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• 12 GAY TV CHARACTERS WHO NEVER SAID THEY WERE GAYAND MORE DRAG QUEENS ARE HTG TV! WHO WAS LEFT OUT?{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}TVBY MICHAEL MTOSEPTEMBER 18, 2017/11:22 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:1910PX;WIDTH:2610PX;}ABC PHOTO ARCHIV/DISNEY GENERAL ENTERTAMENT CONTENT VIA GETTY IMAGBY MICHAEL MTOSEPTEMBER 18, 2017 / 11:22 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"12 GAY TV CHARACTERS WHO NEVER SAID THEY WERE GAY","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2017-09-18T15:22:38.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2017-09-18T15:22:38.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"MICHAEL MTO","KEYWORDS":"MTO UNFILTERED","ARTICLESECTN":"TV"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WAY BEFORE CHARACTERS—AND ACTORS—ULD BE OUT OF THE CLOSET, THERE WAS A SPATE OF THEM ON TV THAT GAVE EVERY DITN OF BEG GAY WHOUT ACTUALLY SAYG SO. FOR THE GENERATN THAT GREW UP WHOUT A LOT OF LGBT VISIBILY, THE D PERSONAS PROVID SOME REHG GAYNS AN OTHERWISE EXCLIVELY HETERO LANDSPE. THE DISHONTLY OPAQUE WAY THEY WERE PRENTED MA THEM A TILLATG TNT RATHER THAN A LIBERATG BREAKTHROUGH, BUT THEY STILL MA A DIFFERENCE. HERE’S A DOZEN OF THE MOST MEMORABLE ON (AND BY THE WAY, SOME OF THE CHARACTERS WERE GIVEN OPPOSE-SEX LOVE TERTS, BUT THAT DIDN’T FOOL ME A B):{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DR. ZACHARY SMH ON LOST {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:75%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A QUEENY, SCHEMG DOCTOR A SHY SILVER BODYSU, NNG BEHD A ROCK WH A BOY OUTER SPACE? “DANGER, WILL ROBSON” ED. EVEN STAR JUNE LOCKHART SAID SHE THOUGHT THE CHARACTER WAS GAY. AS PLAYED BY JONATHAN HARRIS THE THE 1960S S, THE DOC HAD MAJOR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MR. BELVEREABC PHOTO ARCHIV/DISNEY GENERAL ENTERTAMENT CONTENT VIA GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CLIFTON WEBB PLAYED THE STARCHY ENGLISH HOEKEEPER THE MOVI. ON THE S VERSN (1985-’90), WAS CHRISTOPHER HEWETT, WHO FLAMED UP A STORM THE ROLE. IN REAL LIFE A “NFIRMED BACHELOR,” HEWETT HAD PLAYED THE GAYER THAN GAY DIRECTOR ROGER DE BRIS THE ORIGAL MOVIE OF THE PRODUCERS, SO THIS WAS NOT EXACTLY A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MEL COOLEY ON THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOWCBS VIA GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN THE 1960S, THE GAYT THG ON THE AIR WAS MEL (PICTURED: LEFT), THE EXTREMELY MANNERED AND IMPER TV PRODUCER ON VAN DYKE’S H S. BALD AND BPECTACLED RICHARD DEAN PLAYED THE PART WH A NOTICEABLY SWISHY MEANOR. HE WENT ON TO PLAY KAYE BALLARD’S HBAND, ROGER BUELL, THE MOTHERS-IN-LAW (1968-9), REPLACG THE EQUALLY MPY ROGER C. CARMEL THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BIG AL, THE SPORTSTER ON ROWAN AND MART'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS PLAYED BY FUNNY MAN ALAN SU ON THE H LATE ‘60S/EARLY ‘70S SHOW OF WACKY SKETCH AND SHTICKS, AL WAS AN EFFEMATE SPORTSSTER WHO ABSOLUTELY LOVED RGG THE BELL. ANOTHER OF SU’ CHARACTERS ON THE SHOW WAS A GUY WHO SWAGGERS TO A BAR THE OLD WT AND ORRS A OZEN DAIQUIRI. THE PEOPLE WERE CLEARLY GAY, AND SO WAS ALAN, WHO WAS MARRIED TO A WOMAN FOR A TIME, BUT DATED MEN ON THE SI. SADLY, THE IC FELT THE NEED TO GIVE TERVIEWS BOASTG ABOUT WHAT A STRAIGHT STUD HE WAS. EVEN SADR, HE BEME OVERE WH WHAT HE FELT WAS THE HOMOPHOBIC SLANT OF THE MATERIAL HE WAS GIVEN TO DO. SU DIED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}UNCLE ARTHUR ON BEWCHEDABC PHOTO ARCHIV/DISNEY GENERAL ENTERTAMENT CONTENT VIA GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FROM ’65 TO ’71, BEWCHED—WH ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY AS A WCH-SLASH-HOEWIFE—WAS GAY STATN TV, THANKS TO SUPPORTG PLAYERS LIKE AGN MOOREHEAD, ACTG ALL REGAL AND BCHY FABULO OUTFS. AND OF URSE THERE WAS PL LYN AS UNCLE ARTHUR, WHICH THE ACTOR BROUGHT ALL HIS GAY TICS TO, RULTG A TYPILLY DARG AND HILAR PERFORMANCE. MUCH LATER, LYN WENT EVEN FARTHER, WH GAYISH NUENDO ON THE HOLLYWOOD SQUAR. (“PL, WHY DO HELL’S ANGELS WEAR LEATHER?” “BEE CHIFFON WRKL TOO EASILY.”) HE DIED 1981, NEVER HAVG E OUT ON THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CLAYMORE GREGG ON THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIRDISNEY GENERAL ENTERTAMENT CONTENT VIA GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN THE SAME VE AS LYN, CHARL NELSON REILLY WAS A ONE-MAN MPFT WHO WAS GAYER THAN LIBERACE’S TOOTHBSH. AS CLAYMORE, THE NUTTY GUY WHO RENTS THE HNTED TTAGE TO MRS. MUIR ON THE ENJOYABLE S (1968-’70), HE WAS FSY AND FUNNY AND VERY QUEENY. AND JT LIKE LYN WENT ON TO GAME SHOW PYROTECHNICS, REILLY STOLE THE MATCH GAME WH HIS FLAILG ARMS AND QUICK W. HE ALSO HAD IMPRSIVE THEATER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}EDWARD EVERETT HORTON ON THE ADVENTUR OF ROCKY AND BULLWKLE AND FRIENDSUNIVERSAL HISTORY ARCHIVE/UNIVERSAL IMAG GROUP VIA GETTY IMAGUNIVERSAL IMAG GROUP {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE GAY VOICE? ABSOLUTELY—LET ME EXPLA. FROM 1959 ON, ROCKY AND BULLWKLE WERE FUN AND BORIS AND NATASHA WERE MPY (PECIALLY NATASHA), BUT WHEN THE FRACTURED FAIRY TAL SEGMENT ME ON, I WAS TLY GAY HEAVEN. THE TAL—RETELLG CLASSIC YARNS WH QUIRKY TWISTS—VOLVED EDWARD EVERETT HORTON’S FT NARRATN, WH LOTS OF WORDPLAY AND DOUBLE ENTENDR. HE ME OFF SO UNAPOLOGETILLY GAY—AND WAS JT HIS VOICE! BUT THIS WAS NOTHG NEW; HORTON WAS PLAYG D GAY MEN BACK THE DAYS OF FRED AND GGER MILS AND SCREWBALL EDI. A FIZZY TOAST TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A GAY ANIMATED CHARACTER? WELL, Y, THAT’S HOW THE PRISSY PK MOUNTA LN (VOICED BY DAWS BUTLER AND STARTED 1961) WAS PLAYED, AND I FOUND HIM EVEN MORE APPEALG THAN THE PK PANTHER. THE CHARACTER EXHIBED ALL THE NERVONS, NARCISSISM, AND LIMP WRISTEDNS OF YOUR EVERYDAY GAY STEREOTYPE PLUCKED OUT OF THE WILD. “HEAVENS TO MURGATROYD!” AS SNAGS WOULD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MILTON THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SIARLY, THE MILTON THE MONSTER SHOW—A RTOON SERI THE 1960S—TROTTED OUT A WHOLE ASSORTMENT OF GAY CREATUR, FOR ANYONE WHO WAS PAYG ATTENTN. THERE WAS MILTON HIMSELF, A FRANKENSTE TYPE BUT OVERLOAD WH TENRNS AND A GOMER PYLE-ISH VOICE, PL PROFSOR WEIRDO AND HIS PISSY ASSISTANT COUNT KOOK (“BETTER HOLD MY HAND, I’M FEELG SICK!”). WHAT’S MORE, THE WOMEN’S VOIC WERE DONE BY MEN. OH, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ANTHONY BOUVIER ON DIGNG WOMENFOTOS INTERNATNAL/COURTY GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MHACH TAYLOR PLAYED THE TERR SIGN ASSISTANT ON THE H SERI. (1986-93). IN ’87, HE PLAYED HOLLYWOOD MONTROSE, THE OVER-THE-TOP WDOW DRSER MANNEQU. IN REAL LIFE, HE WAS MARRIED AND HAD FOUR KIDS, SO I HAVE NO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MR. MOONEY ON THE LUCY SHOWCBS VIA GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CHARACTER ACTOR GALE GORDON HAMMED UP AS LUCILLE BALL’S FOIL, THE NSTANTLY FLTERED AND BARKG BANKER THEODORE J. MOONEY, ON THE LUCY SHOW (1963-8). HE JT ME OFF LIKE SUCH A GIRL! LUCY OBVLY LIKED GALE’S STORM OF AFFECTATNS BEE HE ME BACK FOR ROL HERE’S LUCY AND LIFE WH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KG TUT ON BATMANABC PHOTO ARCHIV/DISNEY GENERAL ENTERTAMENT CONTENT VIA GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VICTOR BUONO WAS THE GO-TO PUDGY ‘60S CHARACTER ACTOR FOR MPY VILLAY. IN THE TALE OF GROTQUE SIBLG RIVALRY WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?, HE WASN’T SO MUCH VILLAO AS SORT OF CREEPILY SLEAZY, YET THE MOST CENT ONE THE ROOM BY FLT. (IN FD, HE WAS SEEN ANNOUNCG HIMSELF TO BETTE DAVIS AS A BIG HOMOSEXUAL. HE LATER GOT BTED A MOVIE THEATER ORAL SEX CINT THAT WAS HHED UP.) THE H SHOW BATMAN WAS FAMO FOR S GAY-IENDLY GUT STARS LIKE EARTHA KT, JULIE NEWMAR, ETHEL MERMAN, AND TALLULAH BANKHEAD. ALONG WH BEWCHED, THIS SHOW HELPED TAPULT ME OUT OF THE CLOSET EVEN WHOUT THE WORD “GAY” EVER HAVG BEEN UTTERED. BUONO WAS GREAT AS TUT, THOUGH HE SEEMED MORE QUEEN THAN KG. HE DIED OF A HEART ATTACK AT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HONORARY MENTN: GOMER PYLE (JIM NABORS), FRED “REN” STUBBS (FRED BERRY) ON WHAT’S HAPPENG!!, THE MARTIAN (RAY WALSTON) ON MY FAVORE MARTIAN, MONROE FIC (JIM J. BULLOCK) ON TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT, BARNABAS COLLS (JONATHAN FRID) ON DARK SHADOWS, URKEL (JALEEL WHE) ON FAY MATTERS, UNCLE FTER (JACKIE COOGAN) THE ADDAMS FAY, DOOGIE HOWSER, M.D. (NEIL PATRICK HARRIS), THE BROTHER ON SMALL WONR, TKY WKY (TELETUBBI), SQUIDWARD (SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS), AND ANYTHG PLAYED BY DON KNOTTS—AND AS FOR THE LADI, JO (NANCY MCKEON) ON THE FACTS OF LIFE, MISS JANE HATHAWAY (NANCY KULP) ON THE BEVERLY HILLBILLI, AND ALICE (ANN B. DAVIS) ON THE BRADY BUNCH. Y, I KNOW SHE WAS CRAZY FOR SAM THE BUTCHER. I’M SURE HE WAS A BEARD!CBS VIA GETTY IMAGFRED CLARK AS DR. RAY CLYBURN, NANCY KULP AS JANE HATHAWAY AND RAYMOND BAILEY AS MILBURN DRYSDALE THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES EPISO, "HAIR-RAISG HOLIDAY." ORIGAL AIRDATE, OCTOBER 2, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TODAY, GAY PEOPLE ON TV ARE OUT AND DRS! FN TV JT ANNOUNCED THAT ’S THROWG SHA: QUEENS OF NYC, A 12-PART DOCERI ABOUT THE NYC DRAG CULTURE, FEATURG LOL FAVOR LIKE MARTI GOULD CUMMGS, TA BURNER, PAIGE TURNER, HOLLY BOX SPRGS, JADA VALENCIAGA, JASME RICE LABEIJA, CHELSEA PIERS, AND BRA FILTER. GREAT CHOIC—I’VE ENJOYED THEM ALL. AS FOR HOW THEY ST THE SHOW—WHICH PREMIER OCTOBER 5—CUMMGS TOLD ME, "THIS GROUP OF QUEENS REPRENTS THE HEART OF NYC DRAG. THEIR WORK ETHIC AND DRIVE TO SUCCEED THIS DTRY MAK THEM STAND OUT AS NYCS FT REPRENTATN OF DIVERSE DRAG. OUR GOAL IS TO HAVE THIS SHOW BE A SUCCS AND HOPEFULLY WE N TRODUCE MORE QUEENS AS TIME GO ON TO NTUE TO SHOWSE THE EVER EVOLVG NYC DRAG MUNY." AND IF NOT, THERE MT BE A SUPPORT GROUP BY NOW FOR DRAG QUEENS WHO HAVEN'T GOTTEN ON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SEEN ALL OVER THE TUBE ARE THE BLONDS—THE LONG-NNG, GLTERY DUO DAVID AND PHILLIPE BLOND, WHO NOT ONLY TROT OUT EYE TCHG ENSEMBL FOR FASHN WEEK, BUT PROVI A SWIRL OF BUZZY EXCEMENT, THANKS TO THE IMPOSSIBLY JAZZY DIENCE THAT FLOCKS TO THEIR SHOWS. ACTOR/REALY PERSONALY WILL WIKLE AGRE WH ME THAT ’S A GREAT IA TO TELL PEOPLE, “I’M BY DOG FASHN WEEK,” AND THEN ONLY GO TO THE BLONDS. THIS TIME, AT SKYLIGHT LAST WEEK, WAS THE UAL MADP SCENE. AND WHILE CLUB DOORMAN MARK KELLE ADPANNED, “I SEE A LOT OF NEW FAC—PLASTERED ON OLD ON,” HE’S A IC AND WAS TOTALLY JOKG, I SWEAR. THE ROOM WAS FILLED WH FASCATG LOOKG CREATUR OM THE FASHN BLOGOSPHERE—CLUDG TWO AD RGERS FOR THE OLSEN TWS, SIMULTANEOLY SNNG THEIR PHON—AND THEY EVEN PSED OM DOG INSTA-STORY TO WATCH THE SHOW. AND THAT TURNED OUT TO BE A KUBLA KHAN-SPIRED O TO OUR SHARED LOVE OF MIC AND ARTISTS WHICH STARTED WH TEYANA TAYLOR PULSG DOWN THE NWAY A DAY-GLOW JACKET. THE PLACE WAS AGLOW WH SPARKL, TRELLIS, PATCHWORK QUILTS, AND KNEE-HIGH STUDD NIM BOOTS, PPED OFF BY PHILLIPE HIMSELF FULL DRAG AND A BLDG GOLD NUMBER. 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• ‘I’M GAY’: GORDON THOMSON, DYNASTY’S ADAM CARRGTON, COM OUT—AND TRASH CW’S REBOOTMR. NASTYIN AN EXCLIVE TERVIEW, GORDON THOMSON TELLS TIM TEEMAN ABOUT THE HOLLYWOOD CLOSET, G OUT, JOAN COLLS VS. LDA EVANS, AND WHY CW'S 'DYNASTY' REBOOT IS AN ‘ABOMATN.’TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED SEP. 25, 2017 8:47PM EDT / PUBLISHED SEP. 25, 2017 12:00AM EDT EXCLIVEPHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEASTTHE BRISH UNTRYSI ON A WTER’S NIGHT THE EARLY 1980S: KY DARKNS ALL AROUND, THE OUTL OF HIGH CORNISH HEDG, FIELDS AND PS OF TRE SPEEDG BY AS THIS REPORTER’S FATHER DRIV HIM HOME OM A CHOIR PRACTICE.THERE IS NO VIO RERR AT HOME. INSTEAD, MY FATHER, AS REQUTED, HAS SET UP AN OLD-SCHOOL TAPE RERR ONT OF THE TV TO RERD THAT NIGHT’S EPISO—SEASON 3, EPISO 6—OF DYNASTY. THAT TAPE IS NOW PLAYG AS THE R SPEEDS THROUGH THE CORNISH NIGHT.THE EPISO’S CLIFFHANGER APPROACH, WH ALEXIS (JOAN COLLS) STERNLY STCTG HER EVIL SON ADAM: “I’LL CI IF JEFF COLBY BE A REAL THREAT. NOT YOU. I.”SWELL OF MIC, UNSEEN CLIMACTIC EEZE AME WH THE NAM OF AARON SPELLG, THE FAMED -EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF THE SHOW, ALONGSI DOUGLAS S. CRAMER. ECSTASY. