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Contents:

• 10 GAY, BISEXUAL & QUEER SOAP OPERA STARS WHO ARE OUT — & OUTSTANDG
• SOAP ACTORS/ACTR SOAP WHO ARE GAY REAL LIFE?
• WHICH SOAP OPERA STARS ARE GAY?
• EE - SOAP CHARACTERS THAT ARE GAY REAL LIFE
• Y&R'S THOM BIERDZ RELEAS TELL-ALL SEX MEMOIR YOUNG, GAY & RTLS

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

Some of the actors and actrs playg the inic rol were straight, some were out and gay at the time, and others me out later on. The first Pri March New York Cy was held on June 28, 1970, one year after the Stonewall Uprisg, to honor the thoands of LGBTQ+ people who took to the streets to monstrate agast the discrimatn they faced hog and employment, the anti-homosexual laws agast gatherg bars or dance clubs, to even be out as a homosexual. The ncept behd the ial march me om members of the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns who had been anizg an annual July 4th monstratn known as the Remr Day Pickets, at Inpennce Hall Philalphia, between 1965 and 1969.

The Young & Rtls vet whose character Phillip played ad for years rather than e out to his fay is also gay real life.

The One Life to Live scene stealer — now and forever David Vickers to soap fans — announced durg a 2013 talk-show appearance not only that he was gay but that he’d bee a sgle father of two.

SOAP ACTORS/ACTR SOAP WHO ARE GAY REAL LIFE?

He and his hband, oime Amazg Race nttant Jaym Vghan, beme the first gay uple to grace the ver of The Knot. “People thk g out is the first time [someone] says they’re gay when realy g out is a nstant procs.

In addn to his daytime rol, he starred 2020’s Dashg December, one of the first mastream TV movi to make Christmas a gay old time. Though the rap in and Equalizer star told the New York Tim as recently as 2008 that “I don’t feel like I need to share my personal life, and I don’t re if people thk I’m gay or not, ” she fally end all the speculatn at the 2021 BET Awards when, acceptg a Lifetime Achievement Award, she thanked partner Eboni Nichols and the son that they share. “She’s an absolute tch, and I thought, ‘If I’m not gog to feel the super sparks wh her… probably means I’m gay.

Four years after As the World Turns stopped spng, the actor who ma history as half of daytime’s first gay male kiss me out publicly an terview wh The Fight Magaze. The Grey’s Anatomy vet’s g-out wasn’t exactly the easit: His sexual orientatn was ma known after stmate Isaiah Washgton ed a gay slur on set, leadg to a wily reported altertn.

WHICH SOAP OPERA STARS ARE GAY?

While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I’m gay isn’t the most tertg part of me. The brother of movie star Chris Evans — beloved to soap fans for playg Oliver, half of One Life to Live’s “Kish” the late 2000s — me out as gay when he was 19.

The Amerin soap opera 'Soap' was the first to clu a gay character 1977 (the character Jodie Dallas), while the first openly gay character Great Bra's soaps was the show 'Brooksi' 1982 (the character Gordon Colls). Dpe the shows dippg their to the water wh queer characters and storyl the 1990s — like Ryan Phillippe as groundbreakg gay teen Billy Douglas on “One Life to Live” om 1992 to 1993 — the show shied away om romance for s queer characters until the 21st century.

As the dghter of Eri Kane (San Lucci), was the first time such an important legacy character was wrten to be gay. On “General Hospal, ” Lus Jon (then played by Ben Hogtyn), the adopted son of Bobbie Spencer (Jackie Zeman) and Tony Jon (Brad Mle) me out as gay, but he didn’t get much romance before he was wrten off the show 2006; the character returned to the nvas played by Ryan Carn 2013. The son of superuple Lily and Holn Snyr (Martha Byrne and Jon Hensley), he got a uple of major romanc, first wh Noah Reid (Jake Silbermann), wh whom he shared daytime’s first gay male kiss, though their romance was portrayed as far more chaste than soap operas ually pict heterosexual love stori.

