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A Mexin soap opera that buts on Sunday is set to make televisn history as the untry's first telenovela to feature a gay uple as the leadg characters.

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MEXI'S MOST FAMO GAY SNDAL SPOTLIGHTED A CENTURY LATER, NETFLIX MOVIE

On Netflix earlier this year, actor Polo Mor was baskg the succs of beg the first of his generatn to both e out, play a gay character, and bee a hoehold name while ntug his reer his native was only 8 years old 1999 when Gabriel Romero played the first posive gay character Spanish-language televisn, Fernando, on Telemundo's Los Beltran.

The thriller, about a man wrongfully nvicted of his sister's ath, gave murr, sex traffickg, gay love, and dozens of lic red herrgs -- and troduced U.

I me out of the closet Mexi and Lat Ameri a while ago, but I kd of refed to do gay characters or muny characters for a while, bee... I thk that 's one of a few shows, the last year or two, where when people e out, they aren't reacted to wh homophobia. They were like, "We do not want homophobia at all, we want you to be very rpectful.

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And then I was really sred bee my managers back then were tellg me that I had to say that was a mistake, that I wasn't gay, that everythg was jt a show that the media was tryg to set up bee they didn't want my reer to fall apart.

And I'm really 're one of the first of your generatn to e out and play a gay character and stay Mexi, bee most actors do move to Ameri.

Gabriel Romero actually played the first posive, out gay character 1999 on Los Beltran on Telemundo. That's why I didn't want to play gay characters eher on TV bee I me out, but I tried to rema private. I hope that I n be -- I don't want to say a role mol, bee I don't want to put myself there -- but I want to be jt a gay man that works and that is seen and is a normal person that happens to love a guy.

WH GAY UPLE AS STARS, MEXIN TELENOVELA SET TO MAKE HISTORY

We had the first few out gay and lbian characters (sce good trans and bi+ characters me later) and they were sort of mol mori, but they had to be orr to jt show that we're 'like everyone else. They started gettg a ltle worried, they talked to me a lot, and they were like, "We don't want you to do bee you're gog to be a dg addict, and you're gog to be gay, and you're gog to be havg i everywhere.

A few years ago, there was a gay manager of a young A-list actor who is gay.

And I remember thkg, as a gay man, that's sort of the worst thg you uld do to a young actor. And what I love the most about all of this suatn is that I do get a lot of msag and DMs on Instagram and Facebook and everywhere om young gay boys or members of the muny, people thankg me jt for beg myself, which is the most amazg thg that n happen. And one of their fears was that if you beme an actor, you'd bee gay and have all the i.

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