Eric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. He has major league aspiratns, but his path has been much lonelier than he would prefer.
Contents:
- FLASHBACK: 'THAT '70S SHOW'S VERY SPECIAL GAY EPISO DO NOT AGE WELL
- 'THAT '90S SHOW' VIEWERS TORN OVER GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX SPOFF
FLASHBACK: 'THAT '70S SHOW'S VERY SPECIAL GAY EPISO DO NOT AGE WELL
"That '70s Show" has been given the reboot treatment at Netflix, and the s has troduced a new character Ozzie who out as gay. * eric gay that 70s show *
In realy, Buddy was gay and had a major csh on Eric. Due to Eric's nstant talk about his plited relatnship wh Donna Pctti, Buddy thought that Eric might also be gay.
Grace's character, of urse, wasn't gay and acted plete shock. The 1998 kiss om the actors occurred jt mere months before another gay kiss on Dawson's Creek.
It wasn't the first gay kiss, however, sce there were several shows prr to That '70s Show that featured a smooch between two female characters.
'THAT '90S SHOW' VIEWERS TORN OVER GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX SPOFF
The seri was also set the '70s when many people weren't open to homosexualy, and the suatn was a product of the tim. While was highly ntroversial, the late ’90s and 2000s saw a rise gay rol on TV shows and movi that troduced dienc to a realy too many were pretendg to ny.
Nohels, Gordon Levt and Topher Grace are the first men to a part of a gay scene on screens That ’70s Show, although the potentially screen-breakg LGBTQ story arc was scrapped, and only one character was gay. Some chalk up to oppos attract while others are bummed that Eric’s storyle wasn’t adjted to a more proment portrayal of the gay muny wh Buddy who has a lot mon wh him.
Some would’ve preferred Eric choose Buddy over Donna bee they seem to have a lot more chemistry the episo, while some would have liked to at least see more of Buddy and what uld’ve been store for him as a gay character the ’70s. I didn’t remember the ep, so I settled over my cereal, not realizg I was revisg a groundbreakg moment gay reprentatn on televisn. Achievg this televisn landmark has won “Eric’s Buddy” retroactive love onle, wh several s rememberg the episo as “normalizg” a gay kiss, mendg Eric for not reactg wh gay panic, and crowg that Buddy was “always shown as a plete person and not a stereotype.