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• FIRST REVIEW: MORN FAY GAY WEDDG EPISO
• FROM CHARLENE THE MECHANIC TO ATRALIAN TV’S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE: WAS NEIGHBOURS FEMIST? | UNISC | UNIVERSY OF THE SUNSHE COAST, QUEENSLAND, ATRALIA
• WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY CHARACTERS ON ASIE TV? IS TE ‘GAY DON’T RATE’? FOUR SIRS WEIGH
• WHAT’S GOG ON AN ATRALIAN TV AD OPPOSG GAY MARRIAGE?
• NEIGHBOURS PRAISED FOR ‘BT EPISO EVER’ AS DAVID AND AARON MARRY FIRST GAY WEDDG ON ATRALIAN TV
• ASIE TV SOAP DRAMA HOME AND AWAY TRODUC NEW GAY CHARACTER
• COUPL TIE KNOT AT MIDNIGHT ATRALIA'S FIRST GAY WEDDGS

FIRST REVIEW: MORN FAY GAY WEDDG EPISO

Neighbours has always had gay and bisexual characters the soap, featurg storyl about g out and explorg love, but has never followed a relatnship to the weddg stage until now. "The Archers on BBC Rad 4 was the first soap opera to feature a gay civil ceremony 2006, Channel 4's Hollyoaks was the first soap to feature a gay weddg.

FROM CHARLENE THE MECHANIC TO ATRALIAN TV’S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE: WAS NEIGHBOURS FEMIST? | UNISC | UNIVERSY OF THE SUNSHE COAST, QUEENSLAND, ATRALIA

“When me and my gay mat were watchg Charlene and Stt get married 1987, we would never have dreamt there would be a gay weddg on Neighbours, ” Szubanski told. Gets Gay-Married ", "field_file_image_tle_text[und][0][value]":"", "media_tle[und][0][value]":"", "media_scriptn[und][0][value]":"", "media_scriptn[und][0][format]":"full_html", "field_cred[und]":"", "field_tags[und]":"", "field_license[und]":"none"}, "type":"media", "attribut":{"alt":"Takaya Honda", "class":"media-element file-flt"}}]]Tell a ltle b about Neighbours and s obssive fan show is suburban semi-realism that sells an idyllic, always-sunny Atralian liftyle. I'm playg an Atralian character who happens to be Japane, jt as I'm playg an Atralian who happens to be gay -- neher one f David.

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

I get asked this retrogra qutn all the time: as a straight actor what is like to play gay? The head of scripts is a gay man, as is our executive producer, and my storyle has been the works for years, long before the legalizatn of gay marriage. “Is this the first gay marriage on work televisn?

SCROLL DOWN TO READ OUR REVIEWFergon, who found out the characters would get married durg his own, real-life gay weddg New York, admted to feelg anxiety about “this very special moment”. “Ed personifi that so betifully that helps brg people that might not want to watch a show about a gay marriage.

WHAT’S GOG ON AN ATRALIAN TV AD OPPOSG GAY MARRIAGE?

” NEALA JOHNSON REVIEWS THE MODERN FAMILY GAY WEDDING EPISODE“HOW often do your fathers get married? Wh gay in Magda Szubanski as celebrant Updated: 15:41 BST, 30 May 2018.

NEIGHBOURS PRAISED FOR ‘BT EPISO EVER’ AS DAVID AND AARON MARRY FIRST GAY WEDDG ON ATRALIAN TV

Neighbours will air the first gay weddg on Atralian televisn the g months, after the ernment legalised same-sex marriage last Tuday, filmg of the historic moment menced Melbourne, wh actors Matt Wilson and Takaya Honda lookg sharp as pictur released by Network Ten, actrs and LGBT rights activist Magda Szubanski gut stars as a down for vio Weddg bells! Wh gay in Magda Szubanski as celebrant Acrdg to The Daily Telegraph, Magda will play celebrant Jemima Davi-Smythe durg the weddg of characters Aaron Brennan (Matt) and David Tanaka (Takaya) the photos, Magda is shown wearg a lourful top and spectacl, and accsoris wh a bright orange scene will be the first gay weddg on an Atralian TV show after same-sex marriage was legalised followg the 2017 postal plebisce. Two weeks ago, Neighbours aired the show's first gay marriage proposal between David and Aaron the lead-up to the spoke to The Daily Telegraph last year about the storyle, which he claimed wasn't liberately tend to ci wh Atralia's marriage law cisn.

A send woman then star down the barrel of the mera and claims that “when same-sex marriage pass as law overseas this type of program bee (sic) wispread and pulsory” ments are followed by a black screen wh text: “In untri wh gay marriage, parents have lost their rights to choose”, reads.

ASIE TV SOAP DRAMA HOME AND AWAY TRODUC NEW GAY CHARACTER

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?

Is the adage that “gay don’t rate” really te?

And what’s like to be gay and work an dtry unwillg to reprent people like you?

COUPL TIE KNOT AT MIDNIGHT ATRALIA'S FIRST GAY WEDDGS

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. When aired, a storm of ntroversy epted and “everyone at the work eaked out” the aftermath, the wrers were told that there was never to be another gay storyle the show.

“I was told there was to be no mentn of gays and lbians on the show — no referenc at all.