![]() You'll notice a reference to the Rodney King beating in this issue, oddly mirrored in 1969. Hatred and bigotry are all too real in our society. In Oregon and Colorado, constitutional amendments will be voted on in November 1992, which would require discrimination and actively take away civil rights from Gays and Lesbians! In this, we are akin to the Black civil rights movement not too many years ago, Blacks were denied the same civil rights that Gays and Lesbians are now asking for. Hysterical politicians scream that we're destroying the fabric of America, that we're anti-family, that we're unnatural, that we don't deserve the same rights as God-fearing Christians. In the current election, Gays and Lesbians have become the new Willie Horton, the new Red Scare, the new boogeyman for the masses. Here's part of Andy's excellent essay (I've lightly edited it to take out references of the thing that I said I was going to talk about in another article soon): It was quite cool of Universal Television to allow a licensed comic book that took their show to task like this. Mangels (whose website is here), went one step further and asked (and was given permission) to write an editorial explaining his issues with the original episode. It became Quantum Leap #9, released at the end of 1992 (half a year before the series went off the air). Well, comic book writer Andy Mangels (long-time editor of Gay Comix, which he was actually editing at the time that this comic book came out) was one of the people who didn't like the episode and so he pitched Innovation Comics, the makers of the Quantum Leap comic book, on a comic that would address the issue. In that episode, Sam leaped into the year 1957, where he swapped places (everyone still sees Sam as the other person) with a small town mortician who also serves as the local coroner. Towards the end of Season 2 of Quantum Leap, the awesome science fiction TV series that ran from 1989-1993 starring Scott Bakula as Doctor Sam Beckett, a scientist who travels through time by replacing different people in different years with a chance to fix something that originally went horribly wrong in the life of that person (or the lives of the people around that person), at which point Sam then "leaps" into a different year (all the while hoping that one day, he will leap back to his original time), there was an episode called "Good Night, Dear Heart." I think that this comic is worth talking about more than once! So don't worry, I'll be talking about that part soon. ![]() So if you're wondering why I don't bring up that other aspect of the comic, well, now you know. NOTE: I find this issue of Quantum Leap notable for another reason, and I'll be covering that other aspect of the comic soon. ![]()
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