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- ONE OF DAYTIME TV’S MOST POPULAR SOAPS IS ABOUT TO GET SUPER GAY. AGA.
- 10 GAY, BISEXUAL & QUEER SOAP OPERA STARS WHO ARE OUT — & OUTSTANDG
- GAY SOAP BAR
- DAN BROCKLEBANK ‘HONOURED’ BY CORONATN STREET’S FIRST EVER SUCCSFUL GAY WEDDG
- BILLY CRYSTAL PORTRAYED FIRST OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER ON TV — SI THE 'SOAP' STORY
- Y&R'S THOM BIERDZ RELEAS TELL-ALL SEX MEMOIR YOUNG, GAY & RTLS
ONE OF DAYTIME TV’S MOST POPULAR SOAPS IS ABOUT TO GET SUPER GAY. AGA.
10 Gay, Bisexual & Queer Soap Opera Stars * gay soap *
Anyone needg a b more gayns their daytime soaps, take heed: Will and Sonny, the beloved Days of Our Liv gay power uple, will return to the long-nng show on Febary 21. Will and Sonny, played by Chandler Massey and Freddie Smh, ma history as the first gay male uple to get married on a daytime soap opera way back 2014. Related: Why ‘Days of Our Liv’ axg s gay characters was the worst cisn ever.
10 GAY, BISEXUAL & QUEER SOAP OPERA STARS WHO ARE OUT — & OUTSTANDG
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Some of the actors and actrs playg the inic rol were straight, some were out and gay at the time, and others me out later on.
The first Pri March New York Cy was held on June 28, 1970, one year after the Stonewall Uprisg, to honor the thoands of LGBTQ+ people who took to the streets to monstrate agast the discrimatn they faced hog and employment, the anti-homosexual laws agast gatherg bars or dance clubs, to even be out as a homosexual.
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After endurg 2020, who uld blame Van Hansis (As the World Turns), the rare out gay soap star, for sayg thanks to his boyiend? * gay soap *
The ncept behd the ial march me om members of the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns who had been anizg an annual July 4th monstratn known as the Remr Day Pickets, at Inpennce Hall Philalphia, between 1965 and 1969. 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.
DAN BROCKLEBANK ‘HONOURED’ BY CORONATN STREET’S FIRST EVER SUCCSFUL GAY WEDDG
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Will and Sonny's First Time (Days of Our Liv)When Will Horton and Sonny Kiriakis, young gay members of two major fai on the long-nng soap Days of Our Liv, got together, showed that mment to the characters' sexualy than was more than a sishow. 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. But 's this wild hookup Mexi where he bumps to Tripp that Teddy fally embrac his gayns. ” So Miguel’s former portrayer publicly disclosed his 2011 memoir that he is gay.
The Young & Rtls vet whose character Phillip played ad for years rather than e out to his fay is also gay real life. The One Life to Live scene stealer — now and forever David Vickers to soap fans — announced durg a 2013 talk-show appearance not only that he was gay but that he’d bee a sgle father of two.
BILLY CRYSTAL PORTRAYED FIRST OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER ON TV — SI THE 'SOAP' STORY
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” The Emmy wner even created After Forever, a Web soap which he plays a gay widower. He and his hband, oime Amazg Race nttant Jaym Vghan, beme the first gay uple to grace the ver of The Knot.
Y&R'S THOM BIERDZ RELEAS TELL-ALL SEX MEMOIR YOUNG, GAY & RTLS
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“As a gay guy, you have to e out all the time, ” he told Entertament Weekly. “People thk g out is the first time [someone] says they’re gay when realy g out is a nstant procs.