10 Gay, Bisexual & Queer Soap Opera Stars |

Contents:

• 10 GAY, BISEXUAL & QUEER SOAP OPERA STARS WHO ARE OUT — & OUTSTANDG
• WHAT ACTORS ARE GAY ON DAYS OF OUR LIV?
• DAYS OF OUR LIV SPOILERS: GREG RIKAART DISCS LEO, PLAYG A GAY VILLA

10 GAY, BISEXUAL & QUEER SOAP OPERA STARS WHO ARE OUT — & OUTSTANDG

Apart om gettg to work wh great people, he nsired the job super-gratifyg for gettg a chance to play a gay man. When time to celebrate how far TV has e wh s pictn of LGBTQ characters, people always thk of the g out episo on Ellen and shows like Will & Grace and Pose — not Ryan Phillippe portrayg the first openly gay teen on One Life to Live, or the first lbian marriage that took place on All My Children. For a genre that's been around sce the Tman Admistratn, soaps don't always get the cred they serve for helpg to pneer gay story l.

WHAT ACTORS ARE GAY ON DAYS OF OUR LIV?

It was an unprecented plot pot for characters and outsi of Pe Valley: Up until the moment Devon first laid ey on Lynn, no daytime drama had ever featured a gay story le. " Billy Douglas (One Life to Live) When ABC approved of a plan by One Life to Live to troduce the first openly gay teenage boy 1992, fely me wh rtrictns. "They didn't want the child of the ma fay to be gay, " remembers wrer Jean Passanante, who wrote for OLTL om 1993 to 2012.

DAYS OF OUR LIV SPOILERS: GREG RIKAART DISCS LEO, PLAYG A GAY VILLA

"We would not make any of the racist characters nice people, so why would we make any homophobic people nice?

" The wrers worked wh GLAAD, who enuraged the staff to "expunge" the scripts of the phrase "gay liftyle" and to rea om g the word homosexual, rells Passanante.