Gays Survive The Zombie Apocalypse

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Well, it looks as if some gay men will indeed survive the zombie apocalypse, provided you look to AMC's The Walking Dead as your barometer for who will make it in this post-apocalyptic world. The first gay male kiss on the hit series happened on last night's episode, where Aaron and Eric shared a passionate kiss.

Aaron (Ross Marquand) is the leader of another survival group dubbed Alexandria, and he welcomed the series' main group of survivors to the fold, but not before kicking the shit out of Michonne when he thought his lover Eric (Jordan Woods-Robinson) was in danger. The two then shared one seriously hot smooch.

For his part, Marquand says that he, Woods-Robinson, and the show's creators poured a lot of effort into making this a believable relationship, and not just one that exists simply to exist.

We really did our best to create a backstory for these two men. It’s not expressly laid out in the comics how long they’ve known each other. Did they know each other before the apocalypse began? We wanted to think they did. We thought it was a stronger choice that they had known each other before everything went to hell. It’s a really endearing love story that way, that these two men had bonded beforehand and then stuck together and protected each other throughout this really difficult time in human history. It’s not unlike any other relationship—there’s fights that occur, there’s little squabbles about how to approach a group. “Should we approach this group? What do you think of these people? Can we trust them?” There’s going to be disagreements. It was enormously helpful to discuss that with each other before we shot any of those scenes.

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