Executive producer Edward Ksis tells EW about the new gay character g season 7
Contents:
- ONCE UPON A TIME.. GAY CHARACTERS
- WHY THE WRONG CHARACTERS WENT GAY ON ‘ONCE UPON A TIME.’
- ‘ONCE UPON A TIME’ REVEALS GAY STORYLE; CREATORS SAY “LOVE IS LOVE”
ONCE UPON A TIME.. GAY CHARACTERS
This is a list of LGBTQ+ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer) characters on ABC's Once Upon a Time. Wt) alongsi Rega (Lana Parrilla), Hook (Col O’Donoghue), and Rumple (Robert Carlyle) — executive producers Adam Horowz and Edward Ksis are g the opportuny to troduce a gay character who will have a more substantial role. I don’t thk ’s an arc, ’ll be a character who is gay and that’s who they are and they exist the world.
WHY THE WRONG CHARACTERS WENT GAY ON ‘ONCE UPON A TIME.’
I had been lookg forward to Disney / ABC wrg a gay romance on s h Once Upon A Time. The negative ments all seemed to boil down to ABC g a fay show by troducg a gay romance and showg a gay kiss. If your child tells you that s/he is gay, would you ll that child broken?
There were no right or wrong characters that should have been wrten to be gay, but did the creators pick sis on the Nature vs. Did they jump past the Nature of beg gay and tried to pair up two ladi that Nurture, or lack thereof, make gay? Gog back to some of the ments om the OUAT Facebook page, many said ABC ed a fay show by troducg the gay characters.
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‘ONCE UPON A TIME’ REVEALS GAY STORYLE; CREATORS SAY “LOVE IS LOVE”
I am not sure if any character beg gay would have been the right one for gay or straight viewers.
Like the ial parents, we need to jt say okay Dorothy and Red are gay and we’re happy for them. In one ABC productn, Once Upon a Time, this character has feelgs for another prcs, technilly makg her one of the first openly gay prcs of the drama seri. By the end of this episo, Ruby and Dorothy are the characters wh the first openly-gay relatnship on the seri, even sharg a kiss.
Once Upon a Time fally ma good on s promise to clu a gay storyle season five, and was an unexpected choice. This aligns wh what the duo told The Hollywood Reporter about the gay storyle earlier this season. The gay storyle as a b of a surprise given the show’s e of well-known and beloved characters om the Disney vlt, and follows a month that has been adly for lbians on the small screen as the “Bury Your Gays” trope took center stage after shows like The 100 and The Walkg Dead, among others, killed off lbian characters.