sentora wrote:mindstalk wrote:Was Dawson's Creek the first mainstream US TV with gay male kiss? Had an explicit atheist right in the premiere, too, which kept me from turning it off.
I'm not quite sure if it was. I do remember some other show or reality tv event that made a huge deal out of a gay couple at the time. I almost want to say Will and Grace. I almost want to count Queer as Folk but it might be disqualified since it was cable. "
I snipped there in case you can't tell. First gay kiss on TV was actually a real kiss instead of drama. Two guys in the crowd talking to Al Roker outside the Today Show. One of them starts to talk into the microphone and then turns to kiss his boyfriend. Will and Grace did an episode not too long later referencing it but played it for laughs with Will kissing Jack. Dawson's Creek was the first scripted TV show to feature a romantic guy on guy kiss without cutting away.