Lisa -
    If you're interested in an international focus, the no.1 Australian TV soap
    drama in the '70s was "Number 96", which followed the lives of a group of
    flat dwellers in inner-city Sydney. Among the over-the-top characters the
    series featured a homosexual lawyer ('Don Finlayson' played by Joe Hasham)
    in a sympathetic role that portrayed him as the most 'normal' occupant of
    the flats. He just happened to be gay! In the permissive age of the early
    seventies, this was probably the first image of a gay male to screen in
    prime-time television on a continuing basis.
 
    cheers
    Rob Pemberton
 
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