These days it’s no big deal to see a same-sex couple on television. Heck, there’s shows where the entire cast is gay. We don’t think much of it, but back in the day it was a taboo subject to see two men or two women on screen just holding hands, let alone kissing. Ah, kissing. There’s nothing better than a nice smooch with someone you love, male or female. While Billy Crystal may have played a gay man in the 1977 sitcom, SOAP, it would be another 13-years before we saw two women kissing on television.

So what was the show to feature the first lesbian kiss?

Many people think it was Roseanne Barr who broke the barrier when she kissed Mariel Hemingway on her sitcom. Those people are wrong.

In 1993, Picket Fences featured a kiss between two teenage girls, but even that was not the first on-screen lesbian kiss.

Nope, for that we have to go all the way back to 1991. The kiss featured Amanda Donohoe, who played C.J. Lamb, a bi-sexual lawyer. There it was, right in our living rooms as she planted one on her fellow colleague, Abby Perkins, played by Michelle Greene. Religious groups and right-wingers were up in arms over that one, as they are with everything that doesn’t fit their mold of conformity. For that one single kiss, L.A. Law went down in history as the first television show to feature a girl-on-girl kiss on the small screen.

Thank God for change, evolution and acceptance. While gay and lesbians still don’t get as much airtime as they should, it’s nice to know that every once in a while you can pop in The L-Word and see real life on your T.V., and it’s all thanks to L.A. Law, which took that first step in breaking down the walls.