24 years later, we explore why the gay character behd the first male-on-male kiss to air on Amerin primetime TV has all but vanished.
Contents:
- 'THAT '90S SHOW' VIEWERS TORN OVER GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX SPOFF
- LOOKG BACK ON THE HISTORIC GAY ‘THAT 70S SHOW’ STORYLE THAT SHOULD’VE BEEN
- 2 ‘BRADY BUNCH’ ACTORS PLAYED A GAY COUPLE A GROOVY S
- ‘THAT 70S SHOW’ SPOFF HAS A GAY MA CHARACTER
- FLASHBACK: 'THAT '70S SHOW'S VERY SPECIAL GAY EPISO DO NOT AGE WELL
- GAY SEX THE '70S
'THAT '90S SHOW' VIEWERS TORN OVER GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX SPOFF
"That '70s Show" has been given the reboot treatment at Netflix, and the s has troduced a new character Ozzie who out as gay. * that 70s show gay couple *
Even back the early-2000s, the landspe wasn’t so open wh gay upl. They did show up on shows on ocsn, but was always about how “gay” they were. That ‘70s Show cleverly played on this joke by prentg a gay uple to the most redneck kd of person on the show: Red Forman.
The joke, however, was how Red had no problem wh their orientatn, which showed he was a soft person unrneath and how gay upl should be treated as a sual matter. In realy, Buddy was gay and had a major csh on Eric. Due to Eric's nstant talk about his plited relatnship wh Donna Pctti, Buddy thought that Eric might also be gay.
Grace's character, of urse, wasn't gay and acted plete shock.
LOOKG BACK ON THE HISTORIC GAY ‘THAT 70S SHOW’ STORYLE THAT SHOULD’VE BEEN
* that 70s show gay couple *
The 1998 kiss om the actors occurred jt mere months before another gay kiss on Dawson's Creek.
It wasn't the first gay kiss, however, sce there were several shows prr to That '70s Show that featured a smooch between two female characters.
2 ‘BRADY BUNCH’ ACTORS PLAYED A GAY COUPLE A GROOVY S
More tails are emergg about the 'That 70s Show' spoff tled 'That 90s Show' and there's a gay character. * that 70s show gay couple *
The seri was also set the '70s when many people weren't open to homosexualy, and the suatn was a product of the tim. Lookg to revent herself, Leia starts to realize that through new iendships and adventur she may be able to do jt that Pot Place, jt like her parents did all those years before viewers appeared divid by LGBTQ reprentatn the show, cludg character Ozzie (Reyn Doi) who out as gay durg the first season.
" In the first season, Ozzie me out as gay. In That '90s Show, Ozzie is out and proud wh his clost iends, namely Leia, her neighbor Gwen (Ashley Aufrhei), Gwen's brother Nate (Maxwell Acee Donovan), and his girliend Nikki (Sam Morelos) is also another sweet moment the first season, where Ozzie tells Kty about his sexualy and asks her if she was "okay" wh the fact that he is gay, to which she rponds that of urse she is okay wh , and giv him a storyle and the cln of a gay character has been hailed as groundbreakg, wh Canadian LGBTQ publitn In Magaze sayg Ozzie "leads the charge for a wele change reprentatn" ss.
Reflectg on the show as a whole, one viewer said they "love the cln of a gay character, " while another hailed the scene which Kty reacted to Ozzie tellg her that he is viewer wrote: "THE SCENE WHEN OZZIE ASKED KITTY IF SHES OK WITH HIM BEING GAY & KITTY BEING SO ACCEPTING OF IT IS MAKING ME HAPPY CRY [sic]"THE SCENE WHEN OZZIE ASKED KITTY IF SHES OK WITH HIM BEING GAY & KITTY BEING SO ACCEPTING OF IT IS MAKING ME HAPPY CRY????? #That90sShow— ✨?✨ (@toriimariaa) January 19, 2023. Is believable there would be a gay teenager who's out to his iends and they're jt ok wh WISCONSIN of all plac the 1990s?!
‘THAT 70S SHOW’ SPOFF HAS A GAY MA CHARACTER
"We Will Rock You" is the eighteenth episo of the eighth season of That '70s Show, and the one-hundred-nety-sixth episo overall. It aired on May 4, 2006. Jackie tri to sce Fez wh dis; Kty and Red learn that their new neighbors are gay. Mila Kunis as Jackie Burkhart Danny... * that 70s show gay couple *
Well I'll take a normal teenage life for a gay kid on TV over hate crime storyl"Look I love reprentatn but like #That90sShow...
Well I'll take a normal teenage life for a gay kid on TV over hate crime storyl— ?ℝ?? (@krztophr) January 19, 2023. Some viewers also bated the character of Leia, wh one viewer sayg was "a sad realy" that she was unlikely to be gay bee the show already featured Ozzie. Pl the one gay character on the show is one of the most annoyg characters i've ever seen"my roommate is makg me watch that 90s show and they aren’t lbians???
FLASHBACK: 'THAT '70S SHOW'S VERY SPECIAL GAY EPISO DO NOT AGE WELL
Former "Brady Bunch" brothers Chris Knight and Barry Williams are breakg the Brady mold by portrayg gay lovers on Fox TV's "That '70s Show." * that 70s show gay couple *
Pl the one gay character on the show is one of the most annoyg characters i’ve ever seen— raven (@lbian_fabray) January 20, 2023.
A mory of Twter ers cricized the show for even cludg one gay character, claimg Netflix had ma That '90s Show "woke. "One person wrote: "#That90sShow Hate How @flix gave to the woke agenda wh the 'gay' kid character ? talk about g a show.. "#That90sShow Hate How @flix gave to the woke agenda wh the "gay" kid character ? talk about g a show..
GAY SEX THE '70S
Some viewers may have fotten that That '70s Show actually ma history when me to gay reprentatn on Amerin televisn, as was the first to feature a kiss between two male characters on North Amerin primetime the show's but season, Joseph Gordon-Levt, a meo as Buddy Man "Eric's Buddy, " was a lab partner of Topher Grace's bondg all episo and startg to believe that Eric might also be gay, Buddy cid to kiss his classmate. While was highly ntroversial, the late ’90s and 2000s saw a rise gay rol on TV shows and movi that troduced dienc to a realy too many were pretendg to ny.