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'DYNASTY' STAR GORDON THOMSON COM OUT AS GAY
In a new terview wh the Daily Beast, the 72-year-old, who played the homophobic villa Adam Carrgton the ’80s soap opera, out as gay for the first time. I’m probably as homophobic as any gay man alive bee of my background. “When I was growg up [homosexualy] was a crime, and then classified as a mental illns...
While the drama will rema tact, the homophobia will be erased. The origal versn showsed homophobic sentiment when me to Adam’s gay brother Steven Carrgton (played by Al Corley), and patriarch Blake Carrgton’s attu toward him. I didn’t want to say, ‘Gus what everybody, the guy playg the father is gay.
Would he shout “How dare you?” and “get on my high horse” and termate the ll, or—the unspoken alternative—would he fally say what he has not felt able to say all the years: that y, he is gay.Thomson has an actor’s voice—rich, ep-toned—and his w is as arch as he is direct.Comg out may seem a faiar thg for public figur to do the days, yet remas a brave and life-changg act whether you’re a high school kid, or TV star, or former star. Thomson’s experience sh an illumatg light on what life the closet for a celebry is actually like: the lculatns ma, benefs acced and sts curred.Now Thomson is 72, his life has moved on, and he wants to talk about his life and out of the closet, and the “shame” of which he only now feels he is managg to rid himself.He will talk not jt about beg gay but Dynasty self (the origal show is beg released on Oct.