'90210' Exclive: The REAL story behd Teddy's big gay awakeng
Contents:
- EXCLIVE: WHO'S GAY ON 90210?
- '90210' EXCLIVE: THE REAL STORY BEHD TEDDY'S BIG GAY AWAKENG
- TREVOR DONOVAN: PLAYG GAY CHARACTER ON '90210' GETS ME GIRLS
- '90210' GAY CHARACTER REVEALED
- TV ALERT: RUMER WILLIS PLAYS GAY ON “90210” TONIGHT
- DARREN STAR ON THE STGGL OF SHOWG GAY CHARACTERS ‘90210,’ ‘MELROSE PLACE’
EXCLIVE: WHO'S GAY ON 90210?
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Will Christa be a gay-posive role mol — or is a bisexual high school cheerlear jt another male fantasy? In the followg exclive terview, exec producer Rebec Sclair reveals when she realized Teddy preferred guys over gals, previews his first same-sex romance, and rells Donovan’s ial reactn upon learng that he’d be playg gay. In a lot of ways I thk that’s more tertg than Teddy is a gay athlete, a gay famo guy’s son and a blon and hunky gay gentleman.
Did you know Teddy would be gay when he was first troduced?
And I gus our ultimate goal would be to tell a whole range of stori that pict different facets of the issue of gayns—or non-straightns, you might say. Though, thankfully, we live an age where lots of teens are fortable wh their sexual orientatn and are able to e out when they’re high school or even before, we didn’t want to ignore the realy that for lots of kids the road to self-acceptance for a gay teenager isn’t easy.
'90210' EXCLIVE: THE REAL STORY BEHD TEDDY'S BIG GAY AWAKENG
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And he’s worked hard to reprs whatever homosexual feelgs he’s had. He plays Ian, a self-nfint, funny guy who is very much out and fortable wh his gayns. When did you rm Trevor that his character was gog to be gay?
I thk he regnized that was a good opportuny as an actor and he was exced by the ia of tellg the story of a character’s journey that would mean a lot to gay teenagers and other teenagers who are learng to be hont about who they are and what they feel.
TREVOR DONOVAN: PLAYG GAY CHARACTER ON '90210' GETS ME GIRLS
Donovan told the magaze -- which go on sale Friday -- that ever sce his character, Teddy, me out as gay on the show, his datg life has gotten even better. They kd of assume I'm (gay real life) and try to change me back.
Last we saw Teddy Montgomery, the surprisgly gay character on CW's 90210, he was movg to Washgton wh boyiend Shane (played by Ryan Rottman). Of urse, there are a few, very few, who thought jt bee Teddy was gay, he wouldn't be the same.
'90210' GAY CHARACTER REVEALED
But they soon found out he's the same guy they fell love 've seen a great crease gay TV characters over the past few years, do you feel like there is still a rponsibily for viewg dienc the way you portray Teddy or is no holds barred and anythg go?
I don't like labels on shows and characters: "That's a gay show, or that's a gay character. The character of Teddy Montgomery (Trevor Donovan) will reportedly adm that he is gay the upg third season of was prevly reported that eher Liam (Matt Lanter), Navid (Michael Steger) or Teddy would e out the new season of the CW drama. Zap2It has now nfirmed that Donovan's character will reveal his te sexualy a forthg the send season fale, viewers saw Teddy rned wh his girliend Silver (Jsi Stroup) Kyle Riabko was recently st as the character's new love tert, and rehearsals between the two actors are currently CW was praised last month for s reprentatn of gay people, receivg the hight ever ratg for a broadst work an annual survey by the Gay And Lbian Alliance Agast Discrimatn (GLAAD).
Meanwhile, Kelly volunteers to do muny service work at an AIDS hospice and beiends Jimmy Gold, a gay AIDS patient whom she is assigned to work wh. However, appears that there isn’t really any dialogue to clue to her gayns – at least not yet.
TV ALERT: RUMER WILLIS PLAYS GAY ON “90210” TONIGHT
“It’s tough enough gog to high school, but if you’re gay and that young, that’s even tougher, ” she said. Trevor claimed that his gay role 90210 helped him get girls real life.
Montgomery’s character arc took a surprisg turn after was revealed that he was a closeted gay.
Donovan had no ia that he would play a gay role, but he didn’t shy away om . Trevor revealed that playg the role of a gay person had an unexpected yet wele effect on his private life.
DARREN STAR ON THE STGGL OF SHOWG GAY CHARACTERS ‘90210,’ ‘MELROSE PLACE’
They kd of assume I’m (gay real life) and try to change me back. How important was to tegrate gay characters to your storytellg?
I would thk, you live the world of realy, and beg gay felt meang.