35 Unfettable Gay TV Kiss Then & Now

Contents:

• 25 UNFETTABLE GAY TV KISS
• KG LIL JAY SLAMS GAY MORS AFTER VIO OF MAT KISSG PROMPTS TROLLS’ RPONSE
• ‘RIVERDALE’ STAR KERR SMH ON TV’S FIRST GAY KISS: ‘IT WAS TENSE’
• SIZZLG ! 20 YEARS AGO, THIS GAY KISS MA TV HISTORY: WATCH
• KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
• GROUNDBREAKG ON-SCREEN GAY KISS THROUGH HISTORY
• THE ARE MR. MAN’S 100 INIC TV & MOVIE GAY KISS OF ALL TIME
• TV’S HISTORIC GAY KISS: FROM ‘DAWSON’S CREEK’ TO ‘THE FOSTERS’
• FROM ELLEN TO G KENWORTHY: A HISTORY OF GAY KISS ON TV
• 10 MILTONE MOMENTS GAY TV HISTORY
• LGBT REPRENTATN ON TV THROUGH THE AG – OM EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY KISS TO TRANSGENR SUPERHERO
• IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?
• GAY KISS
• GAY KISS STOCK VIOS
• TOM HOLLAND GO VIRAL FOR PERFORMG TENSE GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM

25 UNFETTABLE GAY TV KISS

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However, a recent episo ma headl for featurg TV's youngt gay kiss history: It occurred between teenage characters Ju and & Grace Classic edy Will & Grace had dienc cheerg durg a 2000 episo when Will and Jack locked lips.

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Wh that over wh, now there have been plenty of kiss sce and a same-sex weddg, of Our LivAlthough late to the party, NBC's Days of Our Liv aired s first gay kiss 2012, between Will (Chandler Massey) and Neil (Jse Kristofferson).

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LookgAs the HBO dramedy centered on gay men, had no shortage of same-sex kissg, but the kiss between protagonist Patrick (Jonathan Groff) and Kev (Rsell Tovey) had the extra forbidn air -- Kev was not only partnered, he was Patrick's is the New BlackWe uldn't have this list and not feature the impet for ! There are many lovely lbian kiss on this show, but how about when Piper (Taylor Schillg) fally giv to her attractn to Alex, the no-good ex who helped land her ItThe entire MTV show may be foced on the fx lbian relatnship of Karma and Amy, but 's De and Shane who live out every gay teen's wet dream. Connor and Oliver are the clear power gay uple, but was revealed that Annalise Keatg is attracted to both sex and has a stunng ex-girliend (Famke Jansen) to To Get Away Wh MurrIt's an absolute necsy to clu law stunt, Connor (Jack Falahee), and his boyiend, Oliver (Conrad Rimora) on this list.

There are still a lot of nservativ who fight back agast the characters, storyl, and scen – which is upsettg, but very an effort to celebrate the moments, we’ve put together a list featurg some of our favore gay kissg scen om film and televisn. 1987’s Mrice featured a very subtle and tentative – but still inic – gay kiss between Clive (Hugh Grant) and Mrice (Jam Wilby) durg a time when queer romance wasn’t at all somethg we expected to see on the big screen. We've e a long way recent years when to real, thentic pictns of gay love on-screen, and while same-sex kiss are still fairly new when you nsir the overall history of Hollywood and media, there's still a whole lot of gay love, specifilly gay kiss, to watch and choose om.

Man took all the guswork out of tryg to e up wh the bt gay kiss of all time and piled a handy list of the top 100 that clus the lik of the Osr-wng 2016 Barry Jenks film Moonlight, Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer's Call Me by Your Name, Showtime's long-nng Shamels, Netflix's cult-favore Sense8, and so many more beloved movie and televisn tl. Although this was not the first gay kiss on work televisn, Kev was one of the few major gay characters on TV at that FayIt wasn't that long ago -- jt 2010 -- that a Facebook mpaign was lnched llg on the creators of Morn Fay to let same-sex uple Mch and Cam share a kiss on screen. An alleged vio of Chigo rapper Kg Lil Jay kissg another prison mate after which an mate ss on his lap has given rise to ‘gay’ mors on viral vio surfaced on Twter and has got the rapper’s fans talkg.

