Today, I look at the late June Lockhart being a strong ally to the LGBTQ+ community on a talk show in 1970.
This is a feature called “The Way We Talk,” about notable talk show appearances.
Virginia Graham was a TV writer who was a longtime daytime talk show host on a series of syndicated talk shows: Food for Thought, Girl Talk, and The Virginia Graham Show. On the last series, she had an episode about homosexuality. The fascinating thing about the topic is that Graham was definitely to the LEFT of most of America on her positions on gay people, and she still had very offensive views about the topic.
In any event, on the episode, the famed TV actor, June Lockhart, who recently passed away at the age of 100, pushes back on Graham, and defends the morality of gay people. It’s obviously an absurdly simple position, and yet, for the time, it was still a relatively bold thing for Lockhart to do…
RIP, June Lockhart. By all accounts, you were a great person.
If anyone else has a good talk show appearance you’d like me to spotlight, drop me a line at brian@poprefs.com
