Oh yeah…
Montogomery’s character in the movie Fame was gay, but his character in the TV show was asexual.
They weren’t actually pilots in the novel; they were burglars and assassins and the name of the gang was “The Cement Mixers”, which is pretty damn tough-sounding.
And this at a time when Bruce Jenner had recently set a record in the Decathlon, a fact noted in the Mad Magazine parody of the show.
In the movie, the boy’s father is scandalized because the boy wants to be…a folk singer!
And I can’t say as I blame him. I wouldn’t wish being a folk singer on my worst enemy.
Madchen in Uniform suffered a number of cuts to obscure the sexuality of the central characters to secure an American release.
Does nobody remember that scene early in the movie, when Porter is working as the pianist in a department store’s music department? He and his female co-worker are having lunch, and she asks with a flirtatious simper, “Gee, Mr. Porter, why is it you’ve never married?” All Porter can say is “um” and “ah” as he continues to eat his sandwich. I think the screenwriters were trying to tell us something.
Not to mention Bruce Lee and Bruce Springsteen.
Ah then it definitely wasn’t the female cousin with the combover and the sensitive-guy-in-a-war-movie glasses. It must have been the Professor. In the bedroom. He was kind of a heartthrob, too.
With the lead pipe.
ROFL!
A Beautiful Mind makes nary a mention about Nash’s several gay relationships.
It hasn’t been released yet, but the film version of the Martian Child is supposed to have the protagonist be a man with a dead (female) fiancée rather than a single gay man.
In his book “My Eight Years on Another World” head writer Harding LeMay tells of how he wanted to introduce a gay guy on Another World back in the mid 70’s. He chose Mike, another twin who had lived out of town and had mysteriously aged. The role had even been cast (the guy’s lover would never be seen) when the advertisors nixed the idea. So it goes.
Bianca Montgomery “came out” on All My Children a couple of years back. She has since been raped, got pregnant, had her daughter kidnapped at birth and was lead to believe she died, killed her rapist when he attempted to rape and impregant her again (she put the body in a meat freezer, when it stayed for weeks), got her daughter back, became involved with up-to-then straight Maggie, and went to Paris.
Poor woman.
And Batman.
Stewie Griffin. When the Family Guy started out, he was an evil monster bent on destroying the world. Then he got the gay. Since then, he’s slept with at least one piece of jail bait. Most recently he’s been trying to get off with Brian (who despite being male, is also dog).
Busy chap for a one year old is our Stewie.
There was plenty of this “de-gaying” in films made pre-1970, even thoughb they came out and said it in printed works and plays. See the book and the film “The Celluloid Closet”. In “The Maltese Falcon”, Wilmer is a “gunsel”, which a lot of people took to mean “gun-carrying hoodlum”, but which meant “homosexual”. Those in the know didn’t bother correcting people. They took out all the lines and lyrics referring to gays in “West Side Story” (even though they have absolutely nothing to do with the plot). and so on.
Actually, there were occasional references, but they’re so rare that when you see them, they’re surprising. I recall seeing a section from some old non-major-studio cartoon that showed a toy cowboy character (a la Woody from Toy Story) who falls ontop a powder puff and gets dusted with powder, after which he acts all swishy and over-the-top stereotypical gay. Weird stuff.
“Breakfast at Tiffanys” - Wasn’t the George Peppard character gay in the book, but not the movie?
Re “Spartacus” I don’t recall any version of it I’ve seen over the years on TV from the 70’s onward that was missing the “snails-oysters” scene.
Your memory is playing false with you, unless you didn’t see the movie from 1970 to 1989 or so. The “snails and oyster” scene wasn’t restored to the film until thwe released of the restored version about 1989. I know, because I’m a big fan of the film, and went to the movies a couple of times to see the restored version (which also restored a scene where a Roman soldier gets his arm chopped off by Spartacus, and which restored the Overture).
Dead Poet’s Society - in the original script, Robin Williams’ character was gay.
I all fairness teh Pilot movie, and the grave stone give him the name David Bruce Banner. They just kinda ignored the Bruce part… you know hiding his identity wherver he went .
David Burner, David Bunnion David Smith.
That’s not being de-gayed, that’s being gayed-up.
… Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I’m tempted to suggest Top Gun. But, despite it never being mentioned, there’s still too much gay flying around in that movie to believe that they tried to tone it down.