That time ‘The Golden Girls’ taught America an invaluable, life-saving lesson about AIDS

Image Credit: ‘The Golden Girls,’ NBC

Welcome back to what is normally our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” However, in this week’s column, we’re shifting gears in honor of the 35th anniversary of “72 Hours,” a very special episode of The Golden Girls.

We typically go deep into milestones of queer cinema in this column, but film is just one of the many forms of media that make up the canon of LGBTQ+ entertainment and permeate our culture. This week, we’ll dive into the television series that has perhaps made a mark with our community the strongest, and a groundbreaking episode that tackled an issue in a way no one else was at the time.

Long before gays spent their brunches arguing whether they were a

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