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Top 10 Best Coming Out Scenes in TV Shows

MsMojo

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From heartwarming family moments to groundbreaking television history, join us as we celebrate the most impactful LGBTQIA coming out scenes that changed TV forever. These powerful moments showcase acceptance, love, and the courage to live authentically, featuring beloved characters from your favorite series. Our countdown includes touching moments from "Schitt's Creek," "Ellen," "Heartstopper," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," and more! Which scene resonated with you the most? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

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20 Comments

@Chris-o9x1p 1 year ago

Nick coming out to his mom on Heartstopper always gets me in the feels. It was everything I wish my mother had been.

@sibelimamoglu8648 1 year ago

Derry Girls “It’s me. I am the wee lesbian.” “Don’t come out go back in” “I don’t wanna go back in” “I am sorry Claire I am just not interested in you not like that” “ ‘not interested in you like that’ look at the state of you” pure gold.

@trinaq 1 year ago

I love that instead of Steve and Robin inevitably ending up together, Joe and Maya felt that it would be better for Robin to come out to him. Even better, Steve instantly accepts this, and good naturedly teases her about her dodgy taste in girls.

@FlorisScholten 1 year ago

My parents have always said to me and my brother that they don't care with who we come home as long as we are happy. When my uncle was in his late teens he came out as gay. Everyone in his family accepted it. Even his grandparents and they where from the 1910's.

@danarenee6088 1 year ago

Mickey Milkovich’ coming out scene in Shameless will always be the most iconic one ever!!

@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety 1 year ago

My father accepted me before my mother did. My mother came to accept me just before she died.

@saywhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat 1 year ago

I remember there was a good one on the original season of Skins. The gay character had been lifelong best friends with a Muslim guy and was basically a 2nd son to that guy's family. He was really nervous about coming out to that family but eventually the dad found out and said something like "Its a messed up world and there are lots of things I don't understand, but I have my God, and I know one day he will help me understand. It's called faith, I'm a lucky man. Come inside, son, the food is ready" I remember watching that years ago and thinking it was very casually beautiful

@williethomas9953 1 year ago (edited)

I will never forget my parent's reaction. My dad was a trucker, and my mom was a homemaker. We were a church 4 days week kinda family. My mom was a very young mom and had 4 kids by 21. She went on and on about the inappropriate relationship that gay men had and were sex obsessed. I was mouthy and told her that although I was the youngest at 15 and she was 36. I reminded her of all the secrets she had. All her affairs, she got mad, all the lies she put me in the middle of. I left and went live with my dad. My mom called my dad before I got home. My dad refused her any alimony until she went to counseling. They ended up getting remarried. My dad was my biggest supporter.

@CourtJesterJorge 1 year ago

Jack’s coming out on a two-episode story arc in Dawson’s Creek was really groundbreaking at the time, especially for us male teens who had no role model (Willow had come out earlier that month on Buffy). The scene he stood up to his father was a total tearjerker.

Another great scene was the “You are glasses” monologue in Grey’s Anatomy. Callie’s first on-screen girlfriend was written off because the actors lacked chemistry, but that doesn’t erase how moving the scene was when she made a perfect analogy to realizing she’s gay.

If they make a top 20, they should def include these two scenes.

@brickandlaze 1 year ago

Isak coming out to Jonas in the original Skam series is the best one. ❤

@WhatIOnceHeard96 1 year ago

Nick coming out is so raw and real; Kit captured the realness and authenticity of coming out to parents

@Martin-u9e 1 year ago

Nick's mom's reaction is what we want when we come out. My mom was 100percent supportive of me but me and my dad never spoke again after I came out to them up until the day he passed away we never spoke. In a real world I would've loved the ending Patrick got I Schitts Creek but it's never like that in real life

@MarkCrespo-y1f 1 year ago

Love nick and Charlie's relationship so much ❤️ 💗 ♥️

@LeniiNero 1 year ago

There is NO WAY that you made this and didn't include Marco from Degrassi TNG! Those characters were the same age as me and Marco coming out was so iconic. It's the ultimate millennial coming out story! He did it in front of his entire school! He came out to his homophobic father. Please make a part 2!

@Sandra-sr1wk 1 year ago

Skam Norway (the original) has two fantastic coming out scenes for one of its main characters. In one the character Isak comes out to his best friend Jonas, and another to his two other friends Magnus and Mahdi. Both scenes are just so well-written and real, I love coming back to them.

@sifilore 1 year ago

I think Alec Lightwood in Shadowhunters had a best coming out. With the blessing of his bride, before taking their vows, he goes up to Magnus whom he truly loves, and kisses him in front of everyone.

@marca5361 1 year ago

I’m shocked that jack coming out to his father on Dawson’s Creek wasn’t on this list.

@cbgirl96 1 year ago

Honestly Justins coming out in Ugly Betty is so good. Nothing is said, he just grabs a guys hand and starts slow dancing with everyone else. Such a good and subtle scene