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Alex Ross on “opera queens” and the history of gay them opera, as well as the recent proliferatn of gay operas, like “Angels Ameri” and “Pl’s Case.”

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From s begngs the Renaissance and Baroque tradns and the e of strati to the important operas of gay posers Tchaikovsky, Poulenc, and Brten, to the creased visibily of transgenr opera sgers such as Lucia Lus and Holn Madagame, the relatnship between opera and queer inty is an timate and plited one.

Same-sex love scen once proved too sndalo for much of mastream TV, but the sex-driven plots of soap operas, gay and lbian characters have enjoyed some moments of timacy worthy of a parental warng. Wh the ph to crowdfund a fourth season of steamy gay soap Dante's Cove, surely more heat is on the way.

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Ne Explos (As the World Turns)Sometim lled Amerin soaps' first gay super-uple, Le Snyr and Noah Mayer were romantilly lked on the sce-nceled As the World Turns, but waed about two years between a first kiss 2007 and fally dog the ed 2009. Dperate HoewivDperate Hoewiv' out creator, Marc Cherry, ma no secret that the Van Kamp fay stood for his own, but still stunned many viewers when son Andrew was revealed to be gay. (One Life to Live)One of daytime soaps' first love scen between two gay men took place 2009 when Oliver Fish and Kyle Lewis stripped each other down while ndl burned the foreground.

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