EXTRA: The TV History of Gay Liplocks

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• EXTRA: THE TV HISTORY OF GAY LIPLOCKS
• THE POLIL POWER OF MICHAEL SAM’S LIPLOCK WH HIS LOVERHOT LIPSPUBLIC DISTASTE OVER MICHAEL SAM’S PASSNATE KISS WH HIS PARTNER SHOWS AN UGLY DOUBLE STANDARD: YOU N BE GAY, BUT DON’T SHOW .TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 3:40PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAY 17, 2014 5:45AM EDT @VAMMYOU’RE WH YOUR LOVED ONE. YOU’VE JT HAD GREAT NEWS. EMOTN WELLS UP SI YOU. YOU HUG YOUR PARTNER, THEY KISS YOU, YOU KISS THEM, TEARS OF JOY FLOW. AND SO WAS WHEN MICHAEL SAM KISSED HIS BOYIEND VO CAMMISANO ON HEARG HE HAD BEEN PICKED THE SEVENTH AND LAST ROUND OF THE DRAFT FOR THE ST. LOUIS RAMS. WHAT CHANGED EVERYTHG WAS THAT ESPN WAS ON HAND TO PTURE THE MOMENT: GAY KISS PRIMETIME ARE RARE ENOUGH; THIS WAS THE FIRST BETWEEN THE FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALL PROSPECT AND HIS PARTNER. AND WAS A KISS OF FEELG. NOT A PECK. NOT A BSHG OF LIPS. NOR A MANLY HUG. BUT A SMACKEROO, FULL OF ALL KDS OF EMOTN AND PASSN: A HISTORIC MOMENT WH A HISTORIC MOMENT. THERE WAS A LOT THAT KISS, BOTH PERSONAL AND LIBLY POLIL.AND, SADLY, AMERI DON’T SEEM TO HAVE WANTED TO SEE . IN A HUFFGTON POST/YOUGOV POLL RELEASED THURSDAY, WHILE 60 PERCENT OF AMERINS APPROVED OF THE IA OF THEIR FAVORE SPORTS TEAM SIGNG AN OPENLY GAY STAR (FOR NFL FANS, 65 PERCENT APPROVED), 47 PERCENT SAID WAS “APPROPRIATE” FOR WORKS TO SHOW THE KISS; ONLY 36 PERCENT SAID WAS “APPROPRIATE.” 17 PERCENT SAID THEY WEREN’T SURE.AS WAS PERHAPS TO BE EXPECTED, DEMOCRATS THOUGHT THE KISS WAS APPROPRIATE TO SHOW (53 PERCENT TO 32 PERCENT), BUT PENNTS (45 PERCENT TO 36 PERCENT) AND A HEAVY MAJORY OF REPUBLINS (69 PERCENT TO 16 PERCENT) SAID WAS APPROPRIATE. THOSE UNR 30 APPROVED 55 PERCENT TO 29 PERCENT MARG. THOSE BETWEEN AG 30 AND 44 WERE EVENLY DIVID. SOME 52 PERCENT OF THOSE BETWEEN AG 45 AND 64, AND 69 PERCENT OF THOSE 65 AND OLR, FOUND APPROPRIATE. THE SURVEY REPRENTS A FASCATG, AND PRSG, DISNNECT, WHICH N BE BOILED DOWN TO: IT’S OK FOR YOU TO BE GAY, BUT WE DON’T WANT TO SEE YOU EXPRS . WE’RE OL WH HOMOSEXUALY, Y’ALL, JT AS LONG AS YOU TAKE THE “SEX” PART OUT OF . IF BEG GAY IS NO LONGER A BIG AL, BEG A GAY MAN OR WOMAN AND PHYSILLY EXPRSG THAT, OR SHOWG SEXUAL PLEASURE, OR KISSG YOUR LOVER TO WH THE LAST CH OF THEIR LIFE, IS ABSENT. GAYS ARE NICE, GAYS ARE FUNNY, SNARKY, QUICK, EMPATHETIC, THEY N RESIGN HO, AND BRG LIFE TO DOWDY WARDROB—BUT AS SEXUAL BEGS WE’RE NTERED THE PUBLIC EYE.IT’S ODD HOW EVEN THE MASTREAM GAY-RIGHTS MOVEMENT HAS TAKEN ACUNT OF THIS DISTASTE: THE GAY SPOKPEOPLE ON TELEVISN, THE FIGUREHEADS, THE FAMO ACTORS, ARE ALL IMMENSELY RPECTABLE AND SEXLS. THEY N BE MPY, SCY, THEY N BACKCHAT AND MAKE LGH, OR GIVE STIRRG SPEECH ABOUT JTICE AND THE RIGHTNS OF ALL KDS OF LOVE… BUT KISS AND BE AFFECTNATE WH THEIR LOVED ON? NO, THANKS.THERE’S AN EVABILY TO THIS: GAY MALE SEXUAL BEHAVR PARTICULAR HAS BEEN PROHIBED LAW (QUEEN VICTORIA FAMOLY DIDN’T BELIEVE LBIANISM EXISTED). WHEN THE LAWMAKERS LEGISLATE AGAST HOMOSEXUALY, THEY ARE VERY MUCH LEGISLATG AGAST WHAT THEY SEE AS SEXUAL PERVERSN, THE ACT THEY FE HOMOSEXUALY BY—ANAL PERATN OF ONE MAN BY ANOTHER—THEY FD THE MOST ABHORRENT. NO MATTER THAT STRAIGHT PEOPLE HAVE ANAL SEX TOO, NO MATTER THAT MANY GAY MEN DON’T, OR DO OTHER SEXUAL ACTS. WHEN BIGOTS BRAY ABOUT THE UNNATURALNS OF HOMOSEXUALY, ’S THE SEXUAL ACTS OF GAYS THEY’RE VOKG. THEIR IMAGATN OF THE ABNORMALY OF THAT ACT IS AT THE ROOT OF THEIR TERMATN TO BLOCK THE MARRIAGE-EQUALY MOVEMENT, EMPLOYMENT PROTECTN, AND OTHER GAY CIVIL-RIGHTS ISSU. AND THAT DISGT, THAT REIL, UNRPS THE MICHAEL SAM STATISTICS: LET HIM BE GAY, LET HIM BE A FIGUREHEAD, BUT, HANG ON, YIK, YOU MEAN HE’S GAY AND HE ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, DO GAY STUFF. EUGH. DISGTG.WHAT THE POLL SHOWS IS AT ONCE AN ADVANCE, BUT ALSO THE GRTY UNRPNGS OF PREJUDICE. IT’S ALMOST AS IF THE PUBLIC WANTS TO SOMEHOW TACH HOMOSEXUALY THE NCEPT, WHICH ERRS TOWARD ACCEPTG, OM HOMOSEXUALY THE PRACTICE, WHICH NTU TO GROSS OUT. GAY MEN AND WOMEN N HAVE JOBS, LIVE TOGETHER, PLAY ON FOOTBALL TEAMS, BUT ON NO ACUNT MT THEY ACTUALLY HAVE SEX OR SHOW AFFECTN TO OTHERS OF THEIR KD, OR EVEN THEIR MOST CHERISHED PARTNERS, ON TELEVISN. IT’S A FASCATG, NTRADICTORY SPL ATTU. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SEEMS TO WANT GAYS TO BE NOBLE AND FUN, BUT ALSO SEXLS. THIS QUEASS HAS LONG BEEN EVINCE OUR POP CULTURE. I REMEMBER BEG 16, LONDON, 1989, AND BRISH TELEVISN SHOWG S FIRST KISS BETWEEN TWO MEN ON A PRIMETIME SOAP OPERA, EASTENRS. THE SUN TABLOID’S HEADLE PROCLAIMG THIS ACT OF TIMACY WAS “EAST-BENRS.” THERE WAS OUTRAGE THE NEXT MORNG. THEN THE WORLD DIDN’T FALL , AND MORE GAY KISS BRISH PRIMETIME FOLLOWED. BUT STILL GAY SEX SCEN, ALWAYS ONE-OFFS, PROVOKED TILLATN AND MENT. OUTRAGE!, A DIRECT-ACTN GROUP, WOULD HOLD KISS- PROTTS AGAST THE THEN-HOMOPHOBIC LAWS OF SECTN 28, WHICH FORBID THE “PROMOTN” OF HOMOSEXUALY AND THE UNEQUAL AGE OF NSENT: THE VERY PUBLIC DISPLAY OF EN-MASSE SAME-SEX KISSG WAS, BACK THEN, SHOCKG AND LICLY POLILLY NONTATNAL. IN AMERI, 2000, ON WILL AND GRACE, A S