Buffy the Vampire Slayer turns 27: The gayest episodes of the iconic fantasy drama
From ‘Doppelgangland’ to ‘Once More, with Feeling’, these are the gayest moments from Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s iconic seven-season run.
WORDS BY SAM DAMSHENAS HEADER BY OLIVIA LAWRENCE As Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a teenage girl bestowed with supernatural abilities to defeat vampires, demons and the forces of darkness (as well as the patriarchy), Sarah Michelle Gellar’s titular heroine changed the course of television.
Created by [redacted, for… reasons], the fantasy drama received universal critical acclaim during its seven-season run, with many individual episodes hailed as some of the finest in history: ‘Hush,’ still spine-chillingly spooky to this day; ‘Once More, with Feeling,’ arguably best musical to ever air on the small-screen; and ‘The Body’, which delivers one of the most realistic depictions of death and loss ever portrayed. (‘Beer Bad’ exists, too.) Credited with influencing other series in the same genre, such as Charmed, Doctor Who and Lost, Buffy was additionally lauded for its trailblazing queer representation.
Buffy‘s resident witches Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan) and Tara Mackay (Amber Benson) memorably made history as the first-long term lesbian relationship on television, and have continued to serve as inspiration for writers and showrunners.
