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Contents:

• FIRST REGULAR GAY CHARACTER FOR NEIGHBOURS
• NEIGHBOURS GETS RNCHY WH NUDY AND FIRST GAY SEX SCENE LATE NIGHT SPECIAL
• NEIGHBOURS PRAISED FOR ‘SAVG GAY LIV’ BY EMOTNAL ACTOR AS SOAP’S FUTURE HANGS THE BALANCE
• GAY CHARACTERS NEIGHBOURS & HOME AND AWAY.
• NEIGHBOURS STAR TAKAYA HONDA HS BACK AT CLICHéD QUTNS ABOUT PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER
• NEIGHBOURS GETS ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTER!
• NEIGHBOURS' MATT WILSON APOLOGIS AFTER 'GAY' BACKLASH
• 'NEIGHBOURS' STS NEW GAY CHARACTER
• NEIGHBOURS STAR TAKAYA HONDA HAS ‘NO DIFFICULTY’ PLAYG GAY CHARACTER
• VIEWERS EMBRACE NEIGHBOURS' GAY CHARACTER PLAYED BY NEWER JAM MASON
• LOOKG BACK AT THE MISTREATMENT OF MARVEL’S FIRST GAY COMIC SUPERHERO

FIRST REGULAR GAY CHARACTER FOR NEIGHBOURS

Neighbours has got s first gay regular gay character. Neighbours, which is 25 years old, has had temporary gay characters before and has screened several lbian kiss.

In an terview wh Atralian gay publitn Same Same last week, Mason said that fans had asked for a gay character. The producers were pretty keen on givg the viewers what they want, and they noticed there was a high mand for a gay character to e on the show. He add that the storyle would be “pretty genue” as me om gay scriptwrers who had been through g out.

NEIGHBOURS GETS RNCHY WH NUDY AND FIRST GAY SEX SCENE LATE NIGHT SPECIAL

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Neighbours nailed an emotnally-charged gay sex scene between two characters who were madly love March 2018.

The actor’s character, David Tanaka, was part of Atralia’s first televised gay weddg, and Honda reflected on how the long-nng show has helped to tell the stori of those often unrreprented media.

NEIGHBOURS PRAISED FOR ‘SAVG GAY LIV’ BY EMOTNAL ACTOR AS SOAP’S FUTURE HANGS THE BALANCE

“I have been one half of, not only the first on screen gay weddg Atralian history but, I’m pretty sure, also one of the longt nng on screen gay relatnships too. Neighbours st durg the 2019 Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para (El Pics/ Getty Imag). Honda and his -star Matt Wilson saw their characters take part one of Atralian TV’s first gay weddgs 2018, wh the uple’s relatnship ntug to feature on the soap until the prent day.

GAY CHARACTERS NEIGHBOURS & HOME AND AWAY.

You would be fiven for thkg that stralia dont have ANY gay people livg there:rolley:. what is the al wh the plete lack of any gay characters eher of the soaps, or any talk of homosexualy what-so-ever!

Charlie had a girliend Home and Away, although she has a boyiend aga now, and there is a gay boy Neighbours but I n't remember his name. Chris has jt e out as gay on Neighbours, problem is that he isn't a ma character and acrdg to reports, they don't know what to do wh the character. Home and Away had a uple of gay characters.

Chris, Pippa's son, is gay. The producers of H&A have always said there was no pot tryg to have gay characters G rated shows as the l regardg what n't be shown ma impossible anyway. This has been discsed many tim on this fom, Atralia is a backward and nservative untry that don't like seeg gay people on tv.

NEIGHBOURS STAR TAKAYA HONDA HS BACK AT CLICHéD QUTNS ABOUT PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER

I don't thk that gay people should appear any programme jt to tick a box.

NEIGHBOURS GETS ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTER!

I thk there has to be a fair repersentatn of gay/lbian people soaps as there is real life. Atralia is very backward lookg when to portrayg gay people on screen. I have heard that Atralians don't like gay people their soaps as is a very nservative untry and I thk I am right sayg that some stat homosexualy is still banned.

I'm que suprised that homosexualy uld still be banned certa really bad!!!

