Fifteen years ago, ‘Dawson’s Creek’ gave us TV’s first ‘passionate’ gay kiss. How far have we come? According to Carole Bell, an assistant professor at Northeastern University who has done extensive research on gay representation in pop culture, simply seeing gay characters on the small screen can foster acceptance. In an interview with HuffPost, she explained research which substantiates this impact: “For people who didn’t have a lot of exposure previously, who […]