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS LATER, NEAR THE END OF OUR TERVIEW, THE ACTOR GORDON THOMSON, WHO PLAYED ADAM, ONE OF THE NASTIT, SEXIT VILLAS ON PRIME-TIME TELEVISN THE 1980S, SAYS: “IT’S VERY NICE TO BE AS NDID AS I HAVE BEEN, BELIEVE ME.” HE HAS JT E OUT.THOMSON HAD WONRED BEFORE WE SPOKE WHETHER HIS SEXUALY WOULD E UP OUR NVERSATN, AND WHAT HE WOULD SAY IF DID. WOULD HE SHOUT “HOW DARE YOU?” AND “GET ON MY HIGH HORSE” AND TERMATE THE LL, OR—THE UNSPOKEN ALTERNATIVE—WOULD HE FALLY SAY WHAT HE HAS NOT FELT ABLE TO SAY ALL THE YEARS: THAT Y, HE IS GAY.THOMSON HAS AN ACTOR’S VOICE—RICH, EP-TONED—AND HIS W IS AS ARCH AS HE IS DIRECT.COMG OUT MAY SEEM A FAIAR THG FOR PUBLIC FIGUR TO DO THE DAYS, YET REMAS A BRAVE AND LIFE-CHANGG ACT WHETHER YOU’RE A HIGH SCHOOL KID, OR TV STAR, OR FORMER STAR. FOR THOMSON—ALTHOUGH SOME FANS HAVE MED ABOUT HIS SEXUALY ONLE AND FOR MANY THIS MAY NOT SEEM ANY KD OF BIG AL 2017—THIS IS A MOMENTO MOMENT, PECIALLY AS WHEN HE WAS A HUGE PRIME-TIME STAR G OUT WOULD HAVE BEEN “PROFSNAL SUICI,” AS HE PUTS . THOMSON’S EXPERIENCE SH AN ILLUMATG LIGHT ON WHAT LIFE THE CLOSET FOR A CELEBRY IS ACTUALLY LIKE: THE LCULATNS MA, BENEFS ACCED AND STS CURRED.NOW THOMSON IS 72, HIS LIFE HAS MOVED ON, AND HE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT HIS LIFE AND OUT OF THE CLOSET, AND THE “SHAME” OF WHICH HE ONLY NOW FEELS HE IS MANAGG TO RID HIMSELF.HE WILL TALK NOT JT ABOUT BEG GAY BUT DYNASTY SELF (THE ORIGAL SHOW IS BEG RELEASED ON OCT. 10 BY PARAMOUNT HOME VIO AS A 57-DISC SET, WHICH CLUS ALL 217 EPISOS), THE CRAZY STORYL (FALLON’S ALIEN ABDUCTN WAS THE SHOW’S ATH KNELL, THOMSON SAYS), THE SHOW’S LEADG LADI JOAN COLLS AND LDA EVANS, AND WHY THE REBOOT—SET TO PREMIERE ON THE CW ON OCT. 11—IS “TOTAL SH, AN ABOMATN.”THIS IS THE KD OF STRAIGHT TALK YOU’D EXPECT OM ADAM, FAMED OVER SEVEN SEASONS OF HIGH DRAMA FOR POISONG GOOD-GUY HUNK JEFF COLBY (THOMSON’S IEND JOHN JAM, AKA “J.J.”) WH LEAD PAT, OR RAPG HIS LOVE KIRBY (KATHLEEN BELLER), AND GENERALLY BEG A SNEAKY, SPIBLE WEASEL.ADAM WAS ALSO EXTREMELY SEXY, WHETHER A TOWEL OR GYM SHORTS; MOST GAY IENDS GROWG UP THE 1980S WHO WATCHED DYNASTY LATER SAID THEY WERE JEFF FANS. I WAS ADAM-ALL-THE-WAY: HE WAS SUCH A STRANGE, TRANSFIXG VILLA TO WATCH, AND THE CHARACTER HIMSELF—JOG THE SHOW AS A RECENTLY DISVERED CARRGTON, KIDNAPPED AS A YOUNG BOY—ALWAYS SET HIM APART. DPERATE FOR A PLACE THIS REGAL, MPY DYSFUNCTNAL, PANY-OWNG AND STROYG, ALEXIS-AND-KRYSTLE EPIC TFIGHTG, SHOULR-PADD NIGHTMARE OF A FAY, ADAM DID ANYTHG HE ULD TO GA POWER. STEVEN CARRGTON (AL CORLEY, LATER JACK COLEMAN) MAY HAVE BEEN GAY, BUT THE HETEROSEXUAL ADAM WAS QUEER THE TT SENSE OF THE WORD.‘THE SHAME, THE BREATHTAKG LACK OF SELF-TEEM, HAS ONLY JT BEGUN TO SEEP OUT OF MY SOUL’BEFORE WE TALKED ABOUT HIS SEXUALY, I HAD ASKED THOMSON WHAT HE MA OF STEVEN’S NE YEARS OF GAY-ONE-MUTE, STRAIGHT-THE-NEXT OSCILLATG SEXUALY. IT WAS BOTH A RADIL PRIME-TIME CHARACTER, AND A PUZZLG, NSISTENTLY WRTEN ONE.“I THOUGHT WAS BULLSH,” THOMSON SAYS. “AT THE TIME, THE AIDS CRISIS HAD A LOT TO DO WH PRSURE ON THE WORK. I KNOW THAT AL CORLEY QU BEE HE FELT THEY WERE NOT ALLOWG HIM TO PLAY THE PART HONTLY. AND THEY WEREN’T.“I WAS VERY IMPRSED TO HEAR HIM SAY THAT AS STEVEN WHEN HE MET HIS BOYIEND THEY WOULD ONLY ALLOW THEM TO SHAKE HANDS. HE LEFT THE SHOW BEE HE THOUGHT THAT WAS CRAP, AND OF URSE WAS.“TODAY THERE IS GAY MARRIAGE, AND WHAT AN ENORMO DIFFERENCE. IT WAS APPALLGLY HANDLED. THEY OPENED A N OF WORMS AND WEREN’T TE TO , AND THEY ULD HAVE BEEN. THEY HAD GOOD ACTORS PLAYG THE PARTS. IT WAS A BIG SHAME. I’M VERY SORRY.”PRUMG THOMSON MIGHT BE GAY, I ASK IF, AS A GAY ACTOR PERFORMG DYNASTY ( ANOTHER TWIST, ADAM WAS HOMOPHOBIC), THOMSON EVER WANTED TO SAY TO THE WRERS AND PRODUCERS OF STEVEN’S BIZARRE TRAJECTORY: “THIS IS NOT WHAT BEG GAY IS.”“OH NO. NO. I WASN’T OUT, ARE YOU KIDDG?” THOMSON SAYS. “THE SHOW, THE TIME, THE FACT I WAS A LEADG MAN TO LOOK AT. NO. NO. NO. ROCK [HUDSON, WHO APPEARED DYNASTY BEFORE DYG OF PLITNS DUE TO AIDS, AND WHOSE KISS WH LDA EVANS’ KRYSTLE WAS NOTOR BEE OF ’80S AIDS PANIC] ONLY ME OUT WHEN HE GOT SICK. THIS WAS AN UTTERLY DIFFERENT TIME.“RICHARD CHAMBERLA (DR. KILDARE, THE THORN BIRDS), WHO I KNOW VERY SLIGHTLY, HAD WHAT I THK WAS THE RIGHT ATTU TO . IF YOU LOOK LIKE A LEADG MAN, WHY BOTHER G OUT? YOU DON’T HAVE TO. THE FACT IS HALF YOUR DIENCE IS WOMEN AND MOST OF THOSE WOMEN ARE STRAIGHT, AND THIS IS WHO YOU ARE PLAYG TO PECIALLY WH A SHOW LIKE DYNASTY, OR A SOAP OPERA.“YOU’RE ALSO A SOURCE OF FANTASY. IAN MCKELLEN AND DEREK JABI ARE WONRFUL PEOPLE, BUT PARDON ME, HOW MANY DIENCE MEMBERS FANTASIZE ABOUT FUCKG EHER ONE OF THEM? REALLY. IT HAD A LOT TO DO WH WHAT YOU LOOKED LIKE, I’M AAID.“IT’S NOT SOMETHG I’VE EVER ANNOUNCED,” HE SAYS OF HIS SEXUALY. “I’M ASSUMG THAT PEOPLE KNOW, AND NOW THAT I’M MY AGE THAT’S FE. I DON’T GO OUT OF MY WAY BEE ’S MY GENERATN, I THK. I’M PROBABLY AS HOMOPHOBIC AS ANY GAY MAN ALIVE BEE OF MY BACKGROUND.”THOMSON WAS BORN AND RAISED OTTAWA, STUDIED ENGLISH AT MCGILL UNIVERSY MONTREAL, AND BEFORE DYNASTY HAD DONE STAGE WORK (J GODSPELL, LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST), AS WELL AS DAYTIME SOAP (RYAN’S HOPE). HE WAS A VERY YOUNG-LOOKG 37 WHEN HE GOT THE ROLE OF ADAM CARRGTON, WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HIS MID-TWENTI.“WHEN I WAS GROWG UP [HOMOSEXUALY] WAS A CRIME, AND THEN CLASSIFIED AS A MENTAL ILLNS. IT WAS NOT UNTIL PIERRE T WAS PRIME MISTER OF CANADA WHEN I WAS 23, 24 YEARS OLD, DID CEASE BEG A CRIME, AND WAS NOT UNTIL I WAS NEARLY 30 THAT STOPPED BEG CLASSIFIED AS A MENTAL ILLNS THE U.S. SO YOU’RE ALG WH THAT. AND THE SHAME, THE BREATHTAKG LACK OF SELF-TEEM, HAS ONLY JT BEGUN TO SEEP OUT OF MY SOUL.”REALLY, I SAY, THAT SOUNDS LIKE AN AWFULLY LONG TIME OF FEELG BAD ABOUT ONELF.“OH Y, ABSOLUTELY, ABSOLUTELY,” THOMSON REPLI QUIETLY.HOWEVER MUCH HE HAS E TO TERMS WH HIS SEXUALY, THOMSON SAYS, A RIDUE OF SHAME WILL REMA PART OF WHO HE IS.“I AM OK, BUT WHAT HAS CHANGED ABOUT ME SI IS NOT ENOUGH, AND NEVER WILL BE BEE OF MY BACKGROUND. I WENT TO PRIVATE SCHOOL. MY FATHER WENT THERE. HE WAS AN ABSOLUTE DISHONORABLE CUNT, NOT A NICE MAN. THE SCHOOL HAS A REALLY RTRICTIVE, ALL-BOYS ATMOSPHERE.“I DIDN’T HAVE ANY SEXUAL SENSE UNTIL I WAS 12 OR 13. MY OLR BROTHER RECENTLY TOLD ME WHEN HE HAD HIS FIRST WET DREAM HE THOUGHT, ‘WHAT IS WRONG WH ME?’ NOBODY HAD TOLD HIM, HE THOUGHT, ‘WHAT IS THIS STUFF?’ HOPEFULLY PARENTG HAS IMPROVED.”I ASK THOMSON IF HE HAS EVER HAD A BOYIEND. “I DID HAVE A PARTNER, THOUGH NOT SUCCSFULLY—SADLY, ULTIMATELY, BEE OF MY LACK OF SELF-TEEM,” HE REPLI.I ASK HOW HIS SELF-TEEM IS NOW, AND HE TAK AN DIBLY EP BREATH. “MUCH HEALTHIER. HOW’S YOURS?”I SAY I WAS FORTUNATE TO MEET A GROUP OF OUT, AND POLILLY AND SOCIALLY ENGAGED LGBTQ PEOPLE WHEN I ME OUT AT 16.“GOOD FOR YOU, THAT’S GOOD LUCK,” THOMSON SAYS SOFTLY.I TELL HIM HOW EXTREMELY SEXY I AND A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE FOUND HIM DYNASTY; HE SHOULD AT LEAST KNOW THAT GAY MEN LTED AFTER HIM.THOMSON LETS OUT A ROAR OF LGHTER. “ONCE A WHILE I GET SENT PHOTOGRAPHS OF MYSELF, SHIRTLS A BLACK LEATHER JACKET, TO TOGRAPH OM FANS, AND I THK, ‘Y, I WOULD GET A WOODY LOOKG AT MYSELF.’ I EXAGGERATE, BUT THAT IS A SURPRISE.”HE NEVER GOT LUCKY WH GROUPI? “NO. IT’S LIKE WHAT RICHARD CHAMBERLA SAID, ‘DON’T FUCK WH THE FANTASY.’”THOMSON SAYS THAT OUT ACTOR MATT BOMER, WHO HE THKS IS EXTRAORDARILY GOOD-LOOKG AND TALENTED, HAS THE LATU TO BE OPEN “BEE HE HAS A RICH, SUCCSFUL HBAND. HE DON’T NEED HIS WORK TO LIVE,” AS THOMSON DID AND STILL DO. I ASK IF THOMSON THKS HOLLYWOOD STILL HAS “A CLOSET PROBLEM”; IS STILL A PLACE WHERE ACTORS ARE RETICENT ABOUT G OUT? “WHOUT QUTN, ABSOLUTELY,” SAYS THOMSON, AND GIV THE EXAMPLE OF A SHOW HE RECENTLY SHOT, PLAYG THE FATHER OF THE HERO CHARACTER. “THE ‘VIBE’ ON THAT SET—SORRY I HATE THAT WORD BUT THAT’S WHAT WAS—WAS SO HETEROSEXUAL. I DIDN’T WANT TO SAY, ‘GUS WHAT EVERYBODY, THE GUY PLAYG THE FATHER IS GAY.’ IF I HAD THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A SLIGHT SHIFT AWAY WHICH I WASN’T READY TO AL WH.”SURELY, EVEN IF HE WASN’T OUT, THOMSON WOULD HAVE BEEN AROUND OTHER GAYS HOLLYWOOD. “NOT THAT MUCH NOT TO BEG WH,” HE SAYS. “WHEN I BEGAN TO DO SANTA BARBARA (THE NOW-EXTCT DAYTIME SOAP HE APPEARED AFTER DYNASTY) THGS GOT MUCH LOOSER. I ULD NOT HAVE GONE TO THE GYM IF WERE LIKE TODAY WH PEOPLE AND THEIR IPHON AND NO PRIVACY.”HE LGHS, RELLG HIMSELF AND JACK COLEMAN HTG THE BARS OF SUNSET BOULEVARD. “I’M A GAY MAN PLAYG AN HOMOPHOBIC ASSHOLE, HE’S PROVG HE ISN’T GAY WHILE PLAYG THIS MAN LONGG TO BE LOVE WH ANOTHER MAN. SOMEONE SHOULD MAKE THAT TO THE TV MOVIE OF THE WEEK.”ALL THIS, AND YOU WERE THE GAYT SHOW ON TV, I SAY. THOMSON ROARS WH LGHTER. “FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE,” HE SAYS.‘IT WOULD HAVE BEEN PROFSNAL SUICI WHOUT QUTN’IN A LATER PHONE LL, I ASK WHAT WAS LIKE FOR THOMSON BEG GAY AND ALSO PLAYG A HOMOPHOBE. “I’M AN ACTOR, WAS MY JOB,” THOMSON SAYS PLALY. “ASK (LRENCE) OLIVIER WHAT WAS LIKEN PLAYG OTHELLO. HE’S NOT BLACK, AND I DOUBT WE’LL SEE MANY WHE ACTORS PLAY OTHELLO AGA, BUT ADAM WAS A ROLE I PLAYED. ‘YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE ONE TO PLAY ONE.’”ON SET, JOHN FORSYTHE (BLAKE) SET THE TONE OF A SUPREMELY PROFSNAL ENTENTE RDIALE. “THERE WASN’T A LOT OF SOCIALIZG,” HE SAYS OF HIS OFF-SET IENDSHIPS WH THE RT OF THE ST. “I WAS SHY, BEE OF THE GAY THG.”HE WASN’T OUT TO HIS FELLOW ACTORS?“NO, THEY DIDN’T HAVE A CLUE. NEVER. NO, NO, NO.” HE PS. “I SUPPOSE IF THEY RED, PEOPLE KNEW.”THOMSON SAYS HE HAD A MON-LAW WIFE TORONTO FOR A LONG TIME. “IT WAS A LEGIMATE, GENUE RELATNSHIP OF 15 YEARS,” HE SAYS. “SHE’S THE REASON I DON’T HAVE ANY MONEY TODAY.” HE LGHS. “WE LOVED EACH OTHER AND DIDN’T SIGN ANYTHG. I SUPPORTED HER AFTERWARDS VERY HANDSOMELY, BUT THAT WASN’T DUCTIBLE, SO WAS ALL DOLLARS.”IN SOME TERVIEWS HE WOULD REFER TO HER, HE SAYS. “ONCE A WHILE A TABLOID WOULD START SNIFFG AROUND. THEY HAD NO PROOF, AND I WASN’T GOG TO FURNISH THE STORY BEE I WAS NOT SUICIDAL PROFSNALLY, AND TO E OUT WOULD HAVE BEEN PROFSNAL SUICI WHOUT QUTN.”LATER, AFTER THE SHOW END AND HE WAS SANTA BARBARA, THOMSON SAYS HE BEGAN TO GET A SOCIAL LIFE UNRWAY, AND THEN GOT TOGETHER WH THE LONG-TERM PARTNER HE MENTNED. “NOW I HAVE VERY GOOD IENDS WHO ARE SUPPORTIVE AND ’S NOT AN ISSUE AND ALSO, THANK GOD, I’M NOT 40 LOOKG 30 ANY MORE, I’M 72 LOOKG 60.”THOMSON LETS OUT ONE OF HIS MAGNIFICENT ROARS OF LGHTER. WOULD HE LIKE A PARTNER NOW? “NO, NO, NO, NO, NO,” HE SAYS, EACH A LTLE BULLET OF HEARTFELT DISSENT. “I DO NOT. DEFELY DO NOT.“I MET SOMEBODY AT SOMEBODY’S BIRTHDAY PARTY FOUR OR FIVE YEARS AGO AND THIS MAN WAS VERY ATTRACTIVE. HIS FIRST WORDS TO ME WERE: ‘YOU LOOK ABSOLUTELY WONRFUL.’” THOMSON LGHS. “YOU DON’T SAY THAT TO SOMEBODY! IT WAS BT FIRST LE I’VE EVER HEARD PRACTILLY. “I SAID, ‘THANK YOU VERY MUCH,’ AND WE WERE GOG TO HAVE LUNCH A WEEK LATER. I GOT LOST. I HAVE NO SENSE OF DIRECTN AND NO GPS MY R I END UP KOREATOWN ( LOS ANGEL) FOR CHRISSAKE. I FALLY FOUND A PHONE TO E A STORE. I HAD NO RMATN FOR HIM. I FALLY FOUND THE RTRANT AND APOLOGIZED PROFELY: ‘I SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE 10 MUT AGO, SORRY.’“AND THEN I REALIZED, ‘LET’S NOT DO THIS AGA.’ I DID FALLY EMAIL HIM AND SAY, ‘LOOK, THERE’S A REASON WHY THIS HAPPENED. I’M NOT READY FOR ANYBODY.’ I PROBABLY NEVER WILL BE. I’VE TURNED TO HERM, A RECLE, I HAVE MANY WAYS AND I WANT TO KEEP THAT WAY.”WHY SO? THOMSON LGHED SOFTLY AND PSED. “THAT’S ANOTHER HOUR NVERSATN. THERE ARE REASONS I KNOW ABOUT, AND A FEW I DON’T KNOW ABOUT. BUT BASILLY I LIKE MY OWN PANY A LOT. THERE’S ONE DOG LEFT AND WHEN SHE GO, NO MORE PETS. “I AM NOT AN UNKD DIVIDUAL. I DON’T THK I HAVE THE ENERGY, AND I DON’T WANT TO TAKE MY CLOTH OFF ONT OF ANYBODY—NOT EVEN MY DOCTOR UNLS I ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO. SO, TAKG MY CLOTH OFF NOW, YOU WOULDN’T GO: ‘OH MY GOODNS WOW.’ YOU WOULDN’T GET A WOODY IS WHAT I’M TRYG TO SAY.”‘IF THE AFTERLIFE EXISTS— DON’T, BUT IF DID—AARON SPELLG WOULD BE HAVG MAJOR FS HIS GRAVE’THOMSON IS STILL ANGRY THAT HE DID NOT APPEAR ON THE UTTERLY SANE DYNASTY: THE RNN 1991, AS HE WAS APPEARG SANTA BARBARA AT THE TIME. “WHEN I READ THE SCRIPT I’D NEVER READ SUCH CRAP MY LIFE. I REMEMBER ONE LE THAT I THOUGHT I ULD NEVER SAY: ‘I WAS SCED BY THE LURE OF THE GOLD.’ WHAT THE FUCK? WHAT AN APPALLG LE.”HE WOULD HAVE LOVED TO HAVE PERFORMED , BUT WHEN HE HEARD THAT ROB SACHS HAD BEEN GIVEN THE ROLE OF ADAM “BEE HE F THE CLOTH,” WAS HURTFUL. “THAT’S SULTG TO HIM, THE DIENCE, THE CHARACTER, AND ME. HE DID A CENT JOB I GUS, BUT NO EFFORT WAS MA AROUND WORKG WH MY SCHLE AND THAT MA ME VERY ANGRY.”NOT WISHG TO RETRACT HIS TALONS, THOMSON THEN STARTS ON THE REBOOT. “I HAVE HAD A LOOK AT THE NEW DYNASTY AND I AM APPALLED,” HE SAYS. “WHAT THE FUCK IS THE CW DOG? IT’S UTTER SH.” THE SHOW’S ORIGAL EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS, RICHARD AND ESTHER SHAPIRO, REMA SO FOR THE REBOOT. KRYSTLE IS NOW THE LATA CRISTAL; SHE AND FALLON ARE VYG FOR RPORATE GLORY AND HAVG TFIGHTS; JEFF COLBY IS PLAYED BY AIN-AMERIN ACTOR SAM AGOKE; STEVEN IS OPENLY GAY, FATHER BLAKE IS FE WH , AND SAMMY JO IS NOW MALE. ALEXIS’ TRODUCTN REMAS A MYSTERY, THOUGH APPARENTLY SHOWS UP SEASON 1. THE STORY IS BEG TOLD OM THE BEGNG, WH THE SEQUENCE AND NATURE OF STORYL AND CHARACTERS TWEAKED.