Groundbreakg on-screen gay kiss

Contents:

• JOSEPH GORDON-LEVT 'PROUD' OF 'THAT '70S SHOW' GAY KISS
• FLASHBACK: 'THAT '70S SHOW'S VERY SPECIAL GAY EPISO DO NOT AGE WELL
• 'THAT '90S SHOW' VIEWERS TORN OVER GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX SPOFF
• GROUNDBREAKG ON-SCREEN GAY KISS THROUGH HISTORY
• GAY PRI REMAS COMPLITED ON THAT '90S SHOW

JOSEPH GORDON-LEVT 'PROUD' OF 'THAT '70S SHOW' GAY KISS

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. The 1998 kiss om the actors occurred jt mere months before another gay kiss on Dawson's Creek.

FLASHBACK: 'THAT '70S SHOW'S VERY SPECIAL GAY EPISO DO NOT AGE WELL

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. The seri was also set the '70s when many people weren't open to homosexualy, and the suatn was a product of the tim. the first gay kiss on North Amerin primetime televisn.

about this wh a good iend of me who's gay. people are gay and that's jt how is, pecially for people who.

'THAT '90S SHOW' VIEWERS TORN OVER GAY REPRENTATN NETFLIX SPOFF

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. Nohels, Gordon Levt and Topher Grace are the first men to a part of a gay scene on screens That ’70s Show, although the potentially screen-breakg LGBTQ story arc was scrapped, and only one character was gay.

Some chalk up to oppos attract while others are bummed that Eric’s storyle wasn’t adjted to a more proment portrayal of the gay muny wh Buddy who has a lot mon wh him. Some would’ve preferred Eric choose Buddy over Donna bee they seem to have a lot more chemistry the episo, while some would have liked to at least see more of Buddy and what uld’ve been store for him as a gay character the ’70s. I didn’t remember the ep, so I settled over my cereal, not realizg I was revisg a groundbreakg moment gay reprentatn on televisn.

Achievg this televisn landmark has won “Eric’s Buddy” retroactive love onle, wh several s rememberg the episo as “normalizg” a gay kiss, mendg Eric for not reactg wh gay panic, and crowg that Buddy was “always shown as a plete person and not a stereotype. Watchg “Eric’s Buddy, ” I was appalled by how Eric and his iends rpond to Buddy beg gay, begng wh that kiss.

GROUNDBREAKG ON-SCREEN GAY KISS THROUGH HISTORY

How wacky that ls-than-macho Eric is assumed to be gay! You—you are—you’re—you’re gay!? ” It’s rtoonish gay panic that leads to the mercial break.

When they try to talk about what happened, Eric is very fensive about Buddy assumg he was gay. ” And Eric is so eaked out by the threat to his heterosexualy that he tak the hand’s movement toward(ish) him as another pass, pch himself away om Buddy and yells, “Hey, I told you I’m not gay! Eric rac back to the safety of his basement, where he lays a showy no-homo smooch on Donna ont of all his iends, then postur to prent jt how manly—and thereby super straight—he is.

Eric feels his masculy was lled to qutn bee someone thought he was gay, and even though ’s someone he lik and admir, so panics him that he sh to overpensate wh uncharacteristic and totally hetero PDA, bro. Then we get to hear how the gang reacts—not to the kiss, but to Buddy’s sexual orientatn—when Fez clar he’s “so obvly gay.

GAY PRI REMAS COMPLITED ON THAT '90S SHOW

Then Kelso ncurs, explag, “If Buddy was gay he’d be all over me. ” Bee that’s how gay guys act, a lty monolh unable to ntrol their sire for dopey hunks.