First gay kiss on tv
Viewers watching ‘first ever lgbtq+ kiss’ on UK TV can’t understand backlash it got at the time
People watching the first homosexual kiss broadcast on British TV are wondering how it prompted such a backlash at the time.
The year was 1989, the show was EastEnders and Colin Russell (Michael Cashman and Guido Smith (Nicholas Donovan) were turning in for the night.
Before bed they discussed getting a nightcap and then mutual a kiss, and given some of the reactions, you'd think the society had ended.
When it was first broadcast in 1989 it was slammed by certain politicians as portraying a 'revolting scene' which displayed 'perverted practices'.
Another MP said it might be moment to 'reconsider the whole future of EastEnders', while the BBC was bombarded by complaints.
This is the environment in which the first gay kiss on TV in the UK was broadcast, and you can see the moment here:
If that footage angered you, then I offer you put down the newspaper complaining about how everything is woke these days, wind your neck in and take some deep breaths.
Also remember that it is Pride month s
LGBT representation on TV through the ages – from EastEnders’ first queer kiss to gender non-conforming superheroes
Television has appear a long way over the years and has proven to be an essential tool for the LGBT people in developing widespread representation and knowledge to the planet.
While we may now take for granted the presence of queer figureheads on TV, less than 30 years ago the mere presence of someone identifying as same-sex attracted could send viewers into a tailspin, especially as entity gay – or gay marriage – was illegal.
As a result, things were often noted in code – such as flamboyancy or dress meaning – in request to represent their sexuality, with kissing and romance happening off the screen.
But there were moments that paved the way for greater acceptance – allowing people to finally feel seen for the way they want to love.
For Metro.co.uk’s Pride Week, we’ve looked back through the years of LGBT relationships on TV, celebrating landmark moments and trailblazing showrunners who defied the odds to get these inherent scenes on atmosphere while starting to break down homophobia and transphobia in the process.
Here are just some of the characters and shows tha
The first gay kiss in a TV drama and other stories: How Ros na Rún broke boundaries in 1990s Ireland
IRISH LANGUAGE SOAP opera Ros na Rún has been running for almost 25 years, and claims to be the largest independent production commissioned in Irish broadcasting history, as well as the most concentrated production centre outside of Dublin and Wicklow.
Filmed in the Connemara village of an Spidéal in Co Galway, it aired the first embrace between a gay couple in 1996, and has covered a number of difficult topics, including rape, illness, murder and local violence.
More recently, it covered the issue of ‘gaslighting’, a develop of domestic abuse in relationships, explored through a storyline with two sisters.
Deirdre Ní Fhlatharta has worked on-and-off for Ros na Rún for almost 25 years; she’s directed Ros na Rún, and has been a series producer for the show for eight years.
She told TheJournal.ie that when they portrayed the first queer kiss on Irish television, she remembers the controversy it caused – but stresses it wasn’t meant to be sensationalist.
“Showing that was something that wasn’t done in Ireland at the time,” she s
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Online but also in documentaries and even in books people have claimed that the first same sex touch on television between women happened in an episode of the TV performance ‘L.A. Law’ in 1991 and between men in an episode of ‘Dawson’s Creek’ in 2000.
Others claim TV’s first gay kiss between two men was on an episode of the British soap ‘Eastenders’ publish in 1989 and the first womxn loving womxn kiss was on TV in 1994 on the British soap ‘Brookside’.
That is not correct.
At first this appears to be a representative case of the American media ignoring that there is a world outside of the Joined States and that we also own televisions!
Some reporters disregard to add “ON AMERICAN TV” when they write about the first this or that. But although the peck in ‘L.A. Law’ may have been the first kiss(es) between two women on American TV, the one in ‘Dawson’s Creek’ was not the first romantic kiss between men.
Before we carry on we must also make a distinction between romantic kisses and non-romantic or platonic kisses.
A amorous kiss involves cherish and/or passion, a general kiss can be out o