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Contents:

• FAL FANTASY XVI’S GAY ROMANCE DISAPPOTS
• GAY KISS STOCK VIOS
• GAY KISS
• TV’S HISTORIC GAY KISS: FROM ‘DAWSON’S CREEK’ TO ‘THE FOSTERS’
• LGBT REPRENTATN ON TV THROUGH THE AG – OM EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY KISS TO TRANSGENR SUPERHERO

FAL FANTASY XVI’S GAY ROMANCE DISAPPOTS

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GAY KISS STOCK VIOS

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But the fact that Square Enix feels gun-shy the most timate moments of the game’s gay relatnship is a symptom of a larger issue.

HBO/Foc Featur/HuluEven 2023, ’s still not entirely mon for movi and TV shows to promently feature scen between two gay men kissg. There are still a lot of nservativ who fight back agast the characters, storyl, and scen – which is upsettg, but very an effort to celebrate the moments, we’ve put together a list featurg some of our favore gay kissg scen om film and televisn.

GAY KISS

1987’s Mrice featured a very subtle and tentative – but still inic – gay kiss between Clive (Hugh Grant) and Mrice (Jam Wilby) durg a time when queer romance wasn’t at all somethg we expected to see on the big screen. HuluNoah (Joel Kim Booster) really wanted to be an pennt gay guy jt havg fun 2022’s Fire Island, but he didn’t foree fallg love wh Will (Conrad Rimora) while tryg to party up.

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TV’S HISTORIC GAY KISS: FROM ‘DAWSON’S CREEK’ TO ‘THE FOSTERS’

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". Televison shows like How to Get Away wh Murr, Empire, Fakg It, and Morn Fay are workg diligently toward normalizg the display of gay affectn.

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LGBT REPRENTATN ON TV THROUGH THE AG – OM EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY KISS TO TRANSGENR SUPERHERO

Brothers & Sisters In the first season of ABC drama Brothers & Sisters, gay character Kev (Matthew Rhys) locked lips wh Stty (Le Macfarlane) 2006. Although this was not the first gay kiss on work televisn, Kev was one of the few major gay characters on TV at that time. Wh that over wh, now there have been plenty of kiss sce and a same-sex weddg, of Our LivAlthough late to the party, NBC's Days of Our Liv aired s first gay kiss 2012, between Will (Chandler Massey) and Neil (Jse Kristofferson).