Gay storyl: VICTOR & BENJI ( Love, Victor)

Contents:

• THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
• SOME OF THE GREATT GAY LOVE STORI MOVI
• GAY COMIX — UNEARTHG THE HISTORY OF THE SEMAL LGBTQ PUBLITN GAY COMIX
• BELLA RAMSEY SAYS ‘LAST OF US’ TROLLS SHOULD ‘GET USED’ TO GAY STORYL ON THE SHOW: HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH ‘ISN’T GONNA MAKE ME AAID’

THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED

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SOME OF THE GREATT GAY LOVE STORI MOVI

As the dghter of Eri Kane (San Lucci), was the first time such an important legacy character was wrten to be gay.

GAY COMIX — UNEARTHG THE HISTORY OF THE SEMAL LGBTQ PUBLITN GAY COMIX

On “General Hospal, ” Lus Jon (then played by Ben Hogtyn), the adopted son of Bobbie Spencer (Jackie Zeman) and Tony Jon (Brad Mle) me out as gay, but he didn’t get much romance before he was wrten off the show 2006; the character returned to the nvas played by Ryan Carn 2013.

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McCoy for The New York TimHis Sexualy Don’t Defe Him, but It Can Set Him ApartEric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals.

BELLA RAMSEY SAYS ‘LAST OF US’ TROLLS SHOULD ‘GET USED’ TO GAY STORYL ON THE SHOW: HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH ‘ISN’T GONNA MAKE ME AAID’

Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized. He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly. It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster.