Jo Soaps as we pay tribute to the out-and-proud gay primetime TV stars and daytime actors.
Contents:
- 10 GAY, BISEXUAL & QUEER SOAP OPERA STARS WHO ARE OUT — & OUTSTANDG
- WHO IS/WAS GAY ON GENERAL HOSPAL?
- RSIAN VTIGATORS SGLE OUT GAY FATHERS LATT CRACKDOWN ON LGBTQ RIGHTS
10 GAY, BISEXUAL & QUEER SOAP OPERA STARS WHO ARE OUT — & OUTSTANDG
* who is gay in real life on general hospital *
” So Miguel’s former portrayer publicly disclosed his 2011 memoir that he is gay. The Young & Rtls vet whose character Phillip played ad for years rather than e out to his fay is also gay real life. The One Life to Live scene stealer — now and forever David Vickers to soap fans — announced durg a 2013 talk-show appearance not only that he was gay but that he’d bee a sgle father of two.
“For me, beg gay was a dirty word growg up, and now this is my tth. ” The Emmy wner even created After Forever, a Web soap which he plays a gay widower.
WHO IS/WAS GAY ON GENERAL HOSPAL?
10 Gay, Bisexual & Queer Soap Opera Stars * who is gay in real life on general hospital *
He and his hband, oime Amazg Race nttant Jaym Vghan, beme the first gay uple to grace the ver of The Knot.
“As a gay guy, you have to e out all the time, ” he told Entertament Weekly. “People thk g out is the first time [someone] says they’re gay when realy g out is a nstant procs. When Heartstopper st s superlative teenage leads, Locke was already out as gay.
In addn to his daytime rol, he starred 2020’s Dashg December, one of the first mastream TV movi to make Christmas a gay old time. Though the rap in and Equalizer star told the New York Tim as recently as 2008 that “I don’t feel like I need to share my personal life, and I don’t re if people thk I’m gay or not, ” she fally end all the speculatn at the 2021 BET Awards when, acceptg a Lifetime Achievement Award, she thanked partner Eboni Nichols and the son that they share. “She’s an absolute tch, and I thought, ‘If I’m not gog to feel the super sparks wh her… probably means I’m gay.
RSIAN VTIGATORS SGLE OUT GAY FATHERS LATT CRACKDOWN ON LGBTQ RIGHTS
Four years after As the World Turns stopped spng, the actor who ma history as half of daytime’s first gay male kiss me out publicly an terview wh The Fight Magaze. The Grey’s Anatomy vet’s g-out wasn’t exactly the easit: His sexual orientatn was ma known after stmate Isaiah Washgton ed a gay slur on set, leadg to a wily reported altertn. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I’m gay isn’t the most tertg part of me.