Terry Sweeney, the First Open Gay on Network TV, Dishes for Days
Michael MustosnlMichael MustoWay before TV became a same-sex playground, Terry Sweeney paved the way by being an openly gay Saturday Night Live cast member in 1985, wearing dresses on camera and stripping himself of any artifice off camera. The groundbreaking Sweeney did side splitting impersonations of First Lady Nancy Reagan on the show, along with other edgy characterizations, and the whole time he was open, hones…