PARTLY ABOUT A GAY MAN, ROOTED A GAY I, STREAKED WH GAY BANTER, AN ACTUAL GAY KISS—BETWEEN WILL AND JACK—WAS SEEN AS A MAJOR CULTURAL MOMENT. AND THIS KISS WASN’T SEXUAL, BUT GTURAL. WHILE GAY CHARACTERS POPULATE OUR TV SHOWS, THE PHYSIL NATURE OF THEIR RELATNSHIPS IS RARELY NVEYED WH THE SAME EXPLICNS, OR EQUENCY, AS THEIR HETEROSEXUAL UNTERPARTS.IT WAS ONLY THE SEND SEASON OF MORN FAY 2010, AFTER A VIEWER-LED MPAIGN, THAT MCHELL AND CAMERON ACTUALLY KISSED—AND THEY HAVEN’T DONE MUCH MORE OF THE SAME SCE.SO MUCH IS SPOKEN ABOUT “VISIBILY,” AS IF GAYS ON TELEVISN WAS A NUMBERS GAME, WHEN IS ALSO ABOUT WHAT THOSE GAYS ARE VISIBLE DOG ON SCREEN, AND FOR TE EQUALY THEY WOULD, IALLY, BE ALLOWED TO BE AS PHYSILLY TIMATE AS EVERYONE ELSE. THIS HAS BEEN THE GREAT SUCCS AND SURPRISE OF A UPLE LIKE SONNY AND WILL DAYS OF OUR LIV, WHOSE RELATNSHIP HAS BEEN GIVEN A BRAVE PHYSIL NSISTENCY. ELSEWHERE THERE IS THE ODD PECK, THE ODD HUG, AND OF URSE SHOWS LIKE THE L WORD AND QUEER AS FOLK, WHICH FOR YEARS STOOD ALONE AS SHOWG OUR SKS SWEATY WH LT.IT’S STILL SURPRISG WHEN GAY SIRE IS SHOWN AS EQUIVALENT TO STRAIGHT SIRE, OR EVEN JT BLATANT. GAY VIEWERS LIKE MYSELF, WHO HAVE LONG WATCHED GAY-THEMED TV, FILM, AND THEATER, N BE UGHT FANNG THEMSELV WHEN SAME-SEX SIRE IS EVOKED SWEATY, FLHY TOOTH AND CLAW, AS THE BRILLIANT BRISH MOVIE WEEKEND, THE TWO ASTONISHG FRENCH FILMS OF THIS LAST YEAR, BLUE IS THE WARMT COLOR AND STRANGER BY THE LAKE, AND ON NETFLIX’S ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, AND HBO’S LOOKG.AND YET THE SHOWS AND MOVI HAVE TO BE SOUGHT OUT. ON ESPN AT 6:40 AT NIGHT, WAS AN ELECTRIFYG JOLT, NOT JT TO SEE TWO MEN KISS, BUT KISS AS SAM AND CAMMISANO DID WH SUCH FEELG. THERE WAS BOTH A SENSE OF RELEASE (WHAT AN EMOTNAL ROLLER ASTER THEY HAD GONE THROUGH), YET ALSO ASSERTN BY SAM HIMSELF: THIS IS WHO I AM, THIS IS THE MAN I LOVE PASSNATELY, AND THIS IS ONE SPECIAL DAY.THE THOR AND BROADSTER MICHELANGELO SIGNORILE WAS SO MOVED BY THE POWER OF THE KISS, AND DISTURBED BY THE NEGATIVE REACTN TO , THAT HE HERALD THE GREAT FACEBOOK KISS-IN, ENURAGG ERS TO CHANGE THEIR PROFILE PICTUR TO A PICTURE OF A KISSG SAME-SEX UPLE.SIGNORILE RIGHTLY REGNIZ THAT BEYOND THE BIG ISSU OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS, THE NTROVERSY OVER THE MICHAEL SAM KISS REVEALS A LAST, AND POSSIBLY FAR TRICKIER BASTN OF PREJUDICE. IT’S NOT ONE YOU N LEGISLATE FOR, BUT ’S AS VAL TO NONT AS ANY LEGISLATN—THE ACCEPTANCE OF GAY PEOPLE AS SEXUAL, AND PASSNATE. AT THE ROOT OF SO MUCH BIGOTRY IS A DISGT OF WHAT WE N LL THE GAY-PHYSIL, THE GAY-SEXUAL, THE “SEX” HOMOSEXUALY.WHEN WE LOOK BACK AT SAM’S DRAFT-PICK MOMENT, ISN’T ONLY THE FIRST TIME AN OPENLY GAY PLAYER WAS DRAFTED FOR THE LEAGUE—AND, IF ALL GO WELL, HE WILL BE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO HAVE PUBLICLY E OUT—BUT ALSO, RIGHT THERE, EARLY EVENG PRIMETIME, WAS THE FIRST TIME A MAN KISSED ANOTHER MAN, EMOTN THMMG OM EVERY PORE: UNAPOLOGETIC, LOVG, FIERCE, PROUD—AND, Y, EXTREMELY FUCKG HOT. TIM TEEMAN

EXTRA: THE TV HISTORY OF GAY LIPLOCKS

EDT/PDT, WB) featur the first passnate homosexual kiss between two men to ever take place on primetime televisn. No ls than the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn has brand the smooch “historic. ” And while the kiss between Jack and Ethan might ed be primetim’s first romantic kiss between two men, ’s hardly the first gay kiss on the tube.

Here are some exampl of primetime televisn’s gay and lbian smooch:. The scene, though somewhat of a polil statement sce is a kiss on the lips between two gay men, is played primarily for lghs.

Awww, young gay love! Lil Nas XThe reign of Montero the culture ntued at Sunday’s BET Awards when out gay rapper Lil Nas X end his srchg performance by lockg lips wh one of his backup dancers, givg the BET Awards stage s first gay male kiss ever. Lil Nas X hasn’t been shy about embracg his queer inty sce g out as gay 2019, openly exprsg through his mic, fashn and performanc ways that mastream hip-hop has never seen.

THE POLIL POWER OF MICHAEL SAM’S LIPLOCK WH HIS LOVERHOT LIPSPUBLIC DISTASTE OVER MICHAEL SAM’S PASSNATE KISS WH HIS PARTNER SHOWS AN UGLY DOUBLE STANDARD: YOU N BE GAY, BUT DON’T SHOW .TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 3:40PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAY 17, 2014 5:45AM EDT @VAMMYOU’RE WH YOUR LOVED ONE. YOU’VE JT HAD GREAT NEWS. EMOTN WELLS UP SI YOU. YOU HUG YOUR PARTNER, THEY KISS YOU, YOU KISS THEM, TEARS OF JOY FLOW. AND SO WAS WHEN MICHAEL SAM KISSED HIS BOYIEND VO CAMMISANO ON HEARG HE HAD BEEN PICKED THE SEVENTH AND LAST ROUND OF THE DRAFT FOR THE ST. LOUIS RAMS. WHAT CHANGED EVERYTHG WAS THAT ESPN WAS ON HAND TO PTURE THE MOMENT: GAY KISS PRIMETIME ARE RARE ENOUGH; THIS WAS THE FIRST BETWEEN THE FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALL PROSPECT AND HIS PARTNER. AND WAS A KISS OF FEELG. NOT A PECK. NOT A BSHG OF LIPS. NOR A MANLY HUG. BUT A SMACKEROO, FULL OF ALL KDS OF EMOTN AND PASSN: A HISTORIC MOMENT WH A HISTORIC MOMENT. THERE WAS A LOT THAT KISS, BOTH PERSONAL AND LIBLY POLIL.AND, SADLY, AMERI DON’T SEEM TO HAVE WANTED TO SEE . IN A HUFFGTON POST/YOUGOV POLL RELEASED THURSDAY, WHILE 60 PERCENT OF AMERINS APPROVED OF THE IA OF THEIR FAVORE SPORTS TEAM SIGNG AN OPENLY GAY STAR (FOR NFL FANS, 65 PERCENT APPROVED), 47 PERCENT SAID WAS “APPROPRIATE” FOR WORKS TO SHOW THE KISS; ONLY 36 PERCENT SAID WAS “APPROPRIATE.” 