JEFFREY STRASBURG <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > There was also a gay couple in the later episodes of NOTHERN EXPOSURE -- > one episode, if I remember right, focused on their wedding. And in a flashback to the founding of the town, the woman after which it was named was shown to be half of a lesbian couple, if I recall correctly. There was a lesbian in one episode of 'Lou Grant', but she committed suicide at the end of the episode. Also another lesbian - a surgeon visiting from another hospital, who was in about four episodes - in St. Elswhere. From the UK, I seem to recall at least one LGB character in a sitcom titled 'Agony' in the late 70s, which centred around a magazine agony aunt. Before that, and being repeated now, there was the stereotypically camp and assumed to be gay character in the sitcom 'Are You Being Served', which also had a movie spin-off. Then there were the historically accurate characters in the drama series 'Oranges are not the only Fruit' and 'Portrait of a Marriage' - two lesbians in each. There was a gay male drama series entitled something like 'The Lost Language of Cranes', but I did not see it. Lost in the sands of time there were a host of LGB characters in 2 early 80s "sitcoms", one set in a south London coffee bar, and another in an housing project high-rise. I can recall the titles of neither. We have had two gay male couples, other gay characters, a lesbian couple and a lesbian mother in the BBC's main soap, 'EastEnders', which I believe is also shown in some US markets and elswhere. This is credited with the first gay kiss. One of the actors involved is now a leading LGB rights campaigner - Michael Cashman. Channel Four's main soap, 'Brookside' had a gay male character and then a teenage lesbian, who proceeded through three partners in a very high profile thread which included the first UK TV lesbian kiss in prime time. Diane Journal Productions, UK Who once convered media for Gay News, the UK's first L&G newspaper. -- [log in to unmask] ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.