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MAGIC JOHNSON OPENS UP ABOUT HIS SON EJ COMG OUT AS GAY
Magic Johnson opened up on 'The Ellen DeGener Show' about his son EJ g out as gay — watch the vio * gay kid on ellen *
"I had to look myself the mirror and say, 'What if your son home and tells you he's gay?
'All the Fay' (1971-79)Livg up to s trailblazg reputatn, Norman Lear's legendary edy be the first s wh a gay storyle 1971, as bigoted Archie has trouble believg an old buddy is gay. While many shows remaed hant, other Lear shows troduced LGBTQ characters, cludg a gay uple on "Hot L Baltimore" (1975); a trans woman on "The Jeffersons" (1977); and a trans ma character on the short-lived "All That Glters" (1977).
MOTHER OF GAY BOY SUT TO APPEAR ON ‘ELLEN’
'An Amerin Fay' (1973) This landmark documentary followg the Loud fay is primarily known as the precursor of realy TV – wh the chet of PBS – but also stood out bee one of the fay's sons, Lance, was openly gay at a time when society was ls hospable. 'Soap' (1977-81)Jodie Dallas (Billy Crystal) was work TV's first memorable gay seri regular. (That also ma him the first openly gay father primetime.
In 1985, NBC aired "An Early Frost, " the first TV movie alg wh AIDS, which followed a young gay man (Aidan Qun) alg wh HIV and g out to his parents. 'One Life to Live' (1968-2013)As an openly gay teen, Billy Douglas (Ryan Phillippe) was a groundbreakg character daytime televisn when he was troduced 1992. 'My So-Called Life' (1994-95)This much-praised but short-lived ABC high school drama featured Wilson Cz as Rickie Vasquez, the first openly gay actor to play a gay ma character on a primetime seri.
'The Real World: San Francis' (1994) Pedro Zamora, a young gay man who was HIV-posive, offered an empathetic human face to challenge hostile ritur the third season of the inic MTV realy soap.