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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.
10 MILTONE MOMENTS GAY TV HISTORY
"Can't Help" is chock full of the sorts of easy gay jok that typified a lot of '90s edi featurg gay characters. At one pot, Andrew sists that he didn't thk black people uld be gay, bee they weren't scend om "sissy" Europeans. 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. " 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.
'THE FOSTERS' TO AIR TV'S FIRST GAY WEDDG SCE DOMA
Beg homophobic is simple when you don't know any gay people. It's far more plited when your own brother or uncle is gay.
Jt four FayMorn Fay ma great stris givg Ameri a gay uple that they uld not jt love, but one that they uld relate to.
DEIDRE HALL ON OFFICIATG DAYTIME TV'S FIRST GAY WEDDG
" Kev and Stty's weddg was a landmark moment for gay marriage on work ble, as "Prr Commtments" was the first same-sex marriage held between seri regulars on a work TV show, acrdg to Rollg 's AnatomyAfter seasons of pullg for the "" uple of Grey's Anatomy, Derek and Meredh, Grey's dienc were given a new uple to root for: Callie and Arizona. In the years sce All the Fay troduced the first gay character primetime TV, there's now Pose, an acclaimed FX drama featurg the most transgenr seri regulars ever. The new acclaimed edy, created by and starrg O'Connell, is semi-tobgraphil and follows a gay man wh cerebral palsy.