink of "busting loose"

C

The Carol Burnette Show: Looking for Muscles

Catfish Mexico: Antonio gets a text from the mysterious Jauvier every night at 11:11 pm

Cheers: Where nobody knows your name if you're gay

Chico and the Man: Anglo-Hispanic gay couple

CHIPS: The episode where Leif Garrett is in love with his agent

Corner Gas: Not a lot goin' on, and that's the way I like it

Crashing: A unique gay romance

Crossing Swords: The gay wedding episode

D

Daniel Boone: He was a big man

Dark Shadows: Barnabas and Willie

David Cassidy Man Undercover

Degrassi Junior High

Degrassi: The Next Generation, with more gay plotlines

The Dick Van Dyke Show: looking for muscle

A Different World: Angst and beefcake at a gay college

Diff'rent Strokes: The "Bicycle Man" gay predator episode

The Doris Day Show: Gays next door in 1972

The Drew Carey Show: Why was this my favorite program in 1999?

The Dukes of Hazzard: Backwoods Adonis cousins and their Confederate Flag

Dumbest Things You See on TV

Dynasty: Why we watched in West Hollywood

E

Eight is Enough to fill our lives with schmaltz.  But at least Grant Goodeve took his shirt off

Everybody Hates Chris, but loves Tequan Richmond






F

Father, Dear Father: Gay-friendly Britcom without gays

Fear the Walking Dead: 24 dead hunks

The Feathered Serpent: Gay British Aztecs

The Flash: Gay characters and subtexts in a DC comics reboot


Flipper: Bodybuilding teen, twink brother, gay dad,   and a dolphin

Flipper: Sandy Ricks in trouble

The Flying Nun and hunky casino owner Carlos

Frasier: The gayest show on tv, or the most homophobic


Friends: A homophobic small-town Manhattan

 Friends: More homophobia, and this time it's serious

Fringe: Ten beefcake stars of the paranormal Mulder/Scully series

From Muscle Beach to the Cimarron Strip: TV Westerns of the 1950




G

Gidget and her boys

Gilligan's Island: Gilligan and the Skipper, a 1960s gay couple?  The Professor asexual? Ginger a drag queen?

The Golden Girls: Homophobic favorite of gay fans, for some reason

The Greatest American Hero, believe it or not

Green Acres: Gay siblings on 1960s tv

The Green Hornet: Batman light

Growing Pains: The sordid past and homophobic present


H

Head of the Class: The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades

Heartbreak High: Lots of Hookup Secrets at an Australian High School

Here's Lucy: The gay-positive episode

Hey, Dad...!: Australia's Growing Pains

High Chapparal: Billy Blue and the bulging Manolito

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Always bring a towel

The Hogan Family: Which heartthrob was your favorite, Jason, Jeremy, or Danny?

Home and Away: Gay subtext soap opera from Australia that I watched in France

Husbands, Wives, and Lovers: Feeling very grown-up and sort of dirty

I

I Dream of Jeannie

I'm Dickens...He's Fenster: Early 1960s buddy-bonding

The Invaders: The Gay Menace from outer space

 It's A Man's World: A gay threesome from the 1960s

It's About Time: Astronauts and cave men

It's Always Sunny: Mac finds his Pride

 It's Always Sunny: Why you should be watching Always Sunny

It's Gary Shandling's Show

It's Your Move: Jason Bateman as a teen con artist




J

The Jeffersons: We're movin' on up

John from Cincinnati: Surfing Has Nothing to Do With It

Just Shoot Me: Why we watched in West Hollywood




K-L

Kim's Convenience: Korean-Canadian family runs a convenience store in gay-free Toronto, except for the first episode

Kojak: Who loves ya?

Kyle XY: Chromosomal heterosexual clone

Lanigan's Rabbi: Rabbi-cop buddy bonding

Laramie: Brokeback Mountain for the 1950s






Lassie's Boys 1:  Jon Provost

Lassie's Boys 2: Tommy Rettig

Lassie's Boys 3: Skip Burton

Laverne and Shirley: Why didn't they just come out?

Little House on the Prairie: hunks face fire, flood, disease, disaster, murder, and angst 

 Lost in Space: Was Dr. Smith gay?

 Lost in Space: Is the new series worth a trip?


