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Contents:
- 'THAT '90S SHOW' VIEWERS TORN OVER GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX SPOFF
- FIRST LOOK AT NETFLIX’S THAT ’90S SHOW, CLUDG GAY CHARACTER
- GAY PRI REMAS COMPLITED ON THAT '90S SHOW
- THAT ’90S SHOW’S TEEN STAR REYN DOI STEALS THE SHOW AS GAY CHARACTER OZZIE
- THAT ’90S SHOW GAY CHARACTER OZZIE IS BREAKG NEW GROUND FOR S REPRENTATN
- ‘THAT 70S SHOW’ SPOFF HAS A GAY MA CHARACTER
'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. * the 90s show gay character *
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.
FIRST LOOK AT NETFLIX’S THAT ’90S SHOW, CLUDG GAY CHARACTER
A character named Ozzie appears as one of the ma members of the young st That ‘90s Show. He brgs a new perspective to a anchise that didn’t exactly portray gay characters a wele light prevly. Ozzie is played by actor Reyn Doi and n be seen as an outlier much to the same gree that Wilmer Valrrama’s Fez was That ‘70s Show. * the 90s show gay character *
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?! 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.
GAY PRI REMAS COMPLITED ON THAT '90S SHOW
The gayt s of the may not have been 'Ellen' or 'Will & Grace.' * the 90s show gay character *
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???
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.
THAT ’90S SHOW’S TEEN STAR REYN DOI STEALS THE SHOW AS GAY CHARACTER OZZIE
More tails are emergg about the 'That 70s Show' spoff tled 'That 90s Show' and there's a gay character. * the 90s show gay character *
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..
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.
Although LGBTQ+ reprentatn the days is much more prevalent among viewers, let's take a look at the 13 characters who reprented the muny durg a time when the topic of beg gay was still a ltle taboo. His ma storyle was his stggle as a gay man a nservative society. Will & Grace’s succsful eight-season n proved pays off to give screen time to gay characters.
THAT ’90S SHOW GAY CHARACTER OZZIE IS BREAKG NEW GROUND FOR S REPRENTATN
There were so few LGBT characters on 90's televisn. But that didn't stop gay kids om hopg that some of the straight on were secretly queer too. * the 90s show gay character *
Will & Grace’s Jack McFarland loved himself, and he loved beg gay. When we’re first troduced to Enrique “Rickie” Vasquez on My So-Called Life, he intifi as bi, but later out to iends Angela and Rayanne as gay. Jack McPhee on Dawson’s Creek gave voice to the difficulty of g out as a teen a fay that’s already dysfunctnal and has a whole lot of homophobia to work through.
Remember alternate realy Willow om "The Wish" and "Doppelgangland" who Buffyverse realy Willow thought might be “a ltle gay”? Netflix has released first look imag and a teaser trailer for That ‘90s Show, and featur a gay character! Ozzie is gay and impatient wh the world for not beg as acceptg as his iends.
Buddy was smart and rich and had a ol r, and as happened, he was gay. Nobody the episo shamed or berated him, and nobody exprsed any homophobic disgt when he wasn’t earshot. Even if he didn’t get the guy, he still got to be a gay teenage boy livg a normal life.
‘THAT 70S SHOW’ SPOFF HAS A GAY MA CHARACTER
Longtime TV cric Dan Avery charts the history of gay, queer, and transgenr reprentatn popular Amerin seri om 1971 to today, om Ellen to Pose. * the 90s show gay character *
There are plenty of theori about why Buddy never returned to That ‘70s Show, cludg that the dience rejected the ia of a gay character. Fenton never explicly me out, but sce half the thgs he said were gay nuendos, wasn’t hard to gus which team he was on. Once aga, he allowed That ’70s Show to be a most-of-the-way ally for the queer muny, phg thgs a ltle beyond the norm whout gog full gay like Will and Grace or Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
By ntrast, Ozzie (Reyn Doi) is openly gay om the moment he appears on That ’90s Show.