17 PERCENT SAID THEY WEREN’T SURE.AS WAS PERHAPS TO BE EXPECTED, DEMOCRATS THOUGHT THE KISS WAS APPROPRIATE TO SHOW (53 PERCENT TO 32 PERCENT), BUT PENNTS (45 PERCENT TO 36 PERCENT) AND A HEAVY MAJORY OF REPUBLINS (69 PERCENT TO 16 PERCENT) SAID WAS APPROPRIATE. THOSE UNR 30 APPROVED 55 PERCENT TO 29 PERCENT MARG. THOSE BETWEEN AG 30 AND 44 WERE EVENLY DIVID. SOME 52 PERCENT OF THOSE BETWEEN AG 45 AND 64, AND 69 PERCENT OF THOSE 65 AND OLR, FOUND APPROPRIATE. THE SURVEY REPRENTS A FASCATG, AND PRSG, DISNNECT, WHICH N BE BOILED DOWN TO: IT’S OK FOR YOU TO BE GAY, BUT WE DON’T WANT TO SEE YOU EXPRS . WE’RE OL WH HOMOSEXUALY, Y’ALL, JT AS LONG AS YOU TAKE THE “SEX” PART OUT OF . IF BEG GAY IS NO LONGER A BIG AL, BEG A GAY MAN OR WOMAN AND PHYSILLY EXPRSG THAT, OR SHOWG SEXUAL PLEASURE, OR KISSG YOUR LOVER TO WH THE LAST CH OF THEIR LIFE, IS ABSENT. GAYS ARE NICE, GAYS ARE FUNNY, SNARKY, QUICK, EMPATHETIC, THEY N RESIGN HO, AND BRG LIFE TO DOWDY WARDROB—BUT AS SEXUAL BEGS WE’RE NTERED THE PUBLIC EYE.IT’S ODD HOW EVEN THE MASTREAM GAY-RIGHTS MOVEMENT HAS TAKEN ACUNT OF THIS DISTASTE: THE GAY SPOKPEOPLE ON TELEVISN, THE FIGUREHEADS, THE FAMO ACTORS, ARE ALL IMMENSELY RPECTABLE AND SEXLS. THEY N BE MPY, SCY, THEY N BACKCHAT AND MAKE LGH, OR GIVE STIRRG SPEECH ABOUT JTICE AND THE RIGHTNS OF ALL KDS OF LOVE… BUT KISS AND BE AFFECTNATE WH THEIR LOVED ON? NO, THANKS.THERE’S AN EVABILY TO THIS: GAY MALE SEXUAL BEHAVR PARTICULAR HAS BEEN PROHIBED LAW (QUEEN VICTORIA FAMOLY DIDN’T BELIEVE LBIANISM EXISTED). WHEN THE LAWMAKERS LEGISLATE AGAST HOMOSEXUALY, THEY ARE VERY MUCH LEGISLATG AGAST WHAT THEY SEE AS SEXUAL PERVERSN, THE ACT THEY FE HOMOSEXUALY BY—ANAL PERATN OF ONE MAN BY ANOTHER—THEY FD THE MOST ABHORRENT. NO MATTER THAT STRAIGHT PEOPLE HAVE ANAL SEX TOO, NO MATTER THAT MANY GAY MEN DON’T, OR DO OTHER SEXUAL ACTS. WHEN BIGOTS BRAY ABOUT THE UNNATURALNS OF HOMOSEXUALY, ’S THE SEXUAL ACTS OF GAYS THEY’RE VOKG. THEIR IMAGATN OF THE ABNORMALY OF THAT ACT IS AT THE ROOT OF THEIR TERMATN TO BLOCK THE MARRIAGE-EQUALY MOVEMENT, EMPLOYMENT PROTECTN, AND OTHER GAY CIVIL-RIGHTS ISSU. AND THAT DISGT, THAT REIL, UNRPS THE MICHAEL SAM STATISTICS: LET HIM BE GAY, LET HIM BE A FIGUREHEAD, BUT, HANG ON, YIK, YOU MEAN HE’S GAY AND HE ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, DO GAY STUFF. EUGH. DISGTG.WHAT THE