The program did not seem to want for advertisers, either. The show drew an audience of 7 million and was the second-highest-rated show in NBC's Thursday 9:30 p.m. Lloyd Braun, the ABC Entertainment chairman, said that when he came up with the idea for ''It's All Relative,'' ''I just thought it was funny,'' he said. ''Look where we've come now, where the opposite has happened, where the chairman of ABC comes to us two years ago and says, 'I want to do a show on gay parents,'' Mr.
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Sponsors chafed at the movie - some refused to advertise - some conservatives protested and even some of NBC's affiliated stations expressed discomfort with a kiss shared by the movie's stars, Glenn Close and Judy Davis. (She was later reinstated.) ''It was a really difficult experience,'' Mr. Margarethe Cammermeyer, the officer discharged from the Washington State National Guard in 1992 for acknowledging she was a lesbian. Several network and cable television executives said the Supreme Court's 6-to-3 decision in June, overruling a Texas sodomy law and legalizing gay sexual conduct, underlined what they already knew: that the nation's attitudes toward gays and lesbians are radically changing.Ĭraig Zadan and Neil Meron, the executive producers of ''It's All Relative,'' a new ABC sitcom about a star-crossed engaged couple - the daughter of two upscale gay men and the son of a blue-collar couple - said the television landscape had shifted significantly in the eight and a half years since their first gay-themed television project, the NBC movie ''Serving in Silence.'' The movie was based on the story of Col. These shows join a growing prime-time roster of gay-themed programming - ''Queer as Folk'' on Showtime, ''Will and Grace'' on NBC - that reflects a major shift in attitudes about gay subjects. That will be followed by ''Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,'' in which a team of gay men with expertise in designer clothing, food and wine, and in the arts save aesthetically challenged straight men from their own warped senses of fashion.
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Tonight the Bravo cable network will present the first episode of ''Boy Meets Boy,'' in which a gay bachelor will choose a potential partner from a field of 15 men, some of them straight. If American television audiences could have seen then what viewers can see now. An episode of ''Police Woman'' centered on three lesbians who murdered the residents of a retirement home. In an episode of ''Marcus Welby, M.D.,'' the doctor tells a tormented patient to ''win that fight'' against his homosexual feelings.
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Thirty years ago, prime-time television series often depicted homosexuals as suicidal or psychopaths.