Gav MacIntosh Discs His Gay Kiss On the Fosters and What's Next For Him

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• TV’S HISTORIC GAY KISS: FROM ‘DAWSON’S CREEK’ TO ‘THE FOSTERS’
• GABE BERGADOUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 11:57AM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 04, 2015 8:37PM EST VIA YOUTUBEIN THE PILOT OF THE FOSTERS, 13-YEAR-OLD JU JAB, PLAYED BY HAYN BYERLY, IS WELED TO STEF ADAMS FOSTER AND LENA ADAMS FOSTER’S HOME AFTER BEG TOSSED AROUND THE BROKEN FOSTER RE SYSTEM. IN STEF, LENA, AND A HOEHOLD FULL OF OTHER SIBLGS, JAB HAS FALLY FOUND A HOME WHERE HE N FEEL SAFE AND A FAY WHOM HE N PEND ON.THIS PAST SEASONS HAS BEEN CLOSELY TRACKG THE RELATNSHIP OF JU AND SCHOOLMATE CONNOR (GAV MACTOSH), WHOSE CLOSE IENDSHIP HAS BEEN GRADUALLY BLOSSOMG TO FIRST LOVE. ON MONDAY’S EPISO, THE TWO SHARED AN ON-AIR KISS AFTER WEEKS OF MIXED MSAG AND FLIRTATNS OM CONNOR. THE KISS BETWEEN 7TH-GRARS JU AND CONNOR IS BEG HAILED AS A MOMENTO OCSN FOR LGBT YOUTH: THE YOUNGT LIP-LOCK BETWEEN TWO GAY CHARACTERS TO EVER AIR ON NATNAL TELEVISN.THE DAILY BEAST CHATTED WH BYERLY, 15, TO FD OUT THE BACKSTORY BEHD THE HISTORIC SMOOCH AND WHAT HE THKS OF THE “JONNOR” IENDSHIP MOVG TO ROMANCE. SO, HOW DID YOU AND GAV PREPARE FOR THE BIG SCENE? OVER A LONG PERD OF TIME. IT TOOK A WHILE TO GET TO THE POT WHERE THE WRERS WERE ABLE TO WRE TO THE STORY JT BEE GAV AND I WEREN’T REALLY FORTABLE EARLY ON PLAYG THIS ROLE AND DOG SUCH A SER THG WH ONE ANOTHER. IT’S KD OF TERTG TO KISS SOMEONE WHO YOU’RE IENDS WH WHO’S ALSO THE SAME SEX WHEN YOU’RE TERTED THE OPPOSE SEX. THEY BROUGHT UP THE IA CLOSE TO THE END OF SEASON ONE AND THAT’S WHEN THEY STARTED TALKG TO MORE ABOUT . AND TO PREPARE FOR , GAV AND I STARTED THKG ABOUT ALL THE DIFFERENT PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE WATCHG THIS AND THE DIFFERENCE THAT WOULD MAKE THE WORLD. IF THAT’S THE MOTIVE OF WHAT YOU’RE DOG THEN YOU HAVE A PRETTY GOOD REASON TO DO . IT WAS A LONG TIME OF KD OF G TO TERMS THAT WE’D BE KISSG EACH OTHER. WHEN YOU TWO FALLY PULL BACK OM THE KISS, THERE’S A LOOK OF NFN ON BOTH OF YOUR FAC. WHAT DO YOU THK WAS GOG THROUGH JU AND CONNOR’S HEADS?I THK THE NFN ON JU’S FACE WAS BEE CONNOR WAS KISSG DARIA AND NOW HE HAD KISSED JU. HE WAS NFED AS TO WHOM CONNOR LIKED AND I THK THAT REALLY PLAYED THROUGH JU’S HEAD. LIKE, “WA A MUTE. HE JT KISSED ME BUT HE’S BEEN KISSG DARIA. HOW DO THAT WORK?” AND CONNOR WAS SORT OF NFED THE SAME WAY. HE’S LIKE, “I LIKE KISSG JU, BUT I’M TOLD I SHOULD BE KISSG DARIA.” THE NFN WAS A LTLE DIFFERENT FOR BOTH OF THEM, BUT THE END THEY’RE BOTH NFED ABOUT WHO CONNOR WAS ACTUALLY ATTRACTED TO.FROM THE PKY HOLDG THE MOVIE THEATER TO THE ACTUAL KISS, SEEMS LIKE CONNOR HAS BEEN MAKG THE FIRST MOVE A LOT OF THE TIME. HOW’S THIS AFFECTG JU AND CONNOR’S IENDSHIP?IT’S TERTG. IT’S LIKE WHEN JU SAID THAT CONNOR WAS THE ONE THAT KISSED