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Univisn ma history this week when aired<a href="; target="external"> a same-sex weddg</a> on the telenovela "Amor Verdaros" ("Te Lov"). It's the first weddg of s kd (the, you know, same-sex kd) to be aired on the work. * first gay character on american tv *

1/48CBS1971: All the FayAll the Fay ma LGBT history when troduced the first gay character primetime 1971, revealg that Archie Bunker's bar buddy Steve was gay. The movie is noted for pictg homosexualy a sympathetic—read: normal—light.

4/48YouTube1975: Hot l BalmoreThe Norman Lear s starrg Jam Cromwell, Charlotte Rae and Conchata Ferrell had perhaps the first pictn of a gay uple on an Amerin TV seri. The character was divisive at the time—early plots had him wantg to bee a woman, he dated several women—but ultimately he was primetime TV's first gay dad.

8/48FOX1991: RocOne of Fox's first shows, Roc, was the first to have a gay weddg on TV. In a "very special episo, " Roc fds out his uncle is gay and has a partner. 10/481992: One Life to LiveIn 1992, the world met One Life to Live's Billy Douglas, played by a young Ryan Phillippe, the first gay teen character on daytime TV.

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12/48ABC1994: My So-Called LifeWhile One Life to Live had s first gay teen 1992, primetime's first openly gay teen seri regular character me to My So-Called Life's Enrique "Rickie" Vasquez, played by Wilson Cz. Pedro was openly gay and HIV-posive.

15/481997: Ellen"The Puppy Episo" of Ellen featured Ellen Man (Ellen DeGener) g out as gay, the same time the star me out on the ver of Time magaze, makg Ellen the first show to feature an openly lbian actrs playg an openly lbian character. 18/48WB1999: Dawson's CreekWhile lbian kiss beme a ratgs ploy for shows, TV's first "romantic" gay kiss didn't happen until 1999 on The WB. 22/48CBS2007: As the World TurnsMen were kissg primetime long before daytime fally got on board, but the soaps ught up 2007 when As the World Turns featured the first-ever gay kiss between two male characters, Le Snyr (Van Hansis) and Noah Mayer (Jake Silbermann).

23/48CBS2008: Rachel MaddowThe MSNBC anchor beme the first openly gay anchor of a primetime program on a major news work. (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.

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"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.

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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. 1992 — Billy Douglas (Ryan Phillippe), One Life to Live (ABC) Ryan Phillippe, One Life to Live | Network TV's first gay high schooler (played by a teenage Ryan Phillippe), me out to dispel mors that he was beg molted by the town's… Cred: ABC Network TV's first gay high schooler (played by a teenage Ryan Phillippe) me out to dispel mors that he was beg molted by the town's passnate pastor.

'' Advertisement Advertisement 1994 — Rickie Vasquez (Wilson Cz), My So-Called Life (ABC) My So-Called Life | ''I still receive emails and msag om people disverg the show, '' says Cz, who played primetime's first gay teenager on My So-Called Life 17 years… Cred: ABC/Getty Imag ''I still receive emails and msag om people disverg the show, '' said Wilson Cz, who played primetime's first gay teenager on My So-Called Life 1994. My biggt fear is that I'll have this g out story, and then I'll jt sort of gradually bee the gay character the background.

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