'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' Changed My Gay Life!
In 1973, I was a 17-year-old student who spent weekends with my parents in Brooklyn and looked forward to the wonders of The Mary Tyler Moore Show every Saturday night. Famous from The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary played Mary Richards, an all-around perfect person and liberated woman who came, without a man, to Minnesota and proceeded to become the central force at WJM TV's news room. In the process, she emerged as a fav…