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- From: paul@psych.toronto.edu (Paul Hastings)
- Subject: Re: Key West, the TV show
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.151155.5911@psych.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Smurf Gang
- References: <1993Jan27.034831.21438@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:11:55 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.034831.21438@ultb.isc.rit.edu> kekims@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.E. Kindler ) writes:
- > This new show on FOX seems to have to strong gay characters. I have
- >to admit I walked into the middle of the most recent episode though and
- >missed a lot.
-
- Interesting. I never considered watching it -- from the commercials, I
- thought it looked to be an exceptionally straight Key West -- i.e., nothing
- remotely resembling the reality of that charted, undeserted isle.
-
- > It will be interesting to see how these characters develop. When I
- >saw the first episode and it was dealing with a gay character I just
- >thought they were doing it to show they would take on "tough issues of
- >the real world". When it carried over into the second it got me
- >wondering where they were going to go with all this.
-
- Key West is sort of the Gay Mecca of the south-east USA (shared with South
- Beach and Lauderdale; the other corners, from a Canadian perspective, are
- NYC+Fire island, with a long tendril to P-town; SF and LA in major
- competition, as always, for the South West; and Seattle is growing as
- the NW destination -- although Vancouver still seems more popular).
- Any show that doesn't include day-to-day public exposure (ooh!) of GLBs as
- prominent citizens of Key West would be even less realistic than most
- television programs.
-
- -paul
-
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