HIM THE TENT, YET CONNOR HAS BEEN IATG THE NTACT BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM. BUT AT THE SAME TIME HE’S NOT EXPRSG HOW HE FEELS. SO I THK JU IS KD OF NFED ABOUT THAT—HE DON’T REALLY KNOW HOW TO HANDLE THAT, OR WHAT TO DO. HE’S JT STG BACK AND LETTG CONNOR FIGURE OUT WHAT HE’S FORTABLE WH AND HOW HE FEELS AND JU’S JT WAG FOR HIM TO KNOW HOW HE FEELS BEE JU UNRSTANDS HIMSELF AND KNOWS WHAT HE LIK.HOW MIGHT CONNOR AND JU’S PARENTS REACT TO THE NEWS THAT THEY’VE KISSED?I THK THAT STEF AND LENA HAVE BEEN THROUGH SOME OF THE ISSU BEFORE AND THEY’RE BOTH GAY SO THEY’LL BE VERY UNRSTANDG AND LOVG, AND THEY’RE MORE OPEN ABOUT WHETHER JU IS GAY OR STRAIGHT. AND THEY’RE A LOT MORE ACCEPTG OF HOW HE FEELS THAN CONNOR’S DAD. I THK THAT ’S GOG TO BE TERTG TO SEE THEM MAYBE BUTT HEADS A LTLE B BEE I DON’T THK CONNOR’S DAD WILL BE VERY ACCEPTG—WE’VE SEEN HE’S BEEN KD OF HOMOPHOBIC. IT’LL BE VERY OL TO SEE HOW HE AND THE MOMS REACT TO JUDD AND CONNOR EVENTUALLY TELLG THEM THIS. HOW DO YOU THK LGBT YOUTH FELT WATCHG THE SCENE?I HOPE THEY FELT HAPPY. IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO PORTRAY A CHARACTER THAT IS GOG THROUGH A STGGLE THAT SO MANY PEOPLE GO THROUGH. I WANT PEOPLE TO WATCH THE SHOW AND SEE THE STGGLE THAT JU GO THOUGH AND FEEL MORE FORTABLE ABOUT THEMSELV; TO FEEL LIKE DON’T MATTER WHETHER YOU ARE GAY OR STRAIGHT OR BISEXUAL OR TRANSGENR OR WHATEVER YOU ARE, THAT YOU ARE HAPPY WH WHO YOU ARE, AND THAT YOU ARE ACCEPTG OF YOURSELF. MY HOPE IS THAT PEOPLE WATCH THE SCENE AND THEY ARE HAPPY TO SEE SOMETHG ON TELEVISN THAT REPRENTS THEM. THEY N SEE THEMSELV ON TELEVISN AND SAY, “I’M JT LIKE JU, I GO THROUGH THE STGGL, I’M SO CUR ABOUT MY SEXUALY, I’VE BEEN THROUGH THE FOSTER SYSTEM.” AND THEY’RE HAPPY THEY N SEE THAT ONT OF SO MANY PEOPLE AND FEEL AS THOUGH ’S OKAY, AND ’S NOT A BAD THG.THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF POSIVE REACTNS OM FANS ABOUT THE KISS. BUT HOW DO YOU AL WH THE NEGATIVE PEOPLE OUT THERE?I KD OF JT IGNORE . IF PEOPLE HAVE THEIR OWN PERSONAL OPNS ABOUT DIFFERENT THGS, THAT’S FE. RELIGN IS ONE OF THOSE THGS THAT’S A VERY TOUGH TOPIC. A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE THEIR RELIG BELIEFS AND THEY THK THAT THE BIBLE OR WHATEVER THEY BELIEVE IS THE RIGHT THG TO FOLLOW. I THK THAT IF PEOPLE WANT TO BELIEVE THAT THAT’S OK, I JT THK THAT THEY SHOULDN’T TRY TO MAKE THOSE WHO FEEL DIFFERENTLY CHANGE THEIR MDS OR FEEL BAD ABOUT THEMSELV.WHAT ARE YOU EXCED ABOUT MOST REGARDS TO JONNOR?THE IMPACT AND THE DIFFERENCE THAT THEY MAKE. I THK THAT’S SO EXCG. THIS IS THE YOUNGT SAME-SEX KISS ON NATNAL TELEVISN. I’M VERY HONORED TO BE A PART OF THAT AND BE SOMEONE THAT N HELP ALL THE KIDS GOG THROUGH THE STGGL AND HARD TIM AND MAKE THEM FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEMSELV. GABE BERGADO
• THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR