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Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

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Man has put together a list of the top “100 Inic Gay Kiss” om TV and kiss clu Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal 2005’s monumental Brokeback Mounta, Sean Sasser and Pedro Zamora 1992’s The Real World, Ashton Sanrs and Jharrel Jerome 2016’s Moonlight, and gay kiss ed to be few and far between, this past year alone showed Charlie Carver a steamy lock wh Zachary Quto The Boys the Band, the adorable Gee Sear and Las Gage sharg a sweet peck the g-of-age TV show Love, Victor and Pl Bettany and Peter Macdissi exchangg a mature romantic kiss Uncle addn to “100 Inic Gay Kiss, ” Mr. Anthony Mackie & Yahya Abdul-Mateen – Black MirrorJake Gyllenhaal & Heath Ledger – Brokeback MountaAshton Sanrs & Jharrel Jerome – MoonlightNick Jonas & Jared North – KgdomSean Sasser & Pedro Zamora – The Real WorldAlexanr Skarsgard & Ryan Kwanten – Te BloodJtice Smh & Uly Schlger – GeneratnJeremy Pope & Jake Pickg – HollywoodAndrew Rannells & Matt Bomer – Boys the BandNoah Reid & Dan Levy – Scht’s CreekTimothée Chalamet & Armie Hammer – Call Me By Your NameCheck out the full list of “100 Inic Gay Kiss” LATEST ON SLFROM OUR PARTNERS. which uld be the first Passnate gay kiss on a US prime time public work TV seri even before Dawson's Creek, however, some source giv the Nov 25, 1999 air date other sourc say the show only aired the first three episos.

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And only 1 hour after the airg of the popular "first gay kiss" on Dawson's Creek [8 PM], the same night, The WB aired three more gay kiss on s 9 PM Felicy, which featur a big gay weddg between Javier & Samuel, and probably "the first Passnate & Consensual gay kiss between two married gay men on a US prime time public work TV seri, and this time Ethan's boyiend Bard wasn't starrg at him kissg another man. 18), but he did sre a solid-gold moment when he gave his boyiend, Matt Wilkas, a quick kiss at the bottom of the embrace was ught live on TV by NBC as part of their Olympic footage, quickly went viral — and proved to be a tone for a young man who, as a youngster, never “dreamed of seeg a gay kiss on TV at the Olympics. The work, ABC, noted that viewers by and large reacted favorably, fdg the episo Real World, 1994The late Sean Sasser and Pedro Zamora were one of TV’s landmark gay upl, wh their relatnship beg explored on MTV’s h realy seri.

The closens between actors Alyson Hannigan and Amber Benson unfold gradually, wh a natural-feelg kiss occurrg durg an emotnal scene the fifth Vio Mic Awards, 2003Although neher Madonna nor Brney Spears intify as gay, their surprise, attentn-grabbg kiss at the 2003 VMAs stantly was hailed as a fantastilly outrageo moment, and beme one of the most inic imag awards show history.

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Poor Christa Aguilera is largely left out of this entire scenar, but her part should not be Amerin Mic Awards, 2009Unlike Brney and Madonna, Amerin Idol alum Adam Lambert do 100% intify as gay, and he spiced up the 2009 AMAs by layg an open-mouthed kiss on a male dancer durg his performance of “For Your Entertament” at the AMAs.

It was ed very entertag, but ed Good Morng Ameri to ncel his appearance on their show the followg Fosters, 2015ABC Fay’s The Fosters, a show focg on the story of a lbian uple and their fay of blogil and fostered children, ma TV history by showg two 13-year-old male characters the youngt-ever gay kiss on screen. While we may now take for granted the prence of queer figureheads on TV, ls than 30 years ago the mere prence of someone intifyg as gay uld send viewers to a tailsp, pecially as beg gay – or gay marriage – was illegal.

For ’s Pri Week, we’ve looked back through the years of LGBT relatnships on TV, celebratg landmark moments and trailblazg shownners who fied the odds to get the sential scen on air while startg to break down homophobia and transphobia the procs. The first lbian kiss beme so inic aired as part of the 2012 Olympic ceremony (Picture: Channel 4)Brooksi’s 1994 lbian kiss between Beth (Anna Friel) and Margaret (Nila Stephenson) is often ced as the first UK gay kiss, but unfortunately they were five years late. Lnched by Rsell T Davi, Queer as Folk aired at a turng pot time for homosexualy and acceptance, wh the ernment that same year lowerg the age of nsent for gay sex down to 16, the same as heterosexual sex.

