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10 MILTONE MOMENTS GAY TV HISTORY

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To celebrate this tone queer visibily, we looked back over the past three s and round up the 30 most inic LGBTQ characters TV history, om loveable gay uple Mchell and Cameron to trans trailblazers like Sophia Burset.

Disney Channel seri Andi Mack ma history last year when featured s first ever openly gay character on the work.

Ellen – and her character – me out as gay durg the fourth season of her self-tled s. After the episo aired, the show was renewed for one more season but was subsequently ncelled for beg “too gay”. Even though Jack McFarland’s character has received a mixed receptn for perpetuatg gay stereotyp, he’s one of the longt nng and most inic queer characters on televisn, appearg ten seasons and 188 episos of Will & Grace to date.

14 TV SHOWS THAT BROKE GROUND WH GAY AND TRANSGENR CHARACTERS

Longtime TV cric Dan Avery charts the history of gay, queer, and transgenr reprentatn popular Amerin seri om 1971 to today, om Ellen to Pose. * first gay character in a tv show *

He was the first gay man to kiss another man on work TV, and was one of the only ma gay characters on our screens the 90s.

Mark Inlito has gone on rerd to say that he received a lot of fan mail for his portrayal, wh young gay kids ‘thankg’ him bee they’d never seen themselv reprented on televisn before. Bee he’s gay, he’s often unrtimated by other characters, pecially men. Seth MacFarlane origally outled an episo which the fan-favoure character me out, but he scrapped , but later admted that Stewie is “almost certaly gay”.

He’s unniably one of the most popular gay characters TV history, and showed dienc that gay people uld be multi-faceted. Tara’s ath the show’s sixth cycle led to wispread backlash among fans, who acced creator Joss Whedon of beg homophobic (so stupid). Xena wasn’t explicly gay.

TV'S GAY CHARACTERS, BEFORE AND AFTER ELLEN

In an terview wh Lbian News magaze, Lucy Lawls said their relatnship was ‘fely gay’. Buy the latt issue of Gay Tim. 1/48CBS1971: All the FayAll the Fay ma LGBT history when troduced the first gay character primetime 1971, revealg that Archie Bunker's bar buddy Steve was gay.

The movie is noted for pictg homosexualy a sympathetic—read: normal—light.

LBGTQ TV: A HISTORY OF GAY CHARACTERS, OM STONEWALL TO ‘BATWOMAN’

4/48YouTube1975: Hot l BalmoreThe Norman Lear s starrg Jam Cromwell, Charlotte Rae and Conchata Ferrell had perhaps the first pictn of a gay uple on an Amerin TV seri.

The character was divisive at the time—early plots had him wantg to bee a woman, he dated several women—but ultimately he was primetime TV's first gay dad. 8/48FOX1991: RocOne of Fox's first shows, Roc, was the first to have a gay weddg on TV.

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A Brief Timele of Disney's 17 'First Gay Characters' .

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