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TIL That 70's Show is often cited as having the first gay kiss to air on North American prime time television. The 1998 episode Eric's Buddy, featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, aired eighteen months before Dawson's Creek aired the first gay kiss in a romantic context.

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