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Roseanne Barr on Democracy Now! About Her Career As A Working-Class Domestic Goddess. 3 of 4
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11:12Now PlayingDemocracyNow.org - In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Emmy Award-winning actress Roseanne Barr starred in the popular and groundbreaking show on television titled simply, "Roseanne," the first TV series to openly advocate for gay rights. "Roseanne" featured one of the first lesbian kisses on TV — in an episode when Roseanne kisses Mariel Hemingway. "Roseanne" was also the first sitcom to ever feature a gay marriage. The series tackled other controversial topics as well: poverty, class, abortion and feminism. From her open support of unions in earlier shows to her tribute to Native Americans toward the end of the series, Roseanne never shied away from contentious issues. The writer, Barbara Ehrenreich, once praised Roseanne Barr for representing "the hopeless underclass of the female sex: polyester-clad, overweight occupants of the slow track; fast-food waitresses, factory workers, housewives, members of the invisible pink-collar army; the despised, the jilted, the underpaid." Democracy Now! interviews Roseanne Barr and airs excerpts from the groundbreaking sitcom.
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Roseanne Barr has just launched a new reality TV show called "Roseanne's Nuts" about life on her nut farm in Hawaii. She is also the author of a new book titled, "Roseannearchy: Dispatches From The Nut."
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