“IT’S NOT A NTUATN, AS DALLAS DID,” SAYS THOMSON, “BUT GO WAY BACK TO THE BEGNG. BLAKE FUCKS CRISTAL ACROSS A SK. THE TFIGHTS ARE KTY SNS. THE ACTG IS DREADFUL, TLY DREADFUL. THE WRG IS APPALLG. I DON’T KNOW WHAT POSSSED THE SHAPIROS TO BOTHER. “WHY LL DYNASTY? IT’S NOTHG TO DO WH DYNASTY AT ALL. IT’S SULTG. IF THE AFTERLIFE EXISTS— DON’T, BUT IF DID—AARON WOULD BE HAVG MAJOR FS HIS GRAVE. AND THE DIENCE THE CW IS AIMG FOR IS GOG TO THK ’S SH BEE IS SUCH SH THAT A CRETO 6-YEAR-OLD WOULD NOT BE TERTED. IT’S ABOMABLE.”NONE OF THE ORIGAL ST WAS APPROACHED TO PLAY , SAYS THOMSON. “NOBODY OVER THE AGE OF 30 IS THE SHOW,” THOMSON SAYS. PAMELA BELLWOOD (CLDIA BLAISL) PUT WELL WHEN SHE SAID THE ORIGAL SHOW HAD THREE MA CHARACTERS WHO WERE ADULTS OVER 40 WHO HAD “WONRFUL LIV, EMOTNAL LIV SEX LIV, WHO WERE PASSNATE DIVIDUALS.”IF THE NEW DYNASTY LLED THOMSON, WOULD HE RETURN? “NO, NOT TO THIS. I DON’T THK ANY OF WOULD.” IN THE DYNASTY HE AND OTHER STARS HAD IMAGED REVIVG, ADAM MIGHT BE ERNOR OF COLORADO, JEFF THE HEAD OF COLBYCO, AND FALLON THE HEAD OF DENVER CARRGTON. BUT, SEEMS, THAT IS NOT TO BE.‘ADAM WAS SUCH A SON OF A BCH’THOMSON DIDN’T REALIZE HOW FAMO HE HAD BEE UNTIL A TRIP TO NORWAY ON 1984, WHOSE THEN-SOCIALIST ERNMENT HAD DISAPPROVED OF DYNASTY. ENTERPRISG DIVIDUALS THERE HAD BEEN PUTTG ON VIOTAPE, AND VED HIM OVER. THOMSON WALKED OUT ONTO A STAGE TO FACE 10,000 HAPPILY SCREAMG FANS. “I BRIEFLY FELT LIKE HOW MICK JAGGER MT FEEL ALL THE TIME. THAT WAS MY TRODUCTN TO THE POWER OF AARON’S SHOW. IT WAS QUE EXTRAORDARY.”HE WAS THANKFUL THAT HE WAS AS OLD AS HE WAS. “I HAD BEEN WORKG AS AN ACTOR FOR 16 YEARS BY THAT TIME SO I KNEW MY JOB, WHICH HAD ALWAYS PROVED—AND DO TO THIS DAY—MY SOLE SOURCE OF SAFETY, FORT, AND PLEASURE. I LOVE WHAT I DO. NO MATTER WHERE I AM THE WORLD, AS LONG AS I AM DOG , I AM HAPPY.”HE MET PRCE CHARL 1987, WHO TOLD HIM DYNASTY WAS PRCS DIANA’S FAVORE SHOW. “I HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH OF OUR MEETG, AND A HUGE DITN OF THE POWER OF THE SHOW IS THAT MOST OF THE PEOPLE AROUND ARE LOOKG AT ME, NOT HIM.”PEOPLE RPOND TO HIM WH SHY HELLOS AND THANK YO. IN BRA, THE TABLOIDS CHRISTENED ADAM “MR. NASTY.”“ADAM WAS SUCH A SON OF A BCH, A EPLY UNPLEASANT DIVIDUAL, THAT PEOPLE WERE SURPRISED THAT I SED,” THOMSON RELLS. “PEOPLE WERE APPREHENSIVE AROUND ME. THEIR SIGH OF RELIEF WAS ALMOST DIBLE. J.J. (JOHN JAM) AS JEFF WAS THE PRCE OF THE SHOW AND HAD TO LIVE UP TO THAT. I DIDN’T HAVE TO LIVE UP TO WHO I PLAYED. I HAD TO BASILLY LIVE DOWN.”OF JAM’ SEXS, THOMSON SAYS, “I HAD NOT A SHRIVEL IF TERT HIM BACK THEN.” (LATER THIS WEEK, THE DAILY BEAST WILL ALSO SPEAK TO JOHN JAM AND PAMELA BELLWOOD.) ORIGALLY, ADAM WAS SLATED TO APPEAR JT SIX EPISOS. “JOAN (COLLS, ALEXIS) WASN’T HAPPY. I WAS A LOT OLR THAN SHE WAS ED TO WHEN ME TO HER TV CHILDREN. SUDNLY, ON DYNASTY, SHE HAD THREE OR FOUR CHILDREN WHO WERE OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE. THANK GOD AT THE TIME FOR MY GEN. I WAS MY FORTI WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WAS HOT MY TOWEL. I WOULDN’T HAVE GOT THE JOB HAD I LOOKED 37,” THOMSON SAYS. IN HIS TWENTI, WHEN HE WAS GODSPELL OPPOSE GILDA RADNER, MART SHORT, AND EUGENE LEVY (“SIX MONTHS, $234 A WEEK, NOBODY ULD LIVE ANYWHERE ON THAT MONEY”), THOMSON WAS ALSO A TALOG MOL. “IT WASN’T GLAMORO BUT PAID THE BILLS. I HAD TO BE GOOD SHAPE. I HAD A 29-CH WAIST WHEN I WAS RYAN’S HOPE, AND A 32-CH WAIST FOR MOST OF DYNASTY.”THOMSON BROUGHT TO ADAM A SENSE OF DANGER; ADAM’S SCEN ARE FULL OF HIS POISONO FURY AT THE WORLD AND HIS PERCEIVED ENEMI; SOMETIM THE FURY IS SUPPRSED, SOMETIM IS ON EXPLOSIVE DISPLAY. THOMSON SAYS HE BROUGHT THE SAME QUALI TO PLAYG DRACULA ON STAGE. HE WAS ON THE CP, HE SAYS, OF BEG THE LEADG MAN THE 1973-74 STRATFORD SHAKPEARE SEASON. “BUT I WOULDN’T SLEEP WH THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR. MY REER ME TO END ON STAGE. I LOVED DOG SHAKPEARE. I WOULD HAVE GOTTEN BETTER AT . I WAS ROBBED. SHAKPEARE IS SO MULTI-FACETED AND HAS AFFECTED HOW I LOOK AT ANY ROLE.”INED, YOU N SEE TRAC OF THE BENIGHTED, TRAGILLY FLAWED, AND POISONO IAGO, HAMLET, AND MACBETH ADAM CARRGTON.WAS THOMSON LIKE ADAM ANY WAY? “NOT PARTICULARLY. WE LOOK ALIKE, THAT’S . WE ULDN’T BE MORE DIFFERENT SO MANY WAYS.”I ASKED IF THOMSON’S THEN-CLOSETEDNS ANY WAY RMED ADAM’S BROODG DISTANCE OM HIS LOVED ON. “I WASN’T AWARE OF THAT, BUT THAT KD OF THG IS PART OF AN ACTOR’S TOOLBOX, CERTALY. I WAS READY FOR THE ROLE. I HAD CUT MY TEETH. I DON’T KNOW HOW ANYONE AGED 23 OR 24 WOULD HAVE MATAED THEIR SANY, BEE ANYTHG YOU WANT YOU N HAVE. YOU’LL PAY FOR , BUT YOU N HAVE .“KNOWG AT 18 I WANTED TO ACT CUT OUT A LOT OF CRAP. I NEVER DID DGS, I, NO THANK YOU. I KNEW WHAT I HAD TO DO: ACTG WAS MY TEMPLE, MY RELIGN. I’M AN ATHEIST: ACTG IS WHAT I LOVE, TST, AND BELIEVE . THAT WAS AN ENORMO ARMOR FOR ME, AND SO WAS MY AGE. I WAS NEVER PREY, THANK GOD.”THE PROBLEM THE WOMEN ON THE SHOW FACED WAS THE RELENTLS ON- AND OFF-SET SCTY OF THEIR LOOKS, SAYS THOMSON. THE SHOW WAS SHORT BY TWO MUT ONE WEEK, HE RELLS, AND PRODUCERS LLED BELLER (KIRBY) TO RERD A FILLER SCENE LATE ON A FRIDAY, “WHICH SHE DID LIKE A PRO.”ON MONDAY, THE PRODUCERS HAD NOT ABOUT HAIR AND WARDROBE, AND NOT ONE THANK YOU FOR HER STERLG IMPROMPTU SCENE. “THAT FUCKG PHRASE: ‘THE LOOK OF THE SHOW,’” THOMSON SAYS SRNFULLY. “THEY PAID SO MUCH ATTENTN TO LOOKS, AND NOT ENOUGH TO CHARACTERS—AND STEVEN WAS THE ONE WHO WAS SHORT-CHANGED THE MOST, WHOUT QUTN.”IN NTRAST TO THE WOMEN, KTED OUT THEIR GLTERG, MASSIVE-SHOULRED GOWNS BY NOLAN MILLER, THE MEN WERE MA UP FIVE TO 10 MUT, HE SAYS.‘JOAN WAS JEALO OF LDA. LDA WAS NOT THE ACTRS JOAN WAS AND IS, AND WAS JT EFFORTLSLY ADORED’THOMSON’S FAVORE SCEN WERE HIS TRODUCTORY SCEN WH LURENE TUTTLE PLAYG HIS GRANDMOTHER, REVEALG HIS LONG-LOST CARRGTON STAT, AND LATER HIS FIRST WH COLLS. “THERE I WAS (AS MICHAEL TORRANCE AS ADAM WAS FIRST KNOWN), LOOKG THROUGH MY GRANDMOTHER’S UNDI TO FD THAT SILVER BABY RATTLE.” HE PUTS ON THE ADAM VOICE, AS HE RE-ENACTS STARG TO THE MIRROR THAT SCENE. “‘MY NAME IS ADAM ALEXANR CARRGTON.’ I GOT A SHIVER SAYG JT NOW. WHAT A GREAT BACKSTORY.”HE AND COLLS HAD AN STANT SPARK, EVEN IF WHEN THOMSON FIRST MET HER, HER FIRST WORDS TO HIM WERE, “OH Y, YOU’RE HERE TO TT FOR THE PART OF MY SON. IT’S RIDICULO DARLG, YOU’RE MUCH TOO OLD.”THOMSON LGHS. “IT TOOK ME FOUR YEARS TO REALIZE WHAT AN APPALLG THG THAT WAS TO SAY TO SOMEBODY. I DIDN’T TAKE THAT PERSONALLY. HER JTIFIABLE VANY IS LOSSAL, AND I KNEW SHE WAS RIGHT. JOAN AND I HAD CHEMISTRY OM THE WORD GO.”BUT WHILE THOMSON AND COLLS “GOT ALONG LIKE A HOE,” SHE DID NOT WH JOHN FORSYTHE AND LDA EVANS, ACRDG TO THOMSON. “JOAN DIDN’T LIKE LDA BEE LDA WAS LOVED. SHE WAS A STAR EFFORTLSLY. JOAN WAS AT BT A GRA B MOVIE STAR, AND SHE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A HUGE STAR. SHE KNEW SHE WAS THREE OR FOUR ON THE TOTEM POLE OF ENGLISH BT, AT THE TOP OF WHICH WAS HER IEND ELIZABETH TAYLOR. “JOAN HAD A WONRFUL SEX LIFE, MARRIAG, AND KIDS, AND SHE ARRIVED ON DYNASTY WH A LOT OF RéSUMé. JOAN KNEW ALEXIS WAS ‘KAPOW’ AND DUG ALL 10 FGERNAILS TO THE PART AND WENT WH . IT WAS A BIG TREAT TO WATCH. I WAS TOLD AARON SAID TO HER, ‘YOU SAVED MY SHOW,’ AND SHE DID.”WHEN FORSYTHE FOUND OUT COLLS HAD POSED FOR PLAYBOY WHEN SHE TURNED 50, HE STORMED TO SPELLG’S OFFICE TO PLA, SAYS THOMSON. “I JT THOUGHT HOW BLOODY GOOD SHE LOOKS, BRAVO!”“JOAN WAS JEALO OF LDA,” SAYS THOMSON. “LDA WAS NOT THE ACTRS JOAN WAS AND IS, AND WAS JT EFFORTLSLY ADORED BY EVERYBODY ON SET, OFF SET, THE PUBLIC. I HAVE NEVER MET A MORE SYMPATHETIC, EMPATHIC, GENERO, GEO-LOOKG HUMAN MY LIFE. SHE WAS MIRACULO, AND THE DIENCE KNEW THAT.”THOMSON HAD THE MOST FUN PLAYG THE BAD GUY, HE SAYS, AND WHEN PEOPLE ASK HOW HE FELT PLAYG SUCH AN APPALLG CHARACTER, HE SAYS THAT HE WAS JT PLAYG ADAM, NOT JUDGG HIM. “ADAM AND ALEXIS WERE MANY PEOPLE’S FAVORE CHARACTERS,” THOMSON SAYS WH A CHUCKLE, “BEE WE WERE SEXY, ATTRACTIVE, VERY FUCKED-UP, AND VERY THLS.”HE BLAM HIS “BAD MANAGEMENT” AT THE TIME FOR MAKG HIM THE ONLY MEMBER OF THE DYNASTY ST NOT TO GET A MOVIE OF THE WEEK DURG THE 1980S. “EVER,” HE SAYS SHARPLY. “AND I WAS WELL-EQUIPPED—BETTER EQUIPPED THAN MOST OF THE ST.”POISONG POOR JEFF FOR MONTHS WH A TOXIC PAT POUND WAS “ABSOLUTELY WONRFUL.” HE RELISHED THE STORY, PECIALLY PARISON TO “THE REALLY GHASTLY ALIEN STORY POOR EMMA (SAMMS, FALLON) HAD TO PE WH. THAT WAS THE KISS OF ATH FOR THE SHOW. THAT WAS THE WORST THG THAT THE SHOW CID TO STICK ON THE PUBLIC. THE WORST. IT HAD NOTHG TO DO WH ANYTHG DYNASTY WAS EVER NNECTED WH.” IT REMD HIM OF BEG ST RYAN’S HOPE AS AN EGYPTOLOGIST, ST BEE ONE OF THE SHOW’S CREATORS HAD GONE TO EGYPT AND FALLEN LOVE WH . BUT, HE SAYS LGHG, AN EGYPTOLOGIST HAD NO PLACE A SHOW CENTERED AROUND AN IRISH PUB NEW YORK CY. “IT’S A MISTAKE TO VEER TOO FAR OM THE SENCE OF A SHOW. THE GOLN GIRLS HAD THE LIVG ROOM AND THE KCHEN. DYNASTY HAD THE MANSN. ALIENS OM MARS: WHAT AN SANE IA THAT WAS.” THOMSON SAYS THAT THE SHOW’S -CREATOR ESTHER SHAPIRO HAD TOLD A ROOM FULL OF WRERS: “THE FIRST PERSON TO LGH IS FIRED. RICHARD (SHAPIRO, HER HBAND AND THIS SHOW’S OTHER CREATOR) HAS HAD A VISN: ALIENS.”‘WE WALKED OUT OF THAT MASSACRE, TWO BY TWO, LIKE NOAH’S ARK. IT WAS LUDICRO’THOMSON DIDN’T LIKE THE WRERS MAKG ADAM NICER AS TIME WENT ON. “ME WAS THE MOST TERTG PART FOR A GUY ON DYNASTY. HE WAS SO FUCKED-UP, ATTRACTIVE, BRIGHT, AND TENSE. PASSN IS VERY SEXY UNLS THE PERSON GO BERSERK, WHICH ADAM DID ONCE AWHILE. BUT THIS SHOW WAS AN HOUR’S WORTH OF HOLIDAY ONCE EVERY WEEK. IT WASN’T ST. ELSEWHERE OR L.A. LAW, OR SOME OTHER EQUALLY WELL-TENTNED DRAMA. WE WERE THIS EXTRAORDARY SERIAL OF BETIFUL FUCKED-UP PEOPLE.”THE FAMO “MOLDAVIAN MASSACRE” OF THE 1985 SEASON FALE, WHEN TERRORISTS SHOT ALL THE ST MEMBERS (WH ALL THE SHOW’S LEAD CHARACTERS SUBSEQUENTLY SURVIVG) LEFT THOMSON CRLO. “WHEN I SAW , I THOUGHT, ‘WHAT A WASTED OPPORTUNY THAT WAS. WE WALKED OUT OF THAT MASSACRE, TWO BY TWO, LIKE NOAH’S ARK. IT WAS LUDICRO. NOBODY HAD A SCRATCH. WE WERE BETIFULLY DRSED. NOBODY WAS LIMPG. I THOUGHT, ‘AT LEAST PUT SOMEONE’S LIFE JEOPARDY.’”ALI MACGRAW AND ROCK HUDSON HAD JOED THE SHOW THAT SEASON, TOO, THE IA BEG THEIR CHARACTERS WOULD HAVE AFFAIRS WH BLAKE AND KRYSTLE RPECTIVELY. “JOHN FORSYTHE WAS HAVG NONE OF ,” SAYS THOMSON. HE GAVE ALI A BIG BUNCH OF FLOWERS WHEN SHE ARRIVED AS IF TO SAY: WELE, AND THAT IS NOT GOG TO HAPPEN. FOR HIM THERE WAS NEVER A REMOTE POSSIBILY THAT BLAKE AND KRYSTLE WOULD BE UNFAHFUL TO ONE ANOTHER. “HE HAD A STRA-LACED TERMATN TO MAKE THIS UPLE THE MOST MAGIL AND UNREAL UPLE THERE EVER WAS. HE WAS LOVE WH LDA PROBABLY, QUIETLY AND BY HIMSELF.”THOMSON SAID HUDSON WAS SO ILL ON THE SET THAT TOOK THE MAKE-UP ARTIST AN HOUR AND A HALF TO MAKE HIM LOOK PRENTABLE. “HE WAS STILL VERY HANDSOME, AND WAS VERY NCERNED ABOUT HIS KISS WH KRYSTLE. BUT WHEN YOU WATCH , ’S THE KISS YOU GIVE A 2-YEAR-OLD BABY. THERE WAS NOTHG SEXUAL ABOUT . WE WERE ALL SO IGNORANT ABOUT HOW HIV WAS TRANSMTED 1985.”AT THE TIME, ABC WAS KNOWN, SAYS THOMSON, AS THE “AARON BROADSTG COMPANY” AS SPELLG HAD NTRIBUTED SO MANY H SHOWS TO THE WORK’S SCHL. THE SHOW MIGHT HAVE SURVIVED A B LONGER BEYOND S ATH 1989, THOMSON SAYS, BUT “NOBODY WAS HEARTBROKEN WHEN STOPPED, BEE WHATEVER HAD BEEN JUICY ABOUT THE SHOW WAS GONE. I WAS LUCKY TO BE VOLVED S JUICIT YEARS.”IT’S GREAT TO SEE HIS STMAT FOR EVENTS AND TV RNNS, THOMSON SAYS. HE SAW BELLER AND LEANN HUNLEY, WHO PLAYED ADAM’S LAST ON-SCREEN WIFE DANA, A UPLE OF YEARS AGO, “LOOKG GEO AND WAS LOVELY.”I ASK IF THERE WAS ANYTHG HE HADN’T DONE AS ADAM THAT HE WOULD LOVED TO HAVE DONE? “I N’T REMEMBER WHAT HE DIDN’T DO,” SAYS THOMSON, LGHG. HAD THE SHOW NTUED HE THKS ADAM’S WIFE DANA MAY HAVE MA HIM A LTLE SOCIALLY EASIER, BUT—PHEW!