🏳️‍🌈 Pride Month Rewind | Originally released January 8, 2026

It’s fine, it’s cool, Eddie can tell a priest “I’m straight,” but we know the truth.

This week Han, Cil, and Rachel take a thorough look at Eddie Diaz’s dating history with our rainbow glasses to spot the complex layers of queer coding!

Eddie famously says, “I hate being forced to date, feels like I have to perform,” in Season 6 Episode 14 of 9-1-1, “Performance Anxiety.” Buck and Hen are not the only people who raised their eyebrows at that statement, and luckily for you we do have time to unpack all that!

If you look up compulsory heterosexuality (comp-het) in the dictionary, you’ll see a picture of Eddie Diaz trying to pick up women at a golf course. This episode may sound like an Eddie Diaz roast, but we’re just reporting the news. This just in, Eddie cannot get it up (romantically) for women, and we’ve connected all the dots from his dating history in this episode to show you why.

Think of it as a heterosexual post-mortem on why his relationships with Shannon, Ana, Marisol, and Kim failed spectacularly.

You can kiss the clone of your dead ex-wife

Date a former nun, let her catch you cheating

You can say that you choose this life

Break a new heart, another comp-het victim

Well, good luck, Eddie!

📔 Articles & References

🫂 What If Eddie Had Dated Tommy? – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment here!

📰 Ryan Guzman Reacts to the '9-1-1' Season 7 Finale's Biggest Twists, Collider

📰 ‘9-1-1’ star Ryan Guzman reflects on Eddie’s journey leading up to Season 9 in exclusive interview, YardBarker

🎞️ Take a Chance on Me, edit bu hedwiglitz on Twitter

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Chapters

(00:00:00) Intro

(00:00:30) Queer Coding, Demisexuality, and CompHet

(00:03:32) Eddie Performing with Shannon

(00:24:45) Bobby's Role in the CompHettery

(00:30:27) Eddie Performing with Ana

(00:52:10) Performance Anxiety

(00:58:46) The Date with Vanessa

(01:09:12) Eddie Performing with Marisol

(01:32:11) Eddie's 7x05 Performance

(01:38:11) Eddie's Performance with Kim

(01:47:08) Outro & Take A Buddie With You