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** Luke and his second boyfriend Reid never got to have sex before Reid was killed off.

* {{Torchwood}}. In the first season, we had Gwen and Owen's affair getting constant references, [[spoiler: Owen's love affair with a time traveller]] getting two sex scenes and kicking off the final story line, and Tosh's affair getting it's own episode. When it comes to captain Jack though, he had one love affair that never amounted to more than a kiss, and apparently he also had a thing with Ianto, to whoch we get exactly three hints over course of the season.

** However, this has so far been the only time they've kissed. Which seems to be getting [[{{Deconstruction deconstructed]] as well, judging by "Prom Queen."

** However, this has so far been the only time they've kissed.

* [[AvertedTrope A-fucking-VERTED]] in ''{{Glee}}'' once [[spoiler: Kurt and Blaine]] kissed. It was ''not'' a blink-or-you-miss-it peck, it was ''not'' played up to boost ratings (even the ''actors'' weren't completely sure until they were given their scripts!), and it came after an [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming extremely touching]] LoveEpiphany that was free of angst, guilt, or impulse. [[spoiler: And then after catching their breath, Kurt and Blaine practically ''attacked'' each other!]] Not for nothing is this all over LGBT news, YouTube, and Twitter.
** To put it another way, ''Glee'' - a ''mainstream comedy '''on FOX''''' - took this trope, kicked it in the balls, made it their bitch, and then sent it running away with its tail between its legs while squealing like a 50s housewife confronted with a spider. This was a full-on, Hays-Code-breaking makeout session, possibly with tongue. (It looked like it had tongue, anyway.)

* Semi-averted in ''YoungAvengers''. While Hulking and Wiccan have yet to have an actual on-panel kiss, they have had a few {{Almost Kiss}}es. Additionally, in the Children's Crusade arc, when they are staying with the Avengers, Wiccan uses his magic to turn their twin beds into a double before proceeding to... ''almost'' make out with Hulkling when Tommy phases in through a wall and seriously puts a damper on the romance. When staying at an inn later in the same arc, Wiccan is sleeping in a t-shirt and boxers in the same bed as Hulking with the latter's arm over him. Still no in-panel kiss though.

* In ''YoungAvengers'', Hulking and Wiccan seem more like best friends than boyfriends, save for occasionally holding hands.
** Amended. When they are staying with the Avengers, Wiccan uses his magic to turn their twin beds into a double before proceeding to... ''almost'' make out with Hulkling when Tommy phases in through a wall and seriously puts a damper on the romance.
** Amended further. When staying in the inn later in the same arc, Wiccan is sleeping in a t-shirt and boxers in the same bed as Hulking with the latter's arm over him. Still no in-panel kiss though.

** To put it another way, ''Glee'' - a ''mainstream comedy '''on FOX''''' - took this trope, kicked it in the balls, made it their bitch, and then sent it running away with its tail between its legs while squealing like a 60s housewife confronted with a spider. This was a full-on, Hays-Code-breaking makeout session, possibly with tongue. (It looked like it had tongue, anyway.)

* The 1995 film ''Higher Learning'': Two college-age girls (one gay, the other bisexual) share a ''very'' chaste kiss where their lips barely touch and that lasts for only slightly more than a second. They are both in the privacy of the gay girl's bedroom and are not showing much skin. Then there's another love scene between a boy and a girl (both straight); they are making out more or less in public, and are in their skimpy track-and-field clothes, with the girl [[BareYourMidriff baring her midriff]]. The boy is ''right on top of the girl'', and the camera lingers on them a lot longer than on the two kissing girls. When this movie is shown on American television, it gets even worse: the girl-on-girl scene is cut ''entirely''! (We do see the girls briefly holding hands in both the theatrical and edited-for-TV versions, however.) At the very least, it's good to see that, unlike most other media depictions, [[GirlOnGirlIsHot the girls aren't treated more sympathetically for not being]] ''[[GirlOnGirlIsHot male]]'' [[GirlOnGirlIsHot homosexuals]].

** Ian does kiss his boss, once. The underage argument has to do with the actors, not the characters. Cameron Monaghan (Ian) is underage, although he's around two years older than his character is. Jeremy Allen White (Lip) and Laura Wiggins (Karen) are a product of DawnsonCasting.

* The 1995 film ''Higher Learning'': Two college-age girls (one gay, the other bisexual) share a ''very'' chaste kiss where their lips barely touch and that lasts for only slightly more than a second. They are both in the privacy of the gay girl's bedroom and are not showing much skin. Then there's another love scene between a boy and a girl (both straight); they are making out more or less in public, and are in their skimpy track-and-field clothes, with the girl [[BareYourMidriff baring her midriff]]. The boy is ''right on top of the girl'', and the camera lingers on them a lot longer than on the two kissing girls. When this movie is shown on American television, it gets even worse: the girl-on-girl scene is cut ''entirely''! (We do see the girls briefly holding hands in both the theatrical and edited-for-TV versions, however.) At the very least, it's good to see that, unlike most other media depictions, [[GirlOnGirlIsHot the girls aren't treated more sympathetically for not being]] ''[[GirlOnGirlIsHot male]]'' [[GirlOnGirlIsHot homosexuals]].

* ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' has LesYay '''overflowing''' in [[ShipTease teasing]] and subtext, up and including two woman sharing a bed and [[HasTwoMommies raising a daughter together]], and plenty of mentioned gropping in the visual novels. But good luck seeing an actual kiss or explicit flirting in the actual show.

