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

Contents:

• ‘I’M GAY’: GORDON THOMSON, DYNASTY’S ADAM CARRGTON, COM OUT—AND TRASH CW’S REBOOT
•  DYNASTY SEASON 3 EPISO 7 SHOOT FROM THE HIP SAM FLETCHER KISS GAY UPLE THE CW SHOW
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• #FIRSTS: 1975, AMERI’S FIRST GAY COUPLE ON TELEVISN
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• ‘DUCK DYNASTY’ STAR’S ANTI-GAY COMMENTS: GAY ‘STORAGE WARS’ DUO RPONDS
• DYNASTY’S JOURNEY OM GAY PANIC TO GAY PRI
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI
• 'ALONE AND FEAR': ORAL OF MARRIED GAY UPLE FORCED TO FLEE RSIA

‘I’M GAY’: GORDON THOMSON, DYNASTY’S ADAM CARRGTON, COM OUT—AND TRASH CW’S REBOOT

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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 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 will talk not jt about beg gay but Dynasty self (the origal show is beg released on Oct. ”) wh lead pat, or rapg his love Kirby (Kathleen Beller), and generally beg a sneaky, spible was also extremely sexy, whether a towel or gym shorts; most gay iends growg up the 1980s who watched Dynasty later said they were Jeff fans. Steven Carrgton (Al Corley, later Jack Coleman) may have been gay, but the heterosexual Adam was queer the tt sense of the word.

‘The shame, the breathtakg lack of self-teem, has only jt begun to seep out of my soul’Before we talked about his sexualy, I had asked Thomson what he ma of Steven’s ne years of gay-one-mute, straight-the-next oscillatg sexualy. ”Prumg Thomson might be gay, I ask if, as a gay actor performg Dynasty ( another twist, Adam was homophobic), Thomson ever wanted to say to the wrers and producers of Steven’s bizarre trajectory: “This is not what beg gay is. I tell him how extremely sexy I and a lot of other people found him Dynasty; he should at least know that gay men lted after him.

 DYNASTY SEASON 3 EPISO 7 SHOOT FROM THE HIP SAM FLETCHER KISS GAY UPLE THE CW SHOW

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ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

When the primetime soap opera Dynasty first lnched the 1980s, Blake Carrgton (John Forsythe) was repelled by his gay son Steven — which set up a world of nflict between father and son for several seasons. But the new eratn for The CW this fall, the new Blake (played by Grant Show) is not only acceptg of his son (Jam Mackay om The Leftovers), but is about to wele another young gay man to his fay via new wife Cristal (Nathalie Kelley): Cristal’s nephew Sammy Joe, licly embodied the origal versn by Heather Locklear, is now a young gay man played by Rafael la Fuente (Empire).

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#FIRSTS: 1975, AMERI’S FIRST GAY COUPLE ON TELEVISN

” Historian Owen Emmerson has kdly answered legal stat of gay relatns over the 118 years which the six monarchs of the Tudor dynasty led is a tale of two spher which shifted enormoly. For 52 of those years – durg the reigns of Henry VII, Mary I and for the majory of Henry VIII’s reign – homosexualy was emed a s and, as such, was subject to the scty of the Catholic church’s 1533, most of the Tudor monarchs persecuted gay men not through the church but the crimal law urts.

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A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

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‘DUCK DYNASTY’ STAR’S ANTI-GAY COMMENTS: GAY ‘STORAGE WARS’ DUO RPONDS

In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group.

DYNASTY’S JOURNEY OM GAY PANIC TO GAY PRI

“I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic. To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church. “I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

Acrdg to the anizatn's 2019 annual diversy report, we're on the right track, and the study also found that Netflix is still the bt streamg platform for diverse reprentatn of characters that openly intified as gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer.

In a separate storyle, Juan Castano and John Clarence Stewart play a gay uple who are currently explorg the ups and downs of a ser relatnship.

AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI

09NetflixSpecialBased on Ryan O'Connell's part-memoir, part-manifto I'm Special: And Other Li We Tell Ourselv, this g-of-age edy seri follows O'Connell's own challeng and triumphs as a gay man navigatg the world wh d cerebral palsy. 10Everett CollectnQueer EyeIn this realy makeover show, five gay men known as the Fab Five help new "hero" turn around their liv, helpg them improve their knowledge of fashn, food and we, terr sign, groomg, and culture. Dpe g om a relig Ghanaian fay, Otis's bt iend Eric is unapologetilly gay and totally himself, and even when he's full Hedwig drag, he never stops beg a well-round character rather than a cliché.

'ALONE AND FEAR': ORAL OF MARRIED GAY UPLE FORCED TO FLEE RSIA

The ol thg about this show is that Led's sexual preference is never a big shockg reveal — stead, when she starts cshg on a woman, her beg gay is jt treated as a matter of fact. While Steve Carrgton's gayns was a huge al the origal seri (as he was one of the first gay characters on Amerin televisn), Steve's sexualy the reboot is no longer the talyst for fay fds and is stead accepted by all — even if his reer cisns aren't. Acrdg to the st and creators, this versn of Dynasty will shed homophobia om s CW's upg seri, which will but on October 11, is a mornized versn of the '80s soap opera of the same name.