Here's a question for Ask BK Day:
San Francisco is supposed to have one of the most promenent gay communities in the United States, in the world in fact.
So why is it that there has never been a television series set in San Francisco that has had a prominent gay character?
I mean, look back: We've had everything from The Streets of San Francisco to Ironside to The Doris Day Show. From Full House to Dharma & Greg to Nash Bridges. From Charmed to Women's Murder Club to That's So Raven.
We've had Party of Five, Mr. Merlin, The Suite Life of Zach and Cody, Journeyman and Hotel, where you'd have thought that at least a bellhop might be gay.
These days, we've got Monk. He's queer, but not gay.
We've got Eli Stone. SO not gay, even if a lot of the music is.
Even with Too Close for Comfort, nobody was gay, in spite of Jim J. Bullock.
(Tales of the City doesn't count - that, and it's sequels, were miniseries, not ongoing series and therefor not at all the same thing, and they were based on novels, not original.)
So, as far as television series go, it seems that San Francisco being filled with gay denizens (and denizettes) is really just a myth.
Any ideas why this could be?
(My own personal theory is that it's a plot by the community of Oakland, as revenge for Gertude Stein's comment about there being "no there there," but that's just a theory, and I have no idea how they're pulling it off.)
