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In the first episode ofHow to Get Away With Murders final season,two men have loud sex.
But in truth, it made me blush.
I was shocked to be watching something like it on primetime web connection television, even in 2014.
After making out naked and in bed, Connor tells Oliver to turn over.
It was something that felt impossible with these qualifiers because until then it was.
For this, it should be remembered as queer-TV royalty.
While Annalise Keatings immortal line Why is your penis on a dead girls phone?
It featured dialogue and plotlines about hookup apps, storylines about consent in queer culture, and serodifferent relationships.
This isnt just about titillation, of course.
Whats important is that people actually learned something.
It might sound silly to say, but theres something about the capacity to see humanity here.
Perhaps the biggest featHTGAWMperformed is that it made queerness feel like it could exist anywhere and everywhere.
In this, as is true to life, queerness is never off the table.
It would be a mistake, too, to overlook race and power.
With Annalises reveal, the show had suddenly centered a black queer person.
The frequency of these storylines and the boundaries they push feel indebted toHTGAWM.
In its final season,HTGAWMhas covered all its bases to remind us of its queer legacy.
The now-married couple has even had their first threesome, brought on by a clients dating app.
I thought this would be harder, Oliver says to Connor.
They and the show are testing the boundaries.
But its yet another factor of queerness, of non-normativity, that the show puts on the table.
So too has the final season been a continued exploration of Annalises own queerness.
Fingers crossed, Im hoping the show ends with her running away with one too.
I wanted it to be.
He crashed at my place, but we only spooned.
It showed us that queer people and queer sex have been around forever.
