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Falists for a GLAAD Award, the gay fan fav of Days of our Liv take one step further.

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Massey also won three Daytime Emmys, beg the first actor to w Outstandg Younger Actor a Drama Seri awards for playg a gay character.

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“As the World Turns” wrote Le Snyr (Van Hansis) as gay. The son of superuple Lily and Holn Snyr (Martha Byrne and Jon Hensley), he got a uple of major romanc, first wh Noah Reid (Jake Silbermann), wh whom he shared daytime’s first gay male kiss, though their romance was portrayed as far more chaste than soap operas ually pict heterosexual love stori. “Days of Our Liv” vted heavily Will Horton (Chandler Massey), who me out as gay, had many ont-burner storyl, and even had a proment love triangle wh Sonny Kiriakis (Freddie Smh) and Pl Nara (Christopher Sean), both of whom were also legacy characters om important fai on the show.

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But gay and lbian groups hailed the televised weddg as a victory.

"It's realy, " said Neil Giuliano, print of the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD). Three groups -- the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn, gay-rights group Lambda Legal and the Natnal Center for Lbian Rights -- filed a legal challenge to the vote, askg the state Supreme Court to le the ballot-iative procs was "improperly ed" to strip away a right protected by the state nstutn.

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