""Is there only one way to have 'authentic' gay sex on tv?" François wrote in an Instagram comment. "Should the sex that closeted hockey players have look like the sex that sceney LA gay guys have?""
""They want to see Heated Rivalry. I go to art to be confronted and to think, but a lot of people just want entertainment or to see two straight hockey players pretending to be gay and fucking.""
Heated Rivalry follows rival professional hockey players Shane Hollander and Illya Rozanov whose on-ice rivalry turns into sexual involvement. The series stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie and holds high critic and audience ratings. Public responses include comparisons between portrayals of queer sex across shows and questions about what counts as authentic representation. Cast interactions and social-media comments amplified the debate, with calls to watch other queer-focused series. Opinions vary between seeking confronting artistic work and preferring entertaining fantasies, while concerns persist about gaps in representation, such as limited depictions of Black LGBTQ intimacy.
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