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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 on national tv *

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.

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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”.

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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.

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When was the first gay TV seri? A short history of LGBT+ reprentatn .

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