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Fellow Travelers

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Fellow Travelers	comment	A Showtime adaptation of the 2007 novel starring Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey. It premiered on October 29, 2023.note Although subscribers of Paramount+ could watch the pilot two days early.In the early 1950s, Hawkins Fuller and Timothy Laughlin, two closeted gay men, become lovers as the Red Scare rages. They face struggles not only with each other and themselves, but also society in general over the decades.
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Fellow Travelers / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Fellow Travelers / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Senator Wesley Smith (D-Pennsylvania) was obviously inspired by Lester Hunt (D-Wyoming). Both are opponents of Joseph McCarthy, although Hunt wasn't on the same committee. Like Hunt, Smith shoots himself in his office after he gets blackmailed into giving up his seat over his son's "morals" arrest, although the exact details differ a bit.
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Fellow Travelers / int_1411ae39	type	Likes Older Men
Fellow Travelers / int_1411ae39	comment	Likes Older Men: Tim is attracted to older men. When he was a college student at Fordham University, he slept with a Catholic priest who was on the faculty. A few years later, he fell in love with Hawk, who is roughly ten years his senior. At a San Francisco gay bar in 1986, a young man in his 20s hits on Hawk (who's in his late 60s and is attractive for his age) with "Hey Dad, lookin' good," and lets him know that he's available for sex after he's done with his current date. Hawk declines his offer because the guy doesn't take the AIDS epidemic seriously, and thus it's too risky to bed someone who likely doesn't practice safe sex.
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Fellow Travelers / int_15395adc	type	The Mistress
Fellow Travelers / int_15395adc	comment	The Mistress: Played with in Hawk and Tim's relationship. Immediately after Hawk tells Tim that he plans to ask Lucy Smith to marry him, Tim enlists in the army because he is determined not to become the male equivalent of a mistress for Hawk. However, in spite of his attempts to cut ties with Hawk and move on with his life, Tim remains in love with Hawk, and falls into bed with him every time they see each other in the ensuing decades. On more than one occasion, Tim laments his own inability to say no to Hawk. More than once, Hawk explicitly suggests a "mistress" type of arrangement to Tim. In episode 6, he asks Tim to stay at his hunting cabin over the winter, with Hawk visiting "when I can." In episode 7, he offers to sign his house on Fire Island over to Tim, and proposes they could meet there a few times a year and "make up for lost time." Episode 8 reveals that for a few weeks (or possibly a few months) in 1957, Hawk and Tim did have this sort of arrangement, complete with a furnished house in D.C. where they would meet for sex whenever it's convenient.
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Fellow Travelers / int_157aac46	type	Romantic Candlelit Dinner
Fellow Travelers / int_157aac46	comment	Romantic Candlelit Dinner: On Fire Island, Hawk cooks dinner for Tim and they eat their meal in front of the fireplace while sitting next to the coffee table which is lit by two candles. Hawk is attempting to rekindle their romance, although Tim rejects his ex-lover's advances because he has just started a relationship with a man named Arthur and doesn't want to cheat on his new boyfriend.
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Fellow Travelers / int_1774847	type	Gayborhood
Fellow Travelers / int_1774847	comment	Gayborhood: The 1979 Flashbacks focus heavily on the Castro district in San Francisco following the high-profile murders of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk (who had represented the area for the city council). Milk was openly gay, and then as now the Castro is inhabited mostly by LGBT+ people. Marcus, Frankie and Tim are living there. Fire Island is also shown, a well-known gay vacation spot, where Hawk's been staying after losing his son, and Tim visits him there.
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Fellow Travelers / int_187228e0	type	Bridal Carry
Fellow Travelers / int_187228e0	comment	Bridal Carry: In the fourth episode, when Hawk and Tim spend time together before Christmas, the former lifts the latter bridal-style and then carries him to the bed in Hawk's apartment. Although Hawk has never told Tim that he loves him, this gesture plainly demonstrates his romantic affection for his lover. In the eighth episode, there's a brief shot of Hawk holding Tim in a bridal carry when they enter Frankie's house to pick up the tuxedo Tim will wear at a fundraising gala. Hawk's action is more practical than romantic this time around because Tim is dying of AIDS and has trouble walking, but it nonetheless displays that he cares immensely for his ex-boyfriend.
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Fellow Travelers / int_1892d512	type	Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Fellow Travelers / int_1892d512	comment	Tall, Dark, and Handsome: The dark-haired Hawk is blessed with the classic '50s matinÃ©e idol good looks, and it's no wonder that Tim finds him irresistible. If Hawk wasn't working for the State Department, he'd fit right in among the Hollywood stars of the era. According to Senator Smith, Hawk is regarded as one of the most eligible bachelors in Washington, D.C..
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Fellow Travelers / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Fellow Travelers / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The show's title is spoken near the beginning of the series premiere. In "Bulletproof": In "Hit Me": In "Promise You Won't Write": In "Beyond Measure": In "Make it Easy":
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Fellow Travelers / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
Fellow Travelers / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Lampshaded in episode 7 when Hawk recalls that his daughter Kimberly used to look up to him: "I was always her hero." Lucy also brings up while chatting with Kimberly, "You and your father were so close."
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Fellow Travelers / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Fellow Travelers / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Hawk and Tim are portrayed by handsome actors with muscular physiques, and their naked bodies leave very little to the imagination during the couple's sex scenes which are subjected to the Female Gaze.
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Fellow Travelers / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Fellow Travelers / int_1b596e24	comment	Hawk's wife Lucy, unbeknownst to him at first, learned he was gay in the mid-1950s when she once accidentally intercepted a letter his ex-boyfriend Tim sent him. This, along with their sex life being less than regular, tipped her off that she'd been The Beard to him.
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Fellow Travelers / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
Fellow Travelers / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Even though Hawk himself has never been monogamous, he is very displeased to hear that Tim kissed another man at the Nomad bar. They would both deny it, but Tim and Craig are clearly both jealous of one another's relationship with Hawk. They even come to blows at one point.
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Fellow Travelers / int_2059a430	type	The Hedonist
Fellow Travelers / int_2059a430	comment	The Hedonist: On Fire Island, Hawk revels in booze, drugs, parties and sex.
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Fellow Travelers / int_21cf9301	type	Family of Choice
Fellow Travelers / int_21cf9301	comment	Some time after Jerome's estrangement from his parents, he moves into Marcus and Frankie's spare room. The three of them become one another's Family of Choice.
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Fellow Travelers / int_225d4412	type	PlayedStraight
Fellow Travelers / int_225d4412	comment	Played Straight with Hawk, who's promiscuous and does Gay Cruising for one-night stands at public washrooms or gay bars. This habit continues when he's in his late 60s in 1986. He informs a doctor that he has sex with men 3 or 4 times a year, and it's never the same man twice if he can help it.
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Fellow Travelers / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Fellow Travelers / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: In the novel, the past scenes end in 1957, and Hawk and Tim never see each other again after that year. On the show, they continue to meet in 1968, 1979 and 1986.
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Fellow Travelers / int_27074b46	type	Holding Hands
Fellow Travelers / int_27074b46	comment	Holding Hands: In 1986, Tim reaches for Hawk's hand and holds it when they're standing outside of the venue of the fundraising gala. This is the first (and last) time they join hands in a romantic manner in public.
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Fellow Travelers / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
Fellow Travelers / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Inverted with Lucy, who develops from a warm, open-hearted, slightly naÃ¯ve young woman who is deeply in love with Hawk, to a chilly Stepford Smiler after decades of neglect and romantic disappointment from her husband.
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Fellow Travelers / int_28f852ea	type	Wholesome Crossdresser
Fellow Travelers / int_28f852ea	comment	Wholesome Crossdresser: Frankie is a gay drag queen, while Real Life lesbian drag king StormÃ© DeLarverie is a minor character and friend of his. Both are nice, sympathetic people.
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Fellow Travelers / int_2bb06191	type	Adaptational Sexuality
Fellow Travelers / int_2bb06191	comment	Adaptational Sexuality: In the novel, Mary is straight, but her TV counterpart is a lesbian.
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Fellow Travelers / int_2bf993ad	type	Secret Relationship
Fellow Travelers / int_2bf993ad	comment	Secret Relationship: Institutionalized homophobia in the USA during The '50s and The '60s forces same-sex couples to conceal their romance from the public, which includes Hawk and Tim, Marcus and Frankie, and Mary and Caroline. The consequences are dire if they're outed; they could face a prison term, immediate termination of their employment, and social ruin.
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Fellow Travelers / int_2e154495	type	Shower of Angst
Fellow Travelers / int_2e154495	comment	Shower of Angst: Tim, a Catholic in seminary, takes a shower at Hawk's hunting cabin while agonizing over his love for Hawk, and he goes from standing to sitting in the stall because he feels burdened by the emotional weight.
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Fellow Travelers / int_312b02ac	type	Lipstick Lesbian
Fellow Travelers / int_312b02ac	comment	Lipstick Lesbian: The lesbians are mostly feminine as was expected for women in the 1950s, with long hair, wearing dresses and maintaining demure manners. Mary is the prime example in the series.
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Fellow Travelers / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Fellow Travelers / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Senator Smith hopes that his daughter Lucy will marry Hawk one day.
