Dynasty’s Journey om Gay Panic to Gay Pri - The Stranger

Contents:

• 'DYNASTY' STAR GORDON THOMSON COM OUT AS GAY
• PRI MONTH 2020: DYNASTY’S STEVEN CARRGTON CREASED GAY VISIBILY ON TV, SO WHY DID THE CW DROP HIM FOR THE REBOOT?
• DYNASTY’S JOURNEY OM GAY PANIC TO GAY PRI

'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. Soon, his character ma a transn to one of the first ma gay characters on TV and champned the e of LBGTQ muny those days. Irked that the shownners haven't mentned him at all, fans hailed him as the first gay character and want him back.

PRI MONTH 2020: DYNASTY’S STEVEN CARRGTON CREASED GAY VISIBILY ON TV, SO WHY DID THE CW DROP HIM FOR THE REBOOT?

Steven Carrgton was the first gay character on Amerin televisn.

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DYNASTY’S JOURNEY OM GAY PANIC TO GAY PRI

One angry fan even went on to say: "Steven Carrgton is an inic TV character, one of the first gay leads on Amerin TV, and @TheCW threw him out like trash. #Dynasty, " and another posted, "Steven Carrgton and the first gay visibily on tv, I was so happy back time, to see some reprentatn, apart om that and tal of San Francis was very lame. Sam is an openly gay man who is often iendly and lov partyg.

She married Steven Carrgton and even had a son wh him spe the fact that he was gay.

The producers saw f to make Sammy a gay man orr to keep up wh the changg tim.