Over in soapland, gay kisses have been shocking the world since the mid-90s when Anna Friel and Nicola Stephenson locked lips in Brookside, giving Britain its first ever pre-watershed lesbian smooch.Īfter that the same-sex snogging didn't exactly take off, but scenes like Todd Grimshaw kissing his girlfriend's brother Nick Tilsley on Coronation Street, and the John Paul McQueen and Craig Dean relationship in Hollyoaks, helped break the barriers down, even if they were still shocking. Over in filmland, Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar teaching Selma Blair how to kiss in Cruel Intentions won the pair the coveted MTV Movie Award's Best Kiss gong in 2000 but gay kisses were still causing shock long after. The Brookside lesbians who changed it all
