Offerg scen of unfettable mp and troducg one of the first out gay characters to mass dienc, the primetime TV seri Dynasty achieved inic stat, pecially among LGBTQ+ dienc.
Contents:
- DYNASTY’S JOURNEY OM GAY PANIC TO GAY PRI
- ‘I’M GAY’: GORDON THOMSON, DYNASTY’S ADAM CARRGTON, COM OUT—AND TRASH CW’S REBOOT
- 'DYNASTY' STAR GORDON THOMSON COM OUT AS GAY
- DUCK DYNASTY SON 'TRYG TO FIGURE OUT' IF BEG GAY IS A CHOICE
- GAY DADS LIVE FEAR THEIR ADOPTIVE CHILD WILL KILL THEM
DYNASTY’S JOURNEY OM GAY PANIC TO GAY PRI
Willie Robertson says he's not sure if people are born gay, but he lov them jt the same — proven by the fact that he works alongsi gay people who produce his fay's realy show. * gay son in dynasty *
The TV show Dynasty featured a gay in (and her son).
‘I’M GAY’: GORDON THOMSON, DYNASTY’S ADAM CARRGTON, COM OUT—AND TRASH CW’S REBOOT
But for years, spe the show’s anythg-go nature, there was one thg that Dynasty uldn’t get away wh: showg a happy homosexual. Puttg a gay man on one of the most inic and popular shows of the was a long, multi-year fight — both on-screen and behd-the-scen — but was nothg pared to the battle took to keep him there. The story of Dynasty’s ntroversial gay son starts back 1979 wh, of all thgs, the oil crisis.
'DYNASTY' STAR GORDON THOMSON COM OUT AS GAY
And the son, Steven, who’s hidg his homosexualy om his nservative dad.
” There had seldom been any recurrg gay characters on primetime TV — there was Jody on Soap, a fotten barfly on The Corner Bar, and gut-player Lori Shannon as Beverly LaSalle on All the Fay. Dynasty’s pilot posns Steven ont and center, wh a climactic scene which Blake nonts his son about beg gay.
DUCK DYNASTY SON 'TRYG TO FIGURE OUT' IF BEG GAY IS A CHOICE
He mands that Steven “straighten yourself out, ” hurls slurs at him, and sists that Steven never brg homosexualy to the hoe.
GAY DADS LIVE FEAR THEIR ADOPTIVE CHILD WILL KILL THEM
There was so much stigma around homosexualy then that for many queer people, was simply easier to acquice and pretend they’d gone straight — pecially around fay. Over the 1970s, there had been a steady rise gay characters, acpanyg the growg queer liberatn movement.
) But the rise gay visibily on televisn ran to a brick wall late 1980s wh the electn of Ronald Reagan. There were over a dozen gay characters on TV 1979, but by 1981 there were almost none.