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:
- FROM ELLEN TO G KENWORTHY: A HISTORY OF GAY KISS ON TV
- WHEN WAS THE FIRST GAY TV SERI? EXPLORG THE HISTORY OF LGBT+ REPRENTATN ON THE SMALL SCREEN
- LGBT REPRENTATN ON TV THROUGH THE AG – OM EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY KISS TO TRANSGENR SUPERHERO
- GROUNDBREAKG ON-SCREEN GAY KISS THROUGH HISTORY
- SIZZLG ! 20 YEARS AGO, THIS GAY KISS MA TV HISTORY: WATCH
- EXTRA: THE TV HISTORY OF GAY LIPLOCKS
- 10 MILTONE MOMENTS GAY TV HISTORY
- 25 UNFETTABLE GAY TV KISS
FROM ELLEN TO G KENWORTHY: A HISTORY OF GAY KISS ON TV
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My childhood self would never have dreamed of seeg a gay kiss on TV at the Olympics but for the first time ever a kid watchg at home CAN!
— G Kenworthy (@gkenworthy) Febary 19, 2018Although perhaps the first gay kiss televised om the Olympics, Kenworthy and Wilkas’s smooch is not the only same-sex one that’s been showsed on TV.
WHEN WAS THE FIRST GAY TV SERI? EXPLORG THE HISTORY OF LGBT+ REPRENTATN ON THE SMALL SCREEN
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LGBT REPRENTATN ON TV THROUGH THE AG – OM EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY KISS TO TRANSGENR SUPERHERO
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Roseanne, 1994Roseanne Barr never shied away om ntroversial topics her h seri, and addrsed gay issu several tim on the show over the years. Conner herself receiv the kiss om Mariel Hemgway, who plays a lbian stripper at a lol gay bar. 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. 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.
GROUNDBREAKG ON-SCREEN GAY KISS THROUGH HISTORY
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 reprentatn of gay characters TV seri has e a long way the last uple of s, has been a pafully slow procs to get to this pot. When did the first gay character appear on TV?
SIZZLG ! 20 YEARS AGO, THIS GAY KISS MA TV HISTORY: WATCH
In 1971, the year after the first-ever Pri para the US and when homosexualy was still nsired a disorr, All the Fay beme the first Amerin s to show a gay character on TV, only s fifth episo. The episo subverted gay stereotyp, as Archie Bunker mocks a man who he nsirs effemate, but turns out to be straight. It is later revealed that his macho, football-lovg drkg buddy Steve is actually gay.
EXTRA: THE TV HISTORY OF GAY LIPLOCKS
The gay character Peter Panama, played by Vcent Schiavelli, the US TV seri The Corner Bar.
A year later, 1972, US s The Corner Bar clud the first-ever gay seri regular on Amerin TV.
Rich Wanl, then-print of the Gay Activists Alliance, lled Peter “the worst stereotype of a gay person I’ve ever seen”.
10 MILTONE MOMENTS GAY TV HISTORY
While most early gay characters were siled, not given their own storyl or love terts, eventually same-sex upl began appearg on TV. Durg the same year as The Corner Bar, Atralia also saw s first gay seri regular – Don Flayson portrayed Joe Hasham on the serial Number 96 between 1972 and 1977. In 1975 ABC’s Hot l Baltimore featured the first gay uple on US work televisn.
25 UNFETTABLE GAY TV KISS
Gee and Gordon, played by Lee Bergere and Henry Calvert, were a middle-aged gay uple that appeared on the show, which was so ntroversial that was dropped by the work after six months on air.
It wasn’t until 1981 that a TV show wh a gay lead character was shown on primetime US televisn, when NBC’s Love, Sidney aired. However the show’s tular character Sidney Shorr, a sgle gay man, remas the closet for every one of the 40 episos. The UK trailed behd s LGBT+ TV reprentatn, and an openly gay character was not shown on TV until 1985, when the Liverpool-based soap Brooksi troduced Gordon Colls, played by Nigel Cowley.
In the UK, Eastenrs broadst the first gay kiss between Col Rsell (Michael Cashman) and his partner Barry Clark (Gary Hail) first kiss between two women on a UK TV seri was aired 1994.