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- WATCH: TV'S FIRST GAY WEDDG IS A PERFECT SUMMATN OF HOW FAR AMERI HAS E
- 10 MILTONE MOMENTS GAY TV HISTORY
- 'THE FOSTERS' TO AIR TV'S FIRST GAY WEDDG SCE DOMA
- DEIDRE HALL ON OFFICIATG DAYTIME TV'S FIRST GAY WEDDG
WATCH: TV'S FIRST GAY WEDDG IS A PERFECT SUMMATN OF HOW FAR AMERI HAS E
* first gay wedding on tv *
(The Goln Girls had aired a gay "mment ceremony" earlier 1991, but the word marriage wasn't said. Near the end of the episo, Roc says he's not yet fortable wh his uncle beg gay, but he's learng to be "fortable wh beg unfortable, " which is a big step for him.
"Can't Help" is chock full of the sorts of easy gay jok that typified a lot of '90s edi featurg gay characters.
10 MILTONE MOMENTS GAY TV HISTORY
At one pot, Andrew sists that he didn't thk black people uld be gay, bee they weren't scend om "sissy" Europeans.
'THE FOSTERS' TO AIR TV'S FIRST GAY WEDDG SCE DOMA
When Andrew tells him this is jt a phase, spurred by havg married an "ugly woman, " Rsell says that, no, he's been gay his whole life and jt lyg to himself. What ma the battle for gay rights so different was that anybody uld be gay, so, siarly, anybody uld be prejudiced. The characters don't make all of the way to full acceptance of gay rights by the end of the episo.
DEIDRE HALL ON OFFICIATG DAYTIME TV'S FIRST GAY WEDDG
" Roc posns the fight for gay rights as on a ntuum wh all other civil rights battl, and that was somethg few other elements of pop culture were alg wh at the time.