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Nearly 25 years after That '70s Show premiered, Reyn Doi speaks to PEOPLE about playg openly gay teen Ozzie on the Netflix reboot That '90s Show" emprop="scriptn

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

"That '70s Show" has been given the reboot treatment at Netflix, and the s has troduced a new character Ozzie who out as gay. * the 90s show gay *

Lookg to revent herself, Leia starts to realize that through new iendships and adventur she may be able to do jt that Pot Place, jt like her parents did all those years before viewers appeared divid by LGBTQ reprentatn the show, cludg character Ozzie (Reyn Doi) who out as gay durg the first season. " In the first season, Ozzie me out as gay. In That '90s Show, Ozzie is out and proud wh his clost iends, namely Leia, her neighbor Gwen (Ashley Aufrhei), Gwen's brother Nate (Maxwell Acee Donovan), and his girliend Nikki (Sam Morelos) is also another sweet moment the first season, where Ozzie tells Kty about his sexualy and asks her if she was "okay" wh the fact that he is gay, to which she rponds that of urse she is okay wh , and giv him a storyle and the cln of a gay character has been hailed as groundbreakg, wh Canadian LGBTQ publitn In Magaze sayg Ozzie "leads the charge for a wele change reprentatn" ss.

Reflectg on the show as a whole, one viewer said they "love the cln of a gay character, " while another hailed the scene which Kty reacted to Ozzie tellg her that he is viewer wrote: "THE SCENE WHEN OZZIE ASKED KITTY IF SHES OK WITH HIM BEING GAY & KITTY BEING SO ACCEPTING OF IT IS MAKING ME HAPPY CRY [sic]"THE SCENE WHEN OZZIE ASKED KITTY IF SHES OK WITH HIM BEING GAY & KITTY BEING SO ACCEPTING OF IT IS MAKING ME HAPPY CRY????? #That90sShow— ✨?✨ (@toriimariaa) January 19, 2023. Is believable there would be a gay teenager who's out to his iends and they're jt ok wh WISCONSIN of all plac the 1990s?!

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A character named Ozzie appears as one of the ma members of the young st That ‘90s Show. He brgs a new perspective to a anchise that didn’t exactly portray gay characters a wele light prevly. Ozzie is played by actor Reyn Doi and n be seen as an outlier much to the same gree that Wilmer Valrrama’s Fez was That ‘70s Show. * the 90s show gay *

Well I'll take a normal teenage life for a gay kid on TV over hate crime storyl"Look I love reprentatn but like #That90sShow... Well I'll take a normal teenage life for a gay kid on TV over hate crime storyl— ?ℝ?? (@krztophr) January 19, 2023.

Some viewers also bated the character of Leia, wh one viewer sayg was "a sad realy" that she was unlikely to be gay bee the show already featured Ozzie. Pl the one gay character on the show is one of the most annoyg characters i've ever seen"my roommate is makg me watch that 90s show and they aren’t lbians??? Pl the one gay character on the show is one of the most annoyg characters i’ve ever seen— raven (@lbian_fabray) January 20, 2023.

GAY PRI REMAS COMPLITED ON THAT '90S SHOW

A mory of Twter ers cricized the show for even cludg one gay character, claimg Netflix had ma That '90s Show "woke.

"One person wrote: "#That90sShow Hate How @flix gave to the woke agenda wh the 'gay' kid character ? talk about g a show.. "#That90sShow Hate How @flix gave to the woke agenda wh the "gay" kid character ? talk about g a show.. Some viewers may have fotten that That '70s Show actually ma history when me to gay reprentatn on Amerin televisn, as was the first to feature a kiss between two male characters on North Amerin primetime the show's but season, Joseph Gordon-Levt, a meo as Buddy Man "Eric's Buddy, " was a lab partner of Topher Grace's bondg all episo and startg to believe that Eric might also be gay, Buddy cid to kiss his classmate.

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Most prompts for gay porn, meanwhile, explibly flt to people of ambiguoly LatX scent wh an unrcut hairstyle. Is that ditive of the typ of gay porn the mols were traed on?

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A gay uple, as picted by Unstable Diffn. The four-part seri vtigat the stori surroundg a serial killer who targeted gay men a seri of btal murrs and dismemberments the 1990s.

"Like his victims, who were bisexual and gay, Rogers is a gay man, per his trial ’s book go over some of his bgraphil tails: Rogers was the elst of five children born to a fay Plymouth, had had n-s wh the law before for siarly morbid allegatns. A total of four murrs were brought up at his trial, but he was only charged Thomas Mulhy and Anthony Marrero’s four victims were middle-aged, gay or bisexual men, last seen at gay bars Manhattan.

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In July 1993, Michael Sakara, a gay man his 50s, left Five Oaks Piano Bar, where he was a regular, wh Rogers and was never seen aga. Buddy was smart and rich and had a ol r, and as happened, he was gay.

Nobody the episo shamed or berated him, and nobody exprsed any homophobic disgt when he wasn’t earshot. Even if he didn’t get the guy, he still got to be a gay teenage boy livg a normal life.

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There are plenty of theori about why Buddy never returned to That ‘70s Show, cludg that the dience rejected the ia of a gay character. Fenton never explicly me out, but sce half the thgs he said were gay nuendos, wasn’t hard to gus which team he was on.

Once aga, he allowed That ’70s Show to be a most-of-the-way ally for the queer muny, phg thgs a ltle beyond the norm whout gog full gay like Will and Grace or Buffy the Vampire Slayer. By ntrast, Ozzie (Reyn Doi) is openly gay om the moment he appears on That ’90s Show.

Instead of always beg “the gay one, ” he’s the sarstic, wty one who happens to be gay. The seri kd of addrs this when Ozzie explas how tratg is to be a gay kid small-town Wisns, and do let his Canadian boyiend be a real person stead of a figment of his imagatn.

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