The Oprah Winfrey Show

Broadcast Thursday, January 28, 1993

On January 28, 1993, Jack Fritscher appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show as part of a guest panel addressing married heterosexual men who have sex with men — a subject that pushed daytime television into unusually direct territory on sexual identity versus sexual behavior. The episode placed Fritscher’s expertise in gay popular culture and identity within a mainstream national forum, at a moment when contemporary homosexuality was still rarely discussed with this degree of nuance on network TV.