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Fellow Travelers / int_328b32	type	Unequal Pairing
Fellow Travelers / int_328b32	comment	Hawk is the Taker and Tim is the Giver in their romance; the power imbalance stems from their Lover and Beloved dynamic. Tim desires to be in a committed relationship with Hawk despite the grave legal and social difficulties LGBT+ people face during the homophobic 1950s, but Hawk continually insists that their romance must remain casual. Hawk plans to marry Lucy to be his beard, and the mere idea of this is extremely upsetting to Tim. During a Christmastime tryst, Tim gives Hawk a brand new tie as a Christmas gift, yet Hawk hadn't thought of getting anything for his boyfriend even though he did purchase a stunning silver bracelet set with emeralds for Lucy. (Although Tim is thrilled by the expensive — but pre-owned — monogrammed cufflinks etched with Hawk's initials that the latter hands to him after rummaging through his closet, it doesn't change the fact that Hawk didn't consider buying a Christmas present for Tim.) Hawk doesn't offer emotional support to Tim when the latter needs it, even though Hawk expects Tim to comfort him when he's in distress. Tim often expresses his love for Hawk, but the latter never says "I love you" in return. Subverted at the end of their relationship in 1986, when Hawk lets Tim go at the latter's request. Even though Hawk desperately wants to stay with Tim, he finally puts Tim's needs over his own desires. Also, Hawk is not angry or unhappy when he learns that Tim slightly deceived him, and is planning to use the gala invite that Hawk wrangled for them to stage a direct action with Marcus, Frankie, Jerome, and others. Even Hawk's decision not to say "I love you" in that moment was for Tim's sake. Tim let Hawk know that he'd found peace and had no regrets about their relationship, and asks Hawk to make letting go of their relationship easy for him, so Hawk's decision to not verbally affirm his love for Tim in that moment was ultimately a loving and selfless gesture. (And he does affirm his love for Tim in another way, by kissing him in public for the first time before they part ways.) Played with in episode 6. While it does go against Tim's wishes, Hawk's desperation to keep Tim out of prison is understandable and not entirely selfish.
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Fellow Travelers / int_34f8042a	type	Gratuitous French
Fellow Travelers / int_34f8042a	comment	Gratuitous French: In episode 4, when Lucy advises her brother to slow down his drinking, Leonard responds, "Au contraire note "On the contrary", dear sister. I'm just getting started."
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Fellow Travelers / int_35499a79	type	Title-Only Opening
Fellow Travelers / int_35499a79	comment	Title-Only Opening: Unlike the other episodes, the pilot lacks a Title Sequence; there's only a black screen with "Fellow Travelers" in white font.
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Fellow Travelers / int_355bc288	type	Lingerie Scene
Fellow Travelers / int_355bc288	comment	Lingerie Scene: After Frankie performs "Santa Baby" in drag at the Cozy Corner in episode 4, he and Marcus are alone in the former's apartment. Frankie strips down to his 1950s lingerie as they talk, leading to a tender and heated moment between them. Later, Frankie keeps the lingerie on as he and Marcus make love.
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Fellow Travelers / int_35dff943	type	Property of Love
Fellow Travelers / int_35dff943	comment	Property of Love: Tim spends much of his early relationship with Hawk as an eager supplicant to the latter. He willingly sucks Hawk's toes, requests that Hawk slap him as foreplay, and responds very enthusiastically to Hawk's desire to hurt and humiliate him in bed, declaring "I am [your boy]!" and "I belong to Hawkins Fuller!" Over a year into their relationship, Hawk performs oral sex on Tim for what is implied to be the first time, even though Tim has performed oral sex on Hawk many times by that point. Tim is also delighted by a gift of cufflinks with Hawk's initials on them, which are a symbolic "branding" of Tim as Hawk's property. More than once, Tim explicitly compares his feelings about Hawk to his feelings about God. In 1986, after a great deal of maturation and character development, Tim still makes this comparison. As a direct point of comparison, Tim actually seems very pleased when Hawk seethes with barely-contained jealousy when Tim discloses that he kissed another man during their trip to Rehoboth Beach in 1953; decades later on Fire Island, Tim is very displeased when Hawk seems unbothered by his (incorrect) belief that Tim went home with someone else.
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Fellow Travelers / int_36135fb0	type	Official Couple
Fellow Travelers / int_36135fb0	comment	Official Couple: The primary romantic relationship is between Hawk and Tim.
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Fellow Travelers / int_366f3185	type	Book Burning
Fellow Travelers / int_366f3185	comment	Book Burning: Senator Smith is disturbed that librarians across Western Europe are burning books about communism (or at least contain communist leanings) only seven years after the end of World War II.
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Fellow Travelers / int_36a2827b	type	Tragic AIDS Story
Fellow Travelers / int_36a2827b	comment	Tragic AIDS Story: In 1986, Tim is dying from AIDS when Hawk wants to reconnect before it's too late. As it's the time of the AIDS crisis, this is a threat all gay men are facing, and it hangs over the 1980s sequences and is explicitly discussed multiple times.
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Fellow Travelers / int_37085956	type	Gayngst-Induced Suicide
Fellow Travelers / int_37085956	comment	Gayngst-Induced Suicide: Gay people who are Forced Out of the Closet by the Lavender Scare purges frequently kill themselves in the early 1950s. At the time, being outed generally meant social ruin. This is shown at the start of "Your Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire", in which it's mentioned that there's an average of one suicide per week.
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Fellow Travelers / int_39d7954e	type	The Caretaker
Fellow Travelers / int_39d7954e	comment	The Caretaker: In 1986, Maggie cares for her dying brother Tim. In 1968, Marcus looks after his ailing and elderly father.
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Fellow Travelers / int_3b4abb27	type	Double Meaning
Fellow Travelers / int_3b4abb27	comment	Double Meaning: When Hawk returns to Washington, D.C. after visiting his estranged father at their family home, he goes straight to Tim's apartment. Tim asks "Where have you been?", and Hawk answers "Doesn't matter. I'm home now." For Hawk, his lover Tim is his home, much more so than the house he grew up in or his own apartment in the city. While dictating a fake breakup letter that Tim must jot down and then send to Mary in order save her career while she's under suspicion by the government for being a lesbian, the first half of it actually reflect Hawk's true feelings for Tim.
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Fellow Travelers / int_3b581a6	type	Forced Out of the Closet
Fellow Travelers / int_3b581a6	comment	Forced Out of the Closet: This is the threat hanging over every LGBT+ person in the early 1950s as the Lavender Scare to get them all fired from the US government has begun. It means not only a loss of employment but social ruin in the homophobic era. One man, after being outed, attempts suicide. Some even out others they know to save themselves, either as scapegoats or making deals with the government investigators so they can resign quietly in return.
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Fellow Travelers / int_3cb6468e	type	Bad Liar
Fellow Travelers / int_3cb6468e	comment	Bad Liar: Hawk and Cohn have remarked that Tim is awful at lying. At a Rehoboth Beach restaurant, Tim poses as Hawk's nephew, and after the waiter leaves, Hawk warns his lover that he's overacting. Cohn suspects that Tim may be a spy for Senator Smith, and he inquires about the origin of the envelope that Tim handed to Schine. Tim later reports to Hawk about his confrontation with Cohn.
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Fellow Travelers / int_3d0e614c	type	Gay Cruising
Fellow Travelers / int_3d0e614c	comment	Gay Cruising: Hawk is shown hooking up with a man he doesn't know while in a public restroom during the 1950s, and also says the Nomad tavern serves this purpose. In 1986, he also goes to a gay leather bar for the same reason, though his cruising gets aborted as the man he hits on wants Hawk to be the bottom. Hawk is also a top, so he stops things.
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Fellow Travelers / int_3e007d5d	type	Title, Please!
Fellow Travelers / int_3e007d5d	comment	Title, Please!: The episodes don't include their titles.
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Fellow Travelers / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Fellow Travelers / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Tim and Lucy have both loved Hawk very deeply and shared a great deal with him. But after more than three decades of being disappointed by him, they both ultimately decide to end their relationships with him for good in 1986.
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Fellow Travelers / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Fellow Travelers / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Because Hawk is estranged from his father, Senator Smith is a father figure to him.
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Fellow Travelers / int_3f267047	type	Voiceover Letter
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Fellow Travelers / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Fellow Travelers / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: By 1987, Tim is dead and Jerome is HIV positive. However, Tim fought until the very end; Marcus and Frankie are still together and very happy with each other and the family they formed with Jerome; Lucy divorces (or at least separates from) Hawk because she knows she deserves to be happier than he can make her; and at the very end, Hawk and his daughter Kimberly visit Tim's panel in the AIDS Memorial Quilt, and he tearfully reveals to her that Tim was "the man I loved." Mary's story as well: in 1986, she is a congresswoman and is implied to be in a long-term relationship with a woman named Phyllis. But episode 8 confirms that she regrets not fighting for her relationship with Caroline, and wonders what would have happened if she had.
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Fellow Travelers / int_410fe01f	type	Bite of Affection
Fellow Travelers / int_410fe01f	comment	In 1957, Tim is the "giving" partner when he and Hawk are engaged in anal sex, and the former muffles his orgasm by biting and sucking on the latter's shoulder while groaning in pleasure.
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Fellow Travelers / int_4435aa66	type	Attractive Bent-Gender
Fellow Travelers / int_4435aa66	comment	Attractive Bent-Gender: In episode 4, Drag Queen Frankie performs "Santa Baby" while wearing a strapless gown and Sitting Sexy on a Piano. Later, in Frankie's apartment, Marcus very much enjoys the view when Frankie takes off the gown and walks across the room in a strapless bra, girdle, and garter belt.
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Fellow Travelers / int_4497346d	type	Love Confessor
Fellow Travelers / int_4497346d	comment	Love Confessor: Hawk never says "I love you" to Tim in person, but he admits to Marcus in episode 4 that when the interrogator asked him if he has ever loved a man, he pictured Tim. In 1987, Kimberly refers to Tim as Hawk's friend, but he corrects her: "He wasn't my friend. He was the man I loved."
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Fellow Travelers / int_44e64e96	type	Female Gaze
Fellow Travelers / int_44e64e96	comment	Female Gaze: Hawk and Tim share numerous explicit sex scenes that are titillating for viewers who find Guy on Guy Is Hot. In addition to the camera's focus on the couple's shirtless/nude forms, there's armpit-licking, thrusting during anal sex (with a close-up of the "giving" partner's body), toe-sucking, and bare ass-grabbing, plus they slow dance while naked. These are rare sights with a gay couple in a Hollywood production, as the industry typically veers towards But Not Too Gay depictions.
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Fellow Travelers / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
Fellow Travelers / int_4583a262	comment	Many male background characters are gay men who get shown at least with their shirts off, or in some cases entirely nude from the front. They are mostly young, handsome and muscular.
