'Anne Wh an E' Adds Gay Characters to a Children's Classic | Voice

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• I LOVE MY GAY SON
• 'ANNE WH AN E' ADDS GAY CHARACTERS TO A CHILDREN'S CLASSIC

I LOVE MY GAY SON

A nversatn wh Aunt Josephe about her romantic soulmate, Gert, mov Cole, and leads him to e out to her as gay. Phillips hat him due to his own queerns and ternalized homophobia. “It was jt unimagably difficult to do so pecially durg that timeame where was illegal to be a homosexual, punishable by imprisonment and a ath sentence – and punishable Canada until 1969.

Cole Mackenzie is a gay character om Anne wh an E. While the wrers and producers knew om the start that Cole would be gay, Cory Gter-Andrew only knew a ltle b about Cole when he joed the project. Homosexualy was one of those thgs Canada.

It was actually illegal to engage anythg emed "homosexual activy" until 1969. It nnects him wh several kdred spirs and driv him out of his “shell, ” eventually leadg him to the person which he nfis his ept secret — he’s gay. That’s really tertg, to see the challeng people are facg today were faced 100 years ago, except secret, bee [homosexualy] was a crime.

'ANNE WH AN E' ADDS GAY CHARACTERS TO A CHILDREN'S CLASSIC

Did you know om the begng that that was an aspect of Cole’s character, that he was gay?

I talked to [actrs Deborah Grover] about what ’s like to play a gay character, and we had a nversatn about that, and that was nice. Later on, season 2, is shown that Anne and Cole have an tense iendship which later on helps reveal that Cole is gay.

Phillips has always been an unintified closeted homosexual. Cole is the first lead on the show, and only child, to be gay, somethg he openly asserts when he go to Aunt Jo's party.