https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/b547aa117e5226aa36644a287fa50d26.pdf 48c09952c63c19109688c7840c1ea0a3 PDF Text Text Sections  Search Sign In  ALTERNATIVE DAYS OF THEIR LIVES      By Marylou Tousignant October 5, 1992   Most Read The scene is an ordinary Friday night dinner, at home with longtime friends, somewhere in the Washington area. "We're just two old married couples," muses Lenny, partner in a small law firm, as the conversation meanders from office open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API 1 Carolyn Hax: What the wandering eyes say about relationship readiness pdfcrowd.com �gossip to jokes about the cooking, and then takes a serious turn over dessert when the hosts, Cindy and Maddy, 2 Miss Manners: Dress code quandary: Are flip-flops shoes? 3 Ask Amy: Dysfunctional relationship should not progress to marriage 4 Carolyn Hax: Struggling to make room for her boyfriend’s bestie — a woman 5 Ask Amy: ‘Mean girl’ at the office wants to shed title announce they want to have a baby. They're sharing this intimate information because Cindy and Maddy are lesbians and they want Lenny's gay lover, John, to father their child. Thus begins the opening plot of "Inside/Outside the Beltway," the Washington area's first gay soap opera, which premiered last week on Fairfax County public-access cable television and will have its debut in the District and the rest of Northern Virginia later this month. Dennis Brooks, the show's creator, says he came up with the idea for the series, which is taped at locations in and around Washington, because "to date, we haven't had a popular view of gay men and women from their point of view. This is a view open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �of our world as we see it, not filtered through the mainstream media." The soap opera is being televised as a segment on "Gay Fairfax," a weekly news and entertainment show now in its third year on Channel 10, Fairfax's public access station. Rob The Most Popular All Over TIME and lesbian people realistically and dispel the stereotypes." Find Out What Your Name Would Be if You Were Born Today (7195269 views) A soap opera, he said, allows for "drama and human interest Slate Wilson, producer of "Gay Fairfax" and "Inside/Outside," said the sole purpose of both is education, "trying to portray gay that may not come out in a magazine-format show. We'll show that these are real people with real problems," who need to confront such issues as AIDS, coming out, bisexuality and gay parenting. The show's critics say those problems should not be examined Kids of Helicopter Parents Are Sputtering Out WNYC - New York Public Radio The World's MostUsed Musical Sequence! on the public airwaves. open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �"The message to the community, especially kids, is that this lifestyle is okay," said Richard J. Enrico, founder of Fairfax County's Foundation for Moral Restoration and Citizens Against Pornography, which launched a telephone and letterwriting campaign against Media General Cable before "Gay Fairfax" was first televised in May 1990. The Most Popular stories around the web Get the Today's Headlines Newsletter Free daily updates delivered just for you. E-mail address "We're not trying to force our morality on anyone. We're Our Online Games trying to keep immorality from being forced on us -- illegal Add Play right from this page immorality," Enrico said. "How can you have a TV show condoning a lifestyle that is a felony in the state of Virginia?" Fred Thomas, Channel 10's executive director, said his station Mahjongg Dimensions Genre(s): Strategy It's 3D Mahjongg- you don't even need to wear 3D glasses! has received only one complaint since "Inside/Outside" was Sudoku televised last Monday night compared with the several Genre(s): Strategy Put on your Sudoku hat and get ready for a challenging Sudoku hundred it got when the "Gay Fairfax" news show began. The caller said she thought the opening episode of open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API puzzle! pdfcrowd.com �"Inside/Outside" -- in which the gay couples hug, kiss and refer to themselves as husbands and wives -- was obscene, and she wanted to know how she could get the show off Daily Crossword Genre(s): Word Same fun of crosswords but online! television, according to Jay Velgos, Channel 10's communication manager. The caller declined to give her name, he said, "because she thought she had a 'politically incorrect' view and feared recriminations." The Sunday Crossword Genre(s): Word It’s all the fun of crosswords without needing a pen and eraser! There is no way to tell how many people tuned in to the opening episode; about 70 percent of the households in Fairfax County receive Channel 10 from Media General Cable. washingtonpost.com © 1996-2015 The Washington Post Both "Gay Fairfax" and "Inside/Outside," which are sponsored by the Fairfax Lesbian and Gay Citizens Association, have Help and Contact Us Terms of Service volunteer casts and crews. Some of the volunteers are gay, Privacy Policy some aren't. Print Products Terms of Sale Digital Products Terms of Sale Leslie Lapides, who plays Cindy, an ad executive in her early open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API Submissions and Discussion Policy RSS Terms of Service pdfcrowd.com �thirties, jumped at the chance to appear in "Inside/Outside." RSS Terms of Service Ad Choices "I'm just a ham, and it sounded like a lot of fun," said Lapides, a national news service editor. "Less selfishly, I thought this could be a tremendous educational tool for the community, without being preachy and dull. People in the gay community could see people like themselves who weren't sick or dying, or tremendously neurotic, or sidekicks to the main characters... . I also thought it might be the kind of project that might be for teens, giving them good role models." In a political season defined by debate over family values, writer Brooks said his show hits the mark: "It's about traditional values, the human situation." "We're laying new ground here," said Scott Olson, a computer programmer who plays John, a college professor. "... We'll get involved in a lot of political and social issues and change some open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �viewpoints. People will start to see gays as they are -- normal human beings who cook together, eat together, raise children together." But Olson, whose character has papa potential for Maddy and Cindy, is realistic about how much effect the show can have. "If Dan Quayle sends a present to this baby," he said, "I'll become a Republican."  