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Contents:
- LGBT REPRENTATN ON TV THROUGH THE AG – OM EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY KISS TO TRANSGENR SUPERHERO
- EASTENRS’ HISTORIC FIRST GAY KISS TO BE BROADST AS PART OF BBC FOUR’S PRI SEASON
- ‘I KISSED A BOY’: WHY THE U.K.’S FIRST GAY DATG SHOW IS A REALY GAMECHANGER
- HOW MICHAEL CASHMAN CHANGED THE WORLD: OM EASTENRS' FIRST GAY KISS TO STONEWALL
- HOW TO WATCH I KISSED A BOY ONLE AND STREAM ALL EPISOS OF FIRST EVER UK GAY DATG SHOW FREE FROM ANYWHERE
- TOM HOLLAND GO VIRAL FOR PERFORMG TENSE GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM
LGBT REPRENTATN ON TV THROUGH THE AG – OM EASTENRS’ FIRST GAY KISS TO TRANSGENR SUPERHERO
The moment where two male characters kissed on Byker Grove went down history as one of the first time g out as gay was explored storyl on televisn * bbc first gay kiss *
‘Homosexualy and Christiany’ was a rad discsn programme, and followed a readg of Dr. Sherw Bailey's book ‘Homosexualy and the Wtern Christian Tradn’. Homosexualy and Christiany, was broadst at 7.
EASTENRS’ HISTORIC FIRST GAY KISS TO BE BROADST AS PART OF BBC FOUR’S PRI SEASON
* bbc first gay kiss *
Although there may have been earlier exampl, this appears to be the first programme on the BBC to directly addrs what was then generally thought of as the ‘problem’ of homosexualy. Even by the 1980s, is hard to fd LGBTQ+ programmg that set a posive ntext for gay liv, let alone one that celebrated the diversy of this part of the BBC’s dience.
BBC TV turned to discsn programm to thrash out issu such as Sectn 28 legislatn, gay marriage equaly, and the equal age of nsent – all issu facg LGBTQ+ people at the end of that . Day to Day, and later Kilroy (1986-2004), BBC One’s weekday discsn programme, vered the topic of the ‘promotn of homosexualy’ schools the wake of the Sectn 28 legislatn, and is typil of the perd.
‘I KISSED A BOY’: WHY THE U.K.’S FIRST GAY DATG SHOW IS A REALY GAMECHANGER
Prenter Robert Kilroy Silk hosts a discsn that reflects the highly polarised views of the, Tuday 26 January 1988, BBC One, 09:20The first gay kiss. By 1995 BBC Two’s Gaytime TV had h the screens.
Warm, excg and celebratory wh a ‘e and jo the party’ sensibily, this was an LGBTQ+ programme for gay people by gay people.
Our Gaytime TV llectn for the BBC’s Oral History Collectn, tak a closer look at the people who ma the show, and why turned LGBTQ+ programmg on s we still need more LGBTQ+ reprentatn?
HOW MICHAEL CASHMAN CHANGED THE WORLD: OM EASTENRS' FIRST GAY KISS TO STONEWALL
Oliver Kent, the BBC’s head of ntug drama revealed 2017 that there had been a number of plats that Holby Cy had ntaed ‘too many gay characters’. Wh only four gay characters out of 17 at the time, was that excsive?
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.
HOW TO WATCH I KISSED A BOY ONLE AND STREAM ALL EPISOS OF FIRST EVER UK GAY DATG SHOW FREE FROM ANYWHERE
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.
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.
TOM HOLLAND GO VIRAL FOR PERFORMG TENSE GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM
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.