I don't doubt it and I'm not trying to minimize homophobia here, I'm just saying that smart, nice people existed, in plentiful numbers, in the time of my adolescence. I'm from the Chicago suburb known as The People's Republic Of Evanston by the way, so that certainly influences my outlook.

Huh, my responses don't seem to have posted, maybe they're being moderated. Suffice to say I disagree with dr's memory of the state of LGBT America in 1992.

Basically half the country is reasonably gay friendly now, in 1992 it was more like a quarter to a third. But a quarter to a third of the United States is a massive fuckload of people.

This is a historical misunderstanding of Don't Ask Don't Tell, Clinton, and the liberals who were pushing him leftward wanted to end the band on gays in the military, the Joint Chiefs, and conservatives in Congress pushed back hard, and DADT was the compromise that nobody really liked but it didn't start out as "We're…

And the Outcast was NOT received as a brave progressive statement by most folks on the left, but a disappointing cop out.

Homosexuality was a hugely controversial issue about which lots of people disagreed vehemently. But it was not a minor thing it was a tging people talkwd about. A lot. And generally speaking, college educated urban liberals were cool with gays and Bible thumping rednecks were not. Pretty much like now.

"The militant anti-gay sentiment in africa is a direct consequence of european impositions, especially religious ones." Oh yeah, Uganda would be an enlightened utopia but for Christianity.

Don't get me wrong, the early 90s was less enlightened about homosexuality than 2014 for the most part but the difference is much smaller than you think.

Gays in the military was a *huge* political issue at the time. AIDS certainly brought homosexuality into the public consciousness and God knows the Republicans never shut up about it. There were lots of gay characters on TV before Ellen, the first was played by Billy Crystal in 1978. Maybe not movie stars but everyone…

I feel like I'm being an annoying contrarian but I was 13 and pretty clued in to politics in 1991. LGBT issues were not "unheard of".

TOS was darker than anyone remembers.

"There’s a very funny scene from this summer’s Neighbors in which Seth Rogen asks Zac Efron who he pictures when he thinks of Batman." Jim Aparo, Frank Miller, Neal Adams, Norm Breyfogle…oh you mean actors…

Dude me neither! Why is that inherently ridiculous? Any more than Superman himself is inherently ridiculous?

Chronologically it was actually fuck you Bryan Singer.

The comics are probably better than S6 and S7

Not that I'd be wild for a remake with this or any other cast (no sane person would) but that staged reading might have been fun.

Hold up…how did I not hear of this and why wasn't it filmed? http://insidemovies.ew.com/…

Holy shit Mike was on an episode of Highlander: The Series once! This may excite only me. The two series are obviously comparable in critical acclaim.

Holy shit Mike was on an episode of Highlander: The Series once! This may excite only me. The two series are obviously comparable in critical acclaim.

I felt nothing for Gale because he was a libertarian. No harm done.