TV’S HISTORIC GAY KISS: FROM ‘DAWSON’S CREEK’ TO ‘THE FOSTERS’

While there was fely some problematic elements to the show, still showed beg gay a much more well-round, ls stereotypil light than before, and was one of the first major seri to lead off three gay characters.

12/48ABC1994: My So-Called LifeWhile One Life to Live had s first gay teen 1992, primetime's first openly gay teen seri regular character me to My So-Called Life's Enrique "Rickie" Vasquez, played by Wilson Cz. 15/481997: Ellen"The Puppy Episo" of Ellen featured Ellen Man (Ellen DeGener) g out as gay, the same time the star me out on the ver of Time magaze, makg Ellen the first show to feature an openly lbian actrs playg an openly lbian character.

22/48CBS2007: As the World TurnsMen were kissg primetime long before daytime fally got on board, but the soaps ught up 2007 when As the World Turns featured the first-ever gay kiss between two male characters, Le Snyr (Van Hansis) and Noah Mayer (Jake Silbermann).

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Will and Sonny's First Time (Days of Our Liv)When Will Horton and Sonny Kiriakis, young gay members of two major fai on the long-nng soap Days of Our Liv, got together, showed that mment to the characters' sexualy than was more than a sishow.

Ne Explos (As the World Turns)Sometim lled Amerin soaps' first gay super-uple, Le Snyr and Noah Mayer were romantilly lked on the sce-nceled As the World Turns, but waed about two years between a first kiss 2007 and fally dog the ed 2009. ”Bt known for starrg the new Spir-Man trilogy and brgg the Peter Parker character to life the Marvel Cematic Universe (MCU), Tom Holland is currently facg scty om homophob for playg the lead character of Billy Milligan the new limed seri The Crowd Room for Apple 1975, Milligan was arrted for armed robbery and rapg three people on the mp of Oh State Universy.

The actor is straight and has been a relatnship wh Zendaya for many years, so his role on The Crowd Room is clearly jt a role that don’t affect his personal the topic of LGBTQ+ actors playg LGBTQ+ characters, ’s not like Billy Milligan is the most posive dividual out there for an actor to brg to life, so feels like ’s bis the pot for a non-LGBTQ+ actor to play this particular person on as seen on LGBTQ-clive shows like The Last of Us, homophob will clg to jt about any reason to pla about queer characters beg picted on mastream media.

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The rt of n s back and bge-watch Te Blood, Teen Wolf, and Amerin Horror before the, there was Dante's Cove -- a full-on gay, steamy, wchy drama om the early 2000s (produced by the same pany that owns The Advote).

But the ultimate one me Jason Stackhoe's dream (after fallg asleep a church pew) about the vampire Eric Northman (Alexanr Skarsgard) -- nsired by many fans to be the hottt gay sex scene of the show's n.

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Dandy and Andy Amerin Horror Story: Freak Show was the lnch of Fn Wtrock, who may never live down his role as Dandy, the cute, doted-upon mama's boy-turned-serial-killer ( other words, a signature Ryan Murphy creatn) his first night out as a bona fi killer, he hs a gay bar and lur gay htler Andy (Bomer) back to his shack the woods. Hollywood needs to stroy the glass closet -- particularly now that the nt, sort-of left-leang world of Amerin entertament has an enemy Donald Tmp -- a monster the entertament world created -- and a lear-elect wh evint ti to Vladimir Put, who banned all visible reprentatn of homosexualy his untry.

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" We filmed that a while ago, but was kept as a sort of secret, " he says, explag he met Sorenson at his dad's birthday party a year fact, MacIntosh creds his fay for supportg him so that he n achieve so much, cludg portrayg a young gay man on televisn. But while the show was one of the first to portray a lbian character a posive light on mastream televisn, wasn’t the only one — not even that year: “Hill Street Blu” wrote the first lbian recurrg character on a major work, Kate McBri, a police officer played by Ldsay the next uple of s, the number of lbian, gay and bisexual characters on scripted televisn ticked slowly upward, very slowly.