POLL SHOWS IS AT ONCE AN ADVANCE, BUT ALSO THE GRTY UNRPNGS OF PREJUDICE. IT’S ALMOST AS IF THE PUBLIC WANTS TO SOMEHOW TACH HOMOSEXUALY THE NCEPT, WHICH ERRS TOWARD ACCEPTG, OM HOMOSEXUALY THE PRACTICE, WHICH NTU TO GROSS OUT. GAY MEN AND WOMEN N HAVE JOBS, LIVE TOGETHER, PLAY ON FOOTBALL TEAMS, BUT ON NO ACUNT MT THEY ACTUALLY HAVE SEX OR SHOW AFFECTN TO OTHERS OF THEIR KD, OR EVEN THEIR MOST CHERISHED PARTNERS, ON TELEVISN. IT’S A FASCATG, NTRADICTORY SPL ATTU. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SEEMS TO WANT GAYS TO BE NOBLE AND FUN, BUT ALSO SEXLS. THIS QUEASS HAS LONG BEEN EVINCE OUR POP CULTURE. I REMEMBER BEG 16, LONDON, 1989, AND BRISH TELEVISN SHOWG S FIRST KISS BETWEEN TWO MEN ON A PRIMETIME SOAP OPERA, EASTENRS. THE SUN TABLOID’S HEADLE PROCLAIMG THIS ACT OF TIMACY WAS “EAST-BENRS.” THERE WAS OUTRAGE THE NEXT MORNG. THEN THE WORLD DIDN’T FALL , AND MORE GAY KISS BRISH PRIMETIME FOLLOWED. BUT STILL GAY SEX SCEN, ALWAYS ONE-OFFS, PROVOKED TILLATN AND MENT. OUTRAGE!, A DIRECT-ACTN GROUP, WOULD HOLD KISS- PROTTS AGAST THE THEN-HOMOPHOBIC LAWS OF SECTN 28, WHICH FORBID THE “PROMOTN” OF HOMOSEXUALY AND THE UNEQUAL AGE OF NSENT: THE VERY PUBLIC DISPLAY OF EN-MASSE SAME-SEX KISSG WAS, BACK THEN, SHOCKG AND LICLY POLILLY NONTATNAL. IN AMERI, 2000, ON WILL AND GRACE, A S PARTLY ABOUT A GAY MAN, ROOTED A GAY I, STREAKED WH GAY BANTER, AN ACTUAL GAY KISS—BETWEEN WILL AND JACK—WAS SEEN AS A MAJOR CULTURAL MOMENT. AND THIS KISS WASN’T SEXUAL, BUT GTURAL. WHILE GAY CHARACTERS POPULATE OUR TV SHOWS, THE PHYSIL NATURE OF THEIR RELATNSHIPS IS RARELY NVEYED WH THE SAME EXPLICNS, OR EQUENCY, AS THEIR HETEROSEXUAL UNTERPARTS.IT WAS ONLY THE SEND SEASON OF MORN FAY 2010, AFTER A VIEWER-LED MPAIGN, THAT MCHELL AND CAMERON ACTUALLY KISSED—AND THEY HAVEN’T DONE MUCH MORE OF THE SAME SCE.SO MUCH IS SPOKEN ABOUT “VISIBILY,” AS IF GAYS ON TELEVISN WAS A NUMBERS GAME, WHEN IS ALSO ABOUT WHAT THOSE GAYS ARE VISIBLE DOG ON SCREEN, AND FOR TE EQUALY THEY WOULD, IALLY, BE ALLOWED TO BE AS PHYSILLY TIMATE AS EVERYONE ELSE. THIS HAS BEEN THE GREAT SUCCS AND SURPRISE OF A UPLE LIKE SONNY AND WILL DAYS OF OUR LIV, WHOSE RELATNSHIP HAS BEEN GIVEN A BRAVE PHYSIL NSISTENCY. ELSEWHERE THERE IS THE ODD PECK, THE ODD HUG, AND OF URSE SHOWS LIKE THE L WORD AND QUEER AS FOLK, WHICH FOR YEARS STOOD ALONE AS SHOWG OUR SKS SWEATY WH LT.IT’S STILL SURPRISG WHEN GAY SIRE IS SHOWN AS EQUIVALENT TO STRAIGHT SIRE, OR EVEN JT BLATANT. GAY VIEWERS LIKE MYSELF, WHO HAVE LONG WATCHED GAY-THEMED TV, FILM, AND THEATER, N BE UGHT FANNG THEMSELV WHEN SAME-SEX SIRE IS EVOKED SWEATY, FLHY