Gay Kiss on TV: From 'Dawson's Creek' to 'The Fosters'

Contents:

• SIZZLG ! 20 YEARS AGO, THIS GAY KISS MA TV HISTORY: WATCH
• GROUNDBREAKG ON-SCREEN GAY KISS THROUGH HISTORY
• 10 MILTONE MOMENTS GAY TV HISTORY
• ‘RIVERDALE’ STAR KERR SMH ON TV’S FIRST GAY KISS: ‘IT WAS TENSE’
• FROM ELLEN TO G KENWORTHY: A HISTORY OF GAY KISS ON TV
• LGBT REPRENTATN ON TV THROUGH THE AG – OM EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY KISS TO TRANSGENR SUPERHERO
• 25 UNFETTABLE GAY TV KISS
• WHEN WAS THE FIRST GAY TV SERI? EXPLORG THE HISTORY OF LGBT+ REPRENTATN ON THE SMALL SCREEN
• TV’S HISTORIC GAY KISS: FROM ‘DAWSON’S CREEK’ TO ‘THE FOSTERS’

SIZZLG ! 20 YEARS AGO, THIS GAY KISS MA TV HISTORY: WATCH

TV's First Gay Kiss — ‘Dawson's Creek'. The episo featured TV's first gay kiss, between Kerr Smh's character Jack McPhee's and his prom date Ethan (Adam Kfman).

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GROUNDBREAKG ON-SCREEN GAY KISS THROUGH HISTORY

Groundbreakg on-screen gay kiss through historyThe NBC seri "L. (Youtube) From TV's first same-sex kiss ever to Disney's first gay kiss on "Star vs.

The first same-sex Hallmark kiss ever was featured the 2020 holiday movie The Christmas Hoe, which starred Mean Girls alum Jonathan Bent and -star Brad Harr as a gay uple. RELATED | The Straight Brother In Lifetime's The Christmas Setup Is Gay, Too.

1/48CBS1971: All the FayAll the Fay ma LGBT history when troduced the first gay character primetime 1971, revealg that Archie Bunker's bar buddy Steve was gay. The movie is noted for pictg homosexualy a sympathetic—read: normal—light.

10 MILTONE MOMENTS GAY TV HISTORY

4/48YouTube1975: Hot l BalmoreThe Norman Lear s starrg Jam Cromwell, Charlotte Rae and Conchata Ferrell had perhaps the first pictn of a gay uple on an Amerin TV seri. The character was divisive at the time—early plots had him wantg to bee a woman, he dated several women—but ultimately he was primetime TV's first gay dad.

8/48FOX1991: RocOne of Fox's first shows, Roc, was the first to have a gay weddg on TV. In a "very special episo, " Roc fds out his uncle is gay and has a partner. 10/481992: One Life to LiveIn 1992, the world met One Life to Live's Billy Douglas, played by a young Ryan Phillippe, the first gay teen character on daytime TV.

‘RIVERDALE’ STAR KERR SMH ON TV’S FIRST GAY KISS: ‘IT WAS TENSE’

12/48ABC1994: My So-Called LifeWhile One Life to Live had s first gay teen 1992, primetime's first openly gay teen seri regular character me to My So-Called Life's Enrique "Rickie" Vasquez, played by Wilson Cz. Pedro was openly gay and HIV-posive.

15/481997: Ellen"The Puppy Episo" of Ellen featured Ellen Man (Ellen DeGener) g out as gay, the same time the star me out on the ver of Time magaze, makg Ellen the first show to feature an openly lbian actrs playg an openly lbian character.

FROM ELLEN TO G KENWORTHY: A HISTORY OF GAY KISS ON TV

18/48WB1999: Dawson's CreekWhile lbian kiss beme a ratgs ploy for shows, TV's first "romantic" gay kiss didn't happen until 1999 on The WB.

22/48CBS2007: As the World TurnsMen were kissg primetime long before daytime fally got on board, but the soaps ught up 2007 when As the World Turns featured the first-ever gay kiss between two male characters, Le Snyr (Van Hansis) and Noah Mayer (Jake Silbermann). 23/48CBS2008: Rachel MaddowThe MSNBC anchor beme the first openly gay anchor of a primetime program on a major news work.

Right before Kerr Smh was pulled asi and told his “Dawson’s Creek” character Jack McPhee was gay, he thought he was beg fired. “There’s always a gay storyle, a lbian storyle or whatever.

LGBT REPRENTATN ON TV THROUGH THE AG – OM EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY KISS TO TRANSGENR SUPERHERO

I was talkg to Casey [Cott, who plays gay stunt Kev on ‘Riverdale’] and he’s playg pretty much the same character I played on ‘Dawson’s. 18), but he did sre a solid-gold moment when he gave his boyiend, Matt Wilkas, a quick kiss at the bottom of the embrace was ught live on TV by NBC as part of their Olympic footage, quickly went viral — and proved to be a tone for a young man who, as a youngster, never “dreamed of seeg a gay kiss on TV at the Olympics. 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. Here’s a ndown of 10 more famo gay kiss that have ma history on the small screen. Roseanne, 1994Roseanne Barr never shied away om ntroversial topics her h seri, and addrsed gay issu several tim on the show over the years.

25 UNFETTABLE GAY TV KISS

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.

WHEN WAS THE FIRST GAY TV SERI? EXPLORG THE HISTORY OF LGBT+ REPRENTATN ON THE SMALL SCREEN

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. 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 we may now take for granted the prence of queer figureheads on TV, ls than 30 years ago the mere prence of someone intifyg as gay uld send viewers to a tailsp, pecially as beg gay – or gay marriage – was illegal.

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

For ’s Pri Week, we’ve looked back through the years of LGBT relatnships on TV, celebratg landmark moments and trailblazg shownners who fied the odds to get the sential scen on air while startg to break down homophobia and transphobia the procs. Here are jt some of the characters and shows that broke new ground brgg lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer stori to our screens. 1989: Col Rsell and Guido Smh air first gay kiss on UK TV Eastenrs.

Col Rsell and Guido Smh aired the first lip-to-lip kiss on Eastenrs (Picture: BBC)In 1989, the first lip-to-lip gay kiss aired on Brish TV urty of Eastenrs.