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Jericho (UK TV series), a series set in the 1950s which airs in the US and elsewhere has a two-part episode "The Killing of Johnny Swan". Swan, a closeted gay man has a gay lover who is also a crossdresser. The episodes reveal the harassment of LGBT by police - thus the reasons for lack of cooperation in the investigation - as well as a beard for Swan who is one of the murder victims on her and Swan's wedding night. -- Banjeboi 03:08, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
I remeber Twin Peaks had a couple of episodes with David Ducovny playing a transgender police man. Could so add this please, because I found it quite remarkable that there was no fuss made about it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.228.237.146 ( talk) 11:06, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
The character, Denise was not a "transgender police man".. she was from all appearances, a transgender woman DEA agent, though her willingness to go "boy mode" to further an investigation would somewhat fall under the more modern interpretation of "gender fluid".
Denise appeared in several episodes in Season Two as a DEA agent.
Her acceptance by Coop and others was actually quite progressive for the time... though Hawk misgenders her on first meeting though attempting to be accepting with a comment "that's a good color on him". Most others seem to take her as she presents.. though she admittedly does not make any attempt to feminize her voice.
There is also a scene of Andy dancing with Denise at the end of one episode, though there is not any indication it was anything more than friends.
I should probably go back and review to find the specific episodes where she appears and their air dates so that Twin Peaks can be added DigitalSorceress ( talk) 16:54, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
It is not listed here, but in 1996 episode titled "Honey, We Broke The Kids". Casey manages to get a Hollywood star to do a promotional commercial local tourism. She has the hots for the star, but apparently missed the printed interview where he (Deke) came out as being gay and a vegetarian. Antonio also missed the interview, but views Deke as the coolest action star ever. Later on their was another episode (Team Plater?) where an episode where Antonio wears a dress (to avoid be recognized by angry Boston fans) and one more where Joe and Helen had to dance at a gay nightclub or something. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.123.38.190 ( talk) 16:11, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
I moved this list from List of American television episodes with LGBT themes, 1990–1997 to be in sync with the 1970s and 1980s lists, which I didn't think would be controversial. I'm belatedly opening up a discussion on the topic because for neatness I had also updated the few links to this list from other lists, which User:Jerry Pepsi has reverted, probably in disagreement with my list name change. I'm now guessing that the list was named the way it was (and ended in 1997) because editors are considering the Ellen a watershed moment that made LGBT-themed episodes more commonplace, and therefore listing episodes after that date is trivial? While I personally agree that the Ellen episode did change things and perhaps make networks more unafraid, I don't see a source that asserts this or justifies that date as a cutoff. Has there been discussion on this elsewhere? I also removed links to the deleted List of post-Ellen American television episodes with LGBT themes (and was reverted). That list was obviously created as a continuation of this one but it was deleted in 2009 so ... — TAnthony Talk 06:07, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
To continue the discussion, I understand part of the argument behind the previous list name/cutoff date ( List of American television episodes with LGBT themes, 1990–1997) so I'm trying to red team it. I'm assuming the idea was that after Ellen came out and sort of opened that door, there was a trend of more LGBT characters/episodes series and so maintaining the same kind of list would be cumbersome? I agree to an extent, and understand that listing every episode of Will & Grace is ridiculous and even tracking Agron/Nasir episodes of Spartacus is excessive and trivial. I'm just not feeling so strongly about 1997 as the hard out, it seems awkward and, despite the importance of Ellen, kind of arbitrary. I did find the following in " The Puppy Episode" article:
This sets the tone you want, and I added it to the article, but to me it still only implies a before/after point. Written 10 years later in 2007, within the article it actually says that we haven't come as far in TV equality as we should despite the shows that followed. And I mean, we have no sourced statement saying that literally after April 30, 1997 the TV landscape changed and so we're not listing things anymore for the last 2.5 years of the decade, because an LGBT-themed episode of an otherwise mainstream show was no longer notable the day after Ellen came out. If the sitcom/drama series articles are any indication, there are several shows with LGBT characters from 1998-1999 but not a huge landslide. Plus, there is the following to note:
As a gay man I have always felt that the Ellen thing was HUGE and really started the ball rolling on the visibility and acceptance we're enjoying now, but some of this says to me that May 1, 1997 was not necessarily Day One of the LGBT Golden Age of Television. I really just don't see why making that distinction is necessary when the decade is almost over, you're just creating a bump and a set of questions for the reader. I came to the article looking for info that wasn't there and I didn't get the 1997 nuance right away, and I'm not the first one. Additionally, I know that Ellen got a huge amount of attention, but as Will & Grace was arguably the first successful primarily-gay series, and I imagine there are plenty of citations saying as much and asserting its influence and its proof to the networks that LGBT shows can make big money for them, I'm not sure why we're not including that show in our turning point as well.
I'm looking forward to any comments and will happily go along with whatever consensus is reached, I'm curious at who might agree or disagree but am fine either way. Thanks! — TAnthony Talk 13:37, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
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The result of the move request was: moved as requested, unopposed. There was a previous dispute over the title as seen above, but it was a (subsequently blocked) sock that objected to moving the page to the suggested, consistent title. Dekimasu よ! 21:57, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
List of American television episodes with LGBT themes, 1990–1997 → List of 1990s American television episodes with LGBT themes – Per WP:CONSISTENCY with the two other articles in the series - List of 1970s American television episodes with LGBT themes and List of 1980s American television episodes with LGBT themes and also matching the actual article lead. Gonnym ( talk) 09:45, 9 December 2018 (UTC)