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[miriam-heddy]

911: Gay Representation and/or Slash Fandom Shipping: When Audiences/Discourse Communities Intersect and Collide

It’s been interesting to read writing by the many gay and bisexual men who, quite understandably, are thrilled to see 911’s Evan “Buck” Buckley and Tommy Kinard as a canonical, romantic couple (complete with flirting, intimate dinners, onscreen kisses, and sexual innuendo).

The seventh season of showrunner Tim Kinnear’s 911 saw the show move from Fox to ABC. And buzz about the season has largely centered around Buck’s story as he comes to recognize his own bisexuality and comes out to friends and family as, for the first time, he dates a man.

Meanwhile, longtime fans of the show include an audience who, since the second season, have tuned in, in part, to watch Buck and fellow firefighter Eddie Diaz (who was introduced in the first episode of the seventh season) meet and grow closer, becoming best friends, buddies, co-parents, and the subject of a lot of slash fanfiction.

A vocal contingent of those fans have been theorizing that Buck and Eddie’s relationship would be consummated in canon before the series ended. And, while that’s still possible, for fans of “Buddie” (Buck/Eddie), the introduction of Tommy Kinard as Buck’s love interest has not been universally celebrated.

Thus the two audiences have collided online in numerous forums, with interaction getting hostile as enmity between fans turned to the actors.

Those who scoff at so much energy being expended on a tv show might be reminded of professional football.

A large part of the crosstalk between Buddie fans and Tevan (Tommy Kinard/Evan Buckley) fans has come from the way that the groups approach tv—and what they have come demand and expect from it.

Gay and bi men, pleased with visible representation in Tevan, have expressed irritation at what they assume is an audience of homophobic straight women privileging their own desires (for a given fictional m/m couple) over the lives of real, living gay & bi men.

Ironically, lesbian and bisexual women have been important to slash fandom from the beginning, writing, publishing, and reading print zines of fan-authored Kirk/Spock stories in the 70s and onward. And gay and bi men have actually participated as slash writers and readers.

Thus, while fans have long argued that slash fandom isn’t primarily for or about gay men at all, it also hasn’t precluded its members from agitating for LGBTQ representation in television. So the framing of the problem as simply straight, homophobic fans pitted against gay & bi men is inaccurate, and hasn’t led to any peaceful discussion.

I do hope that such discourse is possible, not just within 911 fandom but outside it, as this conflict grows out of subcultures that have been active and, at times, overlapping since the 1970s.

*For more on fandom history and this subject, see: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Slash_vs._Gay

and https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Foresmutter%27s_Bibliography_of_Early,_Early_K/S

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