Longtime TV cric Dan Avery charts the history of gay, queer, and transgenr reprentatn popular Amerin seri om 1971 to today, om Ellen to Pose.
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GAY CHARACTERS
Gay Characters. The fay wel her warmly, but as Beverly (out of drag) and Archie’s son--law, Mike, walk to the subway, they are btally attacked by gay bashers, who beat Beverly to ath.
Mike eventually enurag Edh to be strong for her fay, but ’s clear her crisis of fah isn’t rolved when the closg creds Dallas, Soap (1977-1981)A young Billy Crystal played Jodie Dallas, one of the first recurrg gay characters on Amerin TV, this s send-up of daytime dramas. That mak Dallas noteworthy, even though gay groups at the time plaed that Dallas was a jumble of negative stereotyp about homosexualy.
In fact, spe sistg he is gay, Jodie has more relatnships wh women than men. Steven Carrgton, Dynasty (1981-1989)Dynasty helped lnch the glzy nighttime soap era of the 1980s, and Steve Carrgton was one of prime time’s first major gay characters as the son of tyon Blake Carrgton. Corley once told Interview he was eager to play a a gay character, but that Steven ”has no humor" and suffers om “ever-shiftg sexual preferenc.