Geni Pictur has optned Emmett Monterey’s memoir about growg up gay and disabled 1980s London for TV adaptatn.
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TELEVISN: DYNASTY’S DISMAL GAY CHARACTER
It seemed like a good ia at the time. But the plan to put a posive gay character global TV h Dynasty soon fell short of s origal good tentns. Al Corley, who origally played the Carrgton dynasty’s homosexual son, left the show at the end of the send season. He plaed about “the * dynasty 1980 gay *
But the plan to put a posive gay character global TV h Dynasty soon fell short of s origal good tentns.
Offerg scen of unfettable mp and troducg one of the first out gay characters to mass dienc, the primetime TV seri Dynasty achieved inic stat, pecially among LGBTQ+ dienc. * dynasty 1980 gay *
Al Corley, who origally played the Carrgton dynasty’s homosexual son, left the show at the end of the send season.
His plat fell on af ears: by the end of the entire seri the so-lled homosexual son had been to bed wh more women than men. This was far om seri -creator Esther Shapiro’s 1981 claratn that Steven, “was, is and always will be, gay. From that pot onwards, he would be “a well-round gay man.
” Given Dynasty’s huge global reach this would have sent out an important msage about homosexuals and homosexualy to untri wh antiquated views on this. For example, spe his repeated claratns that we was homosexual (see film clip below, for example) some of his sexual behavur wh women suggted very strongly that he was lookg for ‘a cure’.
Between troducg one of the first out gay characters to mass dienc and offerg up scen of unfettable mp, the 1980s prime-time soap, whose early episos were filmed at Filoli, achieved inic stat, pecially among LGBTQ+ dienc. * dynasty 1980 gay *
The notn of portrayg a gay man a posive light was still very ntroversial, particularly when the vehicle for dog so was the most popular, mastream soap. They opposed LGBT rights iativ at every turn and would have been outraged at a mastream soap opera prentg a well-round gay character. There is much more tail on the portrayal of LGBT people on televisn the 80s my book Gay the 80s available here.