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- NEARLY TWO S LATER, 'DAWSON'S CREEK' ACTOR REFLECTS ON HISTORIC GAY KISS
- DAWSON'S CREEK: INSI THE GROUNDBREAKG CISN TO HAVE JACK E OUT AS GAY
NEARLY TWO S LATER, 'DAWSON'S CREEK' ACTOR REFLECTS ON HISTORIC GAY KISS
The recent release of Dawson’s Creek on Netflix Canada is nveniently timed, sce 2020 marks two s sce the show’s groundbreakg kiss between gay characters Jack McPhee (Kerr Smh) and Ethan Brody (Adam Kfman). The show’s season 3 fale, “Te Love,” which aired May 2000, saw Jack travelg to Ethan’s llege Boston to profs his love to him. Stgglg to fd the right words, Jack clar “I want to show you that I n, and that I’m not aaid to… oh hell… this,” before kissg Ethan. * jack gay dawson's creek *
But bis troducg viewers to an arguably excciatg ma character, the WB show also gave viewers one of the most inic moments televisn history back 2000: primetime TV’s first “passnate” gay 20 years later, Kerr Smh, who played Jack McPhee on the teen drama, reflected on the impact of that kiss an terview wh Too Fab. The storyle ends heartbreak — Ethan has got back together wh his ex-boyiend and don’t reciprote Jack’s feelgs — but history was ma “Dawson’s Creek, ” Will and Jack kissed on NBC’s “Will and Grace” to prott the fact that they had never seen two gay men kiss on televisn, and a few other shows, cludg “LA Law” and “Relativy” featured two women kissg. In the 1996 “Friends” episo “The One Wh the Lbian Weddg, ” for stance, the seri did not show San and Carol kissg at their own weddg a rult, McPhee said he felt a “huge” rponsibily to play Jack thentilly after Kev Williamson, the creator of “Dawson’s Creek, ” approached him wh the storyl of Jack’s g out and the Jack dated Joey (Katie Holm) earlier episos, Smh said Williamson “always had the tentn of makg one of his characters gay.
”“He was still the closet at that pot too, and every character 'Dawson's Creek' is an extensn of Kev Williamson, " Smh told Too Berlanti, the openly gay wrer, producer and director behd hs, such as “Chillg Adventur of Sabra” and “You, ” mostly wrote Jack’s character arc, acrdg to Smh. “Riverdale” also clus a gay character, Kev (Casey Cott), whom Smh likened to Jack on “Dawson’s Creek. ” Kev, too, ma history as the first openly gay character Archie Comics to LGBTQ televisn reprentatn, however, there’s still room for improvement, acrdg to LGBTQ advot.
DAWSON'S CREEK: INSI THE GROUNDBREAKG CISN TO HAVE JACK E OUT AS GAY
Rememberg the beloved character and his historic gay kiss…. The recent release of Dawson’s Creek on Netflix Canada is nveniently timed, sce 2020 marks two s sce the show’s groundbreakg kiss between gay characters Jack McPhee (Kerr Smh) and Ethan Brody (Adam Kfman). ” His character and storyl served as a meangful exploratn of issu and stggl faced by gay men – and queer muni more broadly – many of which are still relevant now.
Although Jack was troduced as a love tert for Joey, he out as gay Episo 15 of Season 2, after which he and Joey choose to rema iends. What mak Jack particularly valuable is the way that his flaws, stggl, and growth speak to mon issu faced by young gay men. Through Jack, Dawson’s Creek provid an sightful and nuanced reflectn on major issu queer culture, particularly the way that his story explored problems wh ternalized homophobia and femmephobia, as well as healthy growth and velopment surroundg the issu.
Shortly after Jack out as gay, he has a fight wh Joey that forhadows the issu that he will end up nontg through the rt of the show. In the season 2 episo “Psychic Friends, ” Joey flirts wh a photographer (Nick Stabile) only to fd out that he is gay. She mak a passg ment about how she should have realized that he was gay bee he pared her to Madonna and Marilyn Monroe.