—NOT ALTERED HIS FUNDAMENTAL ROTTENNS. ‘I’D LIKE TO PLAY ANOTHER MONSTER, I REALLY WOULD’THOMSON MISS ADAM CARRGTON, HE SAYS, AND NEXT WOULD LIKE TO PLAY SOMEONE LIKE HIM. HE ME CLOSE TO SANTA BARBARA, EVEN THOUGH HIS CHARACTER WASN’T EVIL. “IT WAS 35 PAG A DAY, FIVE DAYS A WEEK, 50 WEEKS A YEAR: IT WAS WONRFUL,” HE SAYS. “I’D LOVE TO PLAY SOME ADAM-LIKE GROWN UP EXECUTIVE BEHD A SK BEG AN ABSOLUTE SH,” THOMSON SAYS WH RELISH. “I’D LIKE TO PLAY ANOTHER MONSTER, I REALLY WOULD, A LAYERED MONSTER, AND IF HE WASN’T LAYERED ON THE PAGE I’D FD A WAY TO MAKE HIM SO, FILLG L WH PS AND ATTU THAT ANY GOOD ACTOR KNOWS HOW TO DO.”AN ANKLE JURY THOMSON STAED AT 22 RURFACED FIVE YEARS AGO, WHICH MEANT HE ULDN’T WORK FOR A LONG PERD OF TIME. THE TWO ORIGAL STEVEN CARRGTONS, AL CORLEY, AND JACK COLEMAN, BEECHED THOMSON TO GO TO AN ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON, “AND SO NOW I HAVE A NEW ANKLE. I’M NOT LIMPG ANY MORE, BUT I DON’T MOVE AS EASILY AS I ED TO. I N’T N. STAIRS ARE DIFFICULT.”AGG IS A BCH, BEE HE IS NSTANTLY REMD OF HOW ATTRACTIVE AND SIRABLE HE WAS BEE OF FANS’ PASSNATE NOSTALGIA FOR THE SHOW. “THEY WANT YOU TO TOGRAPH SOMETHG WH YOU AGED 40. THAT WAS ME THEN, AND THIS IS ME NOW. YOU’RE HNTED BY WHAT YOU ED TO LOOK LIKE. IT’S VERY STRANGE.”DO ONE MAKE PEACE WH ? “I DON’T THK N MAKE PEACE WH ,” SAYS THOMSON. “YOU’RE AROUND ALL THE TIME.”THOMSON STOUTLY SISTS, HOWEVER, THAT WHILE HE MAY NOT BE THE YOUNG, HANDSOME ACTOR HE WAS BACK THEN, HE’S NOT BAD LOOKG NOW. HE NOT THAT JOHN JAM’ HAIR IS THNER THAN WAS, “AND HE WAS THE BT-LOOKG MAN ON TV AT THAT TIME.” THOMSON PAR JAM’ TLE RD AT THE BEGNG OF THE SHOW (“NOTHG GOG ON BEHD THE EY”) WH ADAM’S SH-EATG GR AS A CHAMPAGNE BOTTLE’S RK POPS OFF.THOMSON LGHS AS HE RELLS ONE ATRALIAN TERVIEWER NOTG HOW DIFFERENT HE LOOKED TO HIS 40-YEAR-OLD SELF. “I MEAN, YOU GIVE ME A HAIRDRSER AND A BOTTLE OF DYE AND WE’LL DO AGA IF YOU LIKE,” HE SAYS.HE SISTS HE IS NOT LONELY. “I’M A LUCKY MAN. LUCK, GOOD OR ILL, IS THE LOSTAR OF EVERY LIFE AND GOOD LUCK IS THE RART THG MY BS, AND I GOT LUCKY FOR A WHILE AND I’M STILL LUCKY TO A GREE,” HE SAYS.WHAT WAS THE MAGIC OF DYNASTY, DO THOMSON THK? HE SAYS HE WAS ONCE TOLD, ON THAT TRIP TO NORWAY, “BY MY FIRST SOCIALIST JOURNALIST, ‘MR. THOMSON, YOUR SHOW IS SO IMMORAL.’“I SAID, ‘EXCE ME, DO YOU LIKE HOLIDAYS?’“SHE SAID, ‘WELL Y, ANYONE LIK HOLIDAYS.’“‘THAT’S ALL WE SUPPLY: AN HOUR’S HOLIDAY EVERY WEEK,’ I SAID TO HER. THAT WAS GOOD, QUICK THKG ON MY FEET. YOU ULDN’T AFFORD TO GO TO CAPRI BUT YOU TURNED THE TV ON AND WATCHED DYNASTY FOR AN HOUR, AND THAT’S WHAT WAS AND THAT’S WHO WE WERE.”OUR NVERSATN MEANRS PLEASANTLY ON FOR A WHILE, ABOUT THE BLOOMSBURY SET (THOMSON IS READG BILL GOLDSTE’S ACCLAIMED, JT-PUBLISHED THE WORLD BROKE IN TWO: T. S. ELT, D. H. LAWRENCE, E. M. FORSTER, AND THE YEAR THAT CHANGED LERATURE). I ASK IF THOMSON IS ALRIGHT, IMAGG WHAT A BIG AL MT HAVE BEEN FOR HIM TO E OUT, AND BE AS OPEN AS HE HAS BEEN. THOMSON SAYS HE IS FE. “I’M GOG TO HAVE A CUP OF TEA,” HE ANNOUNC. “I’VE HAD A VERY GOOD TIME. 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12 GAY TV CHARACTERS WHO NEVER SAID THEY WERE GAYAND MORE DRAG QUEENS ARE HTG TV! 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AS PLAYED BY JONATHAN HARRIS THE THE 1960S S, THE DOC HAD MAJOR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MR. BELVEREABC PHOTO ARCHIV/DISNEY GENERAL ENTERTAMENT CONTENT VIA GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CLIFTON WEBB PLAYED THE STARCHY ENGLISH HOEKEEPER THE MOVI. ON THE S VERSN (1985-’90), WAS CHRISTOPHER HEWETT, WHO FLAMED UP A STORM THE ROLE. IN REAL LIFE A “NFIRMED BACHELOR,” HEWETT HAD PLAYED THE GAYER THAN GAY DIRECTOR ROGER DE BRIS THE ORIGAL MOVIE OF THE PRODUCERS, SO THIS WAS NOT EXACTLY A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MEL COOLEY ON THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOWCBS VIA GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN THE 1960S, THE GAYT THG ON THE AIR WAS MEL (PICTURED: LEFT), THE EXTREMELY MANNERED AND IMPER TV PRODUCER ON VAN DYKE’S H S. BALD AND BPECTACLED RICHARD DEAN PLAYED THE PART WH A NOTICEABLY SWISHY MEANOR. HE WENT ON TO PLAY KAYE BALLARD’S HBAND, ROGER BUELL, THE MOTHERS-IN-LAW (1968-9), REPLACG THE EQUALLY MPY ROGER C. CARMEL THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BIG AL, THE SPORTSTER ON ROWAN AND MART'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS PLAYED BY FUNNY MAN ALAN SU ON THE H LATE ‘60S/EARLY ‘70S SHOW OF WACKY SKETCH AND SHTICKS, AL WAS AN EFFEMATE SPORTSSTER WHO ABSOLUTELY LOVED RGG THE BELL. ANOTHER OF SU’ CHARACTERS ON THE SHOW WAS A GUY WHO SWAGGERS TO A BAR THE OLD WT AND ORRS A OZEN DAIQUIRI. THE PEOPLE WERE CLEARLY GAY, AND SO WAS ALAN, WHO WAS MARRIED TO A WOMAN FOR A TIME, BUT DATED MEN ON THE SI. SADLY, THE IC FELT THE NEED TO GIVE TERVIEWS BOASTG ABOUT WHAT A STRAIGHT STUD HE WAS. EVEN SADR, HE BEME OVERE WH WHAT HE FELT WAS THE HOMOPHOBIC SLANT OF THE MATERIAL HE WAS GIVEN TO DO. SU DIED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}UNCLE ARTHUR ON BEWCHEDABC PHOTO ARCHIV/DISNEY GENERAL ENTERTAMENT CONTENT VIA GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FROM ’65 TO ’71, BEWCHED—WH ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY AS A WCH-SLASH-HOEWIFE—WAS GAY STATN TV, THANKS TO SUPPORTG PLAYERS LIKE AGN MOOREHEAD, ACTG ALL REGAL AND BCHY FABULO OUTFS. AND OF URSE THERE WAS PL LYN AS UNCLE ARTHUR, WHICH THE ACTOR BROUGHT ALL HIS GAY TICS TO, RULTG A TYPILLY DARG AND HILAR PERFORMANCE. MUCH LATER, LYN WENT EVEN FARTHER, WH GAYISH NUENDO ON THE HOLLYWOOD SQUAR. (“PL, WHY DO HELL’S ANGELS WEAR LEATHER?” “BEE CHIFFON WRKL TOO EASILY.”) HE DIED 1981, NEVER HAVG E OUT ON THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CLAYMORE GREGG ON THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIRDISNEY GENERAL ENTERTAMENT CONTENT VIA GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN THE SAME VE AS LYN, CHARL NELSON REILLY WAS A ONE-MAN MPFT WHO WAS GAYER THAN LIBERACE’S TOOTHBSH. AS CLAYMORE, THE NUTTY GUY WHO RENTS THE HNTED TTAGE TO MRS. MUIR ON THE ENJOYABLE S (1968-’70), HE WAS FSY AND FUNNY AND VERY QUEENY. AND JT LIKE LYN WENT ON TO GAME SHOW PYROTECHNICS, REILLY STOLE THE MATCH GAME WH HIS FLAILG ARMS AND QUICK W. HE ALSO HAD IMPRSIVE THEATER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}EDWARD EVERETT HORTON ON THE ADVENTUR OF ROCKY AND BULLWKLE AND FRIENDSUNIVERSAL HISTORY ARCHIVE/UNIVERSAL IMAG GROUP VIA GETTY IMAGUNIVERSAL IMAG GROUP {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE GAY VOICE? ABSOLUTELY—LET ME EXPLA. FROM 1959 ON, ROCKY AND BULLWKLE WERE FUN AND BORIS AND NATASHA WERE MPY (PECIALLY NATASHA), BUT WHEN THE FRACTURED FAIRY TAL SEGMENT ME ON, I WAS TLY GAY HEAVEN. THE TAL—RETELLG CLASSIC YARNS WH QUIRKY TWISTS—VOLVED EDWARD EVERETT HORTON’S FT NARRATN, WH LOTS OF WORDPLAY AND DOUBLE ENTENDR. HE ME OFF SO UNAPOLOGETILLY GAY—AND WAS JT HIS VOICE! BUT THIS WAS NOTHG NEW; HORTON WAS PLAYG D GAY MEN BACK THE DAYS OF FRED AND GGER MILS AND SCREWBALL EDI. A FIZZY TOAST TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A GAY ANIMATED CHARACTER? WELL, Y, THAT’S HOW THE PRISSY PK MOUNTA LN (VOICED BY DAWS BUTLER AND STARTED 1961) WAS PLAYED, AND I FOUND HIM EVEN MORE APPEALG THAN THE PK PANTHER. THE CHARACTER EXHIBED ALL THE NERVONS, NARCISSISM, AND LIMP WRISTEDNS OF YOUR EVERYDAY GAY STEREOTYPE PLUCKED OUT OF THE WILD. “HEAVENS TO MURGATROYD!” AS SNAGS WOULD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MILTON THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SIARLY, THE MILTON THE MONSTER SHOW—A RTOON SERI THE 1960S—TROTTED OUT A WHOLE ASSORTMENT OF GAY CREATUR, FOR ANYONE WHO WAS PAYG ATTENTN. THERE WAS MILTON HIMSELF, A FRANKENSTE TYPE BUT OVERLOAD WH TENRNS AND A GOMER PYLE-ISH VOICE, PL PROFSOR WEIRDO AND HIS PISSY ASSISTANT COUNT KOOK (“BETTER HOLD MY HAND, I’M FEELG SICK!”). WHAT’S MORE, THE WOMEN’S VOIC WERE DONE BY MEN. OH, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ANTHONY BOUVIER ON DIGNG WOMENFOTOS INTERNATNAL/COURTY GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MHACH TAYLOR PLAYED THE TERR SIGN ASSISTANT ON THE H SERI. (1986-93). IN ’87, HE PLAYED HOLLYWOOD MONTROSE, THE OVER-THE-TOP WDOW DRSER MANNEQU. IN REAL LIFE, HE WAS MARRIED AND HAD FOUR KIDS, SO I HAVE NO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MR. MOONEY ON THE LUCY SHOWCBS VIA GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CHARACTER ACTOR GALE GORDON HAMMED UP AS LUCILLE BALL’S FOIL, THE NSTANTLY FLTERED AND BARKG BANKER THEODORE J. MOONEY, ON THE LUCY SHOW (1963-8). HE JT ME OFF LIKE SUCH A GIRL! LUCY OBVLY LIKED GALE’S STORM OF AFFECTATNS BEE HE ME BACK FOR ROL HERE’S LUCY AND LIFE WH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KG TUT ON BATMANABC PHOTO ARCHIV/DISNEY GENERAL ENTERTAMENT CONTENT VIA GETTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VICTOR BUONO WAS THE GO-TO PUDGY ‘60S CHARACTER ACTOR FOR MPY VILLAY. IN THE TALE OF GROTQUE SIBLG RIVALRY WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?, HE WASN’T SO MUCH VILLAO AS SORT OF CREEPILY SLEAZY, YET THE MOST CENT ONE THE ROOM BY FLT. (IN FD, HE WAS SEEN ANNOUNCG HIMSELF TO BETTE DAVIS AS A BIG HOMOSEXUAL. HE LATER GOT BTED A MOVIE THEATER ORAL SEX CINT THAT WAS HHED UP.) THE H SHOW BATMAN WAS FAMO FOR S GAY-IENDLY GUT STARS LIKE EARTHA KT, JULIE NEWMAR, ETHEL MERMAN, AND TALLULAH BANKHEAD. ALONG WH BEWCHED, THIS SHOW HELPED TAPULT ME OUT OF THE CLOSET EVEN WHOUT THE WORD “GAY” EVER HAVG BEEN UTTERED. BUONO WAS GREAT AS TUT, THOUGH HE SEEMED MORE QUEEN THAN KG. HE DIED OF A HEART ATTACK AT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HONORARY MENTN: GOMER PYLE (JIM NABORS), FRED “REN” STUBBS (FRED BERRY) ON WHAT’S HAPPENG!!, THE MARTIAN (RAY WALSTON) ON MY FAVORE MARTIAN, MONROE FIC (JIM J. BULLOCK) ON TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT, BARNABAS COLLS (JONATHAN FRID) ON DARK SHADOWS, URKEL (JALEEL WHE) ON FAY MATTERS, UNCLE FTER (JACKIE COOGAN) THE ADDAMS FAY, DOOGIE HOWSER, M.D. (NEIL PATRICK HARRIS), THE BROTHER ON SMALL WONR, TKY WKY (TELETUBBI), SQUIDWARD (SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS), AND ANYTHG PLAYED BY DON KNOTTS—AND AS FOR THE LADI, JO (NANCY MCKEON) ON THE FACTS OF LIFE, MISS JANE HATHAWAY (NANCY KULP) ON THE BEVERLY HILLBILLI, AND ALICE (ANN B. DAVIS) ON THE BRADY BUNCH. Y, I KNOW SHE WAS CRAZY FOR SAM THE BUTCHER. I’M SURE HE WAS A BEARD!CBS VIA GETTY IMAGFRED CLARK AS DR. RAY CLYBURN, NANCY KULP AS JANE HATHAWAY AND RAYMOND BAILEY AS MILBURN DRYSDALE THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES EPISO, "HAIR-RAISG HOLIDAY." ORIGAL AIRDATE, OCTOBER 2, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TODAY, GAY PEOPLE ON TV ARE OUT AND DRS! FN TV JT ANNOUNCED THAT ’S THROWG SHA: QUEENS OF NYC, A 12-PART DOCERI ABOUT THE NYC DRAG CULTURE, FEATURG LOL FAVOR LIKE MARTI GOULD CUMMGS, TA BURNER, PAIGE TURNER, HOLLY BOX SPRGS, JADA VALENCIAGA, JASME RICE LABEIJA, CHELSEA PIERS, AND BRA FILTER. GREAT CHOIC—I’VE ENJOYED THEM ALL. AS FOR HOW THEY ST THE SHOW—WHICH PREMIER OCTOBER 5—CUMMGS TOLD ME, "THIS GROUP OF QUEENS REPRENTS THE HEART OF NYC DRAG. THEIR WORK ETHIC AND DRIVE TO SUCCEED THIS DTRY MAK THEM STAND OUT AS NYCS FT REPRENTATN OF DIVERSE DRAG. OUR GOAL IS TO HAVE THIS SHOW BE A SUCCS AND HOPEFULLY WE N TRODUCE MORE QUEENS AS TIME GO ON TO NTUE TO SHOWSE THE EVER EVOLVG NYC DRAG MUNY." AND IF NOT, THERE MT BE A SUPPORT GROUP BY NOW FOR DRAG QUEENS WHO HAVEN'T GOTTEN ON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SEEN ALL OVER THE TUBE ARE THE BLONDS—THE LONG-NNG, GLTERY DUO DAVID AND PHILLIPE BLOND, WHO NOT ONLY TROT OUT EYE TCHG ENSEMBL FOR FASHN WEEK, BUT PROVI A SWIRL OF BUZZY EXCEMENT, THANKS TO THE IMPOSSIBLY JAZZY DIENCE THAT FLOCKS TO THEIR SHOWS. ACTOR/REALY PERSONALY WILL WIKLE AGRE WH ME THAT ’S A GREAT IA TO TELL PEOPLE, “I’M BY DOG FASHN WEEK,” AND THEN ONLY GO TO THE BLONDS. THIS TIME, AT SKYLIGHT LAST WEEK, WAS THE UAL MADP SCENE. AND WHILE CLUB DOORMAN MARK KELLE ADPANNED, “I SEE A LOT OF NEW FAC—PLASTERED ON OLD ON,” HE’S A IC AND WAS TOTALLY JOKG, I SWEAR. THE ROOM WAS FILLED WH FASCATG LOOKG CREATUR OM THE FASHN BLOGOSPHERE—CLUDG TWO AD RGERS FOR THE OLSEN TWS, SIMULTANEOLY SNNG THEIR PHON—AND THEY EVEN PSED OM DOG INSTA-STORY TO WATCH THE SHOW. AND THAT TURNED OUT TO BE A KUBLA KHAN-SPIRED O TO OUR SHARED LOVE OF MIC AND ARTISTS WHICH STARTED WH TEYANA TAYLOR PULSG DOWN THE NWAY A DAY-GLOW JACKET. THE PLACE WAS AGLOW WH SPARKL, TRELLIS, PATCHWORK QUILTS, AND KNEE-HIGH STUDD NIM BOOTS, PPED OFF BY PHILLIPE HIMSELF FULL DRAG AND A BLDG GOLD NUMBER. IT WAS ALL SO BRIGHT YOU HAD TO WEAR SHAS—BUT ONLY REALLY OL SIGNER ON, OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND FALLY, FOR SOME BTE AMBN, IF YOU’RE NYC THIS WEEKEND, CHECK OUT MY DUETS SHOW AT ALAN CUMMG AND DANIEL NARDIC’S NEW BOE, CLUB CUMMG. I HAVE SOME ILLTR DRAG STARS AS MY DUETTG PARTNERS—ISN'T THAT ENOUGH? 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Way before characters—and actors—uld be out of the closet, there was a spate of them on TV that gave every ditn of beg gay whout actually sayg so. For the generatn that grew up whout a lot of LGBT visibily, the d personas provid some rehg gayns an otherwise exclively hetero landspe. Even star June Lockhart said she thought the character was gay.

