darkravn:transdankovsky: gholateg:guljerry:I love The Golden Girls. Ya’ll don’t have any
darkravn:transdankovsky: gholateg:guljerry:I love The Golden Girls. Ya’ll don’t have any idea how fucking brave and needed these plot lines were. This was before Ellen came out. This was before civil unions. This was before Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. This was when your ass could be fired, blacklisted, and shunned with no legal protections for even being hinted at being gay. And the Golden Girls said “Fuck you, Fuck this, we’re doing it anyway.” I think it should be noted that Blanche’s quote about AIDS is also “It is not god punishing people for their sins” and that the episode also deals with slutshaming. I don’t know if people realize how much activism these women did for gay right and during the aids crisis. If you think about it they were all long established in Hollywood and Broadway. They had tons of friends personally affected and dealing with the aids crisis. Estelle Getty lost a nephew. I think they helped plant seeds in people who watched Golden Girls that helped make things a little more normalized and mainstream. From the night my grandfather was diagnosed with cancer to the night he died, this show was all I ever watched. literally. it played on my computer every moment of every day for 2.5 months because it was the only thing that comforted me. and during that time, I wasn’t exactly ‘out’ as queer to all of my family yet. however, watching it happened to bring me two different types of comfort. the first type was regular familiar comfort. the second kind was 'holy shit. four women back in the 80’s really stepped up to make life easier for some people… and I’m one of those people. If at any moment they thought “we’ll be helping someone someday” then I am one of those people.’ they didn’t have to do this. they could’ve rolled around in their piles of cash and stuck to normal sitcom plot lines. but they saw the opportunity and the fact that their privilege as celebrities would grant them a little more leniency in order to make headway for those without that same privilege. and they did it off-screen too. they risked their jobs and their positions to say 'hey, let’s make sure someone has a little less risk to their safety someday’ and I am eternally grateful for that. this isn’t just a sitcom. it’s a fraction of history in the very long timeline of our fight. -- source link
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