And even before that, a 1972 TV movie called That Certain Summer featured a gay romance between big stars Martin Sheen and Hal Holbrook. The series featured an older gay couple named George and Gordon. The first time two homosexual characters even appeared on a television series together (as a couple that is), was in 1975 on a short-lived show called Hot I Baltimore on ABC. But with so many years of theatre, film, and television shows featuring important homosexual characters, why did it take until the year 2000 to actually see a kiss between two men unfold onscreen? Let's take a little trip down the evolution of the gay kiss on television, shall we? This honor belongs to another popular show for its time, LA Law, featuring the first televised lesbian kiss. Does gender discrimination establish that women's experiences are less valued than men's (gay men included), or is it women's lack of bravado and. But Jack and Ethan's kiss wasn't the first homosexual kiss featured on TV. Filipino actors Joem Basco and Jake Cuenca go intimate in this scene for their movie, Lihis.
Russell Brand and Jason Segel, co-stars in the 2008 romcom Forgetting Sarah Marshall, kiss each other during the 2010 Stand With Haiti benefit event. For the last several decades, television shows have featured gay characters in their casts. That’s cool, bro James Franco and Sean Penn locking lips on the seat of their award-winning movie, Milk. Fifteen years ago today, Dawson's Creek premiered the first ever male gay kiss on primetime television when Jack McPhee and his boyfriend Ethan shared a beautiful kiss on the season finale of the show.
It was the groundbreaking kiss heard 'round the country.