In real life a “nfirmed bachelor, ” Hewett had played the gayer than gay director Roger De Bris the origal movie of The Producers, so this was not exactly a Cooley on The Dick Van Dyke ShowIn the 1960s, the gayt thg on the air was Mel (pictured: left), the extremely mannered and imper TV producer on Van Dyke’s h s. The people were clearly gay, and so was Alan, who was married to a woman for a time, but dated men on the si. Even sadr, he beme overe wh what he felt was the homophobic slant of the material he was given to do.

IS JEFF GORDON REALLY GAY? INVTIGATG THE RUMORS

Su died Arthur on BewchedFrom ’65 to ’71, Bewched—wh Elizabeth Montgomery as a wch-slash-hoewife—was gay statn TV, thanks to supportg players like Agn Moorehead, actg all regal and bchy fabulo outfs. And of urse there was Pl Lyn as Uncle Arthur, which the actor brought all his gay tics to, rultg a typilly darg and hilar performance. Much later, Lyn went even farther, wh gayish nuendo on The Hollywood Squar.

MuirIn the same ve as Lyn, Charl Nelson Reilly was a one-man mpft who was gayer than Liberace’s toothbsh.

JAM CORN PROV WHY STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD THK TWICE BEFORE PLAYG GAY

He also had imprsive theater Everett Horton on The Adventur of Rocky and Bullwkle and FriendsIs possible to have gay voice? From 1959 on, Rocky and Bullwkle were fun and Boris and Natasha were mpy (pecially Natasha), but when the Fractured Fairy Tal segment me on, I was tly gay heaven.

He me off so unapologetilly gay—and was jt his voice! But this was nothg new; Horton was playg d gay men back the days of Fred and Gger mils and screwball edi. SnagglepsA gay animated character?

'DYNASTY' STAR GORDON THOMSON COM OUT AS GAY

The character exhibed all the nervons, narcissism, and limp wristedns of your everyday gay stereotype plucked out of the wild. ” as Snags would the MonsterSiarly, The Milton the Monster Show—a rtoon seri the 1960s—trotted out a whole assortment of gay creatur, for anyone who was payg attentn. (In Fd, he was seen announcg himself to Bette Davis as a big homosexual.

LLIE JORDAN TELLS SHANIA TWA 'GOD MA ME' GAY, WHY HE 'QU GOG' TO CHURCH: 'I'M NOT A MISTAKE'

) The h show Batman was famo for s gay-iendly gut stars like Eartha Kt, Julie Newmar, Ethel Merman, and Tallulah Bankhead.

GAY GORDON

Along wh Bewched, this show helped tapult me out of the closet even whout the word “gay” ever havg been uttered. Today, gay people on TV are out and drs! Empire sports has article statg that Jeff Gordon has fally e out and adm he is gay.

GAY GORDON WIKI BGRAPHY, AGE, HEIGHT, HBAND, NET WORTH, FAY

Gordon was a romantic relatnship wh openly-gay driver Stephen Rhos:. wh a fellow openly gay NASCAR member. Jeff Gordon who is gog through a divorce said that he is now datg openly gay driver Stephen Rhos.

athlet who are new to the openly gay sports world.

GORDON GAY

If they wanna be gay go be a fashn. Gordon is married wh kids, but that hasn’t stopped some om wonrg if he’s gay. Is Jeff Gordon Gay?

No, Jeff Gordon isn’t gay. Many assumed he was gay due to a false report that he was volved a “homosexual relatnship” wh fellow gay race r driver Stephen Rhos 2014. Based on what we know at this time, there is no basis for spectg that Jeff Gordon is gay.

