Dynasty’s Journey om Gay Panic to Gay Pri - The Stranger

Contents:

•  PRI MONTH 2020 STEVEN CARRGTON DYNASTY FIRST GAY CHARACTER TV ABC 1981 SHOW THE CW REBOOT 2017
• DYNASTY’S JOURNEY OM GAY PANIC TO GAY PRI
• ONE DIRECTN’S LIAM PAYNE OPENS UP ABOUT BOOZE, GAY MOURS

 PRI MONTH 2020 STEVEN CARRGTON DYNASTY FIRST GAY CHARACTER TV ABC 1981 SHOW THE CW REBOOT 2017

Soon, his character ma a transn to one of the first ma gay characters on TV and champned the e of LBGTQ muny those days. Irked that the shownners haven't mentned him at all, fans hailed him as the first gay character and want him back. Steven Carrgton was the first gay character on Amerin televisn.

Another said, "Steven Carrgton was my first tro to a gay character on televisn.

One angry fan even went on to say: "Steven Carrgton is an inic TV character, one of the first gay leads on Amerin TV, and @TheCW threw him out like trash. #Dynasty, " and another posted, "Steven Carrgton and the first gay visibily on tv, I was so happy back time, to see some reprentatn, apart om that and tal of San Francis was very lame.

DYNASTY’S JOURNEY OM GAY PANIC TO GAY PRI

The TV show Dynasty featured a gay in (and her son). But for years, spe the show’s anythg-go nature, there was one thg that Dynasty uldn’t get away wh: showg a happy homosexual. Puttg a gay man on one of the most inic and popular shows of the was a long, multi-year fight — both on-screen and behd-the-scen — but was nothg pared to the battle took to keep him there.

The story of Dynasty’s ntroversial gay son starts back 1979 wh, of all thgs, the oil crisis. And the son, Steven, who’s hidg his homosexualy om his nservative dad.

” There had seldom been any recurrg gay characters on primetime TV — there was Jody on Soap, a fotten barfly on The Corner Bar, and gut-player Lori Shannon as Beverly LaSalle on All the Fay.

ONE DIRECTN’S LIAM PAYNE OPENS UP ABOUT BOOZE, GAY MOURS

Dynasty’s pilot posns Steven ont and center, wh a climactic scene which Blake nonts his son about beg gay. He mands that Steven “straighten yourself out, ” hurls slurs at him, and sists that Steven never brg homosexualy to the hoe.

There was so much stigma around homosexualy then that for many queer people, was simply easier to acquice and pretend they’d gone straight — pecially around fay. Over the 1970s, there had been a steady rise gay characters, acpanyg the growg queer liberatn movement. ) But the rise gay visibily on televisn ran to a brick wall late 1980s wh the electn of Ronald Reagan.

There were over a dozen gay characters on TV 1979, but by 1981 there were almost none. He’d appeared on a gay-ish episo of The Love Boat a year earlier, and had lots of ias for where he uld take one of TV’s only gay characters. And then there was Newt Dieter, a gay muny lear who was often sought out by TV producers to vet their scripts.