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Contents:

• WATCH: TV'S FIRST GAY WEDDG IS A PERFECT SUMMATN OF HOW FAR AMERI HAS E
• 10 MILTONE MOMENTS GAY TV HISTORY
• 'THE FOSTERS' TO AIR TV'S FIRST GAY WEDDG SCE DOMA
• TV’S FIRST GAY WEDDG WAS BLACK, BOLD, AND BRILLIANT
• LGBT REPRENTATN ON TV THROUGH THE AG – OM EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY KISS TO TRANSGENR SUPERHERO
• MORE GAY MILTON TV HISTORY
• ‘THE FOSTERS’ TO AIR TV’S FIRST GAY WEDDG SCE DOMA 
• EXCLIVE: 'EMPIRE' TO AIR FIRST BLACK GAY WEDDG ON NETWORK TV
• DEIDRE HALL ON OFFICIATG DAYTIME TV'S FIRST GAY WEDDG
• 'EMPIRE' AIRS FIRST GAY BLACK WEDDG TV HISTORY
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• ‘DAYS OF OUR LIV’ TO MAKE TV HISTORY WH GAY MALE WEDDG (VIO)
• ‘DAYS OF OUR LIV’ TO AIR SOAPS’ FIRST GAY MALE WEDDG

WATCH: TV'S FIRST GAY WEDDG IS A PERFECT SUMMATN OF HOW FAR AMERI HAS E

(The Goln Girls had aired a gay "mment ceremony" earlier 1991, but the word marriage wasn't said. Near the end of the episo, Roc says he's not yet fortable wh his uncle beg gay, but he's learng to be "fortable wh beg unfortable, " which is a big step for him.

"Can't Help" is chock full of the sorts of easy gay jok that typified a lot of '90s edi featurg gay characters. At one pot, Andrew sists that he didn't thk black people uld be gay, bee they weren't scend om "sissy" Europeans. When Andrew tells him this is jt a phase, spurred by havg married an "ugly woman, " Rsell says that, no, he's been gay his whole life and jt lyg to himself.

What ma the battle for gay rights so different was that anybody uld be gay, so, siarly, anybody uld be prejudiced. The characters don't make all of the way to full acceptance of gay rights by the end of the episo.

10 MILTONE MOMENTS GAY TV HISTORY

" Roc posns the fight for gay rights as on a ntuum wh all other civil rights battl, and that was somethg few other elements of pop culture were alg wh at the time. Beg homophobic is simple when you don't know any gay people. It's far more plited when your own brother or uncle is gay.

Jt four FayMorn Fay ma great stris givg Ameri a gay uple that they uld not jt love, but one that they uld relate to. " Kev and Stty's weddg was a landmark moment for gay marriage on work ble, as "Prr Commtments" was the first same-sex marriage held between seri regulars on a work TV show, acrdg to Rollg 's AnatomyAfter seasons of pullg for the "" uple of Grey's Anatomy, Derek and Meredh, Grey's dienc were given a new uple to root for: Callie and Arizona.

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 FOSTERS' TO AIR TV'S FIRST GAY WEDDG SCE DOMA

The movie is noted for pictg homosexualy a sympathetic—read: normal—light.

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.

TV’S FIRST GAY WEDDG WAS BLACK, BOLD, AND BRILLIANT

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. 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.

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

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. 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.

MORE GAY MILTON TV HISTORY

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. So, the show’s sixth and penultimate season Rue McClanahan’s character Blanche was forced to nont her prejudic when her gay brother Clayton viss to announce his mment ceremony to his partner.

In “Can’t Help Lovg That Man, ” Roc’s uncle Rsell reveals that not only is he gay but he is planng on marryg his Csian lover. This the te story of an openly gay, HIV-posive Cuban immigrant whose missn life is to te the world about safe sex practic and acceptance of alternate liftyl.

He was picked to live a hoe wh 7 strangers, have his life taped, and fd out what happens when the world gas a new gay in. As seen the above picture, Roseanne’s visn for how the weddg should look is chock-full of gay stereotyp, and not at all what the actual uple wants. So, to the light of most viewg at home SNL opened wh a sketch volvg Sully and Denise at Donnie’s weddg only to fd out that was a gay weddg and Donnie was marryg a male lover played by Seth Meyers.