* The 1995 film ''Higher Learning'': Two college-age girls (one gay, the other bisexual) share a ''very'' chaste kiss where their lips barely touch and that lasts for only slightly more than a second. They are both in the privacy of the gay girl's bedroom and are not showing much skin. Then there's another love scene between a boy and a girl (both straight); they are making out more or less in public, and are in their skimpy track-and-field clothes, with the girl [[BareYourMidriff baring her midriff]]. The boy is ''right on top of the girl'', and the camera lingers on them a lot longer than on the two kissing girls. When this movie is shown on American television, it gets even worse: the girl-on-girl scene is cut ''entirely''! (We do see the girls briefly holding hands in both the theatrical and edited-for-TV versions, however.)

* [[AvertedTrope A-fucking-VERTED]] in ''{{Glee}}'' once [[spoiler: Kurt and Blaine]] kissed. It was ''not'' a blink-or-you-miss-it peck, it was ''not'' played up to boost ratings (even the ''actors'' weren't completely sure until they were given their scripts!), and it came after an [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming extremely touching]] LoveEpiphany that was free of angst, guilt, or impulse. [[spoiler: And then after catching their breath, Kurt and Blaine practically ''attacked'' each other!]] Not for nothing is this all over LGBT news, YouTube, and Twitter.
** To put it another way, ''Glee'' - a ''mainstream comedy '''on FOX''''' - took this trope, kicked it in the balls, made it their bitch, and then sent it running away with its tail between its legs while squealing like a 60s housewife confronted with a spider. This was a full-on, Hays-Code-breaking makeout session, possibly with tongue. (It looked like it had tongue, anyway.)

* [[AvertedTrope A-fucking-VERTED]] in ''{{Glee}}'' once [[spoiler: Kurt and Blaine]] kissed. It was ''not'' a blink-or-you-miss-it peck, it was ''not'' played up to boost ratings (even the ''actors'' weren't completely sure until they were given their scripts!), and it came after an [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming extremely touching]] LoveEpiphany that was free of angst, guilt, or impulse. [[spoiler: And then after catching their breath, Kurt and Blaine practically ''attacked'' each other!]] Not for nothing is this all over LGBT news, YouTube, and Twitter.
** To put it another way, ''Glee'' - a ''mainstream comedy '''on FOX''''' - took this trope, kicked it in the balls, made it their bitch, and then sent it running away with its tail between its legs while squealing like a 60s housewife confronted with a spider. This was a full-on, Hays-Code-breaking makeout session, possibly with tongue. (It looked like it had tongue, anyway.)

* [[AvertedTrope A-fucking-VERTED]] in {{Glee}} once [[spoiler: Kurt and Blaine]] kissed. It was ''not'' a blink-or-you-miss-it peck, it was ''not'' played up to boost ratings (even the ''actors'' weren't completely sure until they were given their scripts!), and it came after an [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming extremely touching]] LoveEpiphany that was free of angst, guilt, or impulse. [[spoiler: And then after catching their breath, Kurt and Blaine practically ''attacked'' each other!]] Not for nothing is this all over LGBT news, YouTube, and Twitter.

* In the UK, there was an example a few years ago that beautifully illustrates this trope. A newspaper started a campaign complaining about the increasing amount of "filth" shown on television, and its examples were gay kisses and straight sex. (That the newspaper in question was The Daily Star, owned by a pornographer and not above cross-promotion, just makes things even more [[HypocriticalHumor delicious]])

* The bisexual boys in ''{{Bully}}''.

* ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' has LesYay overtones and subtext. up and including two woman sharing a bed and [[HasTwoMommies raising a daughter together]], and plenty of mentioned gropping in the visual novels. But good luck seeing an actual kiss or explicit flirting in the actual show.

* Dan Gainor of the Business and Media Institute wrote an article entitled "''{{Glee}}'''s Disgusting Gay Teen Sex Romp" in response to a scene where Brittany and Santana are necking on a bed and Santana says that "it's a nice change from all that scissoring". The guy claims it was far too much for a "family friendly" show, and in fact goes so far as to insult Glee's director Ryan Murphy for "spending his days fantasizing about teen girls 'scissoring' on the bed in what the media tell us is a family-friendly show." Not only is this a [[DidNotDoTheResearch ridiculous]] allusion considering Murphy is gay, but this so-called "family friendly" show has also given us scenes such as Finn's ejaculation in a hot tub, the Like A Virgin montage, a flashback to the moments before the conception of Puck and Quinn's baby and the implication of Jacob Ben Israel jacking off to a video of Rachel, just to name a few. And of course, let's not forget that in the very same episode that includes this Brittany and Santana scene entails Brittany picking Artie up out of his wheelchair, throwing him on the very same bed she was kissing Santana on, and climbing on top of him, to which he responds, "am I about to lose my virginity?" Does Dan Gainor think there is any problem with ''this'' scene on a family-friendly show? Nope.

* Dan Gainor of the Business and Media Institute wrote an article entitled "{{''Glee''}}'s Disgusting Gay Teen Sex Romp" in response to a scene where Brittany and Santana are necking on a bed and Santana says that "it's a nice change from all that scissoring". The guy claims it was far too much for a "family friendly" show, and in fact goes so far as to insult Glee's director Ryan Murphy for "spending his days fantasizing about teen girls 'scissoring' on the bed in what the media tell us is a family-friendly show." Not only is this a [[DidNotDoTheResearch ridiculous]] allusion considering Murphy is gay, but this so-called "family friendly" show has also given us scenes such as Finn's ejaculation in a hot tub, the Like A Virgin montage, a flashback to the moments before the conception of Puck and Quinn's baby and the implication of Jacob Ben Israel jacking off to a video of Rachel, just to name a few. And of course, let's not forget that in the very same episode that includes this Brittany and Santana scene entails Brittany picking Artie up out of his wheelchair, throwing him on the very same bed she was kissing Santana on, and climbing on top of him, to which he responds, "am I about to lose my virginity?" Does Dan Gainor think there is any problem with ''this'' scene on a family-friendly show? Nope.