10 Gay, Bisexual & Queer Soap Opera Stars
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10 GAY, BISEXUAL & QUEER SOAP OPERA STARS WHO ARE OUT — & OUTSTANDG
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. * british gay soap opera george *
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. 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.
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Brooksi Airs The First Lbian Kiss On Pre-Watershed TV, 1994As well as beg the soap to air the first gay character, Brooksi was was the first soap to show two women kissg before the 9 p. Eastenrs' Syed Is The First Mlim Gay Character In A Soap, 2009Who n fet when Syed (played by Marc Elltt) beme the first gay Mlim character on the square? That’s what I am proud of most, portrayg a normal, lovg gay relatnship.
Through Iqra and Ash, Eastenrs was able to move beyond the tradnal on-screen stggle (which se characters beg outst simply bee they are gay) and stead explore new pth and plexy wh LGBTQ Hollyoaks, Ripley Lennox and Brooke Hathaway Make Soap History, 2021Portrayed by non-bary actor Ki Griff, Ripley Lennox first appeared on Hollyoaks back 2020, workg on a send-hand cloth stand at Cunngham’s Grand Bazaar market.