Dawson's Creek - Jack McPhee

Jack McPhee (Kerr Smith)
Show: Dawson's Creek
Year Introduced: 1998

Bio: After coming out during his junior year in high school, Jack became known as the “gay guy.”  In his senior year, he coaches a little league soccer team. He is fired when some of the parents discover he is gay. They use another excuse to get rid of him so they don’t get into trouble for illegal discrimination. He has a relationship with Toby as a senior in high school, but this ends during his freshman year in college.  We then see him through a series of relationships, ending the show with him and partner Doug agreeing to raise Jen’s baby daughter Amy after her untimely death.

Significance: Jack was one of the first gay teen characters to come out on TV, and he and shared the first romantic gay male kiss on primetime network television.