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

100% discrimatn & homophobia! "RELATED | Cast And Co-Creators of The Fosters Discs Reactn To Gay KissAfter all died down, how has affected the young man's reer?

Hontly, four or five years ago, when I began actg, I would never have expected to be playg a gay character or to be here talkg about this, " Mactosh says. " 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.

GABE BERGADOUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 11:57AM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 04, 2015 8:37PM EST VIA YOUTUBEIN THE PILOT OF THE FOSTERS, 13-YEAR-OLD JU JAB, PLAYED BY HAYN BYERLY, IS WELED TO STEF ADAMS FOSTER AND LENA ADAMS FOSTER’S HOME AFTER BEG TOSSED AROUND THE BROKEN FOSTER RE SYSTEM. IN STEF, LENA, AND A HOEHOLD FULL OF OTHER SIBLGS, JAB HAS FALLY FOUND A HOME WHERE HE N FEEL SAFE AND A FAY WHOM HE N PEND ON.THIS PAST SEASONS HAS BEEN CLOSELY TRACKG THE RELATNSHIP OF JU AND SCHOOLMATE CONNOR (GAV MACTOSH), WHOSE CLOSE IENDSHIP HAS BEEN GRADUALLY BLOSSOMG TO FIRST LOVE. ON MONDAY’S EPISO, THE TWO SHARED AN ON-AIR KISS AFTER WEEKS OF MIXED MSAG AND FLIRTATNS OM CONNOR. THE KISS BETWEEN 7TH-GRARS JU AND CONNOR IS BEG HAILED AS A MOMENTO OCSN FOR LGBT YOUTH: THE YOUNGT LIP-LOCK BETWEEN TWO GAY CHARACTERS TO EVER AIR ON NATNAL TELEVISN.THE DAILY BEAST CHATTED WH BYERLY, 15, TO FD OUT THE BACKSTORY BEHD THE HISTORIC SMOOCH AND WHAT HE THKS OF THE “JONNOR” IENDSHIP MOVG TO ROMANCE. SO, HOW DID YOU AND GAV PREPARE FOR THE BIG SCENE? OVER A LONG PERD OF TIME. IT TOOK A WHILE TO GET TO THE POT WHERE THE WRERS WERE ABLE TO WRE TO THE STORY JT BEE GAV AND I WEREN’T REALLY FORTABLE EARLY ON PLAYG THIS ROLE AND DOG SUCH A SER THG WH ONE ANOTHER. IT’S KD OF TERTG TO KISS SOMEONE WHO YOU’RE IENDS WH WHO’S ALSO THE SAME SEX WHEN YOU’RE TERTED THE OPPOSE SEX. THEY BROUGHT UP THE IA CLOSE TO THE END OF SEASON ONE AND THAT’S WHEN THEY STARTED TALKG TO MORE ABOUT . AND TO PREPARE FOR , GAV AND I STARTED THKG ABOUT ALL THE DIFFERENT PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE WATCHG THIS AND THE DIFFERENCE THAT WOULD MAKE THE WORLD. IF THAT’S THE MOTIVE OF WHAT YOU’RE DOG THEN YOU HAVE A PRETTY GOOD REASON TO DO . IT WAS A LONG TIME OF KD OF G TO TERMS THAT WE’D BE KISSG EACH OTHER. WHEN YOU TWO FALLY PULL BACK OM THE KISS, THERE’S A LOOK OF NFN ON BOTH OF YOUR FAC. WHAT DO YOU THK WAS GOG THROUGH JU AND