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10 Gay, Bisexual & Queer Soap Opera Stars

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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. Dpe the shows dippg their to the water wh queer characters and storyl the 1990s — like Ryan Phillippe as groundbreakg gay teen Billy Douglas on “One Life to Live” om 1992 to 1993 — the show shied away om romance for s queer characters until the 21st century.

As the dghter of Eri Kane (San Lucci), was the first time such an important legacy character was wrten to be gay.

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Other shows the first of the 21st century troduced gay characters, wh mixed rults. On “General Hospal, ” Lus Jon (then played by Ben Hogtyn), the adopted son of Bobbie Spencer (Jackie Zeman) and Tony Jon (Brad Mle) me out as gay, but he didn’t get much romance before he was wrten off the show 2006; the character returned to the nvas played by Ryan Carn 2013. “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.

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“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. Pl they had the bt sex scene out of any of the gay upl.

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ENTERTAINMENTDays of Our Liv to host the first gay weddg soap opera history (sneak peek vio above. " Lucci said, "Once Bian me out and said she was gay, Eri said, 'But no! But gay and lbian groups hailed the televised weddg as a victory.

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