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Join today and support our work. Every first encounter erects new closets that even an out-queer person must address on practically a daily basis. Afterall, Endora is perhaps the most ardently transgressive and queer character on Bewitched. There was Dick Sargent (Darrin Stephens), George Tobias (Abner Kravitz) and Paul Lynde (Uncle Arthur).

Membership connects you to a movement of readers who believe good journalism builds a better world. Pierce shared a very thoughtful quote from an episode in which Samantha discovers that her daughter, Tabitha, is a witch too.

It was a neat message to get across to people at that time in a subtle way. Even one of the twins who played a. Longstanding rumors, fueled by Lynde himself, also suggested Agnes Moorehead may have been a lesbian. Paul Lynde, who played Uncle Arthur, was gay, as was Maurice Evans, who played Samantha’s father.

To preface, let me say that this is a selfish endeavor. I have absolutely no idea why. Assembled with the help of Adam-Michael Jamesauthor of the exhaustive and infintiely, fun Bewitched episode companion, The Bewitched Continuum. Montgomery and her then-husband, Bewitched creator Bill Asher, were friends with Sargent and his partner Albert Williams during the run of the series.

I, like so many other young queer kids, found resonance in Samantha Stephens as well as her powerful, flamboyant, and ball-busting mom, Endora. The humans in the script do plenty of very foolish things and she loves showing up their foolishness.

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And of course, the show had plenty of queer cast members. Already contributed? If you think about it, Bewitched is about repression in general and all the frustration and trouble it can cause. Here's a full listing of every single time Samantha "came out" on the series.

According to PilatoMontgomery also used her 56th birthday to host the National Gay Rights Advocates celebration, whose honorees included her devoted manager Barry Krost. Paul Lynde. American television audiences of the s will remember Evans as Samantha's father, Maurice, on the sitcom Bewitched.

His real-life insistence that his first name be pronounced "Morris" was ironically at odds with his Bewitched character's contrasting stance that it be pronounced "Maw-REESE". This was not Moorehead's first time playing a witch.

Log in to hide these messages. No, in fact, the series acknowledges the dangers of difference not from the perspective of the mortal or straight community -- as TV so often does -- but from the perspective of the repressed. Notice Moorehead's notes about other historical witches she's drawing on for inspiration.

Bewitched had one of the gayest casts in the history of television. Join the HuffPost Community. In Herbie J. While others in Hollywood were keeping their distance from the issue, Montgomery attended events, spoke out, fundraised, and publicly supported her friend and co-star Dick Sargent.

Both typical, wicked, storybook witches. Endora is a very attractive and charming witch with a supernatural philosophy all her own. Not to mention (rumored) bisexual Agnes Moorehead (Endora) and lesbian Diane Murphy (Tabitha).