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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm so relieved that the hair conditioner at the hotel is free from homophobia! Whew! (Now if we could only say the same thing about the US Supreme Court...)

Bottles attached to shower wall with long lists of things they are free from, including homophobia.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Greetings from beautiful — and wonderfully walkable — downtown Chicago, where the International Voices Project theater festival begins tomorrow night (Tuesday) at the Instituto Cervantes. One of my theater translations will have a professional staged reading as the opening night feature. 😃 🎭🍿

Me in front of the Instituto Cervantes in Chicago, with a Spanish flag displayed in the window.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Since Jean Smart is in the spotlight with her record-setting Emmy win... Here's a video about that time when she played serial killer Aileen Wuornos in a 1992 TV movie (11 years before Charlize Theron in "Monster"), with Park Overall playing her girlfriend.

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1992: Jean Smart as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in OVERKILL, w/ Park Overall as Aileen's girlfriend

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For years, we've seen headlines saying that Trump's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low. And no matter how often it happens, when I check the number, it's always around 35%. What higher mathematics are involved in a number staying the same while plummeting? What do the headlines refer to?

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1/4: He decidido suscribirme a Atresplayer para ver, desde EEUU, la serie "Mariliendre", que se emitió en España el año pasado. Algunos aspectos no me convencen del todo pero hay cosas que funcionan bien, sobre todo el uso de canciones de pop para avanzar el argumento o desarrollar los personajes.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It always amazes me that these gay characters were on a UK sketch-comedy series week after week in the *1960s*. We had nothing comparable in the US. The nearest thing was Alan Sues's gay-coded characters on "Laugh-In." I have a few albums of Julian and Sandy sketches but I'd not heard this one.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The folks freaking out about "racially implausible" casting in Nolan's "The Odyssey" are probably the same people who love it when Jesus is portrayed by a pasty actor who looks like his name ought to be Sven.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I’m traveling in California. Here's the obligatory pic in front of the "Brady Bunch house" in Studio City. 😃

Two men in front of the suburban house used for exterior shots on "The Brady Bunch."

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Programming Insider @programminginsider.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

📺 July 13, 1984: “Brothers” debuted on Showtime. Pay cable’s first original sitcom starred Paul Regina as a man who left his bride at the altar on their wedding day, only to reveal to his 2 older brothers (Robert Walden and Brandon Maggart) that he's gay. 115 episodes were produced over 5 seasons.

"Brothers" starring Paul Regina, Robert Walden and Brandon Maggart

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🇨🇦TVDean 📺🇨🇦 (he/him) @tvdean.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🇨🇦 Celebrating 🇨🇦 Canada Day with a binge rewatch of "Heated Rivalry" 🥰 🇨🇦

Promotional image of the Canadian TV series "Heated Rivalry"

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

New video: "CBS News 'Does' the Gays." It's the story behind two biased early CBS documentaries about gay men: THE HOMOSEXUALS (1967) and GAY POWER, GAY POLITICS (1980), and how they ended up being as biased as they were. Made 13 years apart, they reflect vastly different eras for queer people.

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CBS News "Does" the Gays: THE HOMOSEXUALS (1967) and GAY POWER, GAY POLITICS (1980)

YouTube video by Steven Capsuto - LGBTQ+ Images on Television

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A 5-hour YouTube video?! Yup, but it's by @mattbaume.bsky.social and is therefore worth watching from start to finish, even if you have to view it in installments. Smart, entertaining, and important.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I guess I should have bumped this yesterday...

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

June Lockhart seems to have been such a lovely person, and here she replies beautifully to Graham's antigay remarks. What has surprised me since I posted this video is how many people in the comments assume that Rev. Troy Perry is heterosexual and a Catholic priest. No idea why they assume that!

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Was just in two shops where the twentysomething-year-old workers were completely unfamiliar with the terms "humidifier" and "vaporizer." Are these no longer a common thing? Or are they now called something fanciful like a "steam-o-breather"?

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I love good queer romance films, and this week I really enjoyed a very sweet gay-teen romance I saw for the first time: the Brazilian film "The Way He Looks" (2014). Very well made (though I have doubts about the plausibility of the final scene).

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LezWatch.TV 📺 🏳️‍🌈 @lezwatchtv.com · 16/06/2026

The LezWatch.TV show of the day is "Orphan Black," with 7 characters and an overall score of 81.75. - #LWTVsotd #OrphanBlack - lezwatchtv.com/show/orphan-black

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davidfreemanpowell @davidfreemanpowell.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Nearly missed it! Beautiful Thing was released 30 years ago on 14th June 1996

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Beautiful Thing (1996) - Final Scene

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Happy Pride! My latest video: Philadelphia LGBT Pride 2004. (19 min.) I shot and edited this 22 years ago for my friend Kay, who was one of the grand marshals that year. Perhaps some of you will spot yourselves here. 😀 youtu.be/kLbo5WS3TNw

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Philly Pride 2004: Philadelphia LGBT Pride Parade and Festival - June 13, 2004

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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

My fellow cis folks, The FCC is asking Americans to submit comments about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to trans/gender content. Time to be an ally and tell the FCC absolutely the fuck not. It takes five minutes to do.

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Tell the FCC that LGBTQ Stories Don’t Need a Warning Label | GLAAD

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous...

