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
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WHAT ACTORS ARE GAY ON DAYS OF OUR LIV?
"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. "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.
" Will and Sonny (Days of Our Liv) NBC was fully on board wh the cisn by wrers Days of Our Liv wrers Gary Toml and Christopher Whell to stage the first-ever gay male weddg daytime between Will (Guy Wilson) and Sonny (Freddie Smh) 2014. Leo Stark (Days of Our Liv) When Greg Rikaart joed the NBC sudser 2018 to play a gay villa, some fans didn't take too kdly to him playg an unlikable LGBTQ character.
DAYS OF OUR LIV SPOILERS: GREG RIKAART DISCS LEO, PLAYG A GAY VILLA
"For a long time, gay characters would have to be more palatable for the dience, " rells Rikaart. My character was a full-on bch diva, so I got blowback om fans who were like, 'As a gay man, you should be ashamed to play such an arch pictn of a bad guy.
' And I was like, 'Well, I thk 's more progrsive to say 'This is our gay character and he don't jt have to say and do nice thgs. "She said, 'Did you guys hear they're gog to make someone gay? 10 Gay, Bisexual & Queer Soap Opera Stars Who Are Out — & Outstandg.