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 ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.