Contents:
- 'DYNASTY' SEASON 3 EPISO 7: SAM AND FLETCHER SHARE A PASSNATE KISS AND FANS N'T HELP BUT SHIP THE NEW GAY UPLE
- DYNASTY’S JOURNEY OM GAY PANIC TO GAY PRI
'DYNASTY' SEASON 3 EPISO 7: SAM AND FLETCHER SHARE A PASSNATE KISS AND FANS N'T HELP BUT SHIP THE NEW GAY UPLE
Fans seem to be que exced wh the new twist and are already shippg the gay uple. One tweet read, "How do Sam get so lucky hirg a gay guy! The TV show Dynasty featured a gay in (and her son).
But for years, spe the show’s anythg-go nature, there was one thg that Dynasty uldn’t get away wh: showg a happy homosexual. Puttg a gay man on one of the most inic and popular shows of the was a long, multi-year fight — both on-screen and behd-the-scen — but was nothg pared to the battle took to keep him there. The story of Dynasty’s ntroversial gay son starts back 1979 wh, of all thgs, the oil crisis.
And the son, Steven, who’s hidg his homosexualy om his nservative dad. ” There had seldom been any recurrg gay characters on primetime TV — there was Jody on Soap, a fotten barfly on The Corner Bar, and gut-player Lori Shannon as Beverly LaSalle on All the Fay. Dynasty’s pilot posns Steven ont and center, wh a climactic scene which Blake nonts his son about beg gay.
DYNASTY’S JOURNEY OM GAY PANIC TO GAY PRI
He mands that Steven “straighten yourself out, ” hurls slurs at him, and sists that Steven never brg homosexualy to the hoe.
There was so much stigma around homosexualy then that for many queer people, was simply easier to acquice and pretend they’d gone straight — pecially around fay.
Over the 1970s, there had been a steady rise gay characters, acpanyg the growg queer liberatn movement.