Published in: March-April 2004 issue.
Last year was marked by a number of extraordinary breakthroughs in the political arena, but 2003 was also a year of cultural milestones, with many “firsts” for gay men and lesbians in the mainstream media. Here are a few of the ones most talked about:
![Tony kushner’s Angels in America was made into a two-part Tv movie by HBO.](https://glreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/AngelsAmerica-300x187.jpg)
kushner’s Angels in America was made into a two-part Tv movie by HBO.
![Hairspray premiered on Broadway with Harvey Fierstein in the role of Edna Turnblad.](https://glreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Hairspray-300x225.jpg)
Edna Turnblad.
![A New York magazine cover (actually early 2004) captured last year’s “lesbian chic” trend.](https://glreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/New-York-magazine-225x300.png)
![The boys from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (Bravo) were shown giving Sadam Hussein a makeover in a gag widely circulated on the internet.](https://glreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Fab5-Sadam.jpg)
giving Sadam Hussein a makeover in a gag widely circulated on the internet.
![Ellen Degeneres, here with Queen latifah, debuted on daytime Tv (Warner Brothers).](https://glreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Ellen.jpg)
(Warner Brothers).