Joe Wallace ma his first appearance on 30 July 1991. He is portrayed by Jason Rh. Joe is a young, gay chef who is HIV-posive. He arriv Walford July 1991 and gets a job at Ian Beale's rtrant, The Meal Mache. He enurag Mark Fowler to tell his parents that he is...
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'IN THE 80S HIV WAS EMED THE GAY PLAGUE AND THOSE WH WERE TREATED LIKE SCUM'
New Channel 4 drama It's A S explor the Aids crisis which saw the gay muny shunned, feelg hopels and treated like 'scum' say some of the people who lived through * was mark fowler gay in eastenders *
Memorable LGBTQ moments EastEnrs historyEastEnrs has been on our screens for more than 35 years – that time, the Walford-based soap has bee one of Bra’s most inic TV s but 1985, EastEnrs has never shied away om hard-htg storyl and has been at the foreont of LGBTQ reprentatn on Bize tak a look at some of the most memorable LGBTQ moments om the BBC One show’s gay kiss on a Brish soapCol Rsell was the first gay character on EastEnrs, appearg Albert Square jt over a year after the show’s first by Michael Cashman, there was ntroversy at the time when Col kissed boyiend Barry Clark (Gary Hail) 1987 – even though was jt a peck on the (Michael Cashman) and Barry (Gary Hall) were EastEnrs' first gay years later, Col and new character Guido Smh (Nicholas Donovan) shared the first mouth-to-mouth kiss on a Brish soap – an timated 17 ln people tuned to watch the uple’s beme one of the most ground-breakg scen soap history – but was emed so ntroversial that some MPs lled for the soap to be pulled om the air. Syed tells Christian he is gay and love wh him – but unr prsure om his fay, gets married to feelgs for Christian prove too strong – so Syed out.