Last Sunday evening's episode of Desperate Housewives gave us not only a hot same-sex kiss between Bree Van de Kamp's son, Andrew (Shawn Pyfrom) and his erstwhile boyfriend, Justin (Eating Out's Ryan Carnes), but a scene in which the two of them appear naked in bed together.

Fans of the show might remember that the two also kissed last year in episode 15 ("Impossible"). In that show, Susan (Teri Hatcher) discovered Andrew and Justin making out naked in a swimming pool. Realizing he had been spotted, Andrew blurted out “I'm not gay”.

As the season progressed, however, Andrew did come out. Desperate Housewives creator, Marc Cherry, played it cagey, though, never making it entirely clear whether Andrew was gay, bisexual, or just doing anything he could to get back at his mother for her marital problems with Andrew's father, Rex. The vindictive Andrew desired to do anything to shatter his mother's dream of having nothing less than the All-American family.

The perfect family, however, is a goal seldom achieved on Wisteria Lane.

In reaction to Andrew's coming out, not to mention his drinking, pot smoking, and running over little old ladies, Bree and Rex sent their son to a tough-love camp to have Andrew straightened out in more ways than one. After Rex's death at the hands of George, the pharmacist and Bree's new suitor, Andrew returned home, settling into what passes for normalcy on Desperate Housewives.

All that changed several episodes ago when Andrew discovered that Bree had watched George die from a drug overdose. This, Andrew believed, gave him the power he needed to punish his mother for all her perceived sins. From that point on, Andrew used his sexuality as a club with which to bludgeon Bree. He made sure his mother knew about his relationship with Justin wasn't just platonic. He ignored her command to not see his “friend” and then made sure his mother spotted them kissing.

That was nothing, of course, to Bree's finding them in bed together in this week's episode, irrefutable proof that her son was queer.

Andrew isn't exactly a likeable character, and it isn't even clear that he's gay. He may just be a Machiavellian monster willing to do anything to get back at his mom, including threatening to tell the police she was involved in George's death. That being said, Andrew would have to be off the charts manipulative to use Justin and his sexuality so callously. We're talking Matt Damon in the Talented Mr. Ripley turf.

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