Whoops! Accidental Homophobia With Maude

On an early-1970s episode of Norman Lear's sitcom Maude, Bea Arthur is eager for everyone to see that she has a gay best friend. But despite the friendship, she might harbor some homophobic bigotry that she wasn't even aware of -- just like the rest of the country, which was at the time just starting to confront decades of implicit bias in the wake of the Stonewall Riots.

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