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NEARLY TWO S LATER, 'DAWSON'S CREEK' ACTOR REFLECTS ON HISTORIC GAY KISS
Dawson and Joey have been bt iends sce childhood and their relatnship is changg as they're startg their sophomore year of high school. Sophomor[]. When Jack is harassed school, Dawson is there for Joey and tri to help her and Joey seeks out Dawson for fort when Jack has told her that he's gay.
After Doug breaks up the party and the gang ss jail, Dawson tells Joey that she nnot be his keeper and Jack nfs to Kate that he's gay.
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.