On Sunday night, ABC’s hit drama Brothers & Sisters took one big step into history with network television’s first same-sex wedding between two series regulars.
Sunday’s episode - which included one character’s lament that not all parents can be as accepting as PFLAG parents - may be the most talked about GLBT television moment since Ellen DeGeneres came out in primetime. And this morning, The Daily Herald talks to PFLAG members in the Chicago area about their reactions to the Brothers & Sisters vows.
“It was amazing, because 11 years ago, people gathered in their room to watch ‘Ellen,’ and all she did was accidentally turn around and say, ‘I’m gay’ in front of a microphone,” Barbara Schon-Lundberg, editor of the suburban newsletter for PFLAG, tells columnist Burt Constable. “And now, they were kissing and there wasn’t an uproar. … They had a wedding, and it was so beautiful. There were so many things that just touched my heart.”
“From the time Ellen came out, as far as what goes on TV now, it’s certainly lightened up a lot,” PFLAG leader (and mom) Shelley Carlson adds.
“When we watched Ellen, it (homosexuality) was really the main issue on the show,” says Dennis Blaha, a PFLAG dad who was living in Elk Grove Village then. “This (’Brothers & Sisters’) was like, ‘oh yeah, these two guys are getting married.’ … The other thing I liked is that it was two guys who were in love. It wasn’t about sex.”
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