Like, I actually didn’t notice that Quinn and Santana hadn’t kissed because there was so much other steamy-sexy happening, like the slow dancing which can be far more intimate than kissing. It is still boundary-breaking but no one is going to lose their job over it, far from it.Īs much as Glee continually kills little tender flames of hope in me, it always manages to find some new ones to ignite. 17 years later, and now we have Glee, a show where the 3 hottest most popular cheerleaders are all hooking up with each other. We all know what happened when Ellen came out. Thank you for bringing me back to that memory too– and another historical context. We had a big toaster oven party in college for Ellen’s coming out episode. But, like Glee, Star Trek back in 1968 was brimming with so many other really problematic issues it was deeply misogynistic at the same time that it was blasting past conventional societal barriers.Īlso, I can’t believe this but I had forgotten the toaster oven joke. Like the first (scripted) inter-racial kiss with Kirk and Uhura in 1968. It was revolutionary, the way Star Trek had always been.
But when that kiss happened on DS9– it wasn’t considered exploitative for ratings. I had a huge crush on Terry Farrell (which I awkwardly confessed to her at a con when I was 16– oh yes, yes I did– and she gave me a big hug!). I was staring at the TV, not blinking because if I did, I knew I could miss it, just waiting waiting waiting and then… Mind. I will never forget that episode of Deep Space 9 that you had in the pics-list of lesbian sweeps (thank you for that little whip down memory lane!).
#Deep space nine terry farrell full#
I came out a couple years before the Internet crashed into our lives and like many of us, my teen coming out process was full of feelings. I thought, “They are kissing and groping almost as hard as on ‘Queer As Folk’!” (you know, before they got to the actual sex on QaF.) For all the issues I have with it, which are similar to yours, I was still simultaneously turned on and stunned at the Kurt and Blaine car scene. Riese, I really appreciate that you put Glee in its historical context.
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