TOOTH AND CLAW, AS THE BRILLIANT BRISH MOVIE WEEKEND, THE TWO ASTONISHG FRENCH FILMS OF THIS LAST YEAR, BLUE IS THE WARMT COLOR AND STRANGER BY THE LAKE, AND ON NETFLIX’S ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, AND HBO’S LOOKG.AND YET THE SHOWS AND MOVI HAVE TO BE SOUGHT OUT. ON ESPN AT 6:40 AT NIGHT, WAS AN ELECTRIFYG JOLT, NOT JT TO SEE TWO MEN KISS, BUT KISS AS SAM AND CAMMISANO DID WH SUCH FEELG. THERE WAS BOTH A SENSE OF RELEASE (WHAT AN EMOTNAL ROLLER ASTER THEY HAD GONE THROUGH), YET ALSO ASSERTN BY SAM HIMSELF: THIS IS WHO I AM, THIS IS THE MAN I LOVE PASSNATELY, AND THIS IS ONE SPECIAL DAY.THE THOR AND BROADSTER MICHELANGELO SIGNORILE WAS SO MOVED BY THE POWER OF THE KISS, AND DISTURBED BY THE NEGATIVE REACTN TO , THAT HE HERALD THE GREAT FACEBOOK KISS-IN, ENURAGG ERS TO CHANGE THEIR PROFILE PICTUR TO A PICTURE OF A KISSG SAME-SEX UPLE.SIGNORILE RIGHTLY REGNIZ THAT BEYOND THE BIG ISSU OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS, THE NTROVERSY OVER THE MICHAEL SAM KISS REVEALS A LAST, AND POSSIBLY FAR TRICKIER BASTN OF PREJUDICE. IT’S NOT ONE YOU N LEGISLATE FOR, BUT ’S AS VAL TO NONT AS ANY LEGISLATN—THE ACCEPTANCE OF GAY PEOPLE AS SEXUAL, AND PASSNATE. AT THE ROOT OF SO MUCH BIGOTRY IS A DISGT OF WHAT WE N LL THE GAY-PHYSIL, THE GAY-SEXUAL, THE “SEX” HOMOSEXUALY.WHEN WE LOOK BACK AT SAM’S DRAFT-PICK MOMENT, ISN’T ONLY THE FIRST TIME AN OPENLY GAY PLAYER WAS DRAFTED FOR THE LEAGUE—AND, IF ALL GO WELL, HE WILL BE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO HAVE PUBLICLY E OUT—BUT ALSO, RIGHT THERE, EARLY EVENG PRIMETIME, WAS THE FIRST TIME A MAN KISSED ANOTHER MAN, EMOTN THMMG OM EVERY PORE: UNAPOLOGETIC, LOVG, FIERCE, PROUD—AND, Y, EXTREMELY FUCKG HOT. TIM TEEMAN

The performance did draw some homophobic cricism, though much of foced on Lil Nas X’s form of queer exprsn rather than the fact that he did . Acrdg to ABC News, multiple people cricized the artist for what they saw as him tryg to “act the part” of a gay man and ntributg to the “emasculatn” of men by drsg and actg overly feme.

“I have officially been gay for two years, ” he said. What changed everythg was that ESPN was on hand to pture the moment: Gay kiss primetime are rare enough; this was the first between the first openly gay football prospect and his partner. In a Huffgton Post/YouGov poll released Thursday, while 60 percent of Amerins approved of the ia of their favore sports team signg an openly gay star (for NFL fans, 65 percent approved), 47 percent said was “appropriate” for works to show the kiss; only 36 percent said was “appropriate.