Christian LeBlanc Opens up About the Stggl of Livg as a Gay Man - Soaps In Depth

Contents:

• YOUNG AND RTLS’ GAY ADAM STORYLE THAT’S BEEN COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY SWEPT UNR THE RUG
• Y&R'S THOM BIERDZ RELEAS TELL-ALL SEX MEMOIR YOUNG, GAY & RTLS
• YOUNG & RTLS’ CHRISTIAN JUL LEBLANC UNPACKS THE BAGGAGE OF HOMOPHOBIA: ‘I STILL LIVE WH THE LEGACY OF THAT AS A GAY MAN’
• Y&R’S CHRISTIAN LEBLANC OPENS UP ABOUT THE STGGL OF LIVG AS A GAY MAN
• THE YOUNG AND THE RTLS: IS CAMRYN GRIM GAY REAL LIFE?
• GAY STORYLE FOR 'YOUNG & THE RTLS'; THOM BIERDZ'S RETURN?
• Y&R'S GREG RIKAART HOP FOR GAY STORYLE
• CHRIS ENGEN QUS Y&R REPORTED GAY STORY PROTT

YOUNG AND RTLS’ GAY ADAM STORYLE THAT’S BEEN COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY SWEPT UNR THE RUG

Young and Rtls’ Gay Adam Storyle That’s Been Completely and Totally Swept Unr the Rug.

Instead, Victor showed his son rare passn and acceptance for beg gay. To throw him off the trail, Adam told Rafe, who was gay, that he had feelgs for him, and was implied they had a sexual relatnship, though wasn’t shown on screen. She, of urse, told Victor his son was gay, which led Victor to nont his son.

Yet, Victor needn’t have bothered bee once Adam and Rafe were done, Adam beg gay or bi was never mentned aga, but should have been? The problem, however, is that until Fen walked wh Plot Pot Trey (no last name need), we hadn’t a clue that Lren and Michael’s son was gay (or bi).

Y&R'S THOM BIERDZ RELEAS TELL-ALL SEX MEMOIR YOUNG, GAY & RTLS

Let them e at wh the Don’t Say Gay bills and watch what happens. Though the Young & Rtls and Days of Our Liv star has lived through some joyo victori his time — “When I was my early 20s, there was no such thg as gay marriage” — he had to adm that the current climate the Uned Stat giv him pse.

The relatnship between Mariah and Tsa isn't the first female same-sex pairg on a soap opera; All My Children ma history December 2000 when Bian Montgomery (En Riegel) told her mother, Pe Valley matriarch Eri Kane (San Lucci), that she was gay and had been datg a woman (Elisabeth Harnois as Sarah Livgston). On As the World Turns 2007, Le Snyr (Van Hansis) and Noah Mayer (Jake Silbermann), beme the first teen same-sex uple and first gay male kiss Amerin soap opera history; Guidg Light brought together Olivia Spencer (Crystal Chappell) and Natalia Rivera (Jsi Leccia) 2008; and The Bold and the Betiful revealed 2015 that Maya Avant (Karla Mosley), who was a relatnship wh a cisgenr man, was a transgenr woman, makg her the first regular transgenr character the history of Amerin daytime televisn. The Young and the Rtls brought a gay character on the nvas back 2009, when Yani Gellman played the show's first LGBTQ character, attorney Rafe Torr.

In 2015, The Young and the Rtls actor Greg Rikaart, who plays Kev Fisher, exprsed that he would like to see Kev a gay relatnship on the soap. Rikaart went on to portray a gay character, Leo Stark, on Days of our Liv om 2018 to March of this year, returng to The Young and the Rtls earlier this summer as still-straight Kev.

YOUNG & RTLS’ CHRISTIAN JUL LEBLANC UNPACKS THE BAGGAGE OF HOMOPHOBIA: ‘I STILL LIVE WH THE LEGACY OF THAT AS A GAY MAN’

On the September 13 episo, Tsa refers to herself as gay -- and not that she and Mariah are a mted relatnship.

