Tom Holland’s Gay Sex Scene 'The Crowd Room' Defend by Fans

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• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS
• 14 TV SHOWS THAT BROKE GROUND WH GAY AND TRANSGENR CHARACTERS

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS

To celebrate this tone queer visibily, we looked back over the past three s and round up the 30 most inic LGBTQ characters TV history, om loveable gay uple Mchell and Cameron to trans trailblazers like Sophia Burset. Even though Jack McFarland’s character has received a mixed receptn for perpetuatg gay stereotyp, he’s one of the longt nng and most inic queer characters on televisn, appearg ten seasons and 188 episos of Will & Grace to date. Mark Inlito has gone on rerd to say that he received a lot of fan mail for his portrayal, wh young gay kids ‘thankg’ him bee they’d never seen themselv reprented on televisn before.

Eric Effng (played by Ncuti Gatwa) provis the edic relief Netflix’s Sex Edutn, but the character has also been praised for his more ser storyl, such as Eric’s difficult relatnship wh his fay who disapprove of his sexualy and Eric’s romance wh Adam, a character at his high school who bulli him bee he’s gay. Ugly Betty, an Amerin remake of the Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea, was praised at the time for s reprentatn of a Latx fay, but the show also serv applse for Jt Suarez (played by Mark Inlito), who was one of a few gay teen characters at the time.

14 TV SHOWS THAT BROKE GROUND WH GAY AND TRANSGENR CHARACTERS

Mchell Prchett and his hband, Cameron Tucker, were one of the central upl on Morn Fay, which ran om 2009 to 2020 and was one of the first TV shows at the time to feature a gay married uple s st. It may appear quat now, when we have TV seri like Hulu’s Love, Victor (about a Latx teen explorg sexual fluidy) or Netflix’s Bondg (about sex work and alternative sexualy), but the great gay panic set off by Ellen DeGener g out on her s 1997 was a bombshell that didn’t necsarily nvce the works that they’d open the gat to LGBTQ experienc. Luckily Will & Grace buted 1998 and the groundbreakg NBC seri nvced many that gay people might not be so toxic (and wouldn’t sre off advertisers) — so much so that Vice Print Joe Bin later creded wh changg his md about same-sex marriage.

Dpe the fact that lns of Amerins wnsed two men raise a happy and healthy dghter om the fort of their livg room sofas, took a fan mpaign to lobby Disney-owned ABC to fally allow Mchell (gay actor Jse Tyler Fergon) and Cameron (straight actor Eric Stontreet) to kiss ( fally happened 2010). From the Roy Cohn-flected Army-McCarthy heargs — which was the first time many people heard the word “homosexual” uttered on TV — through the “don’t ask, don’t tell” Neti, that clud The Goln Girls and Digng Women, to our current glter-and-glam era of RuPl’s Drag Race and almost-anythg-go pansexualy.

In that way, ’s breakg siar ground to the Sundance Now seri This Close, om af actors Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman, about a straight woman and gay man who are bti lookg for love and unrstandg. And while the seri received as much hate mail as adoratn — an evable byproduct of beg the first show to have openly gay male lead characters — lasted eight seasons before endg 2006. It was Cher-lovg Jack (Sean Hay) and alholic, right-wg sociale Karen (Megan Mullally) as much as Will (Eric McCormack) and Grace (Debra Msg) that enared Amerins to the sassy s, wh l like: “Commandment number one the gay bible: Thou shalt not vet my ex’s ass.