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Fellow Travelers / int_460ffa29	type	Transparent Closet
Fellow Travelers / int_460ffa29	comment	Transparent Closet: Hawk's father is well aware that he's gay and is ashamed of it, wanting an apology from him over this when he's dying. He remarks that Hawk wasn't good at concealing his sexual orientation because he had to endure rumors about his homosexual son. Miss Addison suspects that Hawk and Tim are a couple after she reads the dedication the latter wrote in a book he gave to the former ("Mr. Fuller, thank you for everything. You're wonderful."), and she reports Hawk as a possible homosexual to the M Unit in episode 4. At Senator Joseph McCarthy's funeral, she spots Tim in the crowd, approaches him, and exclaims "Cocksucker!" to his face. Hawk's wife Lucy, unbeknownst to him at first, learned he was gay in the mid-1950s when she once accidentally intercepted a letter his ex-boyfriend Tim sent him. This, along with their sex life being less than regular, tipped her off that she'd been The Beard to him. Hawk's daughter Kimberly also realizes when she's a young adult that he's gay by discovering his relationship with Tim. According to Kimberly, Hawk's son Jackson referred to Tim as Hawk's "special friend," suggesting that Jackson also figured out the nature of his dad's relationship with Tim at some point.
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Fellow Travelers / int_466ccbb4	type	Gayngst
Fellow Travelers / int_466ccbb4	comment	Gayngst: Tim, who's Catholic, is pretty torn about being gay and acting on his sexuality. He wavers between abandoning Catholicism as it feels right to be with his male lover, then later confessing what he did while claiming he's truly become repentant. His guilt and shame over his love (and lust) for Hawk worsens after he enters seminary.
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Fellow Travelers / int_46b62ac8	type	Outcast Refuge
Fellow Travelers / int_46b62ac8	comment	Outcast Refuge: Fire Island Pines is a haven for gay men, a tourist destination where they're free to be themselves in public without the scrutiny of a homophobic society. Rafael calls it a "gay paradise."
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Fellow Travelers / int_4db42cf3	type	Male Frontal Nudity
Fellow Travelers / int_4db42cf3	comment	Male Frontal Nudity: Eddie's penis is visible while he's facing his bathroom mirror after having sex with Hawk. There are multiple, prolonged shots of Hawk's lover Craig fully nude in the 1979 segment, including one where his genitals are in full, head-on view. Also in 1979, an unnamed gay background character is briefly shown naked from the front in the woods on Fire Island.
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Fellow Travelers / int_50a06d47	type	Flirtatious Smack on the Ass
Fellow Travelers / int_50a06d47	comment	Flirtatious Smack on the Ass: Tim playfully does this to Hawk as the latter runs into the Atlantic Ocean carrying the former over his shoulder.
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Fellow Travelers / int_52196c03	type	Age-Gap Romance
Fellow Travelers / int_52196c03	comment	Age-Gap Romance: Although the exact ages of Hawk and Tim aren't stated on-screen, the audience can deduce there's approximately a decade between them. (In Real Life, Matt Bomer is 10.5 years older than Jonathan Bailey.) In 1952, Hawk appears to be in his mid-30s, is a World War II veteran, and has already established a career working for Senator Smith. Tim is a university graduate seeking a job, so he's in his early-to-mid 20s. Hawk's Affectionate Nickname for Tim is "my boy" because it emphasizes the latter's youth. When they spend a weekend together at Rehoboth Beach, Tim suggests that he can pretend to be Hawk's cousin, but Hawk disagrees and insists that Tim needs to act as his nephew in order to be more convincing (the implication being that people would notice the age difference).
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Fellow Travelers / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
Fellow Travelers / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: After losing his son, Hawk goes to Fire Island where he uses cocaine, drinks heavily and has sex with a much younger boyfriend as a means of coping.
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Fellow Travelers / int_5358a6f3	type	They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason
Fellow Travelers / int_5358a6f3	comment	They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason: Hawk doesn't speak about his family to his friends on Fire Island, and he's especially secretive about the passing of his son Jackson.
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Fellow Travelers / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
Fellow Travelers / int_53c9fc92	comment	The 1979 Flashbacks focus heavily on the Castro district in San Francisco following the high-profile murders of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk (who had represented the area for the city council). Milk was openly gay, and then as now the Castro is inhabited mostly by LGBT+ people. Marcus, Frankie and Tim are living there.
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Fellow Travelers / int_53fc6e4c	type	Starbucks Skin Scale
Fellow Travelers / int_53fc6e4c	comment	Starbucks Skin Scale: In the seventh episode, Frankie states the obvious to his boyfriend Marcus (who are both African Americans): "You are a big, chocolate gay man."
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Fellow Travelers / int_5565bf30	type	Three-Way Sex
Fellow Travelers / int_5565bf30	comment	Three-Way Sex: Subverted. Hawk tries to draw Tim into a threesome with him and Craig, Hawk's boyfriend. Tim goes along reluctantly at first, but Hawk stops before Tim can fully join in.
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Fellow Travelers / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
Fellow Travelers / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: Inverted in episode 2 when Tim mistakenly thinks Mary is straight and worries that she might be developing romantic feelings for him. She's actually a closeted lesbian with a girlfriend.
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Fellow Travelers / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Fellow Travelers / int_590eb583	comment	After Hawk castigates and chokes Craig, the latter flees the bedroom completely naked, saying "Fucking asshole! Fuck this."
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Fellow Travelers / int_5941d75	type	Beta Couple
Fellow Travelers / int_5941d75	comment	Beta Couple: The secondary romantic relationship is between Marcus and Frankie.
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Fellow Travelers / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
Fellow Travelers / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: For several decades, Hawk experiences no negative consequences for his mistreatment of Tim and Lucy (plus Eddie, Leonard, and Craig). In fact, he lives extremely comfortably for thirty years largely thanks to Lucy's inheritance and sleeps with men (including Tim) on the side while Lucy looks the other way. But Hawk's actions finally catch up with him in 1986, when Lucy and Tim both end their relationships with him for good. By 1987, Hawk is divorced, mourning Tim's death, and has permanently given up on his dream of moving to Italy. It is strongly implied that apart from his relationship with his daughter, Hawk is completely alone in the world.
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Fellow Travelers / int_5b9b6f01	type	Sitting Sexy on a Piano
Fellow Travelers / int_5b9b6f01	comment	Sitting Sexy on a Piano: Frankie sits on the piano at the Cozy Corner while performing "Santa Baby" in a strapless, Christmas-themed gown.
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Fellow Travelers / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
Fellow Travelers / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: Hawk is normally self-controlled, so he rarely has an outburst, but when he sees his son Jackson eating dinner with his bare hand instead of utensils, Hawk snaps at this display of bad manners and yells "ENOUGH!" while slamming the table, which startles his family.
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Fellow Travelers / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Fellow Travelers / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Lucy is the sole major female character in the story, and her actress Allison Williams is the lone woman in the main cast.
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Fellow Travelers / int_5f168ae3	type	I Kiss Your Foot
Fellow Travelers / int_5f168ae3	comment	I Kiss Your Foot: In episode 1, Tim wants Hawk to take him to a Georgetown party full of "important people." Hawk asks how much Tim wants to go; in response (and with Hawk's encouragement), Tim kisses the sole of Hawk's foot and sucks his toes before performing oral sex on him. This pleases Hawk enough that he takes Tim to the party.
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Fellow Travelers / int_612f2a40	type	Hates Their Parent
Fellow Travelers / int_612f2a40	comment	Hates Their Parent: Hawk loathes his homophobic father, who is not only disgusted that his son is gay, but even demands an apology for being this way. Not surprisingly, they're estranged. Jackson divulges to Tim that he hates his father Hawk.
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Fellow Travelers / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Fellow Travelers / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: In the fourth episode, eagled-eyed viewers will notice that Hawk wears the tie that Tim gave to him as a Christmas present during his lie detector test and the Christmas party he attends later. The second time Mary and Tim meet for lunch in episode 8, her earrings are maple leaves (the national symbol of Canada), which is a subtle nod from the wardrobe department that the series was filmed in Canada (Toronto, more precisely).
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Fellow Travelers / int_63be4131	type	Pretty Boy
Fellow Travelers / int_63be4131	comment	Pretty Boy: Tim has large, expressive doe eyes with long, thick eyelashes that enhance his boyishness and naivetÃ©. Hawk thinks he's cute because he describes Tim as "That adorable Catholic boy from Staten Island." Through a Double Meaning dictation, Hawk indirectly admits to him that he felt Love at First Sight when they first met: "I fell for you the first moment I laid eyes on you. Right away, I was taken by your beauty."
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Fellow Travelers / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Fellow Travelers / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: In 1957, Tim sheds tears when he learns from Mary that it was Hawk who reported him as being a homosexual to the M Unit, which means Tim is prohibited from government work for the rest of his life. In 1979, a broken-hearted Hawk weeps about his dead son while Tim holds him. In 1986, Hawk becomes teary-eyed after he kisses Tim in public for the first and last time. In 1987, Hawk cries when he sees Tim's panel on the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
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Fellow Travelers / int_65120cd1	type	Good-Looking Privates
Fellow Travelers / int_65120cd1	comment	Good-Looking Privates: While it's not explicitly stated, it's evident that Hawk finds Corporal Laughlin very alluring in his military uniform because he subtly suggests that Tim can thank him with sex after Hawk recommends Tim for a job at the Refugee Relief Office. Tim insists "That's not what I meant" and later walks away, but the audience gets the sense that Hawk intends to seduce him regardless. During the actual seduction later in the episode, Hawk is extremely turned on by the maturity Tim has gained while serving in the army.
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Fellow Travelers / int_66c58f09	type	Starts with a Suicide
Fellow Travelers / int_66c58f09	comment	Starts with a Suicide: "Your Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire" starts as a gay employee reels out of the State Department's M Unit (which investigated gays since they were viewed as security risks) then walks right into traffic to kill himself, as being outed in the early 1950s was generally a social death sentence.