MR. GORDON BERTRAM GAY, ATTORNEY

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‘I’M GAY’: GORDON THOMSON, DYNASTY’S ADAM CARRGTON, COM OUT—AND TRASH CW’S REBOOTMR. NASTYIN AN EXCLIVE TERVIEW, GORDON THOMSON TELLS TIM TEEMAN ABOUT THE HOLLYWOOD CLOSET, G OUT, JOAN COLLS VS. LDA EVANS, AND WHY CW'S 'DYNASTY' REBOOT IS AN ‘ABOMATN.’TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED SEP. 25, 2017 8:47PM EDT / PUBLISHED SEP. 25, 2017 12:00AM EDT EXCLIVEPHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEASTTHE BRISH UNTRYSI ON A WTER’S NIGHT THE EARLY 1980S: KY DARKNS ALL AROUND, THE OUTL OF HIGH CORNISH HEDG, FIELDS AND PS OF TRE SPEEDG BY AS THIS REPORTER’S FATHER DRIV HIM HOME OM A CHOIR PRACTICE.THERE IS NO VIO RERR AT HOME. INSTEAD, MY FATHER, AS REQUTED, HAS SET UP AN OLD-SCHOOL TAPE RERR ONT OF THE TV TO RERD THAT NIGHT’S EPISO—SEASON 3, EPISO 6—OF DYNASTY. THAT TAPE IS NOW PLAYG AS THE R SPEEDS THROUGH THE CORNISH NIGHT.THE EPISO’S CLIFFHANGER APPROACH, WH ALEXIS (JOAN COLLS) STERNLY STCTG HER EVIL SON ADAM: “I’LL CI IF JEFF COLBY BE A REAL THREAT. NOT YOU. I.”SWELL OF MIC, UNSEEN CLIMACTIC EEZE AME WH THE NAM OF AARON SPELLG, THE FAMED -EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF THE SHOW, ALONGSI DOUGLAS S. CRAMER. ECSTASY. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS LATER, NEAR THE END OF OUR TERVIEW, THE ACTOR GORDON THOMSON, WHO PLAYED ADAM, ONE OF THE NASTIT, SEXIT VILLAS ON PRIME-TIME TELEVISN THE 1980S, SAYS: “IT’S VERY NICE TO BE AS NDID AS I HAVE BEEN, BELIEVE ME.” HE HAS JT E OUT.THOMSON HAD WONRED BEFORE WE SPOKE WHETHER HIS SEXUALY WOULD E UP OUR NVERSATN, AND WHAT HE WOULD SAY IF DID. WOULD HE SHOUT “HOW DARE YOU?” AND “GET ON MY HIGH HORSE” AND TERMATE THE LL, OR—THE UNSPOKEN ALTERNATIVE—WOULD HE FALLY SAY WHAT HE HAS NOT FELT ABLE TO SAY ALL THE YEARS: THAT Y, HE IS GAY.THOMSON HAS AN ACTOR’S VOICE—RICH, EP-TONED—AND HIS W IS AS ARCH AS HE IS DIRECT.COMG OUT MAY SEEM A FAIAR THG FOR PUBLIC FIGUR TO DO THE DAYS, YET REMAS A BRAVE AND LIFE-CHANGG ACT WHETHER YOU’RE A HIGH SCHOOL KID, OR TV STAR, OR FORMER STAR. FOR THOMSON—ALTHOUGH SOME FANS HAVE MED ABOUT HIS SEXUALY ONLE AND FOR MANY THIS MAY NOT SEEM ANY KD OF BIG AL 2017—THIS IS A MOMENTO MOMENT, PECIALLY AS WHEN HE WAS A HUGE PRIME-TIME STAR G OUT WOULD HAVE BEEN “PROFSNAL SUICI,” AS HE PUTS . THOMSON’S EXPERIENCE SH AN ILLUMATG LIGHT ON WHAT LIFE THE CLOSET FOR A CELEBRY IS ACTUALLY LIKE: THE LCULATNS MA, BENEFS ACCED AND STS CURRED.NOW THOMSON IS 72, HIS LIFE HAS MOVED ON, AND HE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT HIS LIFE AND OUT OF THE CLOSET, AND THE “SHAME” OF WHICH HE ONLY NOW FEELS HE IS MANAGG TO RID HIMSELF.HE WILL TALK NOT JT ABOUT BEG GAY BUT DYNASTY SELF (THE ORIGAL SHOW IS BEG RELEASED ON OCT. 10 BY PARAMOUNT HOME VIO AS A 57-DISC SET, WHICH CLUS ALL 217 EPISOS), THE CRAZY STORYL (FALLON’S ALIEN ABDUCTN WAS THE SHOW’S ATH KNELL, THOMSON SAYS), THE SHOW’S LEADG LADI JOAN COLLS AND LDA EVANS, AND WHY THE REBOOT—SET TO PREMIERE ON THE CW ON OCT. 11—IS “TOTAL SH, AN ABOMATN.”THIS IS THE KD OF STRAIGHT TALK YOU’D EXPECT OM ADAM, FAMED OVER SEVEN SEASONS OF HIGH DRAMA FOR POISONG GOOD-GUY HUNK JEFF COLBY (THOMSON’S IEND JOHN JAM, AKA “J.J.”) WH LEAD PAT, OR RAPG HIS LOVE KIRBY (KATHLEEN BELLER), AND GENERALLY BEG A SNEAKY, SPIBLE WEASEL.ADAM WAS ALSO EXTREMELY SEXY, WHETHER A TOWEL OR GYM SHORTS; MOST GAY IENDS GROWG UP THE 1980S WHO WATCHED DYNASTY LATER SAID THEY WERE JEFF FANS. I WAS ADAM-ALL-THE-WAY: HE WAS SUCH A STRANGE, TRANSFIXG VILLA TO WATCH, AND THE CHARACTER HIMSELF—JOG THE SHOW AS A RECENTLY DISVERED CARRGTON, KIDNAPPED AS A YOUNG BOY—ALWAYS SET HIM APART. DPERATE FOR A PLACE THIS REGAL, MPY DYSFUNCTNAL, PANY-OWNG AND STROYG, ALEXIS-AND-KRYSTLE EPIC TFIGHTG, SHOULR-PADD NIGHTMARE OF A FAY, ADAM DID ANYTHG HE ULD TO GA POWER. STEVEN CARRGTON (AL CORLEY, LATER JACK COLEMAN) MAY HAVE BEEN GAY, BUT THE HETEROSEXUAL ADAM WAS QUEER THE TT SENSE OF THE WORD.‘THE SHAME, THE BREATHTAKG LACK OF SELF-TEEM, HAS ONLY JT BEGUN TO SEEP OUT OF MY SOUL’BEFORE WE TALKED ABOUT HIS SEXUALY, I HAD ASKED THOMSON WHAT HE MA OF STEVEN’S NE YEARS OF GAY-ONE-MUTE, STRAIGHT-THE-NEXT OSCILLATG SEXUALY. IT WAS BOTH A RADIL PRIME-TIME CHARACTER, AND A PUZZLG, NSISTENTLY WRTEN ONE.“I THOUGHT WAS BULLSH,” THOMSON SAYS. “AT THE TIME, THE AIDS CRISIS HAD A LOT TO DO WH PRSURE ON THE WORK. I KNOW THAT AL CORLEY QU BEE HE FELT THEY WERE NOT ALLOWG HIM TO PLAY THE PART HONTLY. AND THEY WEREN’T.“I WAS VERY IMPRSED TO HEAR HIM SAY THAT AS STEVEN WHEN HE MET HIS BOYIEND THEY WOULD ONLY ALLOW THEM TO SHAKE HANDS. HE LEFT THE SHOW BEE HE THOUGHT THAT WAS CRAP, AND OF URSE WAS.“TODAY THERE IS GAY MARRIAGE, AND WHAT AN ENORMO DIFFERENCE. IT WAS APPALLGLY HANDLED. THEY OPENED A N OF WORMS AND WEREN’T TE TO , AND THEY ULD HAVE BEEN. THEY HAD GOOD ACTORS PLAYG THE PARTS. IT WAS A BIG SHAME. I’M VERY SORRY.”PRUMG THOMSON MIGHT BE GAY, I ASK IF, AS A GAY ACTOR PERFORMG DYNASTY ( ANOTHER TWIST, ADAM WAS HOMOPHOBIC), THOMSON EVER WANTED TO SAY TO THE WRERS AND PRODUCERS OF STEVEN’S BIZARRE TRAJECTORY: “THIS IS NOT WHAT BEG GAY IS.”“OH NO. NO. I WASN’T OUT, ARE YOU KIDDG?” THOMSON SAYS. “THE SHOW, THE TIME, THE FACT I WAS A LEADG MAN TO LOOK AT. NO. NO. NO. ROCK [HUDSON, WHO APPEARED DYNASTY BEFORE DYG OF PLITNS DUE TO AIDS, AND WHOSE KISS WH LDA EVANS’ KRYSTLE WAS NOTOR BEE OF ’80S AIDS PANIC] ONLY ME OUT WHEN HE GOT SICK. THIS WAS AN UTTERLY DIFFERENT TIME.“RICHARD CHAMBERLA (DR. KILDARE, THE THORN BIRDS), WHO I KNOW VERY SLIGHTLY, HAD WHAT I THK WAS THE RIGHT ATTU TO . IF YOU LOOK LIKE A LEADG MAN, WHY BOTHER G OUT? YOU DON’T HAVE TO. THE FACT IS HALF YOUR DIENCE IS WOMEN AND MOST OF THOSE WOMEN ARE STRAIGHT, AND THIS IS WHO YOU ARE PLAYG TO PECIALLY WH A SHOW LIKE DYNASTY, OR A SOAP OPERA.“YOU’RE ALSO A SOURCE OF FANTASY. IAN MCKELLEN AND DEREK JABI ARE WONRFUL PEOPLE, BUT PARDON ME, HOW MANY DIENCE MEMBERS FANTASIZE ABOUT FUCKG EHER ONE OF THEM? REALLY. IT HAD A LOT TO DO WH WHAT YOU LOOKED LIKE, I’M AAID.“IT’S NOT SOMETHG I’VE EVER ANNOUNCED,” HE SAYS OF HIS SEXUALY. “I’M ASSUMG THAT PEOPLE KNOW, AND NOW THAT I’M MY AGE THAT’S FE. I DON’T GO OUT OF MY WAY BEE ’S MY GENERATN, I THK. I’M PROBABLY AS HOMOPHOBIC AS ANY GAY MAN ALIVE BEE OF MY BACKGROUND.”THOMSON WAS BORN AND RAISED OTTAWA, STUDIED ENGLISH AT MCGILL UNIVERSY MONTREAL, AND BEFORE DYNASTY HAD DONE STAGE WORK (J GODSPELL, LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST), AS WELL AS DAYTIME SOAP (RYAN’S HOPE). HE WAS A VERY YOUNG-LOOKG 37 WHEN HE GOT THE ROLE OF ADAM CARRGTON, WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HIS MID-TWENTI.“WHEN I WAS GROWG UP [HOMOSEXUALY] WAS A CRIME, AND THEN CLASSIFIED AS A MENTAL ILLNS. IT WAS NOT UNTIL PIERRE T WAS PRIME MISTER OF CANADA WHEN I WAS 23, 24 YEARS OLD, DID CEASE BEG A CRIME, AND WAS NOT UNTIL I WAS NEARLY 30 THAT STOPPED BEG CLASSIFIED AS A MENTAL ILLNS THE U.S. SO YOU’RE ALG WH THAT. AND THE SHAME, THE BREATHTAKG LACK OF SELF-TEEM, HAS ONLY JT BEGUN TO SEEP OUT OF MY SOUL.”REALLY, I SAY, THAT SOUNDS LIKE AN AWFULLY LONG TIME OF FEELG BAD ABOUT ONELF.“OH Y, ABSOLUTELY, ABSOLUTELY,” THOMSON REPLI QUIETLY.HOWEVER MUCH HE HAS E TO TERMS WH HIS SEXUALY, THOMSON SAYS, A RIDUE OF SHAME WILL REMA PART OF WHO HE IS.“I AM OK, BUT WHAT HAS CHANGED ABOUT ME SI IS NOT ENOUGH, AND NEVER WILL BE BEE OF MY BACKGROUND. I WENT TO PRIVATE SCHOOL. MY FATHER WENT THERE. HE WAS AN ABSOLUTE DISHONORABLE CUNT, NOT A NICE MAN. THE SCHOOL HAS A REALLY RTRICTIVE, ALL-BOYS ATMOSPHERE.“I DIDN’T HAVE ANY SEXUAL SENSE UNTIL I WAS 12 OR 13. MY OLR BROTHER RECENTLY TOLD ME WHEN HE HAD HIS FIRST WET DREAM HE THOUGHT, ‘WHAT IS WRONG WH ME?’ NOBODY HAD TOLD HIM, HE THOUGHT, ‘WHAT IS THIS STUFF?’ HOPEFULLY PARENTG HAS IMPROVED.”I ASK THOMSON IF HE HAS EVER HAD A BOYIEND. “I DID HAVE A PARTNER, THOUGH NOT SUCCSFULLY—SADLY, ULTIMATELY, BEE OF MY LACK OF SELF-TEEM,” HE REPLI.I ASK HOW HIS SELF-TEEM IS NOW, AND HE TAK AN DIBLY EP BREATH. “MUCH HEALTHIER. HOW’S YOURS?”I SAY I WAS FORTUNATE TO MEET A GROUP OF OUT, AND POLILLY AND SOCIALLY ENGAGED LGBTQ PEOPLE WHEN I ME OUT AT 16.“GOOD FOR YOU, THAT’S GOOD LUCK,” THOMSON SAYS SOFTLY.I TELL HIM HOW EXTREMELY SEXY I AND A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE FOUND HIM DYNASTY; HE SHOULD AT LEAST KNOW THAT GAY MEN LTED AFTER HIM.THOMSON LETS OUT A ROAR OF LGHTER. “ONCE A WHILE I GET SENT PHOTOGRAPHS OF MYSELF, SHIRTLS A BLACK LEATHER JACKET, TO TOGRAPH OM FANS, AND I THK, ‘Y, I WOULD GET A WOODY LOOKG AT MYSELF.’ I EXAGGERATE, BUT THAT IS A SURPRISE.”HE NEVER GOT LUCKY WH GROUPI? “NO. IT’S LIKE WHAT RICHARD CHAMBERLA SAID, ‘DON’T FUCK WH THE FANTASY.’”THOMSON SAYS THAT OUT ACTOR MATT BOMER, WHO HE THKS IS EXTRAORDARILY GOOD-LOOKG AND TALENTED, HAS THE LATU TO BE OPEN “BEE HE HAS A RICH, SUCCSFUL HBAND. HE DON’T NEED HIS WORK TO LIVE,” AS THOMSON DID AND STILL DO. I ASK IF THOMSON THKS HOLLYWOOD STILL HAS “A CLOSET PROBLEM”; IS STILL A PLACE WHERE ACTORS ARE RETICENT ABOUT G OUT? “WHOUT QUTN, ABSOLUTELY,” SAYS THOMSON, AND GIV THE EXAMPLE OF A SHOW HE RECENTLY SHOT, PLAYG THE FATHER OF THE HERO CHARACTER. “THE ‘VIBE’ ON THAT SET—SORRY I HATE THAT WORD BUT THAT’S WHAT WAS—WAS SO HETEROSEXUAL. I DIDN’T WANT TO SAY, ‘GUS WHAT EVERYBODY, THE GUY PLAYG THE FATHER IS GAY.’ IF I HAD THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A SLIGHT SHIFT AWAY WHICH I WASN’T READY TO AL WH.”SURELY, EVEN IF HE WASN’T OUT, THOMSON WOULD HAVE BEEN AROUND OTHER GAYS HOLLYWOOD. “NOT THAT MUCH NOT TO BEG WH,” HE SAYS. “WHEN I BEGAN TO DO SANTA BARBARA (THE NOW-EXTCT DAYTIME SOAP HE APPEARED AFTER DYNASTY) THGS GOT MUCH LOOSER. I ULD NOT HAVE GONE TO THE GYM IF WERE LIKE TODAY WH PEOPLE AND THEIR IPHON AND NO PRIVACY.”HE LGHS, RELLG HIMSELF AND JACK COLEMAN HTG THE BARS OF SUNSET BOULEVARD. “I’M A GAY MAN PLAYG AN HOMOPHOBIC ASSHOLE, HE’S PROVG HE ISN’T GAY WHILE PLAYG THIS MAN LONGG TO BE LOVE WH ANOTHER MAN. SOMEONE SHOULD MAKE THAT TO THE TV MOVIE OF THE WEEK.”ALL THIS, AND YOU WERE THE GAYT SHOW ON TV, I SAY. THOMSON ROARS WH LGHTER. “FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE,” HE SAYS.‘IT WOULD HAVE BEEN PROFSNAL SUICI WHOUT QUTN’IN A LATER PHONE LL, I ASK WHAT WAS LIKE FOR THOMSON BEG GAY AND ALSO PLAYG A HOMOPHOBE. “I’M AN ACTOR, WAS MY JOB,” THOMSON SAYS PLALY. “ASK (LRENCE) OLIVIER WHAT WAS LIKEN PLAYG OTHELLO. HE’S NOT BLACK, AND I DOUBT WE’LL SEE MANY WHE ACTORS PLAY OTHELLO AGA, BUT ADAM WAS A ROLE I PLAYED. ‘YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE ONE TO PLAY ONE.’”ON SET, JOHN FORSYTHE (BLAKE) SET THE TONE OF A SUPREMELY PROFSNAL ENTENTE RDIALE. “THERE WASN’T A LOT OF SOCIALIZG,” HE SAYS OF HIS OFF-SET IENDSHIPS WH THE RT OF THE ST. “I WAS SHY, BEE OF THE GAY THG.”HE WASN’T OUT TO HIS FELLOW ACTORS?“NO, THEY DIDN’T HAVE A CLUE. NEVER. NO, NO, NO.” HE PS. “I SUPPOSE IF THEY RED, PEOPLE KNEW.”THOMSON SAYS HE HAD A MON-LAW WIFE TORONTO FOR A LONG TIME. “IT WAS A LEGIMATE, GENUE RELATNSHIP OF 15 YEARS,” HE SAYS. “SHE’S THE REASON I DON’T HAVE ANY MONEY TODAY.” HE LGHS. “WE LOVED EACH OTHER AND DIDN’T SIGN ANYTHG. I SUPPORTED HER AFTERWARDS VERY HANDSOMELY, BUT THAT WASN’T DUCTIBLE, SO WAS ALL DOLLARS.”IN SOME TERVIEWS HE WOULD REFER TO HER, HE SAYS. “ONCE A WHILE A TABLOID WOULD START SNIFFG AROUND. THEY HAD NO PROOF, AND I WASN’T GOG TO FURNISH THE STORY BEE I WAS NOT SUICIDAL PROFSNALLY, AND TO E OUT WOULD HAVE BEEN PROFSNAL SUICI WHOUT QUTN.”LATER, AFTER THE SHOW END AND HE WAS SANTA BARBARA, THOMSON SAYS HE BEGAN TO GET A SOCIAL LIFE UNRWAY, AND THEN GOT TOGETHER WH THE LONG-TERM PARTNER HE MENTNED. “NOW I HAVE VERY GOOD IENDS WHO ARE SUPPORTIVE AND ’S NOT AN ISSUE AND ALSO, THANK GOD, I’M NOT 40 LOOKG 30 ANY MORE, I’M 72 LOOKG 60.”THOMSON LETS OUT ONE OF HIS MAGNIFICENT ROARS OF LGHTER. WOULD HE LIKE A PARTNER NOW? “NO, NO, NO, NO, NO,” HE SAYS, EACH A LTLE BULLET OF HEARTFELT DISSENT. “I DO NOT. DEFELY DO NOT.“I MET SOMEBODY AT SOMEBODY’S BIRTHDAY PARTY FOUR OR FIVE YEARS AGO AND THIS MAN WAS VERY ATTRACTIVE. HIS FIRST WORDS TO ME WERE: ‘YOU LOOK ABSOLUTELY WONRFUL.’” THOMSON LGHS. “YOU DON’T SAY THAT TO SOMEBODY! IT WAS BT FIRST LE I’VE EVER HEARD PRACTILLY. “I SAID, ‘THANK YOU VERY MUCH,’ AND WE WERE GOG TO HAVE LUNCH A WEEK LATER. I GOT LOST. I HAVE NO SENSE OF DIRECTN AND NO GPS MY R I END UP KOREATOWN ( LOS ANGEL) FOR CHRISSAKE. I FALLY FOUND A PHONE TO E A STORE. I HAD NO RMATN FOR HIM. I FALLY FOUND THE RTRANT AND APOLOGIZED PROFELY: ‘I SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE 10 MUT AGO, SORRY.’“AND THEN I REALIZED, ‘LET’S NOT DO THIS AGA.’ I DID FALLY EMAIL HIM AND SAY, ‘LOOK, THERE’S A REASON WHY THIS HAPPENED. I’M NOT READY FOR ANYBODY.’ I PROBABLY NEVER WILL BE. I’VE TURNED TO HERM, A RECLE, I HAVE MANY WAYS AND I WANT TO KEEP THAT WAY.”WHY SO? THOMSON LGHED SOFTLY AND PSED. “THAT’S ANOTHER HOUR NVERSATN. THERE ARE REASONS I KNOW ABOUT, AND A FEW I DON’T KNOW ABOUT. BUT BASILLY I LIKE MY OWN PANY A LOT. THERE’S ONE DOG LEFT AND WHEN SHE GO, NO MORE PETS. “I AM NOT AN UNKD DIVIDUAL. I DON’T THK I HAVE THE ENERGY, AND I DON’T WANT TO TAKE MY CLOTH OFF ONT OF ANYBODY—NOT EVEN MY DOCTOR UNLS I ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO. SO, TAKG MY CLOTH OFF NOW, YOU WOULDN’T GO: ‘OH MY GOODNS WOW.’ YOU WOULDN’T GET A WOODY IS WHAT I’M TRYG TO SAY.”‘IF THE AFTERLIFE EXISTS— DON’T, BUT IF DID—AARON SPELLG WOULD BE HAVG MAJOR FS HIS GRAVE’THOMSON IS STILL ANGRY THAT HE DID NOT APPEAR ON THE UTTERLY SANE DYNASTY: THE RNN 1991, AS HE WAS APPEARG SANTA BARBARA AT THE TIME. “WHEN I READ THE SCRIPT I’D NEVER READ SUCH CRAP MY LIFE. I REMEMBER ONE LE THAT I THOUGHT I ULD NEVER SAY: ‘I WAS SCED BY THE LURE OF THE GOLD.’ WHAT THE FUCK? WHAT AN APPALLG LE.”HE WOULD HAVE LOVED TO HAVE PERFORMED , BUT WHEN HE HEARD THAT ROB SACHS HAD BEEN GIVEN THE ROLE OF ADAM “BEE HE F THE CLOTH,” WAS HURTFUL. “THAT’S SULTG TO HIM, THE DIENCE, THE CHARACTER, AND ME. HE DID A CENT JOB I GUS, BUT NO EFFORT WAS MA AROUND WORKG WH MY SCHLE AND THAT MA ME VERY ANGRY.”NOT WISHG TO RETRACT HIS TALONS, THOMSON THEN STARTS ON THE REBOOT. “I HAVE HAD A LOOK AT THE NEW DYNASTY AND I AM APPALLED,” HE SAYS. “WHAT THE FUCK IS THE CW DOG? IT’S UTTER SH.” THE SHOW’S ORIGAL EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS, RICHARD AND ESTHER SHAPIRO, REMA SO FOR THE REBOOT. KRYSTLE IS NOW THE LATA CRISTAL; SHE AND FALLON ARE VYG FOR RPORATE GLORY AND HAVG TFIGHTS; JEFF COLBY IS PLAYED BY AIN-AMERIN ACTOR SAM AGOKE; STEVEN IS OPENLY GAY, FATHER BLAKE IS FE WH , AND SAMMY JO IS NOW MALE. ALEXIS’ TRODUCTN REMAS A MYSTERY, THOUGH APPARENTLY SHOWS UP SEASON 1. THE STORY IS BEG TOLD OM THE BEGNG, WH THE SEQUENCE AND NATURE OF STORYL AND CHARACTERS TWEAKED.