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Author: Duckay

Jun 14th 2010 at 6:07:47 PM

Something similar was YKTTW'ed recently and copped a fair bit of controversy. However, I still feel that this is very tropeable. (Plus, this is a good write-up, and I like the title, too.)

I'm just trying to remember some of the examples that were brought up last time.

Here's a few:

* {{Philadelphia}} - Andy and Miguel behaved more like a pair of roommates than a couple.
* Wade and Herron from DragonAge needed a WordOfGay.

And a couple of arguable examples (you can decide if they fit or not):

* BuffyTheVampireSlayer - Willow and Tara were a couple for about eighteen episodes before they so much as kissed on-screen, probably partly for this and partly to avoid claims of sensationalism.
* BrokebackMountain - Ennis and Jack did have their scenes, but overall the movie had more straight scenes than gay ones.
* TheWire - featuring fairly regular straight scenes and one lesbian scene, the fairly prominent gay character of Omar never gets a sex scene, and over three boyfriends and five seasons, only has two on-screen kisses (three if you count kissing Brandon's forehead in an early episode): he barely even touches the third boyfriend, Renaldo, even in a non-sexual way (possibly as a result of some controversy about the fairly steamy make-out scene with his previous boyfriend, Dante).