“It’s a special moment for television and for this couple to be portrayed and represented on network television because this is usually a couple that you would see on cable or streaming.
It’s pretty epic. I am beyond honored to be part of it. And I think that’s why people are grasping to it and are connecting to it because they’ve never seen anything like this on their television.
A lot of times you’d see a gay couple on television there’s something really dramatic and usually sad involved with it. And this is just like, ‘Yeah, this is just normal. This is just how it is.’
It’s been amazing to be a part of that and to tell this story and to connect with so many people. I talk to people every single day about this and they’re just beyond grateful to see this and they’re excited to see where it goes.”— 9-1-1: Lone Star actor Ronen Rubinstein (“TK”) speaking with ET about the significance of portraying a normalized same-sex relationship on network television. The Ryan Murphy-produced show airs on FOX and stars Rob Lowe and Liv Tyler.
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Smith David
Wow…Fox has made history. The first network to feature a gay story line. Epic! Who else could’ve done this but Fox. It’s a new day. Maybe now we’ll start to see movies and more TV-series with gay characters. I am so proud of Fox. You did it. Yeeehhhh….
Cam
And it took them being sold by Rupert Murdoch to Disney for them to do it.
westpa19
@cam
Fox Broadcasting is still owned by the Murdochs It’s against the law for one company to own more than one broadcasting company. Disney just bought the cable channel’s and the studios.
Kieran
Wow. Only 20 years into the 21st century and already we’re seeing normalized same-sex relationships on network television. Things are moving so FAST!!
Mack
You can bet in the next couple of days the One Million Old Hags will have a protest of obscene material on the show. They get their panties in a twist every time to gay guys looks at each other, let alone kiss.
Bob LaBlah
I think substitute my heels for sneakers and march with the old hags/old bitties on this one. I have been out of the closet for forty-four years and don’t think I’m ready to be sitting in front of a television set with family members or alone watching a scene where two men are living together in a relationship and when they have a bathroom scene a douche’ bag is hanging on the door or a fleet enema is on the sink counter. Yeah, you guys tend to forget what needs to be/should be done before sex. Why not do what the soap opera do, learn to know when enough has been shown to get the point across. Lets learn to live with being accepted and just leave well enough alone. Must we continue pushing the envelope until its snatched from our hands and torn up in our face?
Cam
@Bob LaBlah
Translation: You’re still self hating and ashamed of who you are. Soap Operas constantly showed people in bed, talking about abortions, birth control, sexual games etc…
Bob LaBlah
Nice observation, Cam. Now tell us in your opinion what a steamy scene between two gay men ought to look like. And keep the thought of steamy in mind. Let me guess. One on the bed on all fours while the one in back caresses his neck? Ok, I got it, a shot of two guys standing by a bed and the camera gets in just the name on the top of the jockstrap (of course Andrew Christian) so the audience can get the hint? Tell me, what should the scene setting look like and how far should it go? No, I am not ready for a scene where the guys head is headed down towards the other guys crotch or dead center while he is on all fours. Lets keep gay sex in our bedrooms and try something else or just leave as is as is.
Cam
@Bob LaBlah
Sweetie, the fact that you can’t think that a “Steamy” scene can be anything other than fisting in a sling again shows the embedded self destructive nature of your self hate.
I’ve seen the show and nothing that happens in there is any different than what you’d see in a soap or other show. It’s just people like that that automatically assume anything gay equals bad.
DarkZephyr
@Bob LaBlah
The hell? Enemas and douche bags? WTF? They don’t show these things on that show. What in God’s name are you talking about??
Whats more…you leave those things out in your own home for the damned world to see? Uh, you know there’s this newfangled thing called a cupboard, right? Most bathrooms come equipped with them. You can fit such things in them and shut the door and nobody can see them laying around! Just in case you weren’t aware.
IAMSONICE
@bob the boomer
It’s comments like yours that make me lose it on you boomers. Doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate your generation or recognize I am standing on the shoulders of giants. I just need folks like you to zip it when it comes to the progressive gay agenda because they are coming for us again in a very real way, a la your boy trump.
sillyme
Amen to @Bob LaBlah, well said there and your covering several issues that needs to be addressed in that statement and we don’t need to be beaten back by some jerk hetero that has his panties or tampon in an uproar over that. Move to fast and it’ll bite you faster and with more vengeance.
Cam
Translation: Don’t do anything because it might upset a bigot.
Maybe women shouldn’t vote because it would upset sexists?
DarkZephyr
Its been over 4 decades since Harvey Milk was shot and just over a half-century since Stonewall, but yeah, things have gone at such a LIGHTENING pace for us! We better slow down!!!
JED08
Man, ya’ll need to get out more. It’s becoming more and more common to have gay characters and their relationships on shows. There have been like five gay characters on Riverdale, and on October Faction on Netflix the main protagonist is gay. Both shows are very popular. If you read the comments that accompany posts about the shows, you will find that hetero people ship these couples. So, I think that the problem with it just exists in your head. I’ve never been self-loathing though.
Bob LaBlah
Just a reminder. Over half of each seasons cancelled shows on television are on Netflix.
Robert-in-Seattle
What about John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness and Gareth David-Lloyd as Ianto Jones on TORCHWOOD.
Ianto’s death was devastating!
Yes, Captain Jack was poly-sexual, but their love story was so lovely and beautiful.
SparkyMICH
That’s European television, so it doesn’t count. That’s how America works…it only counts when America does it, then it’s ‘the first’.
Jaroslaw
I just watched several episodes and I am pleased as punch that not only is Gay portrayed as normal, they put it in the pilot. And why Bob & Sillyme does a Gay male couple’s bathroom need to show an enema bag? There are things women do pretty routinely that are never shown on tv. And by the way, it is a pretty good show also.
Dunnedin
For those complaining about having to watch two gay characters (and all the details of their lives): SWITCH CHANNELS!!!
Paulie P
ever notice the gay couples on tv are always the typical good looking gym bunnies…… more progress might be made if say the two guys were 40+, slightly overweight, one older one younger, one white the other ………, but instead we get the pretty…. is that representative of the whole community…..
Cam
Oh yes, because the gay couple on Modern Family are such gym rats. (eye roll).
Go sell divisiveness someplace else. Everybody on the show is ridiculously good looking.
Bromancer7
Yeah, this was my first thought too. Great, we have visibility. But can we also go beyond gay couples that have to look like supermodels or gym rats?
Bromancer7
@Cam You mean the gay eunichs that never kissed or touched each other, let alone shown being romantic? THAT gay couple?
Cam
@Bromancer7
1. Nothing in the comment said “Romantic”
2. The couple on Modern family aren’t gym rats which was the complaint in the post.
Precious if you have to try to lie about the original comment to make your point, maybe your point wasn’t accurate. Oh, and the couple on Modern Family has kissed multiple times. So again, your complaint is that ALL gay couples are gym rats….except when they aren’t, then you find something else to complain about.
Kangol2
On Noah’s Arc one of the couples regularly featured was a middle-aged man with another who was lean without muscles, and another involved an effeminate, plus-sized gay man in a relationship with a bodybuilder. Didn’t Looking also feature differently sized and aged couples? There are other examples on US TV beyond Modern Family, though Cam’s point is well taken.
nmarkwb
I LOVE these two characters. Although I would have preferred Eddie and Buck. But oh well. Can’t have everything we want.
JED08
I wasn’t aware of this show, but since they’re both Ryan Murphy’s and he has this couple, that probably means that Eddie and Buck is never gonna happen, which sucks. I don’t watch their show either, but that would change real fast if I ever hear that they start hooking up.