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Fellow Travelers / int_6ca72c26	type	All Take and No Give
Fellow Travelers / int_6ca72c26	comment	All Take and No Give: Hawk is the Taker and Tim is the Giver in their romance; the power imbalance stems from their Lover and Beloved dynamic. Tim desires to be in a committed relationship with Hawk despite the grave legal and social difficulties LGBT+ people face during the homophobic 1950s, but Hawk continually insists that their romance must remain casual. Hawk plans to marry Lucy to be his beard, and the mere idea of this is extremely upsetting to Tim. During a Christmastime tryst, Tim gives Hawk a brand new tie as a Christmas gift, yet Hawk hadn't thought of getting anything for his boyfriend even though he did purchase a stunning silver bracelet set with emeralds for Lucy. (Although Tim is thrilled by the expensive — but pre-owned — monogrammed cufflinks etched with Hawk's initials that the latter hands to him after rummaging through his closet, it doesn't change the fact that Hawk didn't consider buying a Christmas present for Tim.) Hawk doesn't offer emotional support to Tim when the latter needs it, even though Hawk expects Tim to comfort him when he's in distress. Tim often expresses his love for Hawk, but the latter never says "I love you" in return. Subverted at the end of their relationship in 1986, when Hawk lets Tim go at the latter's request. Even though Hawk desperately wants to stay with Tim, he finally puts Tim's needs over his own desires. Also, Hawk is not angry or unhappy when he learns that Tim slightly deceived him, and is planning to use the gala invite that Hawk wrangled for them to stage a direct action with Marcus, Frankie, Jerome, and others. Even Hawk's decision not to say "I love you" in that moment was for Tim's sake. Tim let Hawk know that he'd found peace and had no regrets about their relationship, and asks Hawk to make letting go of their relationship easy for him, so Hawk's decision to not verbally affirm his love for Tim in that moment was ultimately a loving and selfless gesture. (And he does affirm his love for Tim in another way, by kissing him in public for the first time before they part ways.) Played with in episode 6. While it does go against Tim's wishes, Hawk's desperation to keep Tim out of prison is understandable and not entirely selfish. Lucy and Hawk's marriage as well. Like many 1950s-era housewives, Lucy sacrifices her own feelings, dignity, and self-respect in order to make her husband as comfortable as possible.
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Fellow Travelers / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Fellow Travelers / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: "Your Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire" opens with a gay employee killing himself by walking into traffic as he's about to be outed and ruined. It's also mentioned there's an average of one suicide each week among fired government employees due to this. Senator Smith shoots himself rather than resign when he's told his son's arrest on a "morals charge" for having sex with a man will be exposed if he won't, while leaving a suicide note that denounces McCarthyism. Tim accuses Hawk of this in episode 7, even if Hawk is going about it via substance abuse and recklessness rather than more direct methods.
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Fellow Travelers / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Fellow Travelers / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: Episode 4 takes place shortly before and during Christmas.
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Fellow Travelers / int_6f19054d	type	Coming-Out Story
Fellow Travelers / int_6f19054d	comment	Coming-Out Story: After suffering from Gayngst for most of his life, Tim finally accepts his true self and embraces his homosexuality in the '70s after he earns a counseling degree. He even comes out to his conservative Catholic relatives, which is a big deal for him because in the past, he was afraid of becoming the next "designated hopeless sinner of the family."
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Fellow Travelers / int_6f44042b	type	The Immodest Orgasm
Fellow Travelers / int_6f44042b	comment	The Immodest Orgasm: During their first sexual encounter, Hawk gives Tim a handjob, and the latter moans so loudly that the former has to cover his lover's mouth with his hand so that the other residents of the apartment building won't hear Tim's orgasm. Hawk then notes, "That was nice, Skippy, but you need a radio." The next time Hawk comes over to Tim's place, he brings a radio; it's playing music while they're engaged in anal sex, which drowns out Tim's cries of pleasure. The first time Tim visits Hawk's apartment, the former performs oral sex on the latter, and Hawk exclaims, "Oh! Oh yeah! Oh! Oh Jesus!" before the scene cuts. Hawk is the "receiving" partner when he and Tim have anal sex in 1957, and he moans noisily, "Oh! Oh shit! Oh God!"
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Fellow Travelers / int_714342fb	type	Erotic Eating
Fellow Travelers / int_714342fb	comment	Erotic Eating: In 1957, Tim stares seductively at Hawk while purposely drinking milk in such a way that it spills from his mouth and drips from his chin. Hawk is so aroused by the sight of this that he licks the milk from Tim's neck and chin, and then kisses him.
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Fellow Travelers / int_71bc0919	type	Burn Baby Burn
Fellow Travelers / int_71bc0919	comment	Burn Baby Burn: In the sixth episode, after Lucy reads without permission a letter that Tim wrote to Hawk, she burns it out of jealousy because she hates the fact that her husband loves a man more than her. As a consequence, Hawk never knew of the letter's existence.
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Fellow Travelers / int_734c5ed2	type	Masculineâ€“Feminine Gay Couple
Fellow Travelers / int_734c5ed2	comment	Masculineâ€“Feminine Gay Couple: Straight Gay man Marcus and Drag Queen Frankie date in the early 1950s. Jokingly invoked by Tim when he and Hawk are at a fancy fundraising gala while attired in tuxedos. Although they're both Straight Gays, Tim is a Pretty Boy while Hawk is Tall, Dark, and Handsome, so Tim recognizes that some people who see them together might assume that he's the "feminine" partner.
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Fellow Travelers / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
Fellow Travelers / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: Hawk often refers to Joseph McCarthy as "Tail Gunner Joe." According to Cohn, Senator Smith is known as "Whining Wesley" and "Sanctimonious Smith" among his opponents.
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Fellow Travelers / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
Fellow Travelers / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: When the D.C. Police raid gay clubs or hookup spots, they beat people with their batons for no reason, obviously just due to homophobia. During the White Night riots in San Francisco in 1979, the police remove their badges so they can't be identified when savagely beating both the protestors and bar patrons who weren't involved in the riot.
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Fellow Travelers / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Fellow Travelers / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Beyond measure."
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Fellow Travelers / int_7aa858c1	type	Consummate Liar
Fellow Travelers / int_7aa858c1	comment	Consummate Liar: Hawk lies as easily as he breathes. He deceives everyone around him, including his own family. He's so exceptional at it that he can beat a polygraph test administered by the government.
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Fellow Travelers / int_7b71737e	type	Closet Gay
Fellow Travelers / int_7b71737e	comment	Closet Gay: All gays and lesbians who appear on the show in the 1950s are closeted due to the homophobia which they face, with the threat of being outed ever-present as it could ruin their lives.
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Fellow Travelers / int_7d26e6dc	type	Only-Child Syndrome
Fellow Travelers / int_7d26e6dc	comment	Only-Child Syndrome: It's implied the reason why Hawk is incredibly self-centered is because he's an only child.
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Fellow Travelers / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Fellow Travelers / int_7d89315b	comment	The next morning, Tim believes he got through to Hawk, only to find the latter downstairs doing cocaine. Tim leaves after giving Hawk a blistering "The Reason You Suck" Speech, declaring that he has wasted his life on him.
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Fellow Travelers / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Fellow Travelers / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: After his son's death, Hawk becomes a drunkard. Among other incidents, he ruined his daughter's baby shower by knocking over the gift table because he was so inebriated. It had gotten so out of control that his wife Lucy gave him an ultimatum: seek treatment for his drinking or live somewhere else. Hawk chose to leave home and stay on Fire Island where he can indulge in substance abuse. His friend Rafael is concerned about his deteriorating health and confides to Tim that he needs to see a doctor. When Hawk vomits in the bathroom, Craig explains to Tim that he has developed gastritis due to the alcohol.
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Fellow Travelers / int_7fc7eb02	type	Late Coming Out
Fellow Travelers / int_7fc7eb02	comment	Late Coming Out: Tim is in his 40s when he decides to live as an openly gay man. In his mid-to-late 60s, Hawk kisses Tim in public for the first and last time, right after letting a homophobic acquaintance know that he spent the previous night holding Tim in his hospital bed. In the DÃ©nouement of the show, set in 1987, Hawk and his daughter Kimberly visit the AIDS Memorial Quilt together, and he tells her that Tim was "the man I loved."
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Fellow Travelers / int_812a2820	type	Pink Means Feminine
Fellow Travelers / int_812a2820	comment	Pink Means Feminine: While pregnant, Lucy (a traditional 1950s housewife) wears a pink maternity dress where the top half has a floral print of pink roses, and she also accessorizes with pink earrings.
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Fellow Travelers / int_83446c8a	type	Uke
Fellow Travelers / int_83446c8a	comment	Uke: Pretty Boy Tim, though still a Straight Gay, is a somewhat shyer, gentler man than his Tall, Dark, and Handsome lover Hawk, and nearly always bottoms when they have sex.
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Fellow Travelers / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Fellow Travelers / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Lucy as well as her mother Helen. After Lucy's marriage to Hawk, they both figure out that he cheats on her with men in pretty short order. It is strongly implied that Lucy's father was a cheater as well. Ultimately subverted with Lucy in the series finale when she decides she's had enough and tells Hawk that she is leaving him.
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Fellow Travelers / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
Fellow Travelers / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: The gays are mostly indistinguishable from straight men in how they act. It would be foolish to do anything else, given being outed could result in being fired at best. Some of them, however, will act more camp or are even drag queens in private.
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Fellow Travelers / int_84b1a036	type	Gay Aesop
Fellow Travelers / int_84b1a036	comment	Averted with the monogamist Tim and discussed in episode 3. He disagrees with Hawk's statement that they hide who they sleep with and that everyone has something to hide, because "it's not who we sleep with, it's who we love." He wants nothing more than to have a normal romantic relationship with Hawk.
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Fellow Travelers / int_84d29a11	type	Drag Queen
Fellow Travelers / int_84d29a11	comment	Drag Queen: Frankie is a drag queen in the 1950s, but stops performing by the late '60s. Real life drag king StormÃ© DeLarverie is a minor character and Frankie's friend at the time.
