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Contents:
- HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY TEENAGER AND HIS TWO TRAGIC ENDGS
- A GAY TEEN DISVERS HIMSELF AT SUMMER MP THIS FLAMER FIRST LOOK
HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST GAY TEENAGER AND HIS TWO TRAGIC ENDGS
* first gay teen *
But for gay dienc—both at the time and now—’s one of many unspoken but crystal-clear ditns that Plato is drawn to Jim as more than jt a father figure. Meo, who was 16 years old when Rebel opened, later lled Plato “the first gay teenager films. 1/48CBS1971: All the FayAll the Fay ma LGBT history when troduced the first gay character primetime 1971, revealg that Archie Bunker's bar buddy Steve was gay.
The movie is noted for pictg homosexualy a sympathetic—read: normal—light. 4/48YouTube1975: Hot l BalmoreThe Norman Lear s starrg Jam Cromwell, Charlotte Rae and Conchata Ferrell had perhaps the first pictn of a gay uple on an Amerin TV seri.
The character was divisive at the time—early plots had him wantg to bee a woman, he dated several women—but ultimately he was primetime TV's first gay dad.
A GAY TEEN DISVERS HIMSELF AT SUMMER MP THIS FLAMER FIRST LOOK
8/48FOX1991: RocOne of Fox's first shows, Roc, was the first to have a gay weddg on TV.
In a "very special episo, " Roc fds out his uncle is gay and has a partner. 10/481992: One Life to LiveIn 1992, the world met One Life to Live's Billy Douglas, played by a young Ryan Phillippe, the first gay teen character on daytime TV.
12/48ABC1994: My So-Called LifeWhile One Life to Live had s first gay teen 1992, primetime's first openly gay teen seri regular character me to My So-Called Life's Enrique "Rickie" Vasquez, played by Wilson Cz. Pedro was openly gay and HIV-posive.