Given the time period, Paar sounds positively liberal. Fifty years... some change takes generations 😢

they don't cast teens this good at acting anymore

This was during a time when homosexuality was classified as a mental illness in the DSM. This is a well-documented misclassification of normal human sexuality. This wasn't just changed because of “wokeness.” if you disagree with this, I don't care and think you are an ignorant asshole

Amazing.

Believing cosmetic surgery to mutilate your genitals can actually turn a man into a woman is like believing getting an Afro and a suntan can turn a White guy into a Black guy, We're all entitled to own personal religious beliefs by the U.S, Constitution but none of us have the right to force anybody to agree with the religious beliefs of somebody else which is exactly what the "LGBT Community" is. It's a religion.

I wanted to see how to episode ends

Could anybody tell me the name of the actor who plays Joey? He looks so familiar, I know I've seen him in stuff when he was older.

Wow, Billy has one of the most beautiful bone structures I ever seen

Animals have homosexual acts with each other.. comparing homosexuality with beasts sums it up. Abomination.

This guy's guy compares homosexuality to animals. I guess he's right. Animals.

Billy was the first gay character I saw on tv...I watxmched OLTL with mom back when I was 11...When I watched that storyline I was so happy for him....Crazy enought though; I didnt come out to my parents until age 25...I faked it all through jr high & highschool...I came out to friends at 21..But Billy started it all for me....I saw myself on tv thanks to Billy.

Sick sick sick just plain sick. It’s bad enough that abc allowed a woman to marry her rapist (general hospital ) now this abc has some serious issues

God doesn’t support this type of filthy life style.

Young Ryan Phillippe looks like Ryan Phillippe as an adult. But young Nathan Fillion is totally unrecognizable.

For a Doctor he truly is dellusional! Sounds like a nice person, but confused nonetheless!

What an awful person Virginia Graham was.

Remember that when you go back in time, you're going back in time medically, and I don't think anybody wants that.

Review the 1948 movie, The Red Shoes.

Seeing the way he reacted that would not make me want to tell anyone!

I hate seeing young guys go through coming out. I was one of the lucky ones. I didn't get bullied or called names. I had no problems with what I was and it came easy telling my mom. Today, it's much easier for guys. I pray they find comfort with themselves and live happily

I hate how big of a deal this has to be. No one should feel the need to ever have to explain themselves because they love the same gender

The black guy is ready to fly out of there with his wand.

I remember watching this every day in the summer while working out on my Soloflex. I was 25 and still closeted but I was fortunate to get out of my small town and find new family in the city.

Wow. Nathan Fillion would go on to play Joey in future years.

Some humor. RO in an interview said he knew his butt in Cruel intentions tirned a mullion boys gay. It dod awake boys. He did have a great butt. That pook scene was fun.

It was not an easy thing back then

When we were younger, my best friend of many years developed these feminine traits and eventually identified as trans. When she told me she wanted to get the full operation I was worried I’d lose my friend. Needless to say she stayed the same person and we are still best friends now over 30 years.

I expect to see a guy with a white collar defending homosexuality because the clergy is filled with them, and he’s probably one himself.

I was 19 and still in the closet when this aired. I didn't realize it was Ryan Phillipe. I am glad LGBTQ teens have an easier time coming out now, well depending on the family

This episode won GLAAD award

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Who’s the actor who played Joey ?

Da-da-dah-dah-daaah. Having come-out in '82 a lot had changed even in the 12 years to this show. It's a completely different world today, we should be somewhat happy and grateful. Instead, the youth now are so disrespectful and unappreciative they are forcing us backwards. Just over the past couple years gay slurs are back, people have started looking at gay people as pedophiles again, and it's the TQ+ers who are responsible. Equality isn't being the loudest, most demanding person in the room, its not forcing others to use some ridiculous pronoun, these are the opposite of equality. If you want to ruin all the progress we've made keep it up, it's working.

I love this clip. It was so ahead of it's time. Putting a straight man in his place showing him he's not as masculine as he thinks he is. Gotta luv it.

People don't realize that Lori was an actual drag queen in real life. She performed a lot Finocchio's club in San Francisco.

Good for June! Virginia Graham didn't have a clue.....

No man wears a purse

Hey well I'm just like Archie I don't support homeless sexuals anyway

pretty sure they're both gay

Carol Burnett is just the greatest. A national treasure.

I thought Dr. Welby was supposed to be a family doctor, not Sigmund Freud. He wasn’t a shrink, so why would he be trying to psychoanalyze the guy, instead of just referring him out to a specialist colleague? That would’ve been the professional way to handle this patient. But then again, I don’t remember the days of house calls.

Why did they always act like it was a life-threatening disease or something?

This was pretty gay....

at 14yo here. Tough times, even thought about unaliving myself. Dark times.

It took me years to watch footage like this. I was just a little kid during the early years. Watching stuff like this is so important bc it's a reminder how far we've come

I remember the show.

I had just come out the previous autumn when this happened. I watched this show religiously during this storyline. Yeah, it's melodramatic like a soap opera should be...but I think it captures the pain and excitement and excruciating hell that is the closet, or was, at that time. I was a teen in the 80s. This resonated 100% with me. And they ended this storyline beautifully with an episode devoted to the AIDS quilt, which had me sobbing and sobbing. And sobbing. Thank you so much for uploading this. I never thought I'd see any of these scenes again.

Disliked!

I went to high school in Winchester VA in the 80's and there was no way I was coming out.

It had major impact on me as a closeted teen at the time- there wasn’t a lot of that on tv at that time so it was huge for me, made me feel not so alone…