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Fellow Travelers / int_855af0ab	type	Club Kid
Fellow Travelers / int_855af0ab	comment	Club Kid: The younger gay men whom Hawk hangs out with on Fire Island fit into this largely from what's seen. Several of them are Camp Gay, they take cocaine frequently, have casual sex often, and dance at a club. Tim also briefly gets into the drug use and dancing when he's there.
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Fellow Travelers / int_85ca9dab	type	Second Love
Fellow Travelers / int_85ca9dab	comment	The same paperweight also becomes a tragic keepsake representing Hawk and his Second Love Tim's relationship. In 1957, as Tim sleeps in the love nest Hawk furnished for them, Hawk leaves the paperweight next to Tim and whispers "I'm sorry" before reporting Tim to the M Unit for being gay and getting him permanently banned from working for the federal government. Tim keeps the paperweight until 29 years later, when he is "organizing his life" and sends it back to Hawk. The penultimate scene of the show ends with Hawk contemplating the paperweight that is now a memento of both of his lost loves.
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Fellow Travelers / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Fellow Travelers / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Leonard Smith is not seen, heard from, or mentioned again after episode 5.
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Fellow Travelers / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Fellow Travelers / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: In the early 1950s, millions of American Catholics regard Senator Joseph McCarthy as a saint, including Tim, who is initially very enthusiastic about working for his hero. However, over time, Tim notices the underhanded strategies that his employer and his team use to combat communism, which violate Tim's principles. He quits the job a couple of years later after he becomes disillusioned with the dark side of McCarthyism. Despite recognizing McCarthy's faults, Tim still feels some sadness after his former boss passes away.
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Fellow Travelers / int_8741b74	type	Playing with a Trope
Fellow Travelers / int_8741b74	comment	On Fire Island, Tim is the responsible Betty and Craig is the hard-partying Veronica who are both rivals for Hawk's affection. (The dynamic is played with a bit halfway through the episode when Tim snorts cocaine, goes dancing with Hawk and his housemates at a club Where Everybody Knows Your Flame, initiates a physical altercation with Craig, and participates in a threesome with Hawk and Craig.)
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Fellow Travelers / int_88472ef3	type	Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life
Fellow Travelers / int_88472ef3	comment	Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Tim goes through several causes during his life searching for purpose. Initially, he is a right-wing Catholic who supports anti-communism and is an aide for US Senator Joseph McCarthy at the height of his infamous campaign. Tim grows disillusioned because McCarthyism grows to include purging closeted LGBT+ employees from federal agencies (like him) and he sees how excessive McCarthy's tactics really are. Then, after serving in the US Army, he follows left-wing priest Father Lawrence, joins a Catholic seminary, and later becomes a protestor against The Vietnam War, which gets him imprisoned for destroying draft cards. After 1.5 years in jail, Tim is released and he's inspired by Frankie, so in the '70s, he works as a clinical social worker at a non-profit agency in San Francisco that helps the gay and lesbian community. By 1986, Tim has become an activist for gay rights and AIDS sufferers like himself as he battles against the disease.
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Fellow Travelers / int_8984e5d1	type	Commonality Connection
Fellow Travelers / int_8984e5d1	comment	Commonality Connection: When they meet for the first time, Tim is able to relate to Jackson in a way that Hawk cannot because they both feel lost and struggle with trying to find their place in the world.
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Fellow Travelers / int_8aa0f76	type	Deconstructed Trope
Fellow Travelers / int_8aa0f76	comment	Deconstructed in Hawk and Lucy's marriage. While Hawk's status as a closeted gay man and relationship with Tim are both portrayed sympathetically, his lies are clearly taking a toll on his family. It is also probably worth noting that he cheats on Lucy with many, many men (not just Tim) over the course of their marriage. Similarly, Lucy's kiss (and possible affair) with their married neighbor is very understandable given the circumstances, but it's presented as a sign of her sadness and dissatisfaction with the way her life has turned out, and does not seem to bring her much true happiness or fulfillment.
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Fellow Travelers / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Fellow Travelers / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: The story constantly jumps back and forth between the past and the present.
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Fellow Travelers / int_8d0461e2	type	Destructive Romance
Fellow Travelers / int_8d0461e2	comment	Destructive Romance: Although Hawk genuinely loves Tim, their relationship is an Unequal Pairing (specifically Lover and Beloved), and Hawk manipulates (and on one occasion, outright mistreats) his younger lover throughout their romance. Some examples of how Hawk holds the power in their relationship and controls Tim include: The job Hawk finds for Tim at the State Department comes with an ulterior motive: Hawk wants a spy in Senator Joseph McCarthy's office. Although Tim is fiercely devoted to the anti-communist cause, Hawk is taking advantage of the fact that Tim feels obligated to return the favor of getting the opportunity to work for his hero (which would never happen without Hawk's influence), so Tim passes information about his boss, Roy Cohn and David Schine to Hawk. Falling in love with Hawk and being seduced by him further cements Tim's loyalty to his boyfriend even though it's detrimental to McCarthy's team. When the Lavender Scare begins, Hawk seeks comfort from Tim by going to the latter's apartment and requesting to be held, which Tim agrees to do. However, when Tim seeks emotional support from his boyfriend after he quits his job due to becoming disenchanted with McCarthyism, Hawk decides in that moment to break Tim's heart by announcing that he's going to ask Lucy Smith to marry him. This event marks the first breakup in their romance, and Tim is so hurt that he enlists in the US Army because he thinks that's the best way for him to get over Hawk. A few years later in 1957, a married Hawk seduces Tim again and uses him as his Gender-Inverted mistress for a period of time (either a few weeks or a few months). For Tim, this is a step down from what they've shared before because he now must accept being "the other man" when he used to be Hawk's primary romantic and sexual partner, but he assures Hawk with "I promise I won't be any trouble. I don't have any expectations." However, once Hawk realizes that Tim will become his colleague if Tim's job application to the Refugee Relief Office is accepted (Tim's daily proximity would threaten the stability of Hawk's marriage and impeding fatherhood), Hawk betrays his beloved by reporting him to the M Unit for being a homosexual, which results in Tim being permanently excluded from federal employment. Their mutual friend Mary discloses to Tim that he had "become inconvenient" to Hawk. Tim is so devastated by his lover's betrayal that he refuses to have any contact with Hawk for 11 years. In 1986, Hawk finally acknowledges in his old age that he was a bad boyfriend to Tim.
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Fellow Travelers / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
Fellow Travelers / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: After a two-month-long bender on Fire Island, culminating in an aborted threesome with Tim and Craig, Hawk finally acknowledges his grief about his son Jackson's death and breaks down sobbing in Tim's arms. Later, Hawk tells Tim about Jackson's addiction, blaming himself for his son's struggles and eventual death. Tim assures Hawk that while Hawk did lie to his family about his sexual orientation, his love for his son was real. The next morning, as he prepares to leave, Tim tells Rafael that he thinks Hawk will "do better, or try at least" after what he and Hawk shared the previous night. He then walks downstairs to find Hawk snorting cocaine off the breakfast table.
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Fellow Travelers / int_9058da25	type	Nuclear Family
Fellow Travelers / int_9058da25	comment	Nuclear Family: The Fuller family consists of a father (Hawk, a war hero), a mother (Lucy, a housewife), a son (Jackson), and a daughter (Kimberly). They live in a beautiful house in a suburb outside of Washington, D.C., and they also have a lovely cottage in the Pennsylvanian countryside note the police cruiser that picks up Tim has "State Police Pennsylvania" on the door. Although they appear to be the stereotype of a picture perfect white American family in the 1960s, they're actually dysfunctional beneath the surface. Hawk and Lucy's marriage is fundamentally an unhappy one because it's based on a lie — he's a gay man pretending to be straight, and she only discovered this after they tied the knot. As a result, they cheat on each other to meet their own "needs"; Hawk occasionally does Gay Cruising, while Lucy has an affair with their mutual friend (a married man) because Hawk doesn't make love to her as often as she'd like. Jackson frequently argues with his sister and his parents (especially his father), and he copes by smoking cigarettes and taking drugs like LSD — he's 11 years old, so the damage to his health will be far greater on a child than an adult.
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Fellow Travelers / int_90f6d157	type	Confessional
Fellow Travelers / int_90f6d157	comment	Confessional: At the end of episode 2, the Catholic Tim confesses his sin of having sex with a man. In episode 6, Tim is in the army when he confesses to Father Lawrence that he's in love with a man.
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Fellow Travelers / int_9182ea54	type	Crazy Cat Lady
Fellow Travelers / int_9182ea54	comment	Crazy Cat Lady: Lampshaded by Mary in episode 8 when she imagines what her life would've been like if she stayed with Caroline.
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Fellow Travelers / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Fellow Travelers / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: On Fire Island, Tim is the responsible Betty and Craig is the hard-partying Veronica who are both rivals for Hawk's affection. (The dynamic is played with a bit halfway through the episode when Tim snorts cocaine, goes dancing with Hawk and his housemates at a club Where Everybody Knows Your Flame, initiates a physical altercation with Craig, and participates in a threesome with Hawk and Craig.) In 1957, as Hawk's male mistress, Tim is the Veronica to housewife Lucy's Betty.
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Fellow Travelers / int_9597a894	type	Sexual Euphemism
Fellow Travelers / int_9597a894	comment	Sexual Euphemism: Hawk alludes to his promiscuity when he informs Mary, "I have trouble finishing a book before I want to start another."
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Fellow Travelers / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
Fellow Travelers / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Hawk and Lucy outlive their son Jackson, who died in his early 20s of a heroin overdose in October 1978note according to the card Tim sent Hawk to offer his condolences.
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Fellow Travelers / int_95db314b	type	Casual Kink
Fellow Travelers / int_95db314b	comment	Casual Kink: Hawk and Tim's lovemaking feature elements of BDSM, with the former as the dominant partner while the latter is the submissive. Hawk likes to order Tim to do things like remove and fold clothing during foreplay, sit on his lap, never break eye contact, etc. Hawk refers to his younger lover as "my boy" (which indicates that Tim is subordinate to Hawk) and demands that Tim declares that he belongs to him as if he's Hawk's Property of Love (e.g. "I am [your boy]!" and "I belong to Hawkins Fuller"). After an argument in episode 3, Hawk slaps Tim twice in the face (at the latter's request) and then bounds Tim's hands with his own tie before initiating rough sex, with Tim being nude whereas Hawk is almost fully dressed.
