Growing up gay, bullied and obsessed with Bewitched — Page 2

Who didnt want to be able to wiggle their nose and beome invisible, especially a gay kid in those days!

Funny, I HATED it's sitcom counterpart I Dream of Jeannie. Somehow the plot's seemed so much more idiotic and Larry Hagman was so mean to Barbara Eden!

I also had a crush on Dick York too...and adored Endora! Marion Lorne was my favorite, of course.

I also loved that Samantha loved her gay uncle.

Of course, as a teenager my fantasies turned to Carrie White, because I was all about revenge after a few years of bullying. I fantasized about flipping cars into flaming wrecks.

TMI?

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He yelled at her and sent her to her bottle when she was just trying to please her master!

Cmon!

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That was a funny one, doodle. I do think Major Nelson was meaner to Jeannie than Darren was to Sam. Especially second Darren, who brought out a softer side of the character. As a kid I preferred second Darren, I preferred the new nighttime episodes to the afternoon repeats from a couple of seasons before. It's the pop influence on my childhood tastes, I guess. I liked the latest, and it seemed "better" than what came before. Then when Dick Sargeant came out, I realized it might have been my pre-teen gaydar.

And, yeah, JRB, that was the book he was ostensibly talking about. Robin Young didn't do the best job incorporating Bewitched into the discussion of growing up gay and isolated. When I was a guest on her show about 10 years ago, she asked me all the right questions. She was surprised that I knew John Savage was her brother and after that we were, like, besties for my segment.

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Updated On: 6/9/11 at 11:48 PM

I think we all forget that High School was a disaster for almost everyone. The boy with pimples. The fat girl. The poor boy. The girl who was too tall. The one with a lump of fat on his neck.

Did gay youth get it worse than others? Probably.

What I am amazed at is how most of the people I went to school with have grown up and grown into being smart, together and unbiased people.

The ones who have children are raising these kids to be just as tolerant and loving as they are now. That's half the battle guys.

The ones who were bullies are horrified at what they did. One man contacted me who was a terror in High School. He has an autistic son and children will always be children, meaning, things are sometimes difficult for his son. He literally apologized for being mean to me in 8th grade (Honestly, I don't remember).

The world is changing...let's focus on that change..

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Updated On: 6/9/11 at 10:20 AM

you know what this thread needs?

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I always feel like there is a joke in that song that I am just not getting.