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A former "Saturday Night Live" st member nsired the gay kiss between Kurt and Blae on last week's episo of "Glee" to be tantamount to a "edy sk."

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

Kurt is the first gay character to e out season one of Glee, and is badly bullied for . However, Dave later reveals he is gay after tryg to kiss Kurt season two. (skip to 26:40)RoseanneABC's Roseanne embraced ntroversy, cludg numero gay-clive moments.

In a 1994 episo, Roseanne shared a kiss wh Mariel Hemgway, who played a lbian stripper at a lol gay bar. Although this was not the first lbian kiss on the show, was the first not done to thwart creepy men htg on Warrr Prcs Durg the 1990s and 2000s, viewers excedly watched actrs Lucy Lawls (Xena) and Renee O'Connor (Gabrielle) lock lips on several ocsns, all while wonrg if the two were gay or not. In an terview, Lucy Lawls stated Xena was "fely gay.

25 UNFETTABLE GAY TV KISS

However, a recent episo ma headl for featurg TV's youngt gay kiss history: It occurred between teenage characters Ju and & Grace Classic edy Will & Grace had dienc cheerg durg a 2000 episo when Will and Jack locked lips. "Brothers & Sisters In the first season of ABC drama Brothers & Sisters, gay character Kev (Matthew Rhys) locked lips wh Stty (Le Macfarlane) 2006. Although this was not the first gay kiss on work televisn, Kev was one of the few major gay characters on TV at that FayIt wasn't that long ago -- jt 2010 -- that a Facebook mpaign was lnched llg on the creators of Morn Fay to let same-sex uple Mch and Cam share a kiss on screen.

Wh that over wh, now there have been plenty of kiss sce and a same-sex weddg, of Our LivAlthough late to the party, NBC's Days of Our Liv aired s first gay kiss 2012, between Will (Chandler Massey) and Neil (Jse Kristofferson). Even though Days didn't lead the pack, still was appld for cludg a gay s six seasons, Ryan Murphy's Glee unabashedly embraced LGBT storyl.

'GLEE' GAY KISS IS 'SICKENG': 'SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE' ALUM VICTORIA JACKSON

LookgAs the HBO dramedy centered on gay men, had no shortage of same-sex kissg, but the kiss between protagonist Patrick (Jonathan Groff) and Kev (Rsell Tovey) had the extra forbidn air -- Kev was not only partnered, he was Patrick's is the New BlackWe uldn't have this list and not feature the impet for ! Jt prr to that, the drama thirtysomethg lost over a ln dollars advertisg for simply showg two gay men bed together. Six years later, the stgglg ABC seri Relativy showed the first romantic kiss between two gay characters (one of whom was played by Hoe's Lisa Elste).

And though the first gay teenager on TV was played by Ryan Phillippe on One Life to Live 1992, took until 2001 for the first kiss between gay teens to take place on Dawson's Creek—and the amount of prs voted to the event was recent years, the teenage characters of Le and Noah had the first daytime gay kiss on As the World Turns, and primetime seri cludg Ugly Betty and Dperate Hoewiv have aired liplocks between s young gay characters. In the distant past of 1993, gay marriage wasn’t legal any state the untry.

Sodomy laws all over Ameri attempted to outlaw gay sex by crimalizg any oral or anal erotic ntact. And Dan Savage, a sex-advice lumnist then only known to rears of a few pennt alt-newspapers around the untry, was pable of makg breakout news wh a sndalo revelatn: Mattel’s latt Ken doll, part of the Earrg Magic le of Barbie toys, was openly moled on gay fashn.

VICTORIA JACKSON BRANDS GLEE GAY KISS SCENE 'SICKENG'

“For about a year every gay boy at a rave was wearg at least one, ” Savage wrote.

“What the ltle girls were seeg, and tellg Mattel was ol, wasn’t what their relatns were wearg — unls they had hip queer relativ — but the homoerotic fashns and imagery they were seeg on MTV, what they saw Madonna’s dancers wearg her ncerts and films and, as happens, what ACT UP/Queer Natn fags and dyk were wearg to mos and rav, ” Savage wrote. The gay kissg scen had on the edge of our seats! HBO/Foc Featur/HuluEven 2023, ’s still not entirely mon for movi and TV shows to promently feature scen between two gay men kissg.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY KISSING SCENE GLEE

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

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