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Contents:
- ‘I’M GAY’: GORDON THOMSON, DYNASTY’S ADAM CARRGTON, COM OUT—AND TRASH CW’S REBOOT
- DYNASTY SEASON 3 EPISO 7 SHOOT FROM THE HIP SAM FLETCHER KISS GAY UPLE THE CW SHOW
‘I’M GAY’: GORDON THOMSON, DYNASTY’S ADAM CARRGTON, COM OUT—AND TRASH CW’S REBOOT
” and “get on my high horse” and termate the ll, or—the unspoken alternative—would he fally say what he has not felt able to say all the years: that y, he is gay. Thomson’s experience sh an illumatg light on what life the closet for a celebry is actually like: the lculatns ma, benefs acced and sts Thomson is 72, his life has moved on, and he wants to talk about his life and out of the closet, and the “shame” of which he only now feels he is managg to rid will talk not jt about beg gay but Dynasty self (the origal show is beg released on Oct. ”) wh lead pat, or rapg his love Kirby (Kathleen Beller), and generally beg a sneaky, spible was also extremely sexy, whether a towel or gym shorts; most gay iends growg up the 1980s who watched Dynasty later said they were Jeff fans.
Steven Carrgton (Al Corley, later Jack Coleman) may have been gay, but the heterosexual Adam was queer the tt sense of the word. ‘The shame, the breathtakg lack of self-teem, has only jt begun to seep out of my soul’Before we talked about his sexualy, I had asked Thomson what he ma of Steven’s ne years of gay-one-mute, straight-the-next oscillatg sexualy. “Today there is gay marriage, and what an enormo difference.
DYNASTY SEASON 3 EPISO 7 SHOOT FROM THE HIP SAM FLETCHER KISS GAY UPLE THE CW SHOW
”Prumg Thomson might be gay, I ask if, as a gay actor performg Dynasty ( another twist, Adam was homophobic), Thomson ever wanted to say to the wrers and producers of Steven’s bizarre trajectory: “This is not what beg gay is. I’m probably as homophobic as any gay man alive bee of my background. “When I was growg up [homosexualy] was a crime, and then classified as a mental illns.
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