From TV's first same-sex kiss ever to Disney's first gay kiss on "Star vs. the Forc of Evil," the are the moments that refed televisn and ma history.
Contents:
- 25 UNFETTABLE GAY TV KISS
- GROUNDBREAKG ON-SCREEN GAY KISS THROUGH HISTORY
- LGBT REPRENTATN ON TV THROUGH THE AG – OM EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY KISS TO TRANSGENR SUPERHERO
- TOM HOLLAND GO VIRAL FOR PERFORMG TENSE GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM
- KG LIL JAY SLAMS GAY MORS AFTER VIO OF MAT KISSG PROMPTS TROLLS’ RPONSE
- GAY KISS
- THANKS TO WHNEY HOTON, ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ HAS S FIRST GAY ROMANCE
- IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?
- THE WCHER WAS SUPER GAY WAY BEFORE SEASON 3
25 UNFETTABLE GAY TV KISS
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GROUNDBREAKG ON-SCREEN GAY KISS THROUGH HISTORY
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LGBT REPRENTATN ON TV THROUGH THE AG – OM EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY KISS TO TRANSGENR SUPERHERO
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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).
TOM HOLLAND GO VIRAL FOR PERFORMG TENSE GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM
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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. In that way, ’s breakg siar ground to the Sundance Now seri This Close, om af actors Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman, about a straight woman and gay man who are bti lookg for love and unrstandg.
And while the seri received as much hate mail as adoratn — an evable byproduct of beg the first show to have openly gay male lead characters — lasted eight seasons before endg 2006. 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.
KG LIL JAY SLAMS GAY MORS AFTER VIO OF MAT KISSG PROMPTS TROLLS’ RPONSE
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GAY KISS
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And the fale’s most powerful subplot, he says the words “I’m gay” aloud — a first not only for him, but for a teen televisn character (and one played by an out actor Wilson Cz).
THANKS TO WHNEY HOTON, ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ HAS S FIRST GAY ROMANCE
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. 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. “You don’t spend half of the seri batg whether they’re love or not … I feel like when I’ve watched queer shows before, you spend half the time jt hopg that they actually are gay.
Brash humor and genue emotn make up this seri revolvg around the liv, lov, ambns, reers and iendships of a group of gay men and women livg on Liberty Avenue ntemporary Ptsburgh, PA. Outland foc on a gay science fictn fan club, and the dramas that surround the liv of s members, as they stggle and battle to assiate wh the troublg and very real world around them.
IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?
Eight short monologu were wrten for this seri rponse to the 50th anniversary of the passg of the Sexual Offenc Act 1967, which crimalized homosexual acts private between two men aged 21 or over. An Emmy-nomated dark edy about a gay uple and their iends Silverlake Los Angel, “EastSirs” began as a $2, 000 self-fanced project, and end wh s fourth and fal season droppg on Netflix back December. From s web seri roots to s cult stat on HBO, “High Matenance” has always ptured the heart and soul of ntemporary New York Cy (or more realistilly, Brooklyn) profound ways — how uld not be gay?
THE WCHER WAS SUPER GAY WAY BEFORE SEASON 3
Though the gay hoekeeper didn’t ma past the pilot, “The Goln Girls” broke ground for gay dienc by liverg four hilar women of a certa age, easy stand-s for gay men and lbians alike. ” Based on his own memoir, “I’m Special: And Other Li We Tell Ourselv, ” O’Connell plays Ryan Kay, a gay man wh cerebral palsy who’s still livg wh his mother, Karen (Jsi Hecht).
We hear the phrase “sexualy is a spectm” all the time (or at least I do New York and on Gay Twter), but filmmaker Diree Akhavan is here to poke around wh that phrase and see jt how unfortable n make people, gay or straight alike.
Police Capta Raymond Holt (played by Andre Brgher who got his start playg a p on Homici: Life on the Street) has been openly gay sce the show’s begng, provg not all gay televisn characters need to be boozy hairstylists or flight attendants. Behd door number one is Derrick, played by EastSir’s Stephen Guaro, the “offensively stereotypil gay” who is brought to be Penny's (the ever-hilar Casey Wilson) replacement GBF.