EE - SOAP CHARACTERS THAT ARE GAY REAL LIFE

“Days of Our Liv” vted heavily Will Horton (Chandler Massey), who me out as gay, had many ont-burner storyl, and even had a proment love triangle wh Sonny Kiriakis (Freddie Smh) and Pl Nara (Christopher Sean), both of whom were also legacy characters om important fai on the show. This is a list of soap opera characters who are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr, and the live actn televisn and rad soap operas which feature them.

Same-sex love scen once proved too sndalo for much of mastream TV, but the sex-driven plots of soap operas, gay and lbian characters have enjoyed some moments of timacy worthy of a parental warng. Wh the ph to crowdfund a fourth season of steamy gay soap Dante's Cove, surely more heat is on the way. Will and Sonny's First Time (Days of Our Liv)When Will Horton and Sonny Kiriakis, young gay members of two major fai on the long-nng soap Days of Our Liv, got together, showed that mment to the characters' sexualy than was more than a sishow.

Y&R'S THOM BIERDZ RELEAS TELL-ALL SEX MEMOIR YOUNG, GAY & RTLS

Ne Explos (As the World Turns)Sometim lled Amerin soaps' first gay super-uple, Le Snyr and Noah Mayer were romantilly lked on the sce-nceled As the World Turns, but waed about two years between a first kiss 2007 and fally dog the ed 2009. Dperate HoewivDperate Hoewiv' out creator, Marc Cherry, ma no secret that the Van Kamp fay stood for his own, but still stunned many viewers when son Andrew was revealed to be gay. (One Life to Live)One of daytime soaps' first love scen between two gay men took place 2009 when Oliver Fish and Kyle Lewis stripped each other down while ndl burned the foreground.

Addnally, Andy Lipptt Doonsbury, who first appeared 1976, was the first openly gay character to appear a mastream ic strip. It's only ont of screen at the moment, but they have had gay actors the past, jt so happens at the moment Luisa is the only one who intifi as LGBT public.

I am gay but wouldn't want to be employed to fill some need for so many lgbt people, I want to be employed bee I'm the bt person for the vancy. Kate Oat & John Sen are both Straight and the LGBT reprentatn has improved dramatilly the Show sce they took over om Yorke - hence Yorke did ZERO for LGBT reprentatn and he is Gay! I agree wh Aaron, the bt Actor for the job - Gay Actors n play Straight & Straight Actors n play Gay.

I was jt potg out that if straight actors shouldn't be allowed to ay gay rol then 's only fair gay actors shouldn't be allowed to play straight rol. Thanks to the shownners drivg thentic stori, filmmakers buckg s-old heteronormative paradigms, actors embolned to live more hontly and platforms bankrollg so much of , beg gay, queer, transgenr or any other other has never been more wily embraced the entertament s gural Pri issue, The Hollywood Reporter homed on the talent and makers helpg boost visibily and creatg opportuni for members of the extend LGBTQ muny. His directorial work on Love, Simon marked the first major stud movie to center on a gay teen romance.

After more than a of Watch What Happens Live Wh Andy Cohen, where he beme the first openly gay host Amerin late night, Bravo's exec turned talent tackl all kds of media (SiriXM show Rad Andy, multiple books), while upliftg and advotg for the LGBTQ muny. I'LL FEEL GOOD ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S LGBTQ REPRESENTATION WHEN "As much reprentatn as there is, there are very few big gay love stori.

He was a talented black, gay workg actor who was pavg the way for the '80s the streets Hollywood. Puttg his stamp on The Ln Kg — he played Timon to great acclaim the billn-dollar-earng Disney reboot — the out-and-proud funnyman will next play Matt Ddge  Amerin Crime Story: Impeachment while his upg Judd Apatow-produced feature at Universal is set to be the first gay rom- om a major stud. Creator of the NBC s One Big Happy and her own YouTube talk show This Jt Out, Feldman recently ma her Netflix edy outright queer, as Dead to Me's sophomore season revealed a lead character to be bisexual.

I FELT MOST PROUD TO BE PART OF THE COMMUNITY LAST YEAR WHEN "An openly gay man beme a te ntenr as a printial ndidate. Broadst TV's first openly gay chief exec has ed his new post atop WarnerMedia's direct-to-nsumer bs to she a spotlight.