CONNOR’S HEADS?I THK THE NFN ON JU’S FACE WAS BEE CONNOR WAS KISSG DARIA AND NOW HE HAD KISSED JU. HE WAS NFED AS TO WHOM CONNOR LIKED AND I THK THAT REALLY PLAYED THROUGH JU’S HEAD. LIKE, “WA A MUTE. HE JT KISSED ME BUT HE’S BEEN KISSG DARIA. HOW DO THAT WORK?” AND CONNOR WAS SORT OF NFED THE SAME WAY. HE’S LIKE, “I LIKE KISSG JU, BUT I’M TOLD I SHOULD BE KISSG DARIA.” THE NFN WAS A LTLE DIFFERENT FOR BOTH OF THEM, BUT THE END THEY’RE BOTH NFED ABOUT WHO CONNOR WAS ACTUALLY ATTRACTED TO.FROM THE PKY HOLDG THE MOVIE THEATER TO THE ACTUAL KISS, SEEMS LIKE CONNOR HAS BEEN MAKG THE FIRST MOVE A LOT OF THE TIME. HOW’S THIS AFFECTG JU AND CONNOR’S IENDSHIP?IT’S TERTG. IT’S LIKE WHEN JU SAID THAT CONNOR WAS THE ONE THAT KISSED HIM THE TENT, YET CONNOR HAS BEEN IATG THE NTACT BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM. BUT AT THE SAME TIME HE’S NOT EXPRSG HOW HE FEELS. SO I THK JU IS KD OF NFED ABOUT THAT—HE DON’T REALLY KNOW HOW TO HANDLE THAT, OR WHAT TO DO. HE’S JT STG BACK AND LETTG CONNOR FIGURE OUT WHAT HE’S FORTABLE WH AND HOW HE FEELS AND JU’S JT WAG FOR HIM TO KNOW HOW HE FEELS BEE JU UNRSTANDS HIMSELF AND KNOWS WHAT HE LIK.HOW MIGHT CONNOR AND JU’S PARENTS REACT TO THE NEWS THAT THEY’VE KISSED?I THK THAT STEF AND LENA HAVE BEEN THROUGH SOME OF THE ISSU BEFORE AND THEY’RE BOTH GAY SO THEY’LL BE VERY UNRSTANDG AND LOVG, AND THEY’RE MORE OPEN ABOUT WHETHER JU IS GAY OR STRAIGHT. AND THEY’RE A LOT MORE ACCEPTG OF HOW HE FEELS THAN CONNOR’S DAD. I THK THAT ’S GOG TO BE TERTG TO SEE THEM MAYBE BUTT HEADS A LTLE B BEE I DON’T THK CONNOR’S DAD WILL BE VERY ACCEPTG—WE’VE SEEN HE’S BEEN KD OF HOMOPHOBIC. IT’LL BE VERY OL TO SEE HOW HE AND THE MOMS REACT TO JUDD AND CONNOR EVENTUALLY TELLG THEM THIS. HOW DO YOU THK LGBT YOUTH FELT WATCHG THE SCENE?I HOPE THEY FELT HAPPY. IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO PORTRAY A CHARACTER THAT IS GOG THROUGH A STGGLE THAT SO MANY PEOPLE GO THROUGH. I WANT PEOPLE TO WATCH THE SHOW AND SEE THE STGGLE THAT JU GO THOUGH AND FEEL MORE FORTABLE ABOUT THEMSELV; TO FEEL LIKE DON’T MATTER WHETHER YOU ARE GAY OR STRAIGHT OR BISEXUAL OR TRANSGENR OR WHATEVER YOU ARE, THAT YOU ARE HAPPY WH WHO YOU ARE, AND THAT YOU ARE ACCEPTG OF YOURSELF. MY HOPE IS THAT PEOPLE WATCH THE SCENE AND THEY ARE HAPPY TO SEE SOMETHG ON TELEVISN THAT REPRENTS THEM. THEY N SEE THEMSELV ON TELEVISN AND SAY, “I’M JT LIKE JU, I GO THROUGH THE STGGL, I’M SO