Jo Soaps as we pay tribute to the out-and-proud gay primetime TV stars and daytime actors.
Contents:
- 5 TIM SPIR-MAN ACTORS HAVE PLAYED GAY
- TVB LNCH GAY DATG SHOW “BOYSTN”
- HONG KONG STAR WONG HEI CUT OUT OF CHE VARIETY SHOW AFTER SHARG 'GAY ZHOU ENLAI' STORY ON FACEBOOK
- TVB TO AIR ITS FIRST GAY DATG SHOW IN NOVEMBER; OUT HK STAR VCI WONG TO BE THE HOST
- HONG KONG’S TVB TO AIR GAY DATG SHOW, A FIRST BY STATN AND ISLAND STATE
- TVB TO AIR HONG KONG'S FIRST GAY DATG SHOW
- FORMER TVB ACTOR VCI WONG MARRI LONGTIME BF, FIRST GAY MARRIAGE HK ENTERTAMENT INDTRY
5 TIM SPIR-MAN ACTORS HAVE PLAYED GAY
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” So Miguel’s former portrayer publicly disclosed his 2011 memoir that he is gay.
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.
“For me, beg gay was a dirty word growg up, and now this is my tth.
TVB LNCH GAY DATG SHOW “BOYSTN”
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” The Emmy wner even created After Forever, a Web soap which he plays a gay widower. He and his hband, oime Amazg Race nttant Jaym Vghan, beme the first gay uple to grace the ver of The Knot.
“As a gay guy, you have to e out all the time, ” he told Entertament Weekly. “People thk g out is the first time [someone] says they’re gay when realy g out is a nstant procs. When Heartstopper st s superlative teenage leads, Locke was already out as gay.
HONG KONG STAR WONG HEI CUT OUT OF CHE VARIETY SHOW AFTER SHARG 'GAY ZHOU ENLAI' STORY ON FACEBOOK
HONG KONG - Former TVB star Wong Hei was digally erased om the CCTV variety show Infe Challenge after he shared on Facebook an article on how Communist Cha's revered first premier, Zhou Enlai, may have been gay. Read more at * tvb gay actors *
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. 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.
TVB TO AIR ITS FIRST GAY DATG SHOW IN NOVEMBER; OUT HK STAR VCI WONG TO BE THE HOST
In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.
Gay Water, however, is out and proud. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.
HONG KONG’S TVB TO AIR GAY DATG SHOW, A FIRST BY STATN AND ISLAND STATE
He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry.
TVB TO AIR HONG KONG'S FIRST GAY DATG SHOW
The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”.
FORMER TVB ACTOR VCI WONG MARRI LONGTIME BF, FIRST GAY MARRIAGE HK ENTERTAMENT INDTRY
For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.
Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.
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