TMC
06-27-2015, 01:24 AM
http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/how-pedro-ellen-will-grace-and-other-gay-tv-icons-helped-pave-the-way-for-gay-marriage
“Everything started to change in the ’90s, even if no one back then could have envisioned a ruling like today’s happening so soon after (or at all in their lifetimes,” says Alan Sepinwall. In the ‘90s, he points out, The Real World had Pedro Zamora, Ellen DeGeneres came out on her ABC sitcom and in real life and Will & Grace exploded as an NBC hit. PLUS: How Modern Family helped chance perceptions (http://www.scpr.org/programs/the-frame/2015/06/26/43442/how-tv-shows-like-modern-family-helped-shape-perce/) about same-sex marriage.
“Everything started to change in the ’90s, even if no one back then could have envisioned a ruling like today’s happening so soon after (or at all in their lifetimes,” says Alan Sepinwall. In the ‘90s, he points out, The Real World had Pedro Zamora, Ellen DeGeneres came out on her ABC sitcom and in real life and Will & Grace exploded as an NBC hit. PLUS: How Modern Family helped chance perceptions (http://www.scpr.org/programs/the-frame/2015/06/26/43442/how-tv-shows-like-modern-family-helped-shape-perce/) about same-sex marriage.