“IT’S NOT A NTUATN, AS DALLAS DID,” SAYS THOMSON, “BUT GO WAY BACK TO THE BEGNG. BLAKE FUCKS CRISTAL ACROSS A SK. THE TFIGHTS ARE KTY SNS. THE ACTG IS DREADFUL, TLY DREADFUL. THE WRG IS APPALLG. I DON’T KNOW WHAT POSSSED THE SHAPIROS TO BOTHER. “WHY LL DYNASTY? IT’S NOTHG TO DO WH DYNASTY AT ALL. IT’S SULTG. IF THE AFTERLIFE EXISTS— DON’T, BUT IF DID—AARON WOULD BE HAVG MAJOR FS HIS GRAVE. AND THE DIENCE THE CW IS AIMG FOR IS GOG TO THK ’S SH BEE IS SUCH SH THAT A CRETO 6-YEAR-OLD WOULD NOT BE TERTED. IT’S ABOMABLE.”NONE OF THE ORIGAL ST WAS APPROACHED TO PLAY , SAYS THOMSON. “NOBODY OVER THE AGE OF 30 IS THE SHOW,” THOMSON SAYS. PAMELA BELLWOOD (CLDIA BLAISL) PUT WELL WHEN SHE SAID THE ORIGAL SHOW HAD THREE MA CHARACTERS WHO WERE ADULTS OVER 40 WHO HAD “WONRFUL LIV, EMOTNAL LIV SEX LIV, WHO WERE PASSNATE DIVIDUALS.”IF THE NEW DYNASTY LLED THOMSON, WOULD HE RETURN? “NO, NOT TO THIS. I DON’T THK ANY OF WOULD.” IN THE DYNASTY HE AND OTHER STARS HAD IMAGED REVIVG, ADAM MIGHT BE ERNOR OF COLORADO, JEFF THE HEAD OF COLBYCO, AND FALLON THE HEAD OF DENVER CARRGTON. BUT, SEEMS, THAT IS NOT TO BE.‘ADAM WAS SUCH A SON OF A BCH’THOMSON DIDN’T REALIZE HOW FAMO HE HAD BEE UNTIL A TRIP TO NORWAY ON 1984, WHOSE THEN-SOCIALIST ERNMENT HAD DISAPPROVED OF DYNASTY. ENTERPRISG DIVIDUALS THERE HAD BEEN PUTTG ON VIOTAPE, AND VED HIM OVER. THOMSON WALKED OUT ONTO A STAGE TO FACE 10,000 HAPPILY SCREAMG FANS. “I BRIEFLY FELT LIKE HOW MICK JAGGER MT FEEL ALL THE TIME. THAT WAS MY TRODUCTN TO THE POWER OF AARON’S SHOW. IT WAS QUE EXTRAORDARY.”HE WAS THANKFUL THAT HE WAS AS OLD AS HE WAS. “I HAD BEEN WORKG AS AN ACTOR FOR 16 YEARS BY THAT TIME SO I KNEW MY JOB, WHICH HAD ALWAYS PROVED—AND DO TO THIS DAY—MY SOLE SOURCE OF SAFETY, FORT, AND PLEASURE. I LOVE WHAT I DO. NO MATTER WHERE I AM THE WORLD, AS LONG AS I AM DOG , I AM HAPPY.”HE MET PRCE CHARL 1987, WHO TOLD HIM DYNASTY WAS PRCS DIANA’S FAVORE SHOW. “I HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH OF OUR MEETG, AND A HUGE DITN OF THE POWER OF THE SHOW IS THAT MOST OF THE PEOPLE AROUND ARE LOOKG AT ME, NOT HIM.”PEOPLE RPOND TO HIM WH SHY HELLOS AND THANK YO. IN BRA, THE TABLOIDS CHRISTENED ADAM “MR. NASTY.”“ADAM WAS SUCH A SON OF A BCH, A EPLY UNPLEASANT DIVIDUAL, THAT PEOPLE WERE SURPRISED THAT I SED,” THOMSON RELLS. “PEOPLE WERE APPREHENSIVE AROUND ME. THEIR SIGH OF RELIEF WAS ALMOST DIBLE. J.J. (JOHN JAM) AS JEFF WAS THE PRCE OF THE SHOW AND HAD TO LIVE UP TO THAT. I DIDN’T HAVE TO LIVE UP TO WHO I PLAYED. I HAD TO BASILLY LIVE DOWN.”OF JAM’ SEXS, THOMSON SAYS, “I HAD NOT A SHRIVEL IF TERT HIM BACK THEN.” (LATER THIS WEEK, THE DAILY BEAST WILL ALSO SPEAK TO JOHN JAM AND PAMELA BELLWOOD.) ORIGALLY, ADAM WAS SLATED TO APPEAR JT SIX EPISOS. “JOAN (COLLS, ALEXIS) WASN’T HAPPY. I WAS A LOT OLR THAN SHE WAS ED TO WHEN ME TO HER TV CHILDREN. SUDNLY, ON DYNASTY, SHE HAD THREE OR FOUR CHILDREN WHO WERE OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE. THANK GOD AT THE TIME FOR MY GEN. I WAS MY FORTI WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WAS HOT MY TOWEL. I WOULDN’T HAVE GOT THE JOB HAD I LOOKED 37,” THOMSON SAYS. IN HIS TWENTI, WHEN HE WAS GODSPELL OPPOSE GILDA RADNER, MART SHORT, AND EUGENE LEVY (“SIX MONTHS, $234 A WEEK, NOBODY ULD LIVE ANYWHERE ON THAT MONEY”), THOMSON WAS ALSO A TALOG MOL. “IT WASN’T GLAMORO BUT PAID THE BILLS. I HAD TO BE GOOD SHAPE. I HAD A 29-CH WAIST WHEN I WAS RYAN’S HOPE, AND A 32-CH WAIST FOR MOST OF DYNASTY.”THOMSON BROUGHT TO ADAM A SENSE OF DANGER; ADAM’S SCEN ARE FULL OF HIS POISONO FURY AT THE WORLD AND HIS PERCEIVED ENEMI; SOMETIM THE FURY IS SUPPRSED, SOMETIM IS ON EXPLOSIVE DISPLAY. THOMSON SAYS HE BROUGHT THE SAME QUALI TO PLAYG DRACULA ON STAGE. HE WAS ON THE CP, HE SAYS, OF BEG THE LEADG MAN THE 1973-74 STRATFORD SHAKPEARE SEASON. “BUT I WOULDN’T SLEEP WH THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR. MY REER ME TO END ON STAGE. I LOVED DOG SHAKPEARE. I WOULD HAVE GOTTEN BETTER AT . I WAS ROBBED. SHAKPEARE IS SO MULTI-FACETED AND HAS AFFECTED HOW I LOOK AT ANY ROLE.”INED, YOU N SEE TRAC OF THE BENIGHTED, TRAGILLY FLAWED, AND POISONO IAGO, HAMLET, AND MACBETH ADAM CARRGTON.WAS THOMSON LIKE ADAM ANY WAY? “NOT PARTICULARLY. WE LOOK ALIKE, THAT’S . WE ULDN’T BE MORE DIFFERENT SO MANY WAYS.”I ASKED IF THOMSON’S THEN-CLOSETEDNS ANY WAY RMED ADAM’S BROODG DISTANCE OM HIS LOVED ON. “I WASN’T AWARE OF THAT, BUT THAT KD OF THG IS PART OF AN ACTOR’S TOOLBOX, CERTALY. I WAS READY FOR THE ROLE. I HAD CUT MY TEETH. I DON’T KNOW HOW ANYONE AGED 23 OR 24 WOULD HAVE MATAED THEIR SANY, BEE ANYTHG YOU WANT YOU N HAVE. YOU’LL PAY FOR , BUT YOU N HAVE .“KNOWG AT 18 I WANTED TO ACT CUT OUT A LOT OF CRAP. I NEVER DID DGS, I, NO THANK YOU. I KNEW WHAT I HAD TO DO: ACTG WAS MY TEMPLE, MY RELIGN. I’M AN ATHEIST: ACTG IS WHAT I LOVE, TST, AND BELIEVE . THAT WAS AN ENORMO ARMOR FOR ME, AND SO WAS MY AGE. I WAS NEVER PREY, THANK GOD.”THE PROBLEM THE WOMEN ON THE SHOW FACED WAS THE RELENTLS ON- AND OFF-SET SCTY OF THEIR LOOKS, SAYS THOMSON. THE SHOW WAS SHORT BY TWO MUT ONE WEEK, HE RELLS, AND PRODUCERS LLED BELLER (KIRBY) TO RERD A FILLER SCENE LATE ON A FRIDAY, “WHICH SHE DID LIKE A PRO.”ON MONDAY, THE PRODUCERS HAD NOT ABOUT HAIR AND WARDROBE, AND NOT ONE THANK YOU FOR HER STERLG IMPROMPTU SCENE. “THAT FUCKG PHRASE: ‘THE LOOK OF THE SHOW,’” THOMSON SAYS SRNFULLY. “THEY PAID SO MUCH ATTENTN TO LOOKS, AND NOT ENOUGH TO CHARACTERS—AND STEVEN WAS THE ONE WHO WAS SHORT-CHANGED THE MOST, WHOUT QUTN.”IN NTRAST TO THE WOMEN, KTED OUT THEIR GLTERG, MASSIVE-SHOULRED GOWNS BY NOLAN MILLER, THE MEN WERE MA UP FIVE TO 10 MUT, HE SAYS.‘JOAN WAS JEALO OF LDA. LDA WAS NOT THE ACTRS JOAN WAS AND IS, AND WAS JT EFFORTLSLY ADORED’THOMSON’S FAVORE SCEN WERE HIS TRODUCTORY SCEN WH LURENE TUTTLE PLAYG HIS GRANDMOTHER, REVEALG HIS LONG-LOST CARRGTON STAT, AND LATER HIS FIRST WH COLLS. “THERE I WAS (AS MICHAEL TORRANCE AS ADAM WAS FIRST KNOWN), LOOKG THROUGH MY GRANDMOTHER’S UNDI TO FD THAT SILVER BABY RATTLE.” HE PUTS ON THE ADAM VOICE, AS HE RE-ENACTS STARG TO THE MIRROR THAT SCENE. “‘MY NAME IS ADAM ALEXANR CARRGTON.’ I GOT A SHIVER SAYG JT NOW. WHAT A GREAT BACKSTORY.”HE AND COLLS HAD AN STANT SPARK, EVEN IF WHEN THOMSON FIRST MET HER, HER FIRST WORDS TO HIM WERE, “OH Y, YOU’RE HERE TO TT FOR THE PART OF MY SON. IT’S RIDICULO DARLG, YOU’RE MUCH TOO OLD.”THOMSON LGHS. “IT TOOK ME FOUR YEARS TO REALIZE WHAT AN APPALLG THG THAT WAS TO SAY TO SOMEBODY. I DIDN’T TAKE THAT PERSONALLY. HER JTIFIABLE VANY IS LOSSAL, AND I KNEW SHE WAS RIGHT. JOAN AND I HAD CHEMISTRY OM THE WORD GO.”BUT WHILE THOMSON AND COLLS “GOT ALONG LIKE A HOE,” SHE DID NOT WH JOHN FORSYTHE AND LDA EVANS, ACRDG TO THOMSON. “JOAN DIDN’T LIKE LDA BEE LDA WAS LOVED. SHE WAS A STAR EFFORTLSLY. JOAN WAS AT BT A GRA B MOVIE STAR, AND SHE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A HUGE STAR. SHE KNEW SHE WAS THREE OR FOUR ON THE TOTEM POLE OF ENGLISH BT, AT THE TOP OF WHICH WAS HER IEND ELIZABETH TAYLOR. “JOAN HAD A WONRFUL SEX LIFE, MARRIAG, AND KIDS, AND SHE ARRIVED ON DYNASTY WH A LOT OF RéSUMé. JOAN KNEW ALEXIS WAS ‘KAPOW’ AND DUG ALL 10 FGERNAILS TO THE PART AND WENT WH . IT WAS A BIG TREAT TO WATCH. I WAS TOLD AARON SAID TO HER, ‘YOU SAVED MY SHOW,’ AND SHE DID.”WHEN FORSYTHE FOUND OUT COLLS HAD POSED FOR PLAYBOY WHEN SHE TURNED 50, HE STORMED TO SPELLG’S OFFICE TO PLA, SAYS THOMSON. “I JT THOUGHT HOW BLOODY GOOD SHE LOOKS, BRAVO!”“JOAN WAS JEALO OF LDA,” SAYS THOMSON. “LDA WAS NOT THE ACTRS JOAN WAS AND IS, AND WAS JT EFFORTLSLY ADORED BY EVERYBODY ON SET, OFF SET, THE PUBLIC. I HAVE NEVER MET A MORE SYMPATHETIC, EMPATHIC, GENERO, GEO-LOOKG HUMAN MY LIFE. SHE WAS MIRACULO, AND THE DIENCE KNEW THAT.”THOMSON HAD THE MOST FUN PLAYG THE BAD GUY, HE SAYS, AND WHEN PEOPLE ASK HOW HE FELT PLAYG SUCH AN APPALLG CHARACTER, HE SAYS THAT HE WAS JT PLAYG ADAM, NOT JUDGG HIM. “ADAM AND ALEXIS WERE MANY PEOPLE’S FAVORE CHARACTERS,” THOMSON SAYS WH A CHUCKLE, “BEE WE WERE SEXY, ATTRACTIVE, VERY FUCKED-UP, AND VERY THLS.”HE BLAM HIS “BAD MANAGEMENT” AT THE TIME FOR MAKG HIM THE ONLY MEMBER OF THE DYNASTY ST NOT TO GET A MOVIE OF THE WEEK DURG THE 1980S. “EVER,” HE SAYS SHARPLY. “AND I WAS WELL-EQUIPPED—BETTER EQUIPPED THAN MOST OF THE ST.”POISONG POOR JEFF FOR MONTHS WH A TOXIC PAT POUND WAS “ABSOLUTELY WONRFUL.” HE RELISHED THE STORY, PECIALLY PARISON TO “THE REALLY GHASTLY ALIEN STORY POOR EMMA (SAMMS, FALLON) HAD TO PE WH. THAT WAS THE KISS OF ATH FOR THE SHOW. THAT WAS THE WORST THG THAT THE SHOW CID TO STICK ON THE PUBLIC. THE WORST. IT HAD NOTHG TO DO WH ANYTHG DYNASTY WAS EVER NNECTED WH.” IT REMD HIM OF BEG ST RYAN’S HOPE AS AN EGYPTOLOGIST, ST BEE ONE OF THE SHOW’S CREATORS HAD GONE TO EGYPT AND FALLEN LOVE WH . BUT, HE SAYS LGHG, AN EGYPTOLOGIST HAD NO PLACE A SHOW CENTERED AROUND AN IRISH PUB NEW YORK CY. “IT’S A MISTAKE TO VEER TOO FAR OM THE SENCE OF A SHOW. THE GOLN GIRLS HAD THE LIVG ROOM AND THE KCHEN. DYNASTY HAD THE MANSN. ALIENS OM MARS: WHAT AN SANE IA THAT WAS.” THOMSON SAYS THAT THE SHOW’S -CREATOR ESTHER SHAPIRO HAD TOLD A ROOM FULL OF WRERS: “THE FIRST PERSON TO LGH IS FIRED. RICHARD (SHAPIRO, HER HBAND AND THIS SHOW’S OTHER CREATOR) HAS HAD A VISN: ALIENS.”‘WE WALKED OUT OF THAT MASSACRE, TWO BY TWO, LIKE NOAH’S ARK. IT WAS LUDICRO’THOMSON DIDN’T LIKE THE WRERS MAKG ADAM NICER AS TIME WENT ON. “ME WAS THE MOST TERTG PART FOR A GUY ON DYNASTY. HE WAS SO FUCKED-UP, ATTRACTIVE, BRIGHT, AND TENSE. PASSN IS VERY SEXY UNLS THE PERSON GO BERSERK, WHICH ADAM DID ONCE AWHILE. BUT THIS SHOW WAS AN HOUR’S WORTH OF HOLIDAY ONCE EVERY WEEK. IT WASN’T ST. ELSEWHERE OR L.A. LAW, OR SOME OTHER EQUALLY WELL-TENTNED DRAMA. WE WERE THIS EXTRAORDARY SERIAL OF BETIFUL FUCKED-UP PEOPLE.”THE FAMO “MOLDAVIAN MASSACRE” OF THE 1985 SEASON FALE, WHEN TERRORISTS SHOT ALL THE ST MEMBERS (WH ALL THE SHOW’S LEAD CHARACTERS SUBSEQUENTLY SURVIVG) LEFT THOMSON CRLO. “WHEN I SAW , I THOUGHT, ‘WHAT A WASTED OPPORTUNY THAT WAS. WE WALKED OUT OF THAT MASSACRE, TWO BY TWO, LIKE NOAH’S ARK. IT WAS LUDICRO. NOBODY HAD A SCRATCH. WE WERE BETIFULLY DRSED. NOBODY WAS LIMPG. I THOUGHT, ‘AT LEAST PUT SOMEONE’S LIFE JEOPARDY.’”ALI MACGRAW AND ROCK HUDSON HAD JOED THE SHOW THAT SEASON, TOO, THE IA BEG THEIR CHARACTERS WOULD HAVE AFFAIRS WH BLAKE AND KRYSTLE RPECTIVELY. “JOHN FORSYTHE WAS HAVG NONE OF ,” SAYS THOMSON. HE GAVE ALI A BIG BUNCH OF FLOWERS WHEN SHE ARRIVED AS IF TO SAY: WELE, AND THAT IS NOT GOG TO HAPPEN. FOR HIM THERE WAS NEVER A REMOTE POSSIBILY THAT BLAKE AND KRYSTLE WOULD BE UNFAHFUL TO ONE ANOTHER. “HE HAD A STRA-LACED TERMATN TO MAKE THIS UPLE THE MOST MAGIL AND UNREAL UPLE THERE EVER WAS. HE WAS LOVE WH LDA PROBABLY, QUIETLY AND BY HIMSELF.”THOMSON SAID HUDSON WAS SO ILL ON THE SET THAT TOOK THE MAKE-UP ARTIST AN HOUR AND A HALF TO MAKE HIM LOOK PRENTABLE. “HE WAS STILL VERY HANDSOME, AND WAS VERY NCERNED ABOUT HIS KISS WH KRYSTLE. BUT WHEN YOU WATCH , ’S THE KISS YOU GIVE A 2-YEAR-OLD BABY. THERE WAS NOTHG SEXUAL ABOUT . WE WERE ALL SO IGNORANT ABOUT HOW HIV WAS TRANSMTED 1985.”AT THE TIME, ABC WAS KNOWN, SAYS THOMSON, AS THE “AARON BROADSTG COMPANY” AS SPELLG HAD NTRIBUTED SO MANY H SHOWS TO THE WORK’S SCHL. THE SHOW MIGHT HAVE SURVIVED A B LONGER BEYOND S ATH 1989, THOMSON SAYS, BUT “NOBODY WAS HEARTBROKEN WHEN STOPPED, BEE WHATEVER HAD BEEN JUICY ABOUT THE SHOW WAS GONE. I WAS LUCKY TO BE VOLVED S JUICIT YEARS.”IT’S GREAT TO SEE HIS STMAT FOR EVENTS AND TV RNNS, THOMSON SAYS. HE SAW BELLER AND LEANN HUNLEY, WHO PLAYED ADAM’S LAST ON-SCREEN WIFE DANA, A UPLE OF YEARS AGO, “LOOKG GEO AND WAS LOVELY.”I ASK IF THERE WAS ANYTHG HE HADN’T DONE AS ADAM THAT HE WOULD LOVED TO HAVE DONE? “I N’T REMEMBER WHAT HE DIDN’T DO,” SAYS THOMSON, LGHG. HAD THE SHOW NTUED HE THKS ADAM’S WIFE DANA MAY HAVE MA HIM A LTLE SOCIALLY EASIER, BUT—PHEW!—NOT ALTERED HIS FUNDAMENTAL ROTTENNS. ‘I’D LIKE TO PLAY ANOTHER MONSTER, I REALLY WOULD’THOMSON MISS ADAM CARRGTON, HE SAYS, AND NEXT WOULD LIKE TO PLAY SOMEONE LIKE HIM. HE ME CLOSE TO SANTA BARBARA, EVEN THOUGH HIS CHARACTER WASN’T EVIL. “IT WAS 35 PAG A DAY, FIVE DAYS A WEEK, 50 WEEKS A YEAR: IT WAS WONRFUL,” HE SAYS. “I’D LOVE TO PLAY SOME ADAM-LIKE GROWN UP EXECUTIVE BEHD A SK BEG AN ABSOLUTE SH,” THOMSON SAYS WH RELISH. “I’D LIKE TO PLAY ANOTHER MONSTER, I REALLY WOULD, A LAYERED MONSTER, AND IF HE WASN’T LAYERED ON THE PAGE I’D FD A WAY TO MAKE HIM SO, FILLG L WH PS AND ATTU THAT ANY GOOD ACTOR KNOWS HOW TO DO.”AN ANKLE JURY THOMSON STAED AT 22 RURFACED FIVE YEARS AGO, WHICH MEANT HE ULDN’T WORK FOR A LONG PERD OF TIME. THE TWO ORIGAL STEVEN CARRGTONS, AL CORLEY, AND JACK COLEMAN, BEECHED THOMSON TO GO TO AN ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON, “AND SO NOW I HAVE A NEW ANKLE. I’M NOT LIMPG ANY MORE, BUT I DON’T MOVE AS EASILY AS I ED TO. I N’T N. STAIRS ARE DIFFICULT.”AGG IS A BCH, BEE HE IS NSTANTLY REMD OF HOW ATTRACTIVE AND SIRABLE HE WAS BEE OF FANS’ PASSNATE NOSTALGIA FOR THE SHOW. “THEY WANT YOU TO TOGRAPH SOMETHG WH YOU AGED 40. THAT WAS ME THEN, AND THIS IS ME NOW. YOU’RE HNTED BY WHAT YOU ED TO LOOK LIKE. IT’S VERY STRANGE.”DO ONE MAKE PEACE WH ? “I DON’T THK N MAKE PEACE WH ,” SAYS THOMSON. “YOU’RE AROUND ALL THE TIME.”THOMSON STOUTLY SISTS, HOWEVER, THAT WHILE HE MAY NOT BE THE YOUNG, HANDSOME ACTOR HE WAS BACK THEN, HE’S NOT BAD LOOKG NOW. HE NOT THAT JOHN JAM’ HAIR IS THNER THAN WAS, “AND HE WAS THE BT-LOOKG MAN ON TV AT THAT TIME.” THOMSON PAR JAM’ TLE RD AT THE BEGNG OF THE SHOW (“NOTHG GOG ON BEHD THE EY”) WH ADAM’S SH-EATG GR AS A CHAMPAGNE BOTTLE’S RK POPS OFF.THOMSON LGHS AS HE RELLS ONE ATRALIAN TERVIEWER NOTG HOW DIFFERENT HE LOOKED TO HIS 40-YEAR-OLD SELF. “I MEAN, YOU GIVE ME A HAIRDRSER AND A BOTTLE OF DYE AND WE’LL DO AGA IF YOU LIKE,” HE SAYS.HE SISTS HE IS NOT LONELY. “I’M A LUCKY MAN. LUCK, GOOD OR ILL, IS THE LOSTAR OF EVERY LIFE AND GOOD LUCK IS THE RART THG MY BS, AND I GOT LUCKY FOR A WHILE AND I’M STILL LUCKY TO A GREE,” HE SAYS.WHAT WAS THE MAGIC OF DYNASTY, DO THOMSON THK? HE SAYS HE WAS ONCE TOLD, ON THAT TRIP TO NORWAY, “BY MY FIRST SOCIALIST JOURNALIST, ‘MR. THOMSON, YOUR SHOW IS SO IMMORAL.’“I SAID, ‘EXCE ME, DO YOU LIKE HOLIDAYS?’“SHE SAID, ‘WELL Y, ANYONE LIK HOLIDAYS.’“‘THAT’S ALL WE SUPPLY: AN HOUR’S HOLIDAY EVERY WEEK,’ I SAID TO HER. THAT WAS GOOD, QUICK THKG ON MY FEET. YOU ULDN’T AFFORD TO GO TO CAPRI BUT YOU TURNED THE TV ON AND WATCHED DYNASTY FOR AN HOUR, AND THAT’S WHAT WAS AND THAT’S WHO WE WERE.”OUR NVERSATN MEANRS PLEASANTLY ON FOR A WHILE, ABOUT THE BLOOMSBURY SET (THOMSON IS READG BILL GOLDSTE’S ACCLAIMED, JT-PUBLISHED THE WORLD BROKE IN TWO: T. S. ELT, D. H. LAWRENCE, E. M. FORSTER, AND THE YEAR THAT CHANGED LERATURE). I ASK IF THOMSON IS ALRIGHT, IMAGG WHAT A BIG AL MT HAVE BEEN FOR HIM TO E OUT, AND BE AS OPEN AS HE HAS BEEN. THOMSON SAYS HE IS FE. “I’M GOG TO HAVE A CUP OF TEA,” HE ANNOUNC. “I’VE HAD A VERY GOOD TIME. UNEXPECTED.” HE PS AGA, AND ADDS SOFTLY, “UNEXPECTED.”DYNASTY: THE COMPLETE SERI, A 57 DVD-SET WH MANY EXTRAS LIKE TERVIEWS WH AL CORLEY AND PAMELA SUE MART, IS RELEASED BY PARAMOUNT HOME VIO ON OCT. 10. DYNASTY BEGS ON THE CW, WEDNDAY OCT. 11 AT 9 P.M. TIM TEEMAN