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It may appear quat now, when we have TV seri like Hulu’s Love, Victor (about a Latx teen explorg sexual fluidy) or Netflix’s Bondg (about sex work and alternative sexualy), but the great gay panic set off by Ellen DeGener g out on her s 1997 was a bombshell that didn’t necsarily nvce the works that they’d open the gat to LGBTQ experienc. Luckily Will & Grace buted 1998 and the groundbreakg NBC seri nvced many that gay people might not be so toxic (and wouldn’t sre off advertisers) — so much so that Vice Print Joe Bin later creded wh changg his md about same-sex marriage. Dpe the fact that lns of Amerins wnsed two men raise a happy and healthy dghter om the fort of their livg room sofas, took a fan mpaign to lobby Disney-owned ABC to fally allow Mchell (gay actor Jse Tyler Fergon) and Cameron (straight actor Eric Stontreet) to kiss ( fally happened 2010).

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From the Roy Cohn-flected Army-McCarthy heargs — which was the first time many people heard the word “homosexual” uttered on TV — through the “don’t ask, don’t tell” Neti, that clud The Goln Girls and Digng Women, to our current glter-and-glam era of RuPl’s Drag Race and almost-anythg-go pansexualy. It was Cher-lovg Jack (Sean Hay) and alholic, right-wg sociale Karen (Megan Mullally) as much as Will (Eric McCormack) and Grace (Debra Msg) that enared Amerins to the sassy s, wh l like: “Commandment number one the gay bible: Thou shalt not vet my ex’s ass.

Adapted om gay director Jt Simien’s breakout film of the same name, about black llege stunts g to terms wh a “post-racial Ameri, ” the seri explor them of race, genr, and sexualy by skewerg jt about everyone for hypocrisy and double standards. In the send season, he manag to evolve beyond simple trop and is given space to explore his queer inty, cludg havg his heart broken by Silv (a self-scribed “Mexin Italian gay vers top otter pup”), fdg a boyiend (of sorts), and even beg rejected by another black man bee of his sk lor — provg that, spe all the talk of “muny, ” ’s never easy to fe lastg bonds. When her straight male roommate’s twentysomethg girliend, Francis, qutns why Leila is so terrified to tell anyone that she has sex wh both men and women, Leila tells her ’s plited bee ’s “a gay thg.

Pl, managed to change many nservative viewpots the black muny — cludg Timbaland, who crafted the seri’ tchy origal tracks — and was a rare moment which a gay character of lor had so much visibily.

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The bt of the volv Otis’ gay bt iend Eric (Ncuti Gatwa), which is ls a tradnal g-out story (everyone already seems to know when the show begs) than about Eric beg more fortable how he feels about himself and how he prents himself to the world.

But there are a lot of other smart stori on LGBTQ subjects, om the technil (a gay virg learns the logistics of anal douchg) to the emotnal (former bt iends don’t work as a uple after both e out) — so many, fact, that ’s a b easier to five when one of the seri’ queer storyl (volvg a homophobic bully) don’t really work. K., who was technilly still an executive producer at the time — but one of the most important them is Tig tryg to fd a gay muny this part of the world where she feels fortable, and the growg csh she’s velopg on her apparently straight rad producer Kate (played by Notaro’s wife, Stephanie Allynne).

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Holm), hers some of origal-recipe Rob’s most memorable obssns and quirks — among other thgs, Simon is the one who giv the speech about patibily pendg on what you like, not what you are like — even as his story is very different, startg wh the fact that he and the new Rob break up bee he’s gay. The entire n of this lightful throwback s has queer-iendly ntent, but particularly s first season (still streamg on Netflix, even though the latt season was ma for Pop), which slowly but refully charted the journey of Elena (Isabella Gomez), a Latx teen g to the realizatn that she’s gay, and gradually disverg how to tell her very Catholic fay about . While parts of may not have aged so well, the seri ntaed lots of TV firsts — cludg the first legally wed gay uple, first gay adoptn, and HIV-posive/negative uple — wh -stars Hal Sparks, Peter Paige, and Stt Lowell explorg what meant to have relatnships and stggle for acceptance.

Filmg is long done, but the reason for the actor's exhstn is beg Hom Holland cisg a gay bar the crowd roomHom holland cisg a gay bar and takg bbc the crowd roomMARCA ENGLISHIn the show, Holland plays a young man arrted on spicn of mtg a chillg crime. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a woman.He said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.