Yes, DieHard the Hunter, there is.
I am not sure I understand why you object to this so vigorously. It is real and not a “figment of television’s overheated imagination”.
This “obvious gay accent” has been around long before television. This “accent” would be clearly recognizable to someone back in the 1920’s for what it indicates.
Furthermore, it stretches across geographical and linguistic delineations in this country. The accent is evident in every part of this country.
As I said, the presence of this accent is not an indicator in itself, since there are male homosexuals who do not exhibit it, but let’s be for real. You can deny it exists, but that does not erase the existence of it.
> You can deny it exists, but that does not erase the existence of it.
And you can insist it exists, but that does not mean that it does exist.