Share on Facebook open in browser PRO version  Share on Twitter Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com �open in browser PRO version Are you a developer? Try out the HTML to PDF API pdfcrowd.com � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gay Fairfax Cable Access Television Programs 24 Subject The topic of the resource <a href="Episodes%20are%20digitized%20and%20available%20via%20YouTube%3A%20https%3A//www.youtube.com/channel/UCQr9j84wwrJG6-cGfbGS9PA" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">WATCH "GAY FAIRFAX" VIA YOUTUBE</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWnZZVi-MsjT9vU3ga5BTx3vQZGxT2zDd" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">WATCH "INSIDE/OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY" VIA YOUTUBE</a> <a href="https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22One+In+Ten+People%22" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">WATCH "ONE IN 10 PEOPLE" VIA RHP'S INTERNET ARCHIVE PAGE</a> Description An account of the resource This collection contains records, broadcasts and other materials from cable access broadcasting in Fairfax, Virginia. Including the shows "Gay Fairfax / Gay Spectrum;" "Inside/Outside the Beltway;" "One in 10 People;" and "Third Side. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Horton, Bill Claypoole, Michael Pearson Brown, Karen Ponton, Jean Relation A related resource THIRD SIDE Producers: Kevin Kerdash, Larry Kennedy, David Vanderbilt, Michelle Michaels On Screen Anchors: Michelle Michaels and John Moore Regular Contributor: Jim Cooney Format: 1 hour magazine show with national emphasis, news and entertainment about the gay community. The Third Side ran six monthly episodes from January through June of 1991. It was produced in the home of Larry Kennedy and Kevin Kerdash for the local public access channel DCTV, then aired in Washington, DC; Sacramento, California; Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; and Portland, Oregon. Featured guests included Larry Kramer, Jon Hinson, The Flirtations, Craig Dean and Patrick Gill, and Rob Eichberg. One segment featured Jason Dilly's Project Face to Face, which was part of the Smithsonian Institution's Experimental Gallery. Visitors viewed life mask of people with aids and listened to tapes of that person speaking about their life. The Smithsonian asked to use this segment as part of that exhibit, where it was screened hourly for a month. That segment is now a permanent part of the Smithsonian's collection. Included is a flyer that was used to promote the show at the 1991 Gay Pride Day. It was there that Kevin and Larry realized that most of DC was not yet wired for cable, and even those who knew of the show could not get it. It was this plus difficulty getting regular help with the show that made them decide to stop production. To this day Kevin and Larry are very proud with what they accomplished with its brief history. GAY FAIRFAX / GAY SPECTRUM The producers of Gay Fairfax changed its name to Gay Spectrum in the fall of 1993 when the FLGCA Board of Directors refused to allow other financial sponsors of the program. Already Executive Producer Steve Futch had entered into an agreement with the Lambda Rising bookstore for financial support and this was acknowledged in an announcement after the final credits. The new program was exactly the same in format and content with a new theme and opening graphics. The new Gay Spectrum was co-hosted by Eric Randall (a pseudonym for Randy Leverette) and Angela Judy. Crewmembers (many from Gay Fairfax) included Rob Switala, Dave Johnson, Michael Claypoole, Clark Chesser, Michael Fry, Charles Roberts, Jean Ponton, Gail Goodfriend, and others. New reporters included Melissa Anderson, Rich Kazinski, Rick Barton, and Bob Connelly. Memorable highlights included an entire program devoted to the D.C. AIDSWalk '94 including interviews with Second Lady Tipper Gore and D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and other interviews with Congressman Gerry Studds and White House Aide George Stephanopolous at the annual Human Rights Campaign Dinner. The show began to loose steam when a very overworked Steve Futch left the show in early 1996. Rob Switala and Michael Claypoole stepped in as co-producers quickly changed the frequency from a weekly to a monthly series. Soon Randy Leverette left the show to take a job with the Home Box Office (HBO) in New York. The last four episodes were co-hosted by Bob Connelly and Angela Judy during the summer of 1996. But enthusiasm for the show had begun to wane, and the Gay Spectrum left the air for good just as Gay News Network was becoming a success. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alternative Days of Their Lives Subject The topic of the resource Inside Outside the Beltway Gay Fairfax Fairfax Lesbian and Gay Citizens Association Description An account of the resource This Washington Post article discusses "Inside/Outside the Beltway," the first gay soap opera aired in the D.C. area. The show premiered in Fairfax County as a segment on the show "Gay Fairfax." The article highlights the producer's intention to provide a realistic portrayal of gay and lesbian life and covers backlash from critics. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Marylou Tousignant, Washington Post Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived http://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/10/05/alternative-days-of-their-lives/5cec3f2a-cc6d-4a23-9d45-d15a1eb13e4f/ Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 5 October 1992 Fairfax City VA Publications Television and radio