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FRIENDS: LA SCèNE DU MARIAGE GAY CENSURéE PAR NBC
Jt four FayMorn Fay ma great stris givg Ameri a gay uple that they uld not jt love, but one that they uld relate to. " Kev and Stty's weddg was a landmark moment for gay marriage on work ble, as "Prr Commtments" was the first same-sex marriage held between seri regulars on a work TV show, acrdg to Rollg 's AnatomyAfter seasons of pullg for the "" uple of Grey's Anatomy, Derek and Meredh, Grey's dienc were given a new uple to root for: Callie and Arizona. Carol and San were probably the most high-profile lbian characters on televisn at the time, although neher actrs are gay real life.
As a recent news em volvg a squashed gay-themed storyle remds , Friends is still really, really homophobic. Acrdg to a newly published look behd the scen of the smash s, Generatn Friends: An Insi Look at the Show that Defed a Televisn Era, the show's wrers pched a B-plot which Chandler Bg (Matthew Perry) sneaks to a gay bar, not for the queer mrarie or the love of ABBA songs but bee he lik the tablishment's tuna melts.
The male characters on Friends showed a noted disfort and disda toward LGBTQ+ people durg s 10 seasons -- om Chandler's aversn to his transgenr parent (played by Kathleen Turner, still slayg the role) to a particular episo which Ross (David Schwimmer) sists his male nanny mt be anytime LGBTQ+ people are brought up through the show, 's played for lghs -- whether 's the nng joke that people thk Chandler is gay or an episo where Joey (Matt Leblanc) nvc an actg stunt who he is petg for a role on All My Children to play the character "homosexually. "In perhaps the most on-the-nose pictn of s tenncy toward gay panic for cheap lghs, Joey and Ross eak out the seventh season of Friends after they accintally fall asleep together on the uch. "While would be easy to dismiss Friends as a product of s time, many of s ntemporari were well ahead on LGBTQ+ reprentatn -- om Blanche (Rue McClanahan) learng to embrace her gay brother on The Goln Girlsto the groundbreakg same-sex weddg Roseanne.
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Intertgly, when creators David Kffman and Mara Kffman reflected on the storyl they regret, neher of them mentned the show's homophobic history. Acrdg to Gay Star News, Kffman explaed how the stud feared they’d receive hundreds of plats bee of the episo.
How often do most gay men watch porn – and for how long? Too often homosexualy was played for lghs, yet s send season was one of the first US ss to show a same-sex weddg – and featured real-life gay rights activist Candace Ggrich s embrace of the aggrsively normal s storytellg, was able to expand the spectm of normalcy – Sl AterlzIt tackled thgs clumsily – but did tackle them. Wh each new season, the seri has bee creasgly queer wh stori explorg pansexualy and what means to be gay or transgenr.
Black Monday (Showtime)Inially about the events leadg up to the worst stock market crash history, the seri has expand beyond that, cludg more time spent the world of Andrew Rannells’ closeted gay character, Blair, who is a sham marriage wh Casey Wilson and havg a secret affair wh a polician played by Tuc Watks. Dear Whe People (Netflix)The seri created by Jt Simien pulls the veil back on what many believed was a post-racial world followg the electn of Print Barack Obama, offerg sight to the Black experience as seen through the terlockg stori of several stunts, cludg buddg gay journalist Lnel (DeRon Horton), attendg the fict, predomantly whe Ivy League school Wchter Universy.