© Liverpool Daily Post and Echo Workg on the Pri and Prejudice project means that I spend a lot of my time thkg about the story of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans people Liverpool.
Contents:
- WHEN WAS THE FIRST GAY TV SERI? EXPLORG THE HISTORY OF LGBT+ REPRENTATN ON THE SMALL SCREEN
- LGBT REPRENTATN ON TV THROUGH THE AG – OM EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY KISS TO TRANSGENR SUPERHERO
- GROUNDBREAKG ON-SCREEN GAY KISS THROUGH HISTORY
- ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
WHEN WAS THE FIRST GAY TV SERI? EXPLORG THE HISTORY OF LGBT+ REPRENTATN ON THE SMALL SCREEN
For most of TV history, gay characters have been absent or the butt of a joke, but there are a few posive exampl of early reprentatn. * first gay kiss brookside *
I am proud that we got the ntract that Beth would always stay gay; wasn’t bee of her sexual abe. Lbian and gay characters have appeared on our TV screens fairly regularly sce. The arrival of two gay characters EastEnrs 1987 (one played by Stonewall founr Michael Cashman) prompted the headle EastBenrs The Sun.
LGBT REPRENTATN ON TV THROUGH THE AG – OM EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY KISS TO TRANSGENR SUPERHERO
* first gay kiss brookside *
While reprentatn of gay characters TV seri has e a long way the last uple of s, has been a pafully slow procs to get to this pot. When did the first gay character appear on TV?
In 1971, the year after the first-ever Pri para the US and when homosexualy was still nsired a disorr, All the Fay beme the first Amerin s to show a gay character on TV, only s fifth episo. The episo subverted gay stereotyp, as Archie Bunker mocks a man who he nsirs effemate, but turns out to be straight. It is later revealed that his macho, football-lovg drkg buddy Steve is actually gay.
The gay character Peter Panama, played by Vcent Schiavelli, the US TV seri The Corner Bar. A year later, 1972, US s The Corner Bar clud the first-ever gay seri regular on Amerin TV. Rich Wanl, then-print of the Gay Activists Alliance, lled Peter “the worst stereotype of a gay person I’ve ever seen”.
GROUNDBREAKG ON-SCREEN GAY KISS THROUGH HISTORY
The moment where two male characters kissed on Byker Grove went down history as one of the first time g out as gay was explored storyl on televisn * first gay kiss brookside *
While most early gay characters were siled, not given their own storyl or love terts, eventually same-sex upl began appearg on TV. Durg the same year as The Corner Bar, Atralia also saw s first gay seri regular – Don Flayson portrayed Joe Hasham on the serial Number 96 between 1972 and 1977. In 1975 ABC’s Hot l Baltimore featured the first gay uple on US work televisn.
Gee and Gordon, played by Lee Bergere and Henry Calvert, were a middle-aged gay uple that appeared on the show, which was so ntroversial that was dropped by the work after six months on air. It wasn’t until 1981 that a TV show wh a gay lead character was shown on primetime US televisn, when NBC’s Love, Sidney aired. However the show’s tular character Sidney Shorr, a sgle gay man, remas the closet for every one of the 40 episos.
ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
The UK trailed behd s LGBT+ TV reprentatn, and an openly gay character was not shown on TV until 1985, when the Liverpool-based soap Brooksi troduced Gordon Colls, played by Nigel Cowley.
In the UK, Eastenrs broadst the first gay kiss between Col Rsell (Michael Cashman) and his partner Barry Clark (Gary Hail) first kiss between two women on a UK TV seri was aired 1994. IAN: Gordon and Chris were an openly gay uple which back 1986 was nsired highly ntroversial and was at the time when the threat of AIDS started loomg s head. STIFYN: The productn was very clever wh our storyl, and cid not to give any ‘gay ’storyl for the 1st year, until the dience got to know , and had passn and re for .