Neighbours star Takaya Honda hs back at clichéd qutns about playg a gay character

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.

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

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

” (sic) It isn’t Neighbours first ever gay sex scene to air on screens across the UK. 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. “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. 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!

GAY CHARACTERS NEIGHBOURS & HOME AND AWAY.

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

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

I thk there has to be a fair repersentatn of gay/lbian people soaps as there is real life.

NEIGHBOURS GETS ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTER!

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

NEIGHBOURS' MATT WILSON APOLOGIS AFTER 'GAY' BACKLASH

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.

Methodyguy, be sure to let know which Atralian stat ban homosexualy.

'NEIGHBOURS' STS NEW GAY CHARACTER

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? "Firstly, who uld fd hard to play gay oppose this credible man?

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

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.

VIEWERS EMBRACE NEIGHBOURS' GAY CHARACTER PLAYED BY NEWER JAM MASON

"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. 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.

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

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.