From gay pirat and lbian baseball players to queer vampir and ballroom legends, this was a hugely entertag year for LGBTQ+ TV.
Contents:
- HOW GAY UPL TV MERCIALS BEME A MASTREAM PHENOMENON
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
HOW GAY UPL TV MERCIALS BEME A MASTREAM PHENOMENON
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We got to watch gay pirat, lbian baseball players, and a whole msolm’s worth of queer vampir. — Samantha AllenOur Flag Means Death (HBO Max)Shownner David Jenks raised the qutn “What if the most famo pirate history was gay?
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS
It also shows how harmful homophobia is, but wh a gentle touch — and ’s thartic. The appropriately Southern Gothic-ized monster story is fiantly queer (this is the gay sex Harry Styl warned you about), but s pictn of doomed gay love is also boldly unialized.
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Gay ’s gonna be. ” Bobby I Love You, Purrr, the Zs Network’s gay take on The Bachelor, prov that while that this isn’t entirely te, thgs n still get msy the bt way possible. However, that particular subgenre of horror also l the match that sparked the “Bury Your Gays” trope.
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
And yet, for s, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer people rarely ever saw displays of affectn. It may appear quat now, when we have TV seri like Hulu’s Love, Victor (about a Latx teen explorg sexual fluidy) or Netflix’s Bondg (about sex work and alternative sexualy), but the great gay panic set off by Ellen DeGener g out on her s 1997 was a bombshell that didn’t necsarily nvce the works that they’d open the gat to LGBTQ experienc.
Luckily Will & Grace buted 1998 and the groundbreakg NBC seri nvced many that gay people might not be so toxic (and wouldn’t sre off advertisers) — so much so that Vice Print Joe Bin later creded wh changg his md about same-sex marriage. Dpe the fact that lns of Amerins wnsed two men raise a happy and healthy dghter om the fort of their livg room sofas, took a fan mpaign to lobby Disney-owned ABC to fally allow Mchell (gay actor Jse Tyler Fergon) and Cameron (straight actor Eric Stontreet) to kiss ( fally happened 2010).
For years, ranged, perverse, and spible homosexuals were on full display — pecially om Ryan Murphy, who remas our most proment culture czar when to queer characters on TV. But he’s also supplied at least one murro (ghostly) gay man on Amerin Horror Story and too many crazi on Nip/Tuck to unt. From the Roy Cohn-flected Army-McCarthy heargs — which was the first time many people heard the word “homosexual” uttered on TV — through the “don’t ask, don’t tell” Neti, that clud The Goln Girls and Digng Women, to our current glter-and-glam era of RuPl’s Drag Race and almost-anythg-go pansexualy.