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The play was a succs spe the (now shockg) fact that was illegal New York to reference homosexualy a stage play at the time. One of the first portrayals of a gay character on televisn was the 1977 s Soap; Billy Crystal played gay director Jodie Dallas. While Billy Crystal’s actg chops were mend, both gay right activists and anti-gay relig groups owned upon the characterizatn of Jodie Dallas.

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Gay rights groups were ncerned about the stereotypil nature of the character while anti-gay groups were upset that there was a gay character on a mastream s at all. Ellen DeGener me out as a lbian on The Oprah Wey Show 1997, and that same year her character on her s Ellen also me out as gay.

The 90s saw several crilly acclaimed films that foced on the hardships and perils faced by many members of the LGBT muny; the films clud Philalphia, which alt wh the fluence of the AIDs epimic among the LGBT muny and the problem of homophobia, and Boys Don’t Cry, starrg Hilary Swank, which sensively documented the hate crim agast and nsequent murr of transgenr man Brandon Teena.

There are numero gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr characters who feature promently the sts of popular shows like Morn Fay, Orange is the New Black and Glee. In 2010, Kev Keller buted as the first openly gay character an Archie ic wh his appearance Veroni #202. In 2012, the character received his own self-entled on-gog ic book seri, which featured gut appearanc om gay ins like Gee Takei.

11 HISTORIL FIGUR YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY

Much of the outrage stemmed om nflatg homosexualy wh transexualism, and crics noted the transphobic attus of many of the characters. It was revealed that Dale Gribble’s father was gay season 6 Kg of the Hill episo "My Own Private Roo. Dale’s father end up kissg Dale’s bri-to-be Nancy to ver his gay relatnship wh a Filipo terer.

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