ABSTRACT
There are more films about relationships where one member of a couple comes out as gay. Grace and Frankie, the comedy series on Netflix, is about two older couples played by Jane Fonda and Martin Sheen and Lily Tomlin, married to Sam Waterston. When the two husbands, who are law partners, turn out to be partners in other ways, it leaves their wives abandoned in their seventies with a lot of things to work out about their lives. And the women become fast friends, as their husbands become a couple. The goal is to try to keep love alive between all four of them in the face of reconfiguring relationships. Transparent is one of the first transgender series. How does a family manage to adjust to Dad becoming a second Mom? With laughter and tears. Change in gender orientation or change in gender itself is one of the challenges facing people seeking love in the twenty-first century.
