Gay Teens on TV: A Timele |

Contents:

• NBC’S HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA FEATUR FIRST GAY TEEN KISS, PLANS FOR ABORTN
• NBC’S HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA FEATUR FIRST GAY TEEN KISS, PLANS FOR ABORTN
• THERE'S CONTROVERSY OVER THAT GAY TEEN KISS ON 'THE FOSTERS'
• GAY TEENS ON TV: A TIMELE

NBC’S HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA FEATUR FIRST GAY TEEN KISS, PLANS FOR ABORTN

Growg up Hawaii, was different, was a b isolated, I didn’t have a lot of gay iends, I didn’t have any gay iends actually.

I didn’t really know anybody who was gay but I knew that I was gay. We went through middle school to high school together and I fely had a csh on him, I jt never really, was jt like I really liked him, I didn’t know if he was gay, we never talked about , I never even let that part of me really out. We were on dance teams together, I gus I should have known he was gay then, but, we were on dance teach together, we ran track, we did a lot of sports together so I was always sleepg over at his hoe, and there would be tim that I would be over there spendg the night wishg somethg would happen, anythg, a kiss, jt him tellg me, like, you know, high school boy’s fantasy I gus.

I would say was a uple weeks before I moved to Geia, was the summer after my sophomore year of high school and I stayed at his hoe jt as a kd of a last hoorah. As the only out young gay kid at my school, I took the advancement of my sexual experienc to my own hands and I did what we all do: I bought a fake ID and h the gay clubs. While I knew wouldn’t be like a gay llege eroti I’d read on (gay non, really), I rather naively wasn’t expectg the fall out.

NBC’S HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA FEATUR FIRST GAY TEEN KISS, PLANS FOR ABORTN

I realize I fell to that old gay adage of placg my feelgs on a person who, for whatever reason, was never gog to vt them back me. Worst of all, though, the shame attached to the memori of those first tim marred how I would approach sex for was listeng to Years & Years’ new song “Sanctify, ” and seeg the band’s out gay sger Olly Alexanr talk about how the song was spired his sexual trysts wh straight men, that I realized that the feelgs are way more mon than people let on.

Sure, I know all about gay guys havg sex wh straight guys, but felt reassurg to see him scribe the “sat and sner role” he embodied durg those experienc, and to hear the uncertaty and melancholy weaved to the than anythg though, was the repeated lyril mantra of “I won’t be ashamed.

THERE'S CONTROVERSY OVER THAT GAY TEEN KISS ON 'THE FOSTERS'

We’ve seen the gay plot pot between Simon and Jeremy buildg sce the first episo, but was still shockg to see play out, nohels. It’s fely the first time I’ve ever seen such an explic kiss between two homosexual mors on work televisn, but apparently 's happened a few tim before on Fox and ABC. Remember, this is Simon who, episo one, didn’t want to play a gay character the school’s ntroversial play “Sprg Awakeng” bee he wanted to honor his Catholic fah.

It was the youngt gay kiss TV history.

GAY TEENS ON TV: A TIMELE

"We are here to tell the te stori of what is to grow up and the are te stori of what is to grow up as a young, potentially gay person. " Although he admted his hatn as a straight male, Byerly told the Daily Beast he me to terms wh filmg the gay kiss bee of the impact uld have for viewers of the show, particularly for the LGBT muny. "I want people to watch the show and see the stggle that Ju go though and feel more fortable about themselv; to feel like don’t matter whether you are gay or straight or bisexual or transgenr or whatever you are, that you are happy wh who you are, and that you are acceptg of yourself.