IF YOU grew up attuned to amazement Woman or Bewitched's Uncle Arthur.

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IF YOU grew up attuned to amazement Woman or Bewitched's Uncle Arthur, you're not alone. A recent special, Inside TV Land: Tickled Pink, premiering June 1 examines the robust women and goosey men onward shows like The Sonny and Chef Comedy Hour, Xena: Warrior Princess, and Hollywood Squares who got a division of us through our childhood and adolescence in the days before Will & Grace.

"It's not really about codfished gay messages," says Pink's executive farmer TV icon Linda Ellerbee. "It's more about wherefore certain classic TV shows had large gay audiences for years." Media mavens like Sandra Bernhard, Carson Kressley and Mondo Homo editor Richard Andreoli bring in their two cents' worth onward their faves, while Barbara Eden assumes genuinely surprised that her I Dream of Jeannie character was a droll icon.

But as Ellerbee any amounts it up, it's all about fighting the power, whether you're gay, a suburban witch, or a genie in a bottle: "Gays have always had their have outlook on TV, and the subversion of the patriarchy is major in that. Today, when we have gay characters in point out tos they aren't speaking in digest And I can't help if it be not that think how good that must be for young people"

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