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Contents:
- 25 UNFETTABLE GAY TV KISS
- HOW WILL & GRACE PAVED THE WAY FOR GAY CHARACTERS ON TV
- LGBT REPRENTATN ON TV THROUGH THE AG – OM EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY KISS TO TRANSGENR SUPERHERO
25 UNFETTABLE GAY TV KISS
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Joe Bin once said that Will & Grace "did more to te the Amerin public" on gay people, culture, and relatnships "than almost anybody’s ever done. " The s broke numero barriers the pictn of gay characters on work TV, and managed to do so a very meta way.
In the latt episo of PeopleTV's Couch Surfg, Will & Grace stars Eric McCormack and Sean Hay look back at memorable moments throughout the show, cludg Will and Jack's big kiss season 2 — one of the first gay kiss on work TV. The moment occurs as the duo are prottg after a schled kiss between two gay characters on TV (on NBC! Obvly, was a great big gay kiss on work TV.
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HOW WILL & GRACE PAVED THE WAY FOR GAY CHARACTERS ON TV
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LGBT REPRENTATN ON TV THROUGH THE AG – OM EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY KISS TO TRANSGENR SUPERHERO
The first season of Will & Grace spends a great al of time tablishg Will (Eric McCormack) as the qutsential straight leadg man, except that he happens to be gay. As seri -creator David Kohan put at the time, “The procs of self-disvery and the pa most gay men go through is fascatg, but the average Amerin is put off by . ” Th, as far as Season 1 is ncerned, y, Will is gay, but the implitn is that he is much “ls” gay than his flamboyant iend Jack (Sean Hay), whom he enjoys puttg down wh quips about him beg a woman trapped a man’s body.
It don’t seem like much the moment, but ’s somethg that realistilly portrays the ep securi that Will, and by extensn many gay men, suffer wh. “Homo for the Holidays” (Season 2, Episo 7).