Love Boat/Fantasy Island: Love won't hurt anymore

Love, American Style: I will defend your right to shine

Love, Sidney: Tony Randall plays...um...you know

The Lucy Show: Los Angeles as home 


M

Malcolm in the Middle: Fank and Eric in the Middle


Married...with Children

Marvel's Agents of Shield: lots of beefcake, one fleeting gay character

Mary and Rhoda and Gordie the Weatherman: Hip Urban Sitcoms

Merli: Catalan boy studies philosophy, gets with cougars, displays his backside



The Middle: Axl in Underwear

 The Middle: Inclusivity Alert: A gay reference

Mitzi and a Hundred Guys

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Mr. Belvedere: The bodybuilder and the nanny

Mr. Ed: The gay subtext

Move to Heaven: Nobody really moves to heaven

The Muppet Show: a refuge for the "head cases"

My Babysitter's a Vampire

Mystery Science Theater 3000: Saturday morning with Joel and the Bots

Mythomaniac: Is Sam a Butch Lesbian, Femme Gay Boy, Transgender, Non-Binary, or None of Your Business?


N-O

Nanny and the Professor

The New People: Gay hippies after Stonewall

The Odd Couple

One Day at a Time

One Life to Live

Orphan Black: Male n*des, gay characters, and clones




P-Q

Papa Soltero: Telemundo teens on the beach

Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers

Perry Mason: Practically everybody was gay

Play by Play: girls are the meaning of life, yet again

The Politician: Gay-Light Sociopaths in a Hunk-Infested High School

The Prisoner: We want in..formation



R

Razzle Dazzle: TV Variety Shows of the 1970s

The Real O'Neals: The real bulges

Red Dwarf: Four flamboyant guys roaming the galaxy






Riverdale: Archie's Pals and Gals face angst and dark secrets

 Riverdale: Seventy years of Archie beefcake

 Riverdale: More Archie beefcake

The Rockford Files: Buddy of the week needs help

Roseanne: Gay Middle America 

Route 66: Get your beefcake

Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In: It's a dangerous thing to confuse children with angels

The Roy Rogers Show: Western for homophobes

S

Saturday Night Live and the ambiguously gay Bill Murray

Sea Hunt: Lloyd Bridges shows his biceps

Seinfeld: Twelve things I love and hate

The Sentinel: Male detective and male grad student fall in love

A Series of Unfortunate Events: As transphobic as ever

The Shield: Cops in the 2000s display the homophobia of the 1950s

Smallville: Clark and Luther, men of steel

Soap: The first gay human on tv

Spartacus: Gay subtexts, gay characters, and a wife 

Speechless

Star Trek, the Original Series: Chekhov and Sulu in love

 Star Trek, Deep Space Nine: Where no heterosexual has gone before

 Star Trek, Discovery: Any gay characters or beefcake?

 Star Trek, the Next Generation: The top 10 hunks

Star Trek, Voyager: The top 3 hunks

Strangers from Hell: When you don't know you're dead

Suddenly Susan: Biceps, Brooke Shields, and Pete the gay mail boy

Superboy in West Hollywood

Superman: A World of Jimmy Olsons

Swinging Bachelor Detectives of the 1960s

T-V

Tarzan (1966 series)

Taxi and Tony Danza

Teen Wolf: Which teen hunk is gay?

That Girl: Will and Grace for the 1960s

They Had Faces Then: TV hunks before beefcake

Three's Company:  Life is a ball again when a straight guy pretends to be gay

Throb: How we watched tv in the 1990s

Time Tunnel

The Tonight Show: The gay snark of Johnny Carson

Trailer Park Boys: Gay characters in the Canadian hood

Trapper John MD fights homophobia, sort of


24 Boys: Behrooz

24 Boys: Derek

 24 Boys: Scott

 24 Boys: Josh

Twin Peaks: The Owls are not what they seem 

Two Broke Girls: Gay showrunner, homophobic mess

UFO and the shirtless SHADO warriors

Ugly Betty: The heterosexual gay kid

Undone: If I see one more chicken-peck kiss...


W-Z

Wahlburgers: Four seasons, no underwear

The Walking Dead: Gay people unwelcome at the end of the world

The Walking Dead: The World Beyond: Five disappointments and genocide

The War at Home: A homophobic gay ally

Weird City: Dylan O'Brien and Ed O'Neil fall in love

Welcome to Derry: "It" prequel with interesting monsters, Cold War paranoia, 1960s racism, and "bury your gays."

What's Happening: Inner city prettyboy

Who's the Boss, aka Tony Danza in a towel

Will and Grace: 13 things I hate and nothing that I love

WKRP in Cincinnati: Doctor Johnny Fever wants you

 WKRP in Cincinnati: Homophobia alert: Les on the ledge

The Worst Finales in Television History

Wrecked is a wreck

The X-Files: Heterosexuals believe

The Young Rebels   

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