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It's a painful fight with her own consciousness, and the expectations society lays on her. All of this is all too familiar to queer people who constantly see their straight friends' advantages and privileges. Much like being queer isn't a choice, a slayer doesn't choose her path either.

He is left to his own devices and eventually finds his own battle to handle. At a time when TV was far from kind to the LGBTQ+ community, Buffy gave us fully realized gay characters and even more gay metaphors that spoke to an entire generation of queer fans lucky enough to exist at the same time.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a huge step forward in queer representation on television, Buffy's representation even influenced future shows like However, there are some aspects of the show that do not hold up to the standards of To mark the 27th anniversary of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's buffy on The WB, we took a look back at some of the show's gayest episodes.

And when she does, it doesn't go down smoothly. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which concluded 20 years ago blazed a trail for LGBTQ+ characters on TV, dusting tired gay stereotypes. Just ask your gay friends about their first Grindr date. In a show filled with demons, witches, and occasional giant snakes, being a straight guy was also not much of an advantage.

One of the main characters, Willow Alyson Hanniganouted herself as queer in season four. Buffy's ongoing fight isn't just with the forces of darkness. Much like Armistead Maupin's Tales of the CityBuffy has taught the viewers that underdogs should stick together.

And almost every Big Bad throughout the series was destroyed by the group effort of kids who were too weird to fit in with the cool crowd. Having to lose their virginity with a random stranger and not being able to talk about it? And even though the producers of Buffy 's spin-off show Angel opted gay rebrand Andrew Tom Lenk as some sort of Hugh Hefner knockoff, his prior persona on Buffy was clearly heading towards the exit of the closet.

We're gonna need a bigger stake to destroy these prejudices. While everyone else is on yet another mission to save the world, Xander is left feeling severely excluded. Joyce Summer Kristine Sutherland asks her daughter all kinds of wrong questions like, "Have you tried not being a slayer?

So even though Buffy's core group of friends know about her secret identity, it takes her two seasons to finally come out to her mother. Incredibly so. While Joyce's vampire disappears once the demon is defeated, the barbaric idea that having someone different queer, Black, the list goes on around can cause harm to the community is still heard in too many places around the world.

And no, we're not talking about all the puns and Sarah Michelle Gellar's brave fashion choices either. But having a chosen family doesn't automatically mean that you can ignore your real one, even if you're a mighty vampire slayer. The Slayer wasn’t gay back then — although she is canonically queer in the comics that followed — but Buffy the show was.

Let's face it: Buffy the Vampire Slayer will never go out of fashion. But what about Buffy herself? The whole show tells the story of a person coming to terms with the fact that she was born different, and whether she can keep on fighting or resist her true self.

When a demon pretending to be Hansel and Gretel brainwashes Joyce and other parents to purge the town, Buffy's mother gives a terrifying speech in her most Karen moment ever: "This isn't our town anymore: it belongs to the monsters, witches and the slayers.

That's why Xander's season three episode 'The Zeppo' serves as a perfect metaphor for what it's like to be a queer person surrounded by their straight friends. And almost by accident loses his virginity to a resident bad girl Faith Eliza Dushku in the process: something he is hesitant to reveal to his close friends for a while.

Her slayer and tragic love story with fellow witch Tara Amber Benson included a deep dive into addiction, loss, fury and redemption. Buffy the Vampire Slayer broke new ground for LGBTQ+ representation on TV, but the queer undercurrents of the show extend far beyond Willow and Tara.

It's an is tom holland gay intense scene and the repercussion of it can still be felt throughout the first half of the following season. In a less nuanced way, the school's bully, Larry Larry Bagbycame out as gay in season two.