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

"Luddite" doesn't mean "fuddy-duddy who can't grasp tech and dislikes anything new." Luddites were workers-rights activists who, when industries developed machines to replace workers, broke in at night and smashed the machines. UK then made machine-smashing a capital crime and started killing them.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I hate the insinuation that a corporation not celebrating Pride implies bigotry. It feels awfully close to "If you refuse to celebrate Christmas, you just hate Christians." There are plenty of companies whose owners and leaders actively wish us harm. Surely those should be our priority.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Banality of evil: Just found out the guy I've sat next to at lunch off and on for a few months is a Trumpster who revels in every kind of cruelty, lawlessness, torture, and death. He has the luxury of seeing it as theoretical since he believes (falsely, I hope) that none of it will happen to him.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

New Video: "Ridiculous LGBTQ+ Content Warnings on TV, Past and Future." As the FCC pushes to give parents the ability to block trans and nonbinary content on their TVs, we look back at the evolution of parental guidance warnings about LGBTQ+ content. youtu.be/fiVYLtHZAwY?...

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Ridiculous LGBTQ+ Content Warnings on TV, Past and Future

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

June is designated #PrideMonth in countries around the world, marking the anniversary of the Stonewall riots in June 1969. Pride celebrates the progress we have made over the last 57 years but it also reminds us that the struggle is not over. Far from it.

Me on a Reclaim Pride march in 2022. I’m carrying a placard that reads:
Stonewall was a riot.
Pride is a protest.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

What was it like to be a lesbian activist in 1965 on a TV talk show? What ridiculous questions were they asked? And how did audiences react? Check out my 1991 interview with pioneering lesbian activists Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, who founded the Daughters of Bilitis in 1955. youtu.be/HYIuh98-hWo

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Daughters of Bilitis founders Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon discuss early gay appearances on TV (1991)

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

WILL & GRACE debuted in 1998, but the first time I noticed a queer-inclusive commercial during the show was a Miller Lite ad on today's date in 2001. I checked and someone has uploaded it to YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZg6...

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Miller Lite Beer | Television Commercial | 2001 | Girls Send Gay Man A Beer

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

20 years ago, a gay-teen story line began on the long-running daytime soap opera AS THE WORLD TURNS.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

My YouTube channel about LGBTQ+ images on TV now has over 6,000 followers! Woohoo! I'm redesigning it to include longer videos in which I analyze that history, but still with lots of clips. Here's the first of the new videos. Most of them will be about 15 minutes long. youtu.be/dwLrhsrt5CE

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1961: Miss Brant (played by Virginia Christine) on THE ASPHALT JUNGLE; 1960s lesbian images onscreen

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

If you're a white neo-Nazi Republican politician who truly believes that ethnic and cultural "replacement" is a bad thing that needs to be undone... Why not lead by example and go back to wherever the hell your people came here from?

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Woohoo! I'm quoted in today's NY Times piece about the 50th anniversary of the gay couple on the 1970s-80s sitcom BARNEY MILLER: Darryl and Marty. #gay #queer #LGBTQ #sitcom

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How the Cop Show ‘Barney Miller’ Made Gay TV History, 50 Years Ago

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Could people please stop using the word "divisive" as a euphemism for "recycled KKK rhetoric?" It is such a moral abdication.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

(Watches British TV shows on PBS.) So... Is advanced criminology actually taught in Christian seminaries in the UK? Or is solving murders just something that all British clergy do as a hobby?

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Today, I'm at the Yiddish Book Center in Massachusetts for the annual Yidstock music festival. This is their Yiddish typewriter collection, on display in the book room, where the public can peruse or buy many of the thousands of vintage volumes in Yiddish that the center has rescued. #Yiddish

A man in front of a display case full of vintage Yiddish typewriters.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Video: TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY 1) "Straight Man in a Gay World" on Morgan Spurlock's "30 Days" (2005) 2) Founders of the Parents of Gays organization (now PFLAG) on NBC's "Today" show (1978) #gay #queer #lgbtq

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July 6: Parents of Gays on "Today" (1978) and Straight Man in a Gay World on "30 Days" (2005)

YouTube video by Steven Capsuto - LGBTQ Images on Television

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Video: TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY 1. The founder of Parents of Gays (now PFLAG), Jeanne Manford, on "The Pat Collins Show," July 5, 1974 2. "Hyde in Hollywood' on PBS's "American Playhouse," July 5, 1991 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkCS... #gay #queer #LGBTQ

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July 5: PFLAG founder Jeanne Manford on TV (1974) and "Hyde in Hollywood" on PBS (1991)

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

If you're rounding up people who "look Hispanic," what you really mean is they look like indigenous peoples of the Americas. This is white leaders ordering the roundup and imprisonment of indigenous Americans, to punish them for being on the wrong side of lines that white people drew on the ground.

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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

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An illustration of a young girl in silhouette with a ponytail, standing against a fiery orange and red background. Over her figure is a handwritten quote in white text that reads: “The wicked become even worse when they are tolerated.” – Tolstoy. The intense backdrop and the child's silhouette create a haunting, powerful visual emphasizing the quote's message about the dangers of complacency toward evil.

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

All I can say about US Republicans is they better hope the Christians are wrong and that there's no such things as hell. 🔥 😠

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

This week, I'm digitizing audio interviews I did in the 90s with people who'd been involved in gay rights activism in the 1950s to mid-1970s, and with TV producers and writers behind early US TV depictions of queer people. I plan to post some of them online (for tapes where I have permission). 😊

An audiocassette machine playing a tape labeled "Gittings interview, January 6, 1991, Side 2."

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Steven Capsuto @stevencapsuto.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Marriage equality seems to be the only issue Andrew Sullivan ever seriously cared about. In the 1990s, he kept urging us to abandon the pursuit of employment nondiscrimination and instead focus activism entirely on attaining marriage rights, which helps far fewer of us. I never had much use for him.

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