Looking back to when the first episode was released, can you remember what drew you personally to the show? Were you wary of anything about the show? At the time, the nudity and language featured in Oz was uncharted territory for TV. Tom Fontana [the show creator] and I would talk at the beginning of every year about what was going to happen with the character. The funny thing is, when I was in my early 20s, I used to get drunk and get naked in bars all the time, and now all of a sudden I was going to be paid to get naked -- I was like, alright. I feel like that is the story of Beecher.

Oz Season Two. Unrated, 8 episodes, minutes. Jailhouse Rock by Michael D. Klemm Reprinted from Outcome , July, When it comes to depicting three dimensional gay characters on the tube, cable networks like HBO and Showtime blow the broadcast channels out of the water.

Many problems were solved in our neighborhoods because everyone looked upon each other as part of the same family. Drug dealers and users were initially frowned upon. The positive potential that these lost members had in unimaginable and immeasurable. Through drug usage, loyalties shifted or became non-existent.