As “Golden Girls” continues to be embraced by the LGBTQ community, one couple shares what it was like getting engaged at Golden-Con, a fan festival celebrating the iconic show.
Anthony Riccadonna began watching “The Golden Girls” as a child, when he stumbled upon a rerun on cable and asked his mom for more information on the beloved sitcom.
Golden-Con featured a re-creation of the famous kitchen where the "Golden Girls" ladies enjoyed many cheesecakes.Price, 51, is also a longtime “Golden Girls” viewer, having watched the show in its original run and later in syndication. Price added, “Having grown up during that time, there were no positive gay role models on TV. The only gay people on TV were people dying of AIDS, or we were stigmatized as being these awful, degenerate people. So that was a really big deal to me to see something positive on TV in the late '80s.”
“In the 1980s, as today, we sometimes set senior citizens aside from the mainstream and they have to fight their way back in sometimes to get seen and heard,” Hudson told TODAY. “And LGBTQ folks, particularly those who are a little bit older, certainly understand that.
“It definitely gave the impression that everybody had been seen,” he said. “A lot of folks who hadn’t been seen or hadn’t felt like they had been heard or maybe felt like they were the odd one out, that they got to spend an entire weekend with people who loved them, who cherish them and who will remember them always.
“What stood out to me was Rose’s response to Lois Nettleton, which was, ‘If I were interested, I think I’d be very flattered,’ something to that effect,” she said. “I was tickled by her response and her kindness.” When Markham was cast on “Golden Girls,” he said he wasn’t concerned about playing a gay character as a straight actor, only that it was a “good role and worth doing.”Monte Markham, seen in a 1988 episode, appeared as Clayton Hollingsworth, the brother of Blanche, on "The Golden Girls."The actor, whose two “Golden Girls” episodes first aired in 1988 and 1991, said he’s heard more and more from fans of the show since it began streaming on Hulu.
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