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Contents:
- 14 TV SHOWS THAT BROKE GROUND WH GAY AND TRANSGENR CHARACTERS
- IT'S A S IS AN EMOTNAL TALE OF GAY '80S LONDON: REVIEW
- AS A GAY MAN, THE '80S CRIPPLED MY INTY
14 TV SHOWS THAT BROKE GROUND WH GAY AND TRANSGENR CHARACTERS
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Peter is wily nsired to be the first recurrg gay character to ever appear on televisn; he was so entertag, though, he should’ve been a seri regular. He was one of the first gay men livg wh AIDS to be featured on televisn, and what’s more, his mment ceremony to boyiend Sean Sasser was the first same-sex unn broadst on televisn.
IT'S A S IS AN EMOTNAL TALE OF GAY '80S LONDON: REVIEW
Will & Grace: Created by David Kohan, Max Mutchnick. Wh Eric McCormack, Debra Msg, Megan Mullally, Sean Hay. Gay lawyer Will and straight terr signer Grace share a New York Cy apartment. Their bt iends are gleeful and proud gay Jack and charismatic, filthy-rich, amoral sociale Karen." data-id="ma * gay 80s sitcom *
It marked the first time a character ever publicly clared out loud, “I’m gay, ” on televisn. It undoubtedly paved the way for more gay characters TV as Folk (2000–2005)©Showtime Networks Inc. More notably, though, was the first hour-long Amerin show to foc solely on the liv of LGBTQ+ people, makg one of the most groundbreakg gay TV shows on this & Grace (1998–2006, 2017–2020)AF archive / Alamy Stock PhotoWill & Grace don’t have any firsts, really.
What’s so trailblazg about Will & Grace was how normal was; featured two gay men at the center who were happy, well-adjted, and succsful—for the most part.
It was radil back then—pecially on work TV—to see gay people jt livg their liv whout havg any ternal turmoil about beg gay. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2001)©20thCentFox/Courty Everett CollectnEven though dulg the Bury Your Gays trope, Willow and Tara will forever be a major tone reprentg young lbian upl. To be hont, ’s still rehg 2022—a time when gay TV seri still, for the most part, center characters who are whe, cisgenr, and the World Turns (1956–2010)When Le (Van Hansis) and Noah (Jake Silbermann) smooched a 2007 episo of this long-nng soap opera, ma history as daytime TV’s first gay kiss.
AS A GAY MAN, THE '80S CRIPPLED MY INTY
And while Kurt and Blae weren’t the first teens to kiss on TV, their first kiss 2011 was one of the first queer moments on work TV that felt like an average, everyday Fay (2009–2020)AF archive / Alamy Stock PhotoABC’s ditn to pictg a lovg, nurturg hoehold wh two gay men—Cam (Eric Stontreet) and Mchell (Jse Tyler Fergon)—is what mak Morn Fay so special, even a -pl after s first Is the New Black (2013–2019)©Netflix/Courty Everett CollectnOrange Is the New Black is one of the most diverse TV shows ever, and one of s most imprsive acplishments was lnchg the reer of Laverne Cox as Sophia Burset. “We are thrilled that Pose ph the narrative forward by centerg on the unique and unr-told experienc of trans women and gay people of lor, ” Pose creator Steve Canals said. 16, 2017Last year was a remarkable time when me to the reprentatn of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr or queer regular characters on televisn, acrdg to the latt Glaad report monorg diversy on the small screen.
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1972 — ‘THAT CERTAIN SUMMER’ A divorced father (Hal Holbrook) his his lover (Mart Sheen) om his teenage son Lamont Johnson’s movie for ABC, nsired the first sympathetic pictn of gay people on televisn. Lear had troduced one of the first gay upl on work televisn the short-lived ABC seri “Hot l Baltimore. ”)1977 — ‘SOAP’ In this ABC s, Billy Crystal plays Jodie Dallas — a gay man havg an affair wh a famo quarterback and ntemplatg genr-reassignment surgery — who be one of the first gay dads on televisn.