First look at Netflix's That '90s Show, cludg gay character - Queer Forty

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• 'THAT '90S SHOW' VIEWERS TORN OVER GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX SPOFF
• FIRST LOOK AT NETFLIX’S THAT ’90S SHOW, CLUDG GAY CHARACTER
• ‘LAST CALL’ TE STORY: HBO DOC IS ABOUT THE SERIAL KILLER RICHARD ROGERS, WHO TARGETED MANHATTAN’S GAY BARS
• THE GAY 90S
• GAY 90S

'THAT '90S SHOW' VIEWERS TORN OVER GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX SPOFF

Lookg to revent herself, Leia starts to realize that through new iendships and adventur she may be able to do jt that Pot Place, jt like her parents did all those years before viewers appeared divid by LGBTQ reprentatn the show, cludg character Ozzie (Reyn Doi) who out as gay durg the first season. " In the first season, Ozzie me out as gay. In That '90s Show, Ozzie is out and proud wh his clost iends, namely Leia, her neighbor Gwen (Ashley Aufrhei), Gwen's brother Nate (Maxwell Acee Donovan), and his girliend Nikki (Sam Morelos) is also another sweet moment the first season, where Ozzie tells Kty about his sexualy and asks her if she was "okay" wh the fact that he is gay, to which she rponds that of urse she is okay wh , and giv him a storyle and the cln of a gay character has been hailed as groundbreakg, wh Canadian LGBTQ publitn In Magaze sayg Ozzie "leads the charge for a wele change reprentatn" ss.

Reflectg on the show as a whole, one viewer said they "love the cln of a gay character, " while another hailed the scene which Kty reacted to Ozzie tellg her that he is viewer wrote: "THE SCENE WHEN OZZIE ASKED KITTY IF SHES OK WITH HIM BEING GAY & KITTY BEING SO ACCEPTING OF IT IS MAKING ME HAPPY CRY [sic]"THE SCENE WHEN OZZIE ASKED KITTY IF SHES OK WITH HIM BEING GAY & KITTY BEING SO ACCEPTING OF IT IS MAKING ME HAPPY CRY????? #That90sShow— ✨?✨ (@toriimariaa) January 19, 2023. Is believable there would be a gay teenager who's out to his iends and they're jt ok wh WISCONSIN of all plac the 1990s?! Well I'll take a normal teenage life for a gay kid on TV over hate crime storyl"Look I love reprentatn but like #That90sShow...

FIRST LOOK AT NETFLIX’S THAT ’90S SHOW, CLUDG GAY CHARACTER

Well I'll take a normal teenage life for a gay kid on TV over hate crime storyl— ?ℝ?? (@krztophr) January 19, 2023. Some viewers also bated the character of Leia, wh one viewer sayg was "a sad realy" that she was unlikely to be gay bee the show already featured Ozzie.

Pl the one gay character on the show is one of the most annoyg characters i've ever seen"my roommate is makg me watch that 90s show and they aren’t lbians??? Pl the one gay character on the show is one of the most annoyg characters i’ve ever seen— raven (@lbian_fabray) January 20, 2023. A mory of Twter ers cricized the show for even cludg one gay character, claimg Netflix had ma That '90s Show "woke.

"One person wrote: "#That90sShow Hate How @flix gave to the woke agenda wh the 'gay' kid character ? talk about g a show..

‘LAST CALL’ TE STORY: HBO DOC IS ABOUT THE SERIAL KILLER RICHARD ROGERS, WHO TARGETED MANHATTAN’S GAY BARS

"#That90sShow Hate How @flix gave to the woke agenda wh the "gay" kid character ? talk about g a show.. Some viewers may have fotten that That '70s Show actually ma history when me to gay reprentatn on Amerin televisn, as was the first to feature a kiss between two male characters on North Amerin primetime the show's but season, Joseph Gordon-Levt, a meo as Buddy Man "Eric's Buddy, " was a lab partner of Topher Grace's bondg all episo and startg to believe that Eric might also be gay, Buddy cid to kiss his classmate. Although LGBTQ+ reprentatn the days is much more prevalent among viewers, let's take a look at the 13 characters who reprented the muny durg a time when the topic of beg gay was still a ltle taboo.

His ma storyle was his stggle as a gay man a nservative society. Will & Grace’s succsful eight-season n proved pays off to give screen time to gay characters. Will & Grace’s Jack McFarland loved himself, and he loved beg gay.

When we’re first troduced to Enrique “Rickie” Vasquez on My So-Called Life, he intifi as bi, but later out to iends Angela and Rayanne as gay. Jack McPhee on Dawson’s Creek gave voice to the difficulty of g out as a teen a fay that’s already dysfunctnal and has a whole lot of homophobia to work through. Remember alternate realy Willow om "The Wish" and "Doppelgangland" who Buffyverse realy Willow thought might be “a ltle gay”?

THE GAY 90S

Netflix has released first look imag and a teaser trailer for That ‘90s Show, and featur a gay character! Ozzie is gay and impatient wh the world for not beg as acceptg as his iends.

In May 1990, 35 LGBT activists me together at the London Lbian and Gay Centre Farrgdon, and beme the jot -founrs of OutRage! The activist group was created om the anger at ntual vlence towards the gay muny, particular the murr of Michael Boothe, who was kicked to ath Wt London, and the rise numbers of gay and bisexual men beg arrted and nvicted for nsentg, victimls behavur. The group was mted to radil, non-vlent direct actn and civil disobedience - one of their first protts was June 1990 at the toilets Hy Park, where they protted agast the Metroplan Police and their entrapment of gay men.

- the group anised a ‘kiss-’ at Picdilly Circ, prottg the arrts of gay men for kissg public. Between 1990 and 1994, the number of men nvicted for nsentg gay behavurs fell by two thirds. 1990 also saw the start of the Lbian and Gay Police Associatn (GPA).

GAY 90S

Found by Constable Jam Bradly, the GPA reprented the needs and terts of gay and bisexual police officers and police staff across the UK.

Their objectiv were to: promote equal oppotunti for gay and bisexual men and women the police service; offer advice and support to gay and bisexual men and women the police service; and improve relatns between the police service and the wir gay muny. One of GPA’s most otandg achievements me over a later, 2003, when they persuad Chief Constabl to allow gay Police Officers to march uniform Gay Pri march. Back 1948, the World Health Organisatn (WHO) published the Internatnal Classifitn Of Diseas (ICD-6) which classified homosexualy as a sexual viatn that was prumed to reflect an unrlyg personaly disorr.

It wasn’t until 1992, and the publitn of ICD-10 that homosexualy was removed om the list of mental disorrs, explicy statg that the sexual orientatn by self is not nsired a disorr. In le wh the chang that the WHO ma, other rights for the gay mmuny were beg looked at.