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Fellow Travelers / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
Fellow Travelers / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: Hawk keeps a paperweight that was a gift from his First Love Kenny that the latter bought during their senior trip. Kenny died during World War II. The same paperweight also becomes a tragic keepsake representing Hawk and his Second Love Tim's relationship. In 1957, as Tim sleeps in the love nest Hawk furnished for them, Hawk leaves the paperweight next to Tim and whispers "I'm sorry" before reporting Tim to the M Unit for being gay and getting him permanently banned from working for the federal government. Tim keeps the paperweight until 29 years later, when he is "organizing his life" and sends it back to Hawk. The penultimate scene of the show ends with Hawk contemplating the paperweight that is now a memento of both of his lost loves.
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Fellow Travelers / int_97ee273	type	Momma's Boy
Fellow Travelers / int_97ee273	comment	Momma's Boy: Hawk keeps in touch with his mother, but is estranged from his homophobic father. On his deathbed, Hawk's dad tells him it was a mistake that he allowed his wife to "make you a mama's boy."
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Fellow Travelers / int_9ce377f1	type	Cure Your Gays
Fellow Travelers / int_9ce377f1	comment	Cure Your Gays: After Leonard is arrested for commission of obscene and indecent acts (i.e. Gay Cruising), Hawk admits him to a facility that claims to cure homosexuality with a combination of aversion and shock therapy.
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Fellow Travelers / int_9d137658	type	The Chanteuse
Fellow Travelers / int_9d137658	comment	The Chanteuse: StormÃ© DeLarverie defies the traditional femme fatale version of this trope with her gender-nonconforming variation: a Butch Lesbian and drag king who sings Torch Songs at the Cozy Corner.
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Fellow Travelers / int_9e447c8c	type	Suspiciously Apropos Music
Fellow Travelers / int_9e447c8c	comment	Suspiciously Apropos Music: At the benefit gala in "Make It Easy", the house band sings a cover of "I Can Dream About You " by Dan Hartman. The title line of the song ("I can dream about you if I can't hold you tonight") features prominently in the sound mix while Tim and Hawk look adoringly at each other, hinting that the previous night when Hawk slept in Tim's hospital bed would be the last time they share the same bed together, since Tim ends their relationship later that night.
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Fellow Travelers / int_9f2ca67b	type	Gaydar
Fellow Travelers / int_9f2ca67b	comment	Gaydar: The agents at the M Unit make employees accused of being gay do things like simply walk across the room, since apparently it's believed gays will walk differently, in a way that gives them away. Hawk, who's gay but quite masculine, easily passes and scoffs at the test, stating even his mother could pass.
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Fellow Travelers / int_a00fb5fd	type	First Love
Fellow Travelers / int_a00fb5fd	comment	Hawk keeps a paperweight that was a gift from his First Love Kenny that the latter bought during their senior trip. Kenny died during World War II.
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Fellow Travelers / int_a1a6c75a	type	Out of the Closet, Into the Fire
Fellow Travelers / int_a1a6c75a	comment	Out of the Closet, Into the Fire: Jerome, a gay teen in San Francisco during the 1979 segment, came out to his family. As a result, he was beaten by his father and had to leave home, resulting in him being homeless.
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Fellow Travelers / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Fellow Travelers / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: The episode title "White Nights" refers to both the White Night riots and Hawk and his friends snorting cocaine while partying at night on Fire Island.
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Fellow Travelers / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Fellow Travelers / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: A threesome between Hawk, Tim, and Hawk's lover Craig in 1979 quickly turns to Hawk suffocating Craig, and then Hawk having a sobbing breakdown over his dead son after he's restrained by Tim.
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Fellow Travelers / int_a55ab01e	type	Jerkass Realization
Fellow Travelers / int_a55ab01e	comment	Jerkass Realization: Hawk has one after his selfish and self-destructive behavior in episode 7 induces Tim to finally give up on him and cut ties for good.
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Fellow Travelers / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Fellow Travelers / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: A military funeral is held for Senator Smith after he commits suicide. His mourners include his family and Hawk. Three examples for Harvey Milk in episode 7. First, there are the White Night riots, an outpouring of grief and rage over the light sentence that Dan White received for the murders of Milk and George Moscone. Then, at midnight on May 22, 1979, after the White Night riots and the retaliatory attack on the Elephant Walk bar in the Castro by the SFPD, Frankie raises a toast "To Harvey" while standing on Castro Street with Marcus, Jerome, and others, all of whom echo the sentiment. Finally, Frankie, Jerome, and Tim participate in a candlelight vigil in Milk and Moscone's honor at the end of the episode. In 1957, thousands of onlookers gather outside of St. Matthew's Cathedral to watch Senator Joseph McCarthy's coffin being carried to the hearse. Tim and Miss Addison are in the crowd while Roy Cohn and McCarthy's widow Jean walk behind the coffin. In 1987, Hawk finds Roy Cohn's panel and Tim's panel in the AIDS Memorial Quilt. He also finally divulges to his daughter Kimberly that Tim was "the man I loved."
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Fellow Travelers / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Fellow Travelers / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Lampshaded with regards to Hawk. Throughout the series, many people, including Hawk himself, refer to Hawk as "bulletproof." In the series finale, when he finds out that Hawk is HIV-negative, Marcus comments that Hawk is "still bulletproof" in a disbelieving tone. Marcus is stunned by that fact that it still seems like only people besides Hawk ever experience the negative consequences of Hawk's actions; Hawk does not appear to disagree with this assessment. The trope is ultimately subverted, however. By the end of the series, Hawk is divorced from Lucy, and never actually went to Italy for the foreign diplomatic posting he'd spent his entire career working toward. He has also outlived his First Love Kenny, his son Jackson, and Tim, who was the love of his life. He is clearly still heartbroken over all of these losses, and particularly over Tim, in 1987. It also seems like the one relationship he truly has left is with his daughter Kimberly, proving that Hawk was never as bulletproof as he believed himself to be.
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Fellow Travelers / int_a8adc5a0	type	Like a Son to Me
Fellow Travelers / int_a8adc5a0	comment	Like a Son to Me: Leonard is jealous of Hawk because Leonard's father Senator Smith treats Hawk more like a son than his own flesh-and-blood. Smith acknowledges that this is true. Some time after Jerome's estrangement from his parents, he moves into Marcus and Frankie's spare room. The three of them become one another's Family of Choice.
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Fellow Travelers / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Fellow Travelers / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Early in the series premiere, Hawk is captivated by Tim, a Pretty Boy, when he first notices the young man on election night. Episode 2 confirms that Hawk was struck by Cupid's arrow.
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Fellow Travelers / int_a9645365	type	Man Hug
Fellow Travelers / int_a9645365	comment	Man Hug: At the hunting cabin, Hawk comforts Tim with a hug when the latter is distressed over the fact that he could spend a dozen years in jail for destroying federal property (specifically breaking into government offices to burn draft cards for The Vietnam War) among other felony charges. Their embrace becomes more sensual when Hawk whispers "I've missed you, Skippy" and then kisses Tim's neck — likely his intention is to initiate foreplay — but Tim tells him to stop and pulls away. Two days before Frankie moves to San Francisco, Marcus requests a kiss goodbye, but Frankie turns him down and gives him a goodbye hug instead.
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Fellow Travelers / int_aa9fcfed	type	Embarrassing Middle Name
Fellow Travelers / int_aa9fcfed	comment	Embarrassing Middle Name: Although Hawk is willing to reveal his middle name to Tim, he refuses to talk about it any further.
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Fellow Travelers / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Fellow Travelers / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The series highlights not only homophobia in the 1950s, which was pervasive and forced LGBT+ people to stay hidden, but also institutionalized racism and how McCarthyism destroyed many lives in the anti-communist persecution. Even Senator Smith, who was relatively progressive for a U.S. senator in The '50s, is a homophobe and (strongly implied to be) a philanderer.
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Fellow Travelers / int_ab729e43	type	Disappointed in You
Fellow Travelers / int_ab729e43	comment	Disappointed in You: Hawk is ashamed at his son Jackson for stealing a gold pocket watch.
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Fellow Travelers / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Fellow Travelers / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: The inscription on Roy Cohn's panel on the AIDS Memorial Quilt ("Coward. Bully. Victim.") is a downplayed example.
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Fellow Travelers / int_ac1e30d8	type	Red Scare
Fellow Travelers / int_ac1e30d8	comment	Red Scare: The series is set in the early 1950s during the Flashback sequences, with the second Red Scare ongoing, while Joseph McCarthy is a supporting character.
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Fellow Travelers / int_ad3e13c5	type	The Loins Sleep Tonight
Fellow Travelers / int_ad3e13c5	comment	The Loins Sleep Tonight: While living on Fire Island, Hawk sometimes has trouble getting it up because of the copious amount of alcohol and drugs in his system; his lover Craig comments on this twice.
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Fellow Travelers / int_ad94c7a0	type	Scars Are Forever
Fellow Travelers / int_ad94c7a0	comment	Scars Are Forever: There's a large scar on Hawk's back that he got while fighting the Nazis during World War II. Tim inquires about it in episode 3. A deep groove runs along Cohn's nose which was caused by a (presumably) botched cosmetic surgery when he was only a toddler.
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Fellow Travelers / int_ae8ae383	type	Non-Standard Kiss
Fellow Travelers / int_ae8ae383	comment	Non-Standard Kiss: Towards the end of their Christmastime rendezvous, Hawk briefly performs an Eskimo kiss◊ (i.e. rubbing their noses together) on Tim.
