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Is Buck Gay on 9-1-1? Oliver Stark Confirms His Character’s Sexuality
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9-1-1 fans are one step closer to Buddie. After his kiss with with Tommy in Season 7, Episode 4, fans own had countless questions about Buck’s sexuality on 9-1-1and what’s next for the character’s romantic-life (and whether it could include another firefighter viewers have been shipping him with for years.)
Evan “Buck” Buckley, is a firefighter at the Los Angeles Fire Department’s fictional Station 118 in 9-1-1. The series, which premiered in 2018 and also includes spin-off 9-1-1: Lone Star, follows the personal and professional lives of first responders — including police officers, paramedics, and dispatchers — in Los Angeles, California.
Buck, who is also the brother of 9-1-1 operator and trained nurse Maddie Buckley, is one of five remaining original characters on 9-1-1, along with LAPD patrol sergeant A
‘9-1-1’ Committed to a Gay Character. Will Other Shows Shadow Suit?
When TV series 9-1-1aired its 100th episode on April 4, the Los Angeles-set ABC firefighter drama, recognizable for pitting its characters against tsunamis and hijacked cruise ships, did something so wild, so unexpected, that even day-one fans were left shocked: They had one of their main characters kiss another man.
The main ethics in question — self-avowed reformed sex addict Buck (Oliver Stark) — has been a fan favorite since the Ryan Murphy series premiered in 2018. The young firefighter rapidly became known for his womanizing ways, which were often contrasted with his intense and meaningful friendship with fellow firefighter Eddie Diaz (Ryan Guzman). The two work together, dangle out together, and eventually develop such a devoted friendship that Buck becomes a second parent to Eddie’s son, Christopher.
Online, Buck has also change into a popular ethics for viewers to read as lgbtq+. They “ship” him — want him to be in a romantic partnership — with Eddie. While the newest season of 9-1-1 doesn’t see Buck obtain together with Eddie, b
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ByTom Smyth, a freelance writer covering pop culture.
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Oliver Stark, who plays Buck on ABC’s 9-1-1 took to social media accompanying the series’s 100th episode, sharing that he’s “humbled and overwhelmed” by the positive response to his character’s surprise (to some) same-sex kiss. While Buck has been a part of the first responder procedural for all seven seasons, this latest episode is the first official exploration of the character’s bisexuality, by way of a kiss shared with his new friend Tommy (Louis Ferrigno Jr.).
“I’ve study so many of your messages and I couldn’t be prouder,” he wrote in an Instagram story, before addressing the concurrent negative reaction as adv. “If you are one of the smaller community of people commenting on my posts about how this has ruined the show, I would enjoy you to know that I truly don’t nurture. This is a display about love and inclusion. It’s featured queer relationships from the very start, including a beautiful Inky lesbian marriage played out by two of the best actresses I’ve
‘9-1-1’ Boss: Exploring Buck’s Fresh Sexual Awakening “Felt Appreciate It Was the Right Time”
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[This story contains spoilers from season seven, episode five of 9-1-1, “You Don’t Know Me.”]
For seven seasons on 9-1-1 and five seasons on its spinoff Lone Star, co-creator and showrunner Tim Minear has consistently found new (and surprising) ways to deepen the relationships in his most successful TV universe to date.
But Minear saved arguably his biggest twist for the 100th episode of the authentic series, which aired last Thursday. In it, Evan “Buck” Buckley (Oliver Stark), who began the long-running Fox-turned-ABC procedural as a womanizing sex addict, shares an unexpected kiss with Tommy Kinard (Lou Ferrigno Jr.), a former firefighter and current LAFD Atmosphere Operations pilot. Since then, this storyline has been the subject of much discussion on social media, making 9-1-1 one of the few network shows to become appointment viewing in today’s crowded TV landscape.
In this week’s episode, titled “You Don’t Know Me,” Buck goes on his first dinner and movie hang out with Tommy
Why 9-1-1's historic ruling to make Buck queer was seven years in the making
For seven seasons,9-1-1 fans have been calling on the showrunners to produce the queer-coded character Evan 'Buck' Buckley explicitly queer – and to my huge surprise, it's finally happened.
Season seven episode four, 'Buck, Bothered and Bewildered', saw the character grow resentful over Eddie Diaz's new friendship with Tommy Kinard, only for Buck to understand by the end that it was never Eddie's friendship he was worried about but rather Tommy's attention, and the pair kissed.
Fans have fallen in love with the character of Buck (played by Oliver Stark) over the past seven years, acknowledging his tender heart and willingness to spring without thinking for those he loves. Many have also argued that the character has distant been queer-coded – when a character's sexual orientation is implied by significant subtext without organism stated outright – using canonical moments from across the seven seasons in their arguments.
Think back to the early seasons, and how Eddie Diaz's introduction to the 118 came from Buck's indicate