Sean Connery in TV’s First-Ever Male-To-Male Kissing Scene ?

[Blowfeld]

This story is being pushed by some gay advocacy groups, so part of it is spin and part of it is history. Is it the first kiss of this kind on TV? I do not know if anyone knows for sure, it very well could be.

Researchers at the British Film Institute have discovered what might be television’s first-ever gay kiss – and it stars a then-29 year old Sean Connery.

In the controversial smooch scene, Connery kisses Richard Pasco, an actor who plays his brother in the 1960 BBC drama Colombe.

In this particular episode, Connery’s character suspects his brother of having an affair with his wife, so in an attempt to understand what his brother has that he lacks, he kisses him.

The footage itself, which was found at the US Library of Congress and given to the BFI, originally belonged to Public Broadcasting Service WNET New York.

Naturally questions have surfaced such as, “how does a groundbreaking kiss make it onto TV screens at a time when homosexuality was still frowned upon?”

According to Dick Fiddy, a TV consultant at the British Film Institute,

“Sadly nobody around here now seems to recall it. But it might have been accepted because of the context and because it was a television version of a classic play by a great French dramatist.”

“It was, we are pretty sure, the first male-to-male kiss on TV, film or on stage.”

http://www.inquisitr.com/112852/sean-connery-gay-kiss/

[doubleoLisa]

I doubt it is the first guy on guy kiss in stage history It is called acting for a reason do people really believe that every actress who kisses a man on screen actually fancies them. A few do, some are lesbians, some will only ever love their husbands.

I don't think it is a incestuous gay kiss, it's a melodrama one I'd like to see.

[katied]

Funny that this came out(pun not intended..not that there's anything wrong with that[/Seinfeld] ) not long after the Craig in drag story.

[Dr. No]

Not a big deal to me but as katie said they used it to down play how wrong Craig in Drag as James Bond was then I do have a problem with it.

[katied]

No, it doesn't bother me either.It never has. Good on Sean for being able to do it, especially in a day and age where it wasn't exactly the norm.

[Dr. No]

No, it doesn't bother me either.It never has. Good on Sean for being able to do it, especially in a day and age where it wasn't exactly the norm.

I see it as being what actors do they have to do scenes that make them personally uncomfortable if it is part of the story. I do object a actor changing James Bond to be something it is not because he is personally uncomfortable with what it is.