YES!!!! I will never forget how utterly awful that UFO sketch was. Over 20 years later and it's always stuck with me. The prime example of the homophobia the article speaks of.

Not that it negates the point, but in the (bad) TV movie "Mary and Rhoda" Mary did have a daughter, born shortly after the end of the sitcom.

One that, sadly, will likely happen soon: Mary Tyler Moore. Pretty much all quality TV comedy is influenced, directly or indirectly, by what she did.