The LGBTQ+ community in the media has come a long way, but there’s still a long way to go for queer romances to be shown as often as their heterosexual counterparts. While the kiss wasn’t romantic-the moment was between young handsome soldier John Powell and his dying friend David Armstrong-it was still a major moment in the LGBTQ+ community as the first kiss between two men on screen.įast forward to 2020, and you’ll be hard-pressed to find a network that doesn’t have a show with a romantic relationship between two characters of the same sex. The first same-sex kiss was in the 1927 silent film, Wings, an Oscar-winning romance war movie, which showed two male soldiers kissing in the trenches of World War I.

Compared to heterosexual kisses in the media, of which there have been hundreds of thousands, same-sex relationships on screen have been historically underrepresented, so we took it upon ourselves to highlight 20 same-sex kisses that have changed TV and movie history for the better. Since then, there have been dozens of gay kisses in TV shows and movies, but there needs to be more.

It’s been more than 90 years since the first same-sex kiss was seen on screen.