NEIGHBOURS' MATT WILSON APOLOGIS AFTER 'GAY' BACKLASH

I agree that gay/lbian people need to be reprented on tv, but not necsarily soaps.

The people that are voved soaps seem to lack creativy or are unwillg to e up wh proper storyl for gay/lbian people. I would like to see a storyle that volv a gay person, but is not about their sexualy, personally I'm sick of the syoryl where g out "is" the storyle.

'NEIGHBOURS' STS NEW GAY CHARACTER

Methodyguy, be sure to let know which Atralian stat ban homosexualy. Neighbours star Takaya Honda has h back at clichéd qutns about playg a gay straight actor, who portrays David Tanaka the Channel 5 soap, appeared at Sydney's Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras alongsi his on-screen hband Matt Wilson (Aaron Brennan), when he ma the impassned Instagram post. "We get asked, more often than I thk we should, 'What's like to play a gay character as a straight actor, do you fd difficult?

NEIGHBOURS STAR TAKAYA HONDA HAS ‘NO DIFFICULTY’ PLAYG GAY CHARACTER

"Firstly, who uld fd hard to play gay oppose this credible man? The task we are given is to evoke wh the dience that feelg of love and have them believe that we are love, and that would go whether our characters were gay, straight or other.

"There is no gree of difficulty add bee the characters are gay. "AFTER 25 years on our screens, Neighbours will get s first gay male character. Ramsay St newer Jam Mason, 20, will reveal he is gay an upg episo.

VIEWERS EMBRACE NEIGHBOURS' GAY CHARACTER PLAYED BY NEWER JAM MASON

She said the show pped flak for s teen pregnancy and surrogacy storyl, so teen homosexualy was sure to e unr fire, too. "I do believe homophobia is still alive and well, and I have no doubt that we will get plats about , " she said. While Magda Szubanski officiated Atralian TV’s first gay weddg last year on the show, back 2004 Neighbours aired a much-publicised “lbian kiss” by the characters Lana Crawford and Sky Mangel.

Acrdg to an article the Age, the onscreen pash was attacked by the ual rners for “makg homosexualy look ol”. Newsflash to those squar: homosexualy is trans is also pretty ol, I thk, and havg a trans person on a TV show wh a reach like Neighbours is ol ’s hard to say exactly how much tangible progrs on screen reprentatn offers. 'My choice of words wasn't right': Matt Wilson apologis after ntroversial remarks about his gay Neighbours character actg 'normal' and 'straight' Published: 08:49 BST, 4 July 2017 | Updated: 16:10 BST, 6 July 2017.

He plays a gay character, Aaron Brennan, on long-nng TV soap actor Matt Wilson faced a backlash after claimg his character was purposefully wrten to be a 'straight actg' an terview on Channel 5's The Wright Stuff last week, the 29-year-old said stripper Aaron was characterised to 'act straight and act normal' down for vio Controversy: Neighbours star Matt Wilson (pictured) faced a backlash after sayg on Brish televisn last week his character was purposefully wrten to be a 'straight actg' homosexualHe add: 'And when I say normal, like, he don't stand out among the crowd. 'Matt then pared his character wh the gay men US seri Morn Fay, who he scribed as 'flamboyant' and 'mp.

LOOKG BACK AT THE MISTREATMENT OF MARVEL’S FIRST GAY COMIC SUPERHERO

' The former rpenter also said there had been much discsn over whether the role should have been given to a gay actor. 'There are a lot of people who thk you should have a gay actor playg a gay character. 'Many gay fans were left disappoted by Matt's remarks, scribg the heterosexual actor's terview as 'crgeworthy' and even 'homophobic'.

Televisn role: The 29-year-old plays a gay character, Aaron Brennan, on TV soap NeighboursHe later apologised on Twter, wrg: 'Hi guys. Backlash: Many gay fans were disappoted by Matt's remarks, scribg the heterosexual actor's terview as 'crgeworthy' and even 'homophobic'.

Neighbours uld be le for s first ever gay uple after stg a love tert for gay character Chris Pappas (Jam Mason) Morley has been st as male nurse Aidan Foster the soap, a love tert for former Home and Away actor said that ma no difference whether or not his character was gay when he signed on to told the Herald Sun: "I don't see as a big al that the character is gay.