Sci Fi Channel playing it very coy with potential gay storyline on "Battlestar Galactica".

Lt. Felix Gaeta (Alessandro Juliani) and Lt. Hoshi (Brad Dryborough)

WARNING: This post contains minor spoilers about upcoming Battlestar Galactica webisodes.

Last week we reported on rumors that the upcoming Battlestar Galactica webisodes (which start streaming on December 12th) were finally going to add some gay male content to the show. The Sci Fi Channel is still refusing to say whether that is true or not, but the network's Sci Fi Wire blog did post the above screencap from one of the webisodes today.

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The post was titled "Battlestar Exclusive: Gaeta & Hoshi (Almost) Kiss!"and went on to say they had "obtained an exclusive screenshot showing the infamous Gaeta 'kiss' moment."

Infamous? Seriously, Sci Fi? According to my dictionary, infamous means "having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil; disgraceful." Sort of like Sci Fi's track record with gay characters up until now. 

I'm just going to assume that the person who wrote that post didn't major in English and was going for something else entirely such as "groundbreaking" or "noteworthy". Otherwise, the network might be on the road to botching this character development.  

The post also added that network was neither confirming nor denying any details or that the characters would "indulge in a full-on make-out session".  Well, at least they're treating the storyline seriously. Sigh.

BTW, here is a better picture of Brad Dryborough, the actor who plays Hoshi.