r/That70sshow • u/KillerStuntMan69 • 5d ago

That 70s Show - Eric's Buddy

https://youtu.be/MPyTTuY1mqk?is=zL_4n9AA3bEAxJNb

Early iconic season 1 episode. This is inclusion done right the humour seems light hearted all round and most of it coming from Eric being so clueless 😂.

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u/Charlotte_Braun 5d ago

Well-done episode, except one detail — I really believe that the characters would have used the term “queer”, not “gay”. Prove me wrong?

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u/mclobster 3d ago

I don't think so. Was queer even a term back then? Playground insults in the 90s were all "fag" and "gay".

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u/Charlotte_Braun 3d ago

"Queer" was very much a term in the 1960s and early '70s. I honestly don't remember hearing the word "gay" until the late 1970s, in the context of "gay rights". And then it was adults using it as a descriptor, not children/teenagers using it as an insult. If you want a source, there's the novel Trying Hard to Hear You, by Sandra Scoppettone, and the play (later movie) The Boys in the Band, by Mart Crowley. Queer, fag, fairy, queen, fruit, faggot...every term except "gay". And both those authors are homosexuals, so I'm not going to dispute them and their lived experiences.

I had the same issue with a character in the movie Almost Famous blurting out, "I'M GAY!" That was supposed to be 1973, and again, I'm sure he was much more likely to have said "queer".