Watch: Corrie’s historic first ever gay kiss between Todd and Nick
By Will Stroude
In Britain 2015, there more same-sex soap relationships than you can a stick at, and it’s easy to forget just how far the country has come -and just how quickly – when it comes to onscreen portrayals of gay love. While today’s gay soap characters are running around having sex in funeral parlours, with their cousin’s husbands and even the local vicar, it wasn’t much more than a decade ago that a simple peck between two men made the front pages.
Today marks twelve years since Britain’s oldest soap Coronation Street aired its iconic first gay kiss between closeted Todd Grimshaw (Bruno Langley) and his then-girlfriend Sarah’s older brother Nick Platt (Adam Rickett), in a much-hyped scene that attracted 14 million viewers and 16 complaints to the Independent Television Commission (all of which were rejected).
The scene was denounced by some as ‘offensive’, a ‘ratings ploy’ and, worst of all, ‘titillating’. Todd would go on to embark on a steamy affair with dishy nurse Karl Foster while Sarah was pregnant and of the course the whole thing ended in tears, but that didn’t stop a generation of young gays from hitting record and rewind for hours on end. Thankfully in the days of YouTube however, the trip down memory lane is just a quick search away…
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