'That 70s Show' Spoff Has a Gay Ma Character - Gayety

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• 'THAT '90S SHOW' VIEWERS TORN OVER GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX SPOFF
• LOOKG BACK ON THE HISTORIC GAY ‘THAT 70S SHOW’ STORYLE THAT SHOULD’VE BEEN
• ‘THAT 70S SHOW’ SPOFF HAS A GAY MA CHARACTER
• FLASHBACK: 'THAT '70S SHOW'S VERY SPECIAL GAY EPISO DO NOT AGE WELL

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

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. 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.

LOOKG BACK ON THE HISTORIC GAY ‘THAT 70S SHOW’ STORYLE THAT SHOULD’VE BEEN

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...

Well I'll take a normal teenage life for a gay kid on TV over hate crime storyl— ?ℝ?? (@krztophr) January 19, 2023.

‘THAT 70S SHOW’ SPOFF HAS A GAY MA CHARACTER

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.

FLASHBACK: 'THAT '70S SHOW'S VERY SPECIAL GAY EPISO DO NOT AGE WELL

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.. "#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. 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.

The seri was also set the '70s when many people weren't open to homosexualy, and the suatn was a product of the tim. 24 years later, the show aired on is seeg a rurgence, but the gay character volved this historic first is nowhere to be found.

Reactns supposedly ranged om the typil overt homophobia to disfort wh Eric’s reactn to this kiss, as well as some feelg that the character’s queerns was played for lghs. The seri didn’t see another gay character until a pair of neighbors eight seasons later, and even Jeff and Josh were mostly ic relief characters meant to make Eric’s straight-laced father Red unfortable.

Meanwhile, upg sequel seri That ’90s Show has already announced a gay character as part of the ma iend group.

While the show is still pre-productn, we are already gettg to meet the st, which featur a gay ma character this time around. In the origal show, the only LGBTQ character was one of Eric’s gay classmat, who was played by Joseph Gordon Levt. “Ozzie is gay and impatient wh the world for not beg as acceptg as his iends.