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Today is National Coming Out Day. What are some of your favorite coming out scenes on tv? Here are some of mine:

1. Ted Lasso - Colin comes out as gay to his team. Love this scene.
2. Schitt's Creek - Patrick comes out as gay to his parents. Love this scene. Patrick is usually so even-keeled that his tears in this scene get me every time.
3. Heated Rivalry - After some excruciatingly bad sex with his movie star girlfriend, girlfriend Rose has sussed out Shane is gay. Hudson Williams killed it in this scene. The crying when she asks "Have you ever been with a man?" makes me cry.
4. Glee - Santana comes out as gay to her cheer team. Brittana forever.
5. Shameless - Mickey comes out to his abusive dad.
6. Young Royals - Wille announces in a televised speech that it was him in the leaked sex video, and thus comes out to ... his entire nation.
7. Ellen Show - I know Ellen got canceled a few years back, but this really was groundbreaking. Ellen's show walked so others could run.
8. Heated Rivalry - the OTHER big coming out scene. Scott invites Kip down to the ice and celebrates with a big on-ice kiss.
9. Survivor - not every coming out scene is nice and heartwarming. This infamous scene from Survivor is very real-life. Jeff Varner heartlessly outted Zeke as transgender at tribal council. The good thing was the tribe and Jeff Probst were so disgusted they kicked Varner off the island without a vote.
10. WNBA - another real-life example I love. Paige Bueckers ended speculation about her sexuality by arriving to her draft night with gf Azzi Fudd and kissing her when she was drafted. They play on the same team now!

ETA: totally forgot some really memorable ones. I apologize. But: Pedro coming out as gay and dying of AIDS in RW San Francicso, Bunky coming out as gay in Big Brother 2 and becoming friends with ultra-conservative Kent, Rudy and Rich's odd-couple friendship in the first season of Survivor, the teens of Degrassi, and Rickie in My So-Called Life were all seminal moments.

Also forgot The American Family. The Louds had a gay son who later died of AIDS.

I am a huge Big Brother fan, and you cannot imagine my happiness when I found this clip of one my favorite contestants (Melody) telling her friends in the house they had to watch Heated Rivalry because she's seen it four times.

Note: the guy in the black tank top and the Loon girl (Melody and Drew) were in a flirtmance all summer and now are dating post-season and this clip shows why. He knew his Heated Rivalry lore!

Drew when he left the house also liked the Yash Drew Heated Rivalry tiktok.

That's it, that's the whole post.

EDIT: found this amazing edit of Big Brother to "My Moon My Man." The similarities continue!

Can we just talk about how Sara and Felice just signed up for a road trip to hell? First thing Wille will do is call his parents to drop off his suitcases. Then they'll start this road trip, and it's going to be miserable for Sara and Felice.

I traveled at their age, and one thing is that teens will ALWAYS view hotel rooms as clown cars, where you squeeze as many people as possible. I once slept in a hotel room with maybe 6 other people in the room and one in the bathtub. It won't occur to them to get different hotel rooms on their trip.

Thus, they'll have an entire road trip of Wilmon asking for "an hour" to fuck, and Sara and Felice getting sexiled. This is cute ... once. But constantly being told to bugger off so two horndogs can fuck? Gets old, fast. And then Sara and Felice will also realize that they can't turn around and look at what's happening in the backseat of the car unless they want to get really grossed out.

They'll still love them and think it's great they're together, but they'll also find them annoying as shit.

So the costume ball was basically an excuse for the Hillerska elite to literally cosplay Marie Antoinette era parties. With that being said, I feel like some people rocked the costumes better than others. I really liked Sara and Stella's dresses. I think they looked adorable, and Sara's wig was pretty flattering too.

I appreciated how committed to the bit Wille was, with the wig, the tight scarf, the jacket, even the white tights. With that being said, I also thought it was funny that Simon was chasing him down at that party so he could eat his face, and he didn't laugh once at the ridiculous-looking wig. That's love and horniness right there.

And Wille telling Marcus he looked like a waiter? Sick burn, next-level petty. I didn't know until S2 that Wille could be such a bitch, and I mean this in the best way.

I liked August's red jacket too.

Whose was your favorite?

Romance genres often have these sliding doors moments where something could have gone way, way worse had it not been for fate. In both these cases, were it not for fate, some really, really bad sex would have happened:

1. If Henry didn't barge in on Wille and Felice's makeout sesh, they probably would have had an excruciating one-night stand. Felice would have been so hurt when Wille nicely broke up with her, and Felice is a sweetheart.

2. If Wille had walked a little faster back to the dorm after booking it out of the ball, Simon might not have caught up with him, as we all know Simon and running are not friends. Simon actually needed to sprint out of the party to find Wille. But suppose he's sprinting and Wille's already gone, he would have gone back to the party, Marcus would have hounded him about the third date sleepover, and they probably would have had sex that night and it would have been awful.

Which sliding doors bad sex moment would have been worse?

Insane daily drama in gym class. As a teacher, this is one of the most massively irritating things to deal with: a teen couple that uses class to hash out whatever romantic drama is going on. When they're fighting, they're pelting each other with dodgeballs. When they're happy, they're also annoying by being sickeningly lovey dovey about lifting weights.

I like how in the academic classes, they mostly keep the drama to themselves. But in gym class? Daily drama.

Is that one hockey team can be so insanely hot, with 6 10/10's in one team. Thats it. Thats the post.

I decided for fairness to not even count the coach and also the wag's like Harris and Lisa. Because that's even more statistically impossible.

You think Nils sort of had a thing for Wille? He seems to be the only person comfortable enough to talk to Wille frankly about Wille's sexuality. And honestly, Wille didn't seem to hate the idea of going to Verbier with Nils to do some posh ski resort cruising. Granted he was lonely and heartbroken, but I got the vibe that were it not for him getting back together with Simon, he would have gone with Nils or at least considered it.

I kinda wish Nils and Wille's friendship had been developed more, but I guess Wille got back together with Simon shortly thereafter and Wilmon keep to themselves.

I also got the vibe that maybe Nils and Vincent might have a little something.

Nils is one of my favorite characters actually. Yes he's a total snob, but I liked him and hope he found a cutie on grindr.

I used to think Lestat de Lioncourt was the king of the crashouts, but now I think Wille is the king of the crashouts. Because every time he got truly angry, I felt it so deeply. And he was usually justified in his crashouts, even if the way he expressed himself wasn't exactly ... um, helpful.

I can never decide which is my favorite Wille crashout. I think it's the one where he sees Simon on a date with Marcus on insta and decides to threaten the entire royal family. Just the way he’s crouched on the desk screaming at his mom and all the Royal suits gets me every time. And the way he says it's because "Simon's on a date with someone else." So 16.

wdym I was today years old when I first saw Edvin and Omar doing a dead-on imitation of Nick and Charlie's way of saying "hi" and "bye"? I know that the HS cast and the YR cast are friends (Edvin went to see Kit when he starred in Romeo and Juliet on Bway), but this is too cute.

So Wille and Simon spend most of S2 acting like dicks to each other in gym class. But one way they're psychically connected is that they both give Marcus truly disdainful side-eye. Who do you think masters this look better?

Like if you're Marcus, which looks makes you feel more like a total knob?