CUR ABOUT MY SEXUALY, I’VE BEEN THROUGH THE FOSTER SYSTEM.” AND THEY’RE HAPPY THEY N SEE THAT ONT OF SO MANY PEOPLE AND FEEL AS THOUGH ’S OKAY, AND ’S NOT A BAD THG.THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF POSIVE REACTNS OM FANS ABOUT THE KISS. BUT HOW DO YOU AL WH THE NEGATIVE PEOPLE OUT THERE?I KD OF JT IGNORE . IF PEOPLE HAVE THEIR OWN PERSONAL OPNS ABOUT DIFFERENT THGS, THAT’S FE. RELIGN IS ONE OF THOSE THGS THAT’S A VERY TOUGH TOPIC. A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE THEIR RELIG BELIEFS AND THEY THK THAT THE BIBLE OR WHATEVER THEY BELIEVE IS THE RIGHT THG TO FOLLOW. I THK THAT IF PEOPLE WANT TO BELIEVE THAT THAT’S OK, I JT THK THAT THEY SHOULDN’T TRY TO MAKE THOSE WHO FEEL DIFFERENTLY CHANGE THEIR MDS OR FEEL BAD ABOUT THEMSELV.WHAT ARE YOU EXCED ABOUT MOST REGARDS TO JONNOR?THE IMPACT AND THE DIFFERENCE THAT THEY MAKE. I THK THAT’S SO EXCG. THIS IS THE YOUNGT SAME-SEX KISS ON NATNAL TELEVISN. I’M VERY HONORED TO BE A PART OF THAT AND BE SOMEONE THAT N HELP ALL THE KIDS GOG THROUGH THE STGGL AND HARD TIM AND MAKE THEM FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEMSELV. GABE BERGADO

It should be that, havg a gay kiss onscreen is the same as a straight kiss, " he says.

Gay Star News spoke wh the young actors, Hayn Byerly (Ju) and Gav MacIntosh (Connor), and the show's -creators and executive producers, Peter Paige and Bradley Breweg, at the 2015 GLAAD Media Awards Los Angel. "The full story n be read on Gay Star News. The Brish die band say they've been banned om Kuala Lumpur after 'gay stage kiss'.

THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR

Brish die rockers The 1975 have fallen foul of Malaysian thori by prottg agast the untry's strict anti-homosexual laws.

Lead sger Matty Healy sparked fury wh the ernment by attackg the anti-gay legislatn and kissg a male bandmate durg their performance at the start of the Good Vib Ftival last night. Homosexualy is a crime the untry that is punishable by up to 20 years prison and agency charge of approvg performanc by foreign artists said was disappoted wh the band's nduct, llg "an sult and disrpectg the laws of the untry.

" It said the group will be blacklisted om performg wasn't the first time that Healy ed the stage to fend lbian and gay rights. In 2019, he kissed a male fan durg a ncert the Uned Arab Emirat, which also outlaws homosexual acts, acrdg to media reports.