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Contents:
- ONE OF DAYTIME TV’S MOST POPULAR SOAPS IS ABOUT TO GET SUPER GAY. AGA.
- 10 GAY, BISEXUAL & QUEER SOAP OPERA STARS WHO ARE OUT — & OUTSTANDG
- BILLY CRYSTAL PORTRAYED FIRST OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER ON TV — SI THE 'SOAP' STORY
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
ONE OF DAYTIME TV’S MOST POPULAR SOAPS IS ABOUT TO GET SUPER GAY. AGA.
10 Gay, Bisexual & Queer Soap Opera Stars * the gay soap *
Anyone needg a b more gayns their daytime soaps, take heed: Will and Sonny, the beloved Days of Our Liv gay power uple, will return to the long-nng show on Febary 21.
10 GAY, BISEXUAL & QUEER SOAP OPERA STARS WHO ARE OUT — & OUTSTANDG
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Will and Sonny, played by Chandler Massey and Freddie Smh, ma history as the first gay male uple to get married on a daytime soap opera way back 2014. 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.
BILLY CRYSTAL PORTRAYED FIRST OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER ON TV — SI THE 'SOAP' STORY
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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.
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JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
Back 1977, actor and edian Billy Crystal stunned dienc when he portrayed the first openly ga ma character a TV seri, "Soap." and opened the way for gay ins like Ellen DeGener * the gay soap *
On the other si were gay activists, terrified that the show would pat a target on the queer muny.
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The other group opposed to Soap were gay activists, who had heard that the show would clu a gay character. Queer pictns on TV tend to be pretty negative back then, and activists feared that a gay ma character would rerce negative stereotyp and cement queer people as objects of ntempt viewers’ mds.
Bryant’s TV mercials picted gays and lewd and menacg, and persuad Miami to overturn a gay rights ordance. Over the next few years, he’d explore relatnships wh women, have a child, and then have his fns as a parent qutned by other characters bee he was gay.
Many of the barriers that Soap broke are simply facts of life that we easily accept today: A gay son; fluid genr inti and sexual orientatns; queer parentg. 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.