Sheila Kuehl
Kuehl was elected to the California State Assembly in 1994, becoming the first openly gay person elected to the California legislature. While running for office Kuehl found she was able to offset some negative stereotypes people had about lesbians thanks to their familiarity with her role as Zelda. She told an interviewer "When people know gay people personally, they tend to feel differently about the whole community. And all of a sudden, here's a person that they knew very well that they found out was lesbian."
Sheila Kuehl
Kuehl's only acting roles beyond 1970 were in two "Dobie Gillis" reunion projects: a 1977 sitcom pilot produced by James Komack, "Whatever Happened to Dobie Gillis?", and a 1988 television movie sequel, "Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis". In both productions, Dobie had married Zelda and the two were running the Gillis family grocery store and raising a teenage son named Georgie Gillis.