If you were a queer kid growing up in the ’90s, there was one place you could turn to for support — your family your school Roseanne.
Remember, this was the pre-Drag Race era. Whatever you think of the show now, back then, the show was remarkably ahead of its time when it came to the LGBTQ community. Roseanne the character, whose friends included a bisexual woman and a gay man, sparked a feud with ABC when she became one of the first women to kiss another woman on air in 1994.
Roseanne was one of the earliest shows on television to depict a gay wedding. And even though Darlene technically wasn’t out as a lesbian, she became a gay icon for the haven’t-yet-realized-they’re-queer teen community. (As a member of this demo, I have yet to recover from my lingering resentment of David.) Read more…
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