He was one of the most acplished poets of the 20th century, but WH Aun was emed unsuable for the role of poet lreate after wrg a “filthy” pornographic poem that would “brg disgrace” on the Heath, the Conservative prime mister, was told 1972 that Aun - prevly scribed by officials as “probably the bt poet” alive - had wrten “utterly revoltg” vers about gay sex, meang that together wh his cisn to bee an Amerin cizen he should be led out. Whenever the bate over whether straight actors should be allowed to play gay characters has reared s head (and wh time, that’s gone om every year to every week), I’ve found myself largely dismissive.

GAY GORDON

As a gay viewer, I crave thenticy wh queer stori, preferrg them to be at least -wrten by queer creators and am forever wantg the spectm of shared experienc to be more diverse and, ccially, more specific, but when to those habg queer characters, I’m ls fsed. It’s the tale of a quartet of self-obssed stage actors who scend upon a small Indiana town the hop of boostg their public image by tryg to force a homophobic school system to lettg a stunt attend the prom wh her girliend.

NO, JEFF GORDON IS NOT A GAY RELATNSHIP WH ANOTHER NASCAR DRIVER

On stage, the role of a flamboyantly gay larger than life Broadway star was embodied by flamboyantly gay larger than life Broadway star Brooks Ashmanskas, who the character was reportedly wrten around.

IS JEFF GORDON GAY? WHY IS THE SEXUALY OF “NASR LEGEND” A TOPIC OF DEBATE?

But one of the most befuddlg stg cisns arguably ever, Murphy, an openly gay wrer-director-producer who has nsistently provid centre stage opportuni to LGBT actors (om Chris Colfer Glee to the ground-breakgly diverse st of Pose to his recent all-gay update of Boys the Band), cid to hire Corn, a straight actor yet to tly prove his worth film (he was somehow the most embarrassg element of last year’s Cats, a film ma solely of embarrassg elements).

“Offensively misst” said Newsweek’s Samuel Spencer, the Telegraph’s Tim Robey wrote that ma him “embarrassed” to be gay while, most dramatilly yet accurately, Vany Fair’s Richard Lawson lled “one of the worst performanc of the 21st century” Streep and Jam Corn The Prom. It’s as if he himself has looked back but even further, back to the playground when the straight bulli would pick on the gay kid by performg outsized imprsns and as a rult, there’s a sort of meanns to the performance, as if he’s ridiculg what I image will be a large percentage of The Prom’s I fully doubt that was the tentn, there’s so ltle thought or even craft his work here that I’m not sure if there was any tentn volved at all. But while Corn is excably bad here, more blame should lie at the feet of Murphy for not only choosg to st him the first place but for then allowg him to gayface que so grotquely.

I still believe that straight actors have the abily to play gay but orr to do so, there should be not only a basic ternal nversatn (Am I right for this?

IS JEFF GORDON REALLY GAY? INVTIGATG THE RUMORS

Would a gay actor, or perhaps on this ocsn almost anyone else, do this better? ) but also, at the very least, a vague sign of a nnectn to a muny outsi of their own (Corn’s ia of gayns is rooted not realy but 70s ss).

THE GAY GORDONS MARCH

In a new terview wh the Daily Beast, the 72-year-old, who played the homophobic villa Adam Carrgton the ’80s soap opera, out as gay for the first time.