This is a list of soap opera characters who are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr, and the live actn televisn and rad soap operas which feature them. Characters who are pansexual, asexual, non-bary and tersex are also clud. Character orientatn and genr inty n be portrayed on-screen, scribed the dialogue or mentned. Characters are listed by soap opera, and soap operas by untry of orig. The history of LGBT characters that feature soap operas begs Atralia, wh Don Flayson, portrayed by Joe Hasham, who appeared the Atralian televisn soap opera Number 96 between 1972 and 1977.
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10 GAY, BISEXUAL & QUEER SOAP OPERA STARS WHO ARE OUT — & OUTSTANDG
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Whether be the first gay kiss broadst on mastream televisn, the troductn of PoC gay rol, or the stg trans actors trans storyl, soaps have been leadg the charge when to reprentatn for s.
That first kiss, for example, aired 1989, one year after the troductn of Sectn 28, a homophobic piece of legislatn that outlawed the “promotg the teachg of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship. Brooksi's Gordon Colls Be The First Gay Character In A UK Soap Opera, 1985Portrayed by Nigel Crowley (and later Mark Burgs), Gordon Colls was first troduced to Channel 4's Brooksi 1982 and later me out 1985, beg the first openly gay character on a Brish soap opera.
Through Gordon, Brooksi explored the topic of homophobia, wh his fay beg subject to harassment as a rult of him g out.
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It's now wily believed that Gordon and the Brooksi wrers paved the way for other soap operas and popular TV dramas to troduce their own gay characters. Eastenrs Airs The First Gay Kiss On Mastream TV, 1989In 1989, another character named Coll ma LGBTQ history when he took part the first gay kiss on mastream televisn.
(The first ever gay kiss took place durg a BBC Two broadst of Edward II, between Ian McKellen and Jam Lrenson 1970 and, ne years later, there was a kiss between two men one BBC One drama Comg Out, but the Eastenrs kiss was seen by lns. But the scene was seen as a groundbreakg moment for many the LGBTQ muny and, when Colls' send gay kiss took place – this time on the lips wh a character named Guido – the receptn was d parison.