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From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: re An Early Frost
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Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 15:14:53 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 13 15:14:53 1985
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> I thought it was the best TV drama on a gay theme that I've seen outside
> PBS.  I wish the gay characters depicted in such productions weren't
> so predictably upper-middle class or didn't wear such near-blank 
> expressions most of the time (the latter may be the result of the
> usual expurgation of erotic gestures done by ratings-anxious directors:
> only chaste kisses and "supportive" embracing, and for god's sake don't
> portray sexual arousal in any form!).

I thought the handling of physical contact between the lovers was quite
weird, too, although I was expecting even more sterility.  As it is, one
could "read between the gestures", as if they were deliberately suppressed
for the camera.  A bit more convincing than "Consenting Adult's" gay-person-
as-eunuch, if only a little.

When they walked into their kitchen to make pasta, I turned to my SO
and asked "why don't we live like this?"
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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