Sitcom clip: 1980, THE ASSOCIATES - Gay activist meets with TV executives

TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
THE ASSOCIATES: "The Censors" - 4/10/1980, ABC
A gay activist meets with TV executives in this clip from a 1979-80 sitcom about a law firm.
In the 1970s and 80s, the major American TV networks often used consultants from the Gay Media Task Force to make sure queer content in scripts was plausible and didn't overuse straight people's stereotypes of queer people.
This episode depicts such a meeting, played for laughs, after a network censor pressures a showrunner to rewrite a "tasteless" scene on a (fictional) sitcom. #gay #queer #LGBTQ #MediaStudies

[@prettybuff75]

The 3 younger men look so familiar!
Might have to look the show up…

[@stevencapsuto873]

The young lawyer is played by Martin Short (now of "Only Murders in the Building").