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Fellow Travelers / int_afdbb1fb	type	GenderInverted
Fellow Travelers / int_afdbb1fb	comment	A few years later in 1957, a married Hawk seduces Tim again and uses him as his Gender-Inverted mistress for a period of time (either a few weeks or a few months). For Tim, this is a step down from what they've shared before because he now must accept being "the other man" when he used to be Hawk's primary romantic and sexual partner, but he assures Hawk with "I promise I won't be any trouble. I don't have any expectations." However, once Hawk realizes that Tim will become his colleague if Tim's job application to the Refugee Relief Office is accepted (Tim's daily proximity would threaten the stability of Hawk's marriage and impeding fatherhood), Hawk betrays his beloved by reporting him to the M Unit for being a homosexual, which results in Tim being permanently excluded from federal employment. Their mutual friend Mary discloses to Tim that he had "become inconvenient" to Hawk. Tim is so devastated by his lover's betrayal that he refuses to have any contact with Hawk for 11 years.
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Fellow Travelers / int_b5b47d4c	type	The '50s
Fellow Travelers / int_b5b47d4c	comment	Even Senator Smith, who was relatively progressive for a U.S. senator in The '50s, is a homophobe and (strongly implied to be) a philanderer.
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Fellow Travelers / int_b5b4810d	type	The '60s
Fellow Travelers / int_b5b4810d	comment	The '60s: 1968 is the setting of most of the past scenes in episode 6.
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Fellow Travelers / int_b5b484ce	type	The '70s
Fellow Travelers / int_b5b484ce	comment	The '70s: Episode 7's Flashbacks unfold in May 1979.
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Fellow Travelers / int_b5b4888f	type	The '80s
Fellow Travelers / int_b5b4888f	comment	The '80s: The present scenes take place in 1986, and the DÃ©nouement is in 1987.
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Fellow Travelers / int_b5c56995	type	Corrupt the Cutie
Fellow Travelers / int_b5c56995	comment	Corrupt the Cutie: Hawk's influence on Tim is a downplayed example. After they've been seeing each other for a few weeks, Tim kisses Hawk's feet and performs oral sex on him in order to get Hawk to take him to Joe Alsop's party; it seems unlikely that Tim would've plied anyone with transactional sexual favors prior to meeting Hawk. After Hawk's marriage, he and Tim have an extramarital affair which lasts for a few months in 1957 and continues on and off for the rest of Tim's life; this is a far cry from earlier in the series, when Tim joined the military to try to extricate himself from Hawk's life after Hawk and Lucy got engaged.
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Fellow Travelers / int_b6ec7566	type	Twofer Token Minority
Fellow Travelers / int_b6ec7566	comment	Twofer Token Minority: Marcus, Frankie and Jerome are gay African Americans. The Butch Lesbian and drag king StormÃ© DeLarverie, a real historical figure from the era, is also a minor black character (Frankie's friends with her).
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Fellow Travelers / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Fellow Travelers / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Hawk is married to Lucy, but his true love is Tim. Because Tim and Lucy are in love with Hawk, they're naturally jealous of each other. Tim views Lucy as being more fortunate than him because he and Hawk were together only a handful of times since the latter's marriage. However, Lucy doesn't regard herself as the "winner" in this "competition" over Hawk because she's aware that her husband doesn't desire her like he desires Tim. Another triangle occurs between Hawk, Craig and Tim on Fire Island. Hawk is involved in a casual relationship with Craig while simultaneously trying to reignite things with Tim. Craig (and to some extent Hawk) initially view Tim in 1979 as a judgmental wet blanket. Things get more nebulous when Tim does drugs, goes dancing, and participates in an attempted threesome with Hawk and Craig. Ultimately, both love triangles end with all involved parties breaking it off with Hawk.
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Fellow Travelers / int_b838c815	type	Dénouement
Fellow Travelers / int_b838c815	comment	In his mid-to-late 60s, Hawk kisses Tim in public for the first and last time, right after letting a homophobic acquaintance know that he spent the previous night holding Tim in his hospital bed. In the DÃ©nouement of the show, set in 1987, Hawk and his daughter Kimberly visit the AIDS Memorial Quilt together, and he tells her that Tim was "the man I loved."
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Fellow Travelers / int_b9f2a379	type	Gay Euphemism
Fellow Travelers / int_b9f2a379	comment	Gay Euphemism: When Miss Addison sees Tim for the first time, she assumes he's gay and says to Mary, "Hmm, he seems very artistic."
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Fellow Travelers / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Fellow Travelers / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Tim and Lucy have observed that Hawk is selfish and self-absorbed. In episode 1, Tim becomes upset when he realizes that Hawk cares only about himself. In episode 6, Lucy is incensed when she discovers that her husband Hawk is harboring Tim, a fugitive, at his hunting cabin (a crime Hawk can be arrested and jailed for), and therefore prioritizing his ex-lover over his family. In episode 7, Tim is furious that his heart-to-heart conversation with Hawk ended up being meaningless because the latter continues to self-destruct through drugs and alcohol.
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Fellow Travelers / int_bbf08a2b	type	Gender-Inverted Trope
Fellow Travelers / int_bbf08a2b	comment	In 1957, as Hawk's male mistress, Tim is the Veronica to housewife Lucy's Betty.
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Fellow Travelers / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Fellow Travelers / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Hawk has been cheating on Lucy since the beginning of their courtship and throughout their marriage. By his own admission, Hawk sleeps with with three or four men per year. If we take his word for it, then over the course of his marriage, he has had at least 96 one-night stands, in addition to two somewhat longer affairs (Andrew the contractor, and Craig on Fire Island). And that's even before we get to his long-term connection with Tim, which predates his marriage and has continued over the decades. (This relatively conservative estimate totals to 99 extramarital sexual partners over the course of his marriage.) Hawk did Gay Cruising more often before his wedding (he explains to Tim in episode 6 that his way of honoring his vow to Lucy is "By lowering my zipper only occasionally"), so the number of men that he has hooked up with since he became sexually active in the 11th grade is well over 100 (and 200 is plausible).
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Fellow Travelers / int_bf3d0873	type	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame
Fellow Travelers / int_bf3d0873	comment	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: Hawk introduces Tim to an underground LGBT+ night club called the Cozy Corner in Washington, D.C. at which drag acts are performed, with an alarm light that is set to go off in the event of police raids. Hawk later takes Tim to the Nomad tavern at Rehoboth Beach, a notorious gay hangout. There's a club on Fire Island where Hawk, his housemates, and Tim go dancing in 1979. Hawk cruises at another gay bar, one catering to leathermen, much later in 1986.
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Fellow Travelers / int_c07e2029	type	Europeans Are Kinky
Fellow Travelers / int_c07e2029	comment	Europeans Are Kinky: Discussed in episode 2 when Lucy confirms after a trip to Europe that the men there are very forward with their amorous advances compared to American men in the 1950s. According to Hawk, Europeans are a lot less judgemental about homosexuality than Americans.
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Fellow Travelers / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
Fellow Travelers / int_c145f69b	comment	Subverted at the end of their relationship in 1986, when Hawk lets Tim go at the latter's request. Even though Hawk desperately wants to stay with Tim, he finally puts Tim's needs over his own desires. Also, Hawk is not angry or unhappy when he learns that Tim slightly deceived him, and is planning to use the gala invite that Hawk wrangled for them to stage a direct action with Marcus, Frankie, Jerome, and others. Even Hawk's decision not to say "I love you" in that moment was for Tim's sake. Tim let Hawk know that he'd found peace and had no regrets about their relationship, and asks Hawk to make letting go of their relationship easy for him, so Hawk's decision to not verbally affirm his love for Tim in that moment was ultimately a loving and selfless gesture. (And he does affirm his love for Tim in another way, by kissing him in public for the first time before they part ways.)
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Fellow Travelers / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Fellow Travelers / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: The opening credits (plus the end credits of episode 1) have "And Allison Williams".
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Fellow Travelers / int_c5474384	type	Vow of Celibacy
Fellow Travelers / int_c5474384	comment	Vow of Celibacy: As Hawk points out in 1968, Tim's status as a seminarian does not require this. Tim tries to adhere to it anyway. (Later in the episode, Hawk and Tim lie down in bed and masturbate together, but without touching one another, presumably because this does not technically break Tim's self-imposed vow of celibacy. Tim is still filled with shame and regret afterward.)
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Fellow Travelers / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Fellow Travelers / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: While most of the sex scenes in the show are intended to appeal to the audience, the threesome in episode 7 is uncomfortable to watch for many reasons. Tim and Craig clearly do not want to kiss each other, and only do so with Hawk's strong encouragement, because they are both besotted with him. Hawk's increasing desperation and emotional turmoil also become apparent in this scene as he begs Tim to "do this for me." The sex abruptly ends when Hawk notices that Craig went through his photo album and took out a picture of his late son Jackson. Tim has to intervene as Hawk throttles and berates Craig.
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Fellow Travelers / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Fellow Travelers / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: When Hawk sees Schine for the first time, he asks Marcus, "Who's the Randolph Scott-type sitting next to Cohn?" The novel Tim gives to Hawk as a thank you gift is Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe. Marcus is a fan of Langston Hughes. Marcus boasts to Frankie, "Don't you know I'm supposed to be the Jackie Robinson of journalism?" Freddie Mercury's "The Great Pretender" plays during the end credits of episode 3. Hawk quips to Tim, "Are you cheating on the Bible with Gandhi?" Mary discusses The Catcher in the Rye with Tim. Tim and Hawk name-drop a few musicians when the former glances through the latter's record collection. While Hawk and Tim slow dance in the buff, "I Look at You" by Johnny Mathis provides the romantic ambience on Hawk's record player.
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Fellow Travelers / int_c8ba12ee	type	Interplay of Sex and Violence
Fellow Travelers / int_c8ba12ee	comment	Interplay of Sex and Violence: In the third episode, a lover's spat between Hawk and Tim directly fuels the heated make-up sex which immediately follows. The mild BDSM aspects of their relationship are heightened slightly in this particular sexual encounter. Tim initiates foreplay by requesting that Hawk slap him twice, to which the latter complies. After commanding Tim to strip off his clothing, Hawk ties his boyfriend's hands and then shoves him down on to the bed. Hawk sodomizes Tim without any preparation, so the latter yelps in pain, but Tim remains an eager sub because he obeys his dom's order to repeatedly proclaim that he's Hawk's Property of Love with "I belong to Hawkins Fuller."