‘THE FOSTERS’ TO AIR TV’S FIRST GAY WEDDG SCE DOMA 

In the episo, Patty out as gay and tends to marry, but the ceremony is nceled at the last moment as her bri-to-be is revealed as a man disguise. It seems only ftg that South Park would do their gay marriage episo  the same year as The Simpsons, nsirg South Park creators’ Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s public lamentatns of havg to scrap storyle ias after beg rmed “Simpsons did . Slave is gog to marry Big Gay Al the day after Colorado legaliz same-sex marriage.

EXCLIVE: 'EMPIRE' TO AIR FIRST BLACK GAY WEDDG ON NETWORK TV

Not much to report here, jt the first gay weddg season fale and first gay central character om a primetime (as opposed to ble) show to get married. The third nuptials belonged to fictnal characters Stef Foster and Lena Adams of “The Fosters”—TV’s first gay characters to say “I do” sce the Supreme Court stck down the Defense of Marriage Act. The ABC Fay drama’s creators, Bradley Breweg and Peter Paige, cred “universal synergy” wh the impecble timg of the filmg of the garn ceremony on June 28, the same day two of the upl challengg Prop 8 California (which bans gay marriage) beme legally weddg is part of the show’s first season fale, which airs on Aug.

It was jt que a celebratn of the show, of what was happeng historilly for gay and lbian upl. The first show to feature a gay weddg was Fox's "Roc" which showed a ceremony between two men; "Roseanne" followed su 1995. In anticipatn of the Supreme Court lg June, the script for "The Fosters" fale lled for a weddg — no matter what the higher urt cid, said Paige, who is bt known for his role on Showtime's “Queer as Folk, " which also featured two gay weddgs.

DEIDRE HALL ON OFFICIATG DAYTIME TV'S FIRST GAY WEDDG

Stef and Lena are raisg Stef’s blogil son om a prev marriage, two Lato children they fostered and later adopted; and two new siblgs they have taken to their other shows, like "Morn Fay" and "The New Normal, " pavg the way terms of portrayg gay parentg, Breweg and Paige cid their non-tradnal fay would be head by a lbian uple stead of two gay men. “It’s sort of amazg to me that hasn’t been done, ” Paige said, who ss on the board of the Los Angel Gay and Lbian Center.

”That sense of satisfactn will crease exponentially when the weddg episo airs, said the show’s creators who are both gay. ) how many lbian, trans, gay, and non-genr-nformg characters/storyl there are on TV and films now.

Not about beg gay, about Uncle Rsell beg gay.

'EMPIRE' AIRS FIRST GAY BLACK WEDDG TV HISTORY

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. 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.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

It happened between Col Rsell (Michael Cashman) and his romantic other half Guido Smh (Nicholas Donovan) – after years of character Col beg out and gay on the seri. 1994: Brooksi airs first pre-watershed gay kiss between Beth and Margaret.

The first lbian kiss beme so inic aired as part of the 2012 Olympic ceremony (Picture: Channel 4)Brooksi’s 1994 lbian kiss between Beth (Anna Friel) and Margaret (Nila Stephenson) is often ced as the first UK gay kiss, but unfortunately they were five years late. It was also the first gay kiss between two women. The moment was so inic, even managed to land a place a montage for the2012 London Olympic Openg Ceremony – airg across the world cludg untri where homosexualy was illegal.

‘DAYS OF OUR LIV’ TO MAKE TV HISTORY WH GAY MALE WEDDG (VIO)

Sean and Pedro held their first gay mment ceremony on TV1994: The Real World airs first gay weddg ceremony on TV, and stars HIV+ nttant. In 1994, realy TV show The Real World: San Francis broke some ser ground whout even meang to when gay uple Sean Sasser and Pedro Zamora held a mment ceremony to each other live on air.

Exchangg vows and rgs, the pair effectively beme the first gay weddg to ever air on televisn. But the show phed forward regardls, and even had gay rights activist Candace Ggrich officiate the weddg to drive the pot home. 1997: Ellen Degener out as gay on her s.

‘DAYS OF OUR LIV’ TO AIR SOAPS’ FIRST GAY MALE WEDDG

It’s one of the most fg moments of the late 90s – Ellen Degener g out as gay, first as a character on her show, and then publicly shortly after.