Tled Young, Gay & Rtls: My Sndalo On-Screen and Off-Screen Sexual Liberatns, the sexually explic (yet humoro) book unveils every one of the Wisns native's rnal adventur.

Y&R’S CHRISTIAN LEBLANC OPENS UP ABOUT THE STGGL OF LIVG AS A GAY MAN

The shockg and uncensored book created a lot of buzz, but Young, Gay & Rtls promis to top "the unabashed sensatnalism of his 6X award-wng Fivg Troy. Young, Gay & Rtls is available now for pre-orr, wh an official release date of Thursday, November 1. Young & Rtls’ Christian Jul LeBlanc Unpacks the Baggage of Homophobia: ‘I Still Live Wh the Legacy of That as a Gay Man’.

Hell, “not till after Stonewall did anyone take a gay man ser. “I still live wh the legacy of that as a gay man, ” he add.

As the send of eight kids his large southern fay, LeBlanc revealed that he’s attend multiple terventns, lost his brother to AIDS when he was jt 25, and as a gay man, still suffers om homophobia and tolerance. “Not until after Stonewall did anyone take a gay man ser — they were sick people, ” he add. “And I still live wh the legacy of that as a gay man.

THE YOUNG AND THE RTLS: IS CAMRYN GRIM GAY REAL LIFE?

Although the Emmy-wner allows that thgs are better now than years past, there is still homophobia and tolerance everywhere the world. The Young and the Rtls fans are wonrg if Camryn Grim is gay real life. “Not gay, but if I was I WOULD SHOUT IT FROM THE F**KING ROOFTOPS.

Not gay, but if I was.

GAY STORYLE FOR 'YOUNG & THE RTLS'; THOM BIERDZ'S RETURN?

Camryn Grim is not gay real life, but she is proud to play a gay woman on televisn. A gay storyle – which might clu. the return of Thom Bierdz's gay character – is expected to but.

Rch nfirmed the upg gay storyle but refed to divulge. directly wh the gay character played by Thom Bierdz, who is openly.

Y&R'S GREG RIKAART HOP FOR GAY STORYLE

gay real life. Upon lamentg about the show's lack of a gay.

closeted gay man who faked his ath to live his life openly. Soap operas have had a b of a g out party over the last few years, troducg several gay characters (such as Days of our Liv' Sonny and Will, and General Hospal's Lus and Felix) as well as a transgenr character (The Bold and the Betiful's Maya).

The real-life homosexual star opened up to Gay Star News about his opn regardg his Genoa Cy alter ego, whom he scrib as the perfect character ndidate to tell such a story. [And] I thk would be more socially rponsible than jt brgg on a gay character -- to have someone on the nvas that the dience knows and thks of as fay and tak that [g out] journey. While B&B, GH, and DAYS have lved headfirst to troducg gay/transgenr characters, Y&R has been a b shy about jumpg on the bandwagon, only dippg a small toe: one story had Philip Chancellor III (Thom Bierdz) returng to the nvas 2009 and later g out as an openly gay character, but he didn't have a love tert durg his short stt back on the show.

CHRIS ENGEN QUS Y&R REPORTED GAY STORY PROTT

Some would argue, therefore, 's time for an openly gay character to not only be prent Genoa Cy, but to also drive stori -- which Rikaart believ Kev uld do, nsirg he's an tablished character on the nvas and already has the perfect setup for the story to make sense. How would you react if Kev me out as gay?

Gayle Kg Celebrated A De at CBS Morngs Wh The Same Outf She's Rocked on Every Anniversary. Other gay characters have e and gone, but CBS and Y&R have not really embraced the LGBT muny on the show — and ’s a shame. It memorat the Stonewall rts, which occurred at the end of June 1969 New York Cy, and sparked the gay rights revolutn the untry.

Gay pri or LGBTQ+ pri is the promotn of the self-affirmatn, digny, equaly, and creased visibily of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people as a social group. When time to celebrate how far TV has e wh s pictn of LGBTQ characters, people always thk of the g out episo on Ellen and shows like Will & Grace and Pose — not Ryan Phillippe portrayg the first openly gay teen on One Life to Live, or the first lbian marriage that took place on All My Children.