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Fellow Travelers / int_c8e375d3	type	Lover and Beloved
Fellow Travelers / int_c8e375d3	comment	Lover and Beloved: Hawk teaches his younger lover Tim about the political intrigue that occurs around Capitol Hill, and he also introduces Tim to gay bars as part of the latter's "education," as Hawk calls it. He even sounds paternal in episode 5 when he utters to Tim "I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier."
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Fellow Travelers / int_d13e0db3	type	Heartbeat Soundtrack
Fellow Travelers / int_d13e0db3	comment	Heartbeat Soundtrack: When Hawk measures his heart rate thrice in episode 4, the sound of his heartbeats becomes louder than the Background Music.
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Fellow Travelers / int_d46230c3	type	Over-the-Shoulder Carry
Fellow Travelers / int_d46230c3	comment	Over-the-Shoulder Carry: At a Fire Island beach, Hawk lifts Tim over his shoulder and then carries him until they fall into the water.
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Fellow Travelers / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Fellow Travelers / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Hawk has never been monogamous with anyone, including Tim. However, he is deeply jealous when he finds out that Tim kissed another man at the Nomad bar. This is followed by violent foreplay and rough sex during which Hawk repeatedly asks "Who do you belong to?" (and makes Tim affirm that "I belong to Hawkins Fuller!"). Tim is judgmental of Hawk for being a bad husband. Tim is also Hawk's longest and most important extramarital affair.
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Fellow Travelers / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Fellow Travelers / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In episode 7, two of Hawk's lovers do this in the space of twelve hours. After Hawk castigates and chokes Craig, the latter flees the bedroom completely naked, saying "Fucking asshole! Fuck this." The next morning, Tim believes he got through to Hawk, only to find the latter downstairs doing cocaine. Tim leaves after giving Hawk a blistering "The Reason You Suck" Speech, declaring that he has wasted his life on him.
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Fellow Travelers / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Fellow Travelers / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: Shortly before Christmas 1953, Hawk informs Fred Traband that he has worked at the State Department since 1948 and specifies "That's four years and ten months." However, the latter statement means that his employment began in February 1949, and not in 1948 like he claims.
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Fellow Travelers / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
Fellow Travelers / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Hawk seems to be an atheist based on his comment that he doesn't vote because he believes it's pointless, and then adds, "And I feel pretty much the same way about God." When Tim discloses that he stopped attending mass at church, Hawk replies, "Well, that's progress." He later asserts that "Hell's a fantasy, Skippy. So is heaven, the Trinity, democracy, and the holy war against communism. Grand ideas that just get people killed."
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Fellow Travelers / int_db51f4f5	type	The Grunting Orgasm
Fellow Travelers / int_db51f4f5	comment	The Grunting Orgasm: During Christmastime, Hawk performs fellatio on Tim, and the latter grunts when he orgasms. In 1957, Tim is the "giving" partner when he and Hawk are engaged in anal sex, and the former muffles his orgasm by biting and sucking on the latter's shoulder while groaning in pleasure.
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Fellow Travelers / int_dc2912f	comment	Armoured Closet Gay: It's made clear Roy Cohn is a closeted gay man, who's also pushing an effort to fire LGBT+ people with federal jobs as blackmail threats by communist agents, and "deviants" unsuited for employment. Later on, Hawk gets evidence that Joseph McCarthy himself, who'd started this push against LGBT+ employees, had paid for sex with a man.
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Fellow Travelers / int_dcd423d2	comment	During their first sexual encounter, Hawk gives Tim a handjob, and the latter moans so loudly that the former has to cover his lover's mouth with his hand so that the other residents of the apartment building won't hear Tim's orgasm. Hawk then notes, "That was nice, Skippy, but you need a radio." The next time Hawk comes over to Tim's place, he brings a radio; it's playing music while they're engaged in anal sex, which drowns out Tim's cries of pleasure.
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Fellow Travelers / int_dd53c52b	type	Crushing Handshake
Fellow Travelers / int_dd53c52b	comment	Crushing Handshake: Hawk is irate at Dave Holm's disrespectful treatment of Tim, so Hawk takes advantage of Dave's ignorance about AIDS (the latter believes you can catch it through touch) by clenching the homophobe's hand in a death grip while mentioning that he was physically close to Tim.
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Fellow Travelers / int_dde43ab	type	Tattooed Crook
Fellow Travelers / int_dde43ab	comment	Tattooed Crook: Tim is a convicted felon who has a tattoo of a cross with barbed wire on his right arm that he got while in prison.
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Fellow Travelers / int_e24e15a6	comment	Has a Type: Hawk falls in love with men who are sweet, which is how he describes both his First Love Kenny and his Second Love Tim. Tim's type seems to be "older men in positions of authority." He lost his virginity to a Catholic priest who was also one of his professors at Fordham University. In his early twenties, Tim falls in love with Hawk, who is in his early-to-mid thirties, works for the State Department, and has enough clout to get Tim a job in Joseph McCarthy's office. (Tim also did not seem entirely disinterested in the older man who kissed him in the Nomad bar bathroom at Rehoboth Beach.) Averted in episode 3 when Frankie notes that he is not Marcus's usual type. ("I'm not exactly like the studs you used to leave the bar with.")
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Fellow Travelers / int_e54826cf	comment	Seme: Tall, Dark, and Handsome Hawk is a traditionally masculine war hero who almost always tops while having sex with men. There are only two exceptions throughout his adulthood: he gives his Pretty Boy lover Tim fellatio in episode 4 (Tim's surprised because he knows Hawk's preference), and he bottoms for Tim during anal sex in episode 8. Hawk's father had once caught him "on your knees for that boy Kenny" when Hawk was in the 11th grade, but since he was a teenager exploring his sexuality, it's likely he hadn't developed a preference yet.
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Fellow Travelers / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: Hawk's insistence during his HIV screening that he is the active participant in sex "always" hints that there may have been an exception. This switch in his and Tim's dynamic is ultimately seen in the pair's final sex scene, in episode 8.
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Fellow Travelers / int_e8f13234	comment	Rightly Self-Righteous: On Fire Island, Hawk accuses Tim of being sanctimonious.
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Fellow Travelers / int_ea8ba51d	comment	No Full Name Given: Miss Addison's given name is never mentioned.
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Fellow Travelers / int_eab212a8	comment	Period Piece: The series spans The '50s, The '60s, The '70s and The '80s.
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Fellow Travelers / int_ede89ad6	comment	Parental Hypocrisy: Hawk lies all the time, yet he rebukes his son Jackson for being dishonest. Jackson is aware that his father keeps secrets from the family.
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Fellow Travelers / int_ee00a219	comment	The Show of the Books: It's based on the book of the same name.
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Fellow Travelers / int_f64b5d46	comment	Forbidden Love: Homosexuality was a crime during The '50s and The '60s in America note the sole exception in this time period is the state of Illinois, which decriminalized same-sex sexual activity in 1961, so all same-sex couples were breaking the law simply by being together. Because of this, Hawk and Tim, Marcus and Frankie, and Mary and Caroline are closeted and must keep their relationship a secret.
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Fellow Travelers / int_f6c3d469	comment	Fanservice Extra: The Title Sequence is a montage of archival photos from the 1950s which feature real gay men from the era or shots of models aimed at them who are often good-looking, well-toned and bare-chested. Many male background characters are gay men who get shown at least with their shirts off, or in some cases entirely nude from the front. They are mostly young, handsome and muscular.
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Fellow Travelers / int_fa712e27	type	Gay Conservative
Fellow Travelers / int_fa712e27	comment	Gay Conservative: Tim is a gay Republican who supports McCarthy and works for him initially, while McCarthy's support of purging LGBT+ employees from federal jobs threatens him as well. As a result, Tim gradually grows out of his former political beliefs.
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Fellow Travelers / int_faf4a043	type	Good Adultery, Bad Adultery
Fellow Travelers / int_faf4a043	comment	Good Adultery, Bad Adultery: Deconstructed in Hawk and Lucy's marriage. While Hawk's status as a closeted gay man and relationship with Tim are both portrayed sympathetically, his lies are clearly taking a toll on his family. It is also probably worth noting that he cheats on Lucy with many, many men (not just Tim) over the course of their marriage. Similarly, Lucy's kiss (and possible affair) with their married neighbor is very understandable given the circumstances, but it's presented as a sign of her sadness and dissatisfaction with the way her life has turned out, and does not seem to bring her much true happiness or fulfillment. Republican fundraiser Dave Holm is a quintessential Bad Adulterer. In addition to being a serial philanderer who is apparently in the habit of cheating on his wife with women young enough to be his daughters, he is also a Hypocrite and a homophobe who believes that sexually active gay men deserve to contract HIV and die of AIDS.
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Fellow Travelers / int_feaf12e8	type	Survivor Guilt
Fellow Travelers / int_feaf12e8	comment	Survivor Guilt: It is implied that Hawk and Marcus both feel this about the fact that they are HIV-negative in 1986. Marcus's guilt is exacerbated by the fact that his surrogate son Jerome is HIV-positive; Hawk's guilt is exacerbated by the fact that the love of his life, Tim, is dying of AIDS.
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Fellow Travelers / int_fed441ad	comment	All Gays are Promiscuous: Played Straight with Hawk, who's promiscuous and does Gay Cruising for one-night stands at public washrooms or gay bars. This habit continues when he's in his late 60s in 1986. He informs a doctor that he has sex with men 3 or 4 times a year, and it's never the same man twice if he can help it. Lampshaded by Marcus when he tells Tim that he and Hawk "prefer sex without emotional entanglements." Averted with the monogamist Tim and discussed in episode 3. He disagrees with Hawk's statement that they hide who they sleep with and that everyone has something to hide, because "it's not who we sleep with, it's who we love." He wants nothing more than to have a normal romantic relationship with Hawk.
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