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• NEIGHBOURS STAR TAKAYA HONDA HS BACK AT CLICHéD QUTNS ABOUT PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER
• NEIGHBOURS STAR TAKAYA HONDA HAS ‘NO DIFFICULTY’ PLAYG GAY CHARACTER
• GAY CHARACTERS NEIGHBOURS & HOME AND AWAY.
• NEIGHBOURS' MATT WILSON APOLOGIS AFTER 'GAY' BACKLASH
• ‘NEIGHBOURS’ STAR MATT WILSON SPARKS BACKLASH OVER COMMENTS ABOUT GAY MEN DURG 'THE WRIGHT STUFF' INTERVIEW
• 'NEIGHBOURS' STS NEW GAY CHARACTER
• VIEWERS EMBRACE NEIGHBOURS' GAY CHARACTER PLAYED BY NEWER JAM MASON
• NEIGHBOURS STAR DIGS HIMSELF A HOLE ‘IGNORANT’ TERVIEW ABOUT GAY CHARACTER
• WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY CHARACTERS ON ASIE TV? IS TE ‘GAY DON’T RATE’? FOUR SIRS WEIGH
• WHY DAVE FRAN'S NEIGHBORS 2 CHARACTER WILL BE GAY

NEIGHBOURS STAR TAKAYA HONDA HS BACK AT CLICHéD QUTNS ABOUT PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER

Neighbours star Takaya Honda has h back at clichéd qutns about playg a gay straight actor, who portrays David Tanaka the Channel 5 soap, appeared at Sydney's Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras alongsi his on-screen hband Matt Wilson (Aaron Brennan), when he ma the impassned Instagram post.

"We get asked, more often than I thk we should, 'What's like to play a gay character as a straight actor, do you fd difficult? The task we are given is to evoke wh the dience that feelg of love and have them believe that we are love, and that would go whether our characters were gay, straight or other. Neighbours star Takaya Honda, who plays David Tanaka the soap, has h back at people who ask him if he fds “difficult” to play a gay character.

NEIGHBOURS STAR TAKAYA HONDA HAS ‘NO DIFFICULTY’ PLAYG GAY CHARACTER

Takaya Honda – who ma history alongsi -star Matt Wilson last year when they picted the first gay weddg on the soap – ma the ments an Instagram post. Wrg on Instagram, the actor said: “We get asked, more often than I thk we should, ‘what’s like to play a gay character as a straight actor, do you fd difficult? Charlie had a girliend Home and Away, although she has a boyiend aga now, and there is a gay boy Neighbours but I n't remember his name.

GAY CHARACTERS NEIGHBOURS & HOME AND AWAY.

Chris has jt e out as gay on Neighbours, problem is that he isn't a ma character and acrdg to reports, they don't know what to do wh the character.

The producers of H&A have always said there was no pot tryg to have gay characters G rated shows as the l regardg what n't be shown ma impossible anyway.

This has been discsed many tim on this fom, Atralia is a backward and nservative untry that don't like seeg gay people on tv.

NEIGHBOURS' MATT WILSON APOLOGIS AFTER 'GAY' BACKLASH

I have heard that Atralians don't like gay people their soaps as is a very nservative untry and I thk I am right sayg that some stat homosexualy is still banned. I would like to see a storyle that volv a gay person, but is not about their sexualy, personally I'm sick of the syoryl where g out "is" the storyle.

'My choice of words wasn't right': Matt Wilson apologis after ntroversial remarks about his gay Neighbours character actg 'normal' and 'straight' Published: 08:49 BST, 4 July 2017 | Updated: 16:10 BST, 6 July 2017. He plays a gay character, Aaron Brennan, on long-nng TV soap actor Matt Wilson faced a backlash after claimg his character was purposefully wrten to be a 'straight actg' an terview on Channel 5's The Wright Stuff last week, the 29-year-old said stripper Aaron was characterised to 'act straight and act normal' down for vio Controversy: Neighbours star Matt Wilson (pictured) faced a backlash after sayg on Brish televisn last week his character was purposefully wrten to be a 'straight actg' homosexualHe add: 'And when I say normal, like, he don't stand out among the crowd.

‘NEIGHBOURS’ STAR MATT WILSON SPARKS BACKLASH OVER COMMENTS ABOUT GAY MEN DURG 'THE WRIGHT STUFF' INTERVIEW

'Many gay fans were left disappoted by Matt's remarks, scribg the heterosexual actor's terview as 'crgeworthy' and even 'homophobic'. Televisn role: The 29-year-old plays a gay character, Aaron Brennan, on TV soap NeighboursHe later apologised on Twter, wrg: 'Hi guys. Backlash: Many gay fans were disappoted by Matt's remarks, scribg the heterosexual actor's terview as 'crgeworthy' and even 'homophobic'.

‘Neighbours’ star Matt Wilson has sparked ntroversy over ments he ma about gay people durg an appearance on Channel 5′s ‘The Wright Stuff’ actor attracted cricism after sayg his gay character the Atralian soap, Aaron Brennan “acted straight” and “normal”. His ments me after Suzi Perry asked if he ever received any flack for takg the part over a gay actor, given he is straight himself.

'NEIGHBOURS' STS NEW GAY CHARACTER

“There are a lot of people who thk you should have a gay actor playg a gay character, but that’s like sayg you should get someone a wheelchair to play a character a wheelchair. — WayneDavid?️? (@WayneDavid81) June 29, 2017n't believe dumbns of Neighbours actor on #TheWrightStuff who said is good he's straight actor playg gay so gays are shown as 'normal'— Jam Leon (@JamLeon1) June 29, 2017Sloppy. I love how homosexualy is also referred to the same actg ntext as murrers and wheelchair ers ?— Michael Bell (@immichaelbell) June 30, 2017Oh god the level of ignorance this is...

