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‘ONCE UPON A TIME’ REVEALS GAY STORYLE; CREATORS SAY “LOVE IS LOVE”

This is a list of LGBTQ+ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer) characters on ABC's Once Upon a Time.

Commentg on the reveal that the relatnship would exist between Dorothy and Ruby Red (not Mulan, the show’s first openly gay character) Edward Ksis and Adam Horowz said to EW, “This past Sunday’s episo was jt another example of how a fairy tale, as life, love is love. Once Upon a Time fally ma good on s promise to clu a gay storyle season five, and was an unexpected choice. This aligns wh what the duo told The Hollywood Reporter about the gay storyle earlier this season.

The gay storyle as a b of a surprise given the show’s e of well-known and beloved characters om the Disney vlt, and follows a month that has been adly for lbians on the small screen as the “Bury Your Gays” trope took center stage after shows like The 100 and The Walkg Dead, among others, killed off lbian characters. "The 18th episo of Once Upon a Time's fifth season, tled "Ruby Slippers, " featured the fairy tale drama’s first gay romance when an adult Red Ridg Hood (Ruby, played by Meghan Ory) fell love wh The Wizard of Oz's Dorothy (Teri Reev). "Fun, related fact: "Friend of Dorothy" is a term that was ed as early as the 1930s and '40s to scribe gay men and, later on, homosexualy self ed to be illegal, gay folks need to refer to each other secret.

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In one ABC productn, Once Upon a Time, this character has feelgs for another prcs, technilly makg her one of the first openly gay prcs of the drama seri. By the end of this episo, Ruby and Dorothy are the characters wh the first openly-gay relatnship on the seri, even sharg a kiss. Wt) alongsi Rega (Lana Parrilla), Hook (Col O’Donoghue), and Rumple (Robert Carlyle) — executive producers Adam Horowz and Edward Ksis are g the opportuny to troduce a gay character who will have a more substantial role.

I don’t thk ’s an arc, ’ll be a character who is gay and that’s who they are and they exist the world.

On one hand you have the head the sand typ that refe to adm that gay people exist and that they serve to be shown on TV as well.

‘ONCE UPON A TIME’ GETS FIRST GAY UPLE

On the other, you have the gay people that have been lookg forward to a gay relatnship on OUaT be given gay relatnship wh no buildup, g C- list characters for (C list characters, not actors. And then you have the ntral party who really don't md gay people on TV or OUaT, who genuely watch for the plot, get an episo that ultimately adds up to a big, fat nothg.

• they didn't piss off sane people who are neher homophobic or fe themselv by their sexualy. The homophob hated bee was a same sex kiss, the ntrals hated bee offered nothg to the general plot and the LGBT viewers hated bee was a poor attempt at gog "Oh, look at ! ) is gay, havg once had a girliend who toiled for Victoria Beley.

Sadly, that joy mt now be forever tempered by the knowledge that Koko, whose life sh so brightly om the screen, has been lost to – who, though thori say there is no evince her ath was motivated by homophobia or transphobia, is neverthels yet another victim of the eply embedd hate and vlence that hnts our culture and mak movi like this one seem so very, very prec.

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Once Upon a Time Gay Storyle – The Hollywood Reporter .

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