“Although Matt’s tentn was clearly not to offend anyone, his ments about gay or bi people are clearly problematic, ” he said. The ia that gay people are accepted only when they f some kd of ial standard set by society is que ankly offensive and potential very dangero, pecially for any young people who are already nfed about their inty and feelg unr prsure to f at school or social groups. “Of urse actors don’t have to be gay to play a gay character but havg an unrstandg of the challeng, obstacl and difficulti that still face the wir muny n only be beneficial to everyone.

VIEWERS EMBRACE NEIGHBOURS' GAY CHARACTER PLAYED BY NEWER JAM MASON

Neighbours uld be le for s first ever gay uple after stg a love tert for gay character Chris Pappas (Jam Mason) Morley has been st as male nurse Aidan Foster the soap, a love tert for former Home and Away actor said that ma no difference whether or not his character was gay when he signed on to told the Herald Sun: "I don't see as a big al that the character is gay. Peter is wily nsired to be the first recurrg gay character to ever appear on televisn; he was so entertag, though, he should’ve been a seri regular. He was one of the first gay men livg wh AIDS to be featured on televisn, and what’s more, his mment ceremony to boyiend Sean Sasser was the first same-sex unn broadst on televisn.

More notably, though, was the first hour-long Amerin show to foc solely on the liv of LGBTQ+ people, makg one of the most groundbreakg gay TV shows on this & Grace (1998–2006, 2017–2020)AF archive / Alamy Stock PhotoWill & Grace don’t have any firsts, really.

NEIGHBOURS STAR DIGS HIMSELF A HOLE ‘IGNORANT’ TERVIEW ABOUT GAY CHARACTER

What’s so trailblazg about Will & Grace was how normal was; featured two gay men at the center who were happy, well-adjted, and succsful—for the most part. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2001)©20thCentFox/Courty Everett CollectnEven though dulg the Bury Your Gays trope, Willow and Tara will forever be a major tone reprentg young lbian upl.

To be hont, ’s still rehg 2022—a time when gay TV seri still, for the most part, center characters who are whe, cisgenr, and the World Turns (1956–2010)When Le (Van Hansis) and Noah (Jake Silbermann) smooched a 2007 episo of this long-nng soap opera, ma history as daytime TV’s first gay kiss. And while Kurt and Blae weren’t the first teens to kiss on TV, their first kiss 2011 was one of the first queer moments on work TV that felt like an average, everyday Fay (2009–2020)AF archive / Alamy Stock PhotoABC’s ditn to pictg a lovg, nurturg hoehold wh two gay men—Cam (Eric Stontreet) and Mchell (Jse Tyler Fergon)—is what mak Morn Fay so special, even a -pl after s first Is the New Black (2013–2019)©Netflix/Courty Everett CollectnOrange Is the New Black is one of the most diverse TV shows ever, and one of s most imprsive acplishments was lnchg the reer of Laverne Cox as Sophia Burset. “We are thrilled that Pose ph the narrative forward by centerg on the unique and unr-told experienc of trans women and gay people of lor, ” Pose creator Steve Canals said.

WHEN Neighbours announced was troducg s first regular male gay character late last year, executive producer San Bower feared the Pappas, played by newer Jam Mason, was a fairly new addn to the show when the cisn was ma to reveal he was was a brave move bee me the year after Home and Away's ntroversial lbian storyle. Conservative groups were outraged when Home and Away police officer Charlie Buckton (Esther Anrson) romanced and kissed ckhand Joey Colls (Katie Bell) cisn to create Neighbours' first regular gay character was bound to e a storm.

WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY CHARACTERS ON ASIE TV? IS TE ‘GAY DON’T RATE’? FOUR SIRS WEIGH

"I do believe homophobia is alive and well, and I have no doubt that we will get plats about , " Bower told the Herald Sun last is a cred to Atralian TV viewers that a year later there has been prec ltle prott about Chris. Instead, Neighbours' fans have embraced the young mechanic who has had to pe wh g knows the revelatn about his sexualy has disappoted his father Gee (Lliam Amor) but has liberated him as an everyone Ersborough week, Chris was verbally threatened by homophobic ctomer Warren Burrell (Tony Rickards) then, Chris has been btally bashed and events this week's Neighbours fale will put his life on the le. "He is tryg to build a relatnship (wh his father) but this cint happeng, if revolv around him beg gay, jt more chaos around the fact that he is gay.

WHY DAVE FRAN'S NEIGHBORS 2 CHARACTER WILL BE GAY

The actor then went on to claim that was important he had the role so that the character uld “act straight” and “normal”, htg out at “flamboyant” gay characters. AUSTRALIAN televisn broke remarkable new ground 1972 by layg claim to the world’s first homosexual character a drama Sale was rponsible for creatg the boundary phg Number 96, about a un block filled wh an array of lourful rints, cludg the openly gay Don Flayson. “And at a time when homosexualy was illegal, ” Sale sce then, there’s been only a handful of meangful exampl of gays and lbians on the small screen.

Sale believ the dtry is far ls progrsive today - and he’s not is there a reluctance to clu homosexual characters mastream shows? Four gay and lbian creativ Atralian TV share their personal and profsnal WALKER - WRITERWHEN veteran TV wrer and script producer Sarah Walker was told that no one wanted to see gay people on the small screen prime time, she was jt as a lbian, but as a voted storyteller who believ the power of characters who reflect Atralia’s diverse was workg on a mastream drama when she wrote a same-sex relatnship to the script.