Y&R's Thom Bierdz releas tell-all sex memoir Young, Gay & Rtls | The Young and the Rtls on Soap Central

Contents:

• YOUNG & RTLS’ CHRISTIAN JUL LEBLANC UNPACKS THE BAGGAGE OF HOMOPHOBIA: ‘I STILL LIVE WH THE LEGACY OF THAT AS A GAY MAN’
• Y&R'S THOM BIERDZ RELEAS TELL-ALL SEX MEMOIR YOUNG, GAY & RTLS
• YOUNG AND RTLS’ GAY ADAM STORYLE THAT’S BEEN COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY SWEPT UNR THE RUG
• Y&R’S CHRISTIAN LEBLANC OPENS UP ABOUT THE STGGL OF LIVG AS A GAY MAN
• 10 GAY, BISEXUAL & QUEER SOAP OPERA STARS WHO ARE OUT — & OUTSTANDG
• THE YOUNG, THE GAY AND THE RTLS
• THE YOUNG AND THE RTLS: IS CAMRYN GRIM GAY REAL LIFE?
• YOUNG, GAY, & RESTLESS:  AN INTERVIEW WH ACTOR/ARTIST THOM BIERDZ
• CBS ‘THE YOUNG AND THE RTLS’ SPOILERS: COULD NOAH NEWMAN BE GAY? WEIRD CONVERSATN WH SHARON LEAV THGS AMBIGUO!

YOUNG & RTLS’ CHRISTIAN JUL LEBLANC UNPACKS THE BAGGAGE OF HOMOPHOBIA: ‘I STILL LIVE WH THE LEGACY OF THAT AS A GAY MAN’

Young & Rtls’ Christian Jul LeBlanc Unpacks the Baggage of Homophobia: ‘I Still Live Wh the Legacy of That as a Gay Man’. Hell, “not till after Stonewall did anyone take a gay man ser.

“I still live wh the legacy of that as a gay man, ” he add. Tled Young, Gay & Rtls: My Sndalo On-Screen and Off-Screen Sexual Liberatns, the sexually explic (yet humoro) book unveils every one of the Wisns native's rnal adventur. The shockg and uncensored book created a lot of buzz, but Young, Gay & Rtls promis to top "the unabashed sensatnalism of his 6X award-wng Fivg Troy.

Young, Gay & Rtls is available now for pre-orr, wh an official release date of Thursday, November 1.

Y&R'S THOM BIERDZ RELEAS TELL-ALL SEX MEMOIR YOUNG, GAY & RTLS

Sadly, ’s worth notg that Mariah and Tsa are currently the only gay or lbian uple to be promently featured on any of the daytime soaps. The problem, however, is that until Fen walked wh Plot Pot Trey (no last name need), we hadn’t a clue that Lren and Michael’s son was gay (or bi).

Young and Rtls’ Gay Adam Storyle That’s Been Completely and Totally Swept Unr the Rug. Instead, Victor showed his son rare passn and acceptance for beg gay.

YOUNG AND RTLS’ GAY ADAM STORYLE THAT’S BEEN COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY SWEPT UNR THE RUG

To throw him off the trail, Adam told Rafe, who was gay, that he had feelgs for him, and was implied they had a sexual relatnship, though wasn’t shown on screen.

She, of urse, told Victor his son was gay, which led Victor to nont his son.

Yet, Victor needn’t have bothered bee once Adam and Rafe were done, Adam beg gay or bi was never mentned aga, but should have been? As the send of eight kids his large southern fay, LeBlanc revealed that he’s attend multiple terventns, lost his brother to AIDS when he was jt 25, and as a gay man, still suffers om homophobia and tolerance. “Not until after Stonewall did anyone take a gay man ser — they were sick people, ” he add.

Y&R’S CHRISTIAN LEBLANC OPENS UP ABOUT THE STGGL OF LIVG AS A GAY MAN

“And I still live wh the legacy of that as a gay man. Although the Emmy-wner allows that thgs are better now than years past, there is still homophobia and tolerance everywhere the world.

10 Gay, Bisexual & Queer Soap Opera Stars Who Are Out — & Outstandg. Some of the actors and actrs playg the inic rol were straight, some were out and gay at the time, and others me out later on.

The first Pri March New York Cy was held on June 28, 1970, one year after the Stonewall Uprisg, to honor the thoands of LGBTQ+ people who took to the streets to monstrate agast the discrimatn they faced hog and employment, the anti-homosexual laws agast gatherg bars or dance clubs, to even be out as a homosexual. The ncept behd the ial march me om members of the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns who had been anizg an annual July 4th monstratn known as the Remr Day Pickets, at Inpennce Hall Philalphia, between 1965 and 1969.

10 GAY, BISEXUAL & QUEER SOAP OPERA STARS WHO ARE OUT — & OUTSTANDG

The Young and the Rtls fans are wonrg if Camryn Grim is gay real life.

“Not gay, but if I was I WOULD SHOUT IT FROM THE F**KING ROOFTOPS.

Not gay, but if I was.

THE YOUNG, THE GAY AND THE RTLS

Camryn Grim is not gay real life, but she is proud to play a gay woman on televisn. The relatnship between Mariah and Tsa isn't the first female same-sex pairg on a soap opera; All My Children ma history December 2000 when Bian Montgomery (En Riegel) told her mother, Pe Valley matriarch Eri Kane (San Lucci), that she was gay and had been datg a woman (Elisabeth Harnois as Sarah Livgston).

On As the World Turns 2007, Le Snyr (Van Hansis) and Noah Mayer (Jake Silbermann), beme the first teen same-sex uple and first gay male kiss Amerin soap opera history; Guidg Light brought together Olivia Spencer (Crystal Chappell) and Natalia Rivera (Jsi Leccia) 2008; and The Bold and the Betiful revealed 2015 that Maya Avant (Karla Mosley), who was a relatnship wh a cisgenr man, was a transgenr woman, makg her the first regular transgenr character the history of Amerin daytime televisn. The Young and the Rtls brought a gay character on the nvas back 2009, when Yani Gellman played the show's first LGBTQ character, attorney Rafe Torr. In 2015, The Young and the Rtls actor Greg Rikaart, who plays Kev Fisher, exprsed that he would like to see Kev a gay relatnship on the soap.

THE YOUNG AND THE RTLS: IS CAMRYN GRIM GAY REAL LIFE?

Rikaart went on to portray a gay character, Leo Stark, on Days of our Liv om 2018 to March of this year, returng to The Young and the Rtls earlier this summer as still-straight Kev.

On the September 13 episo, Tsa refers to herself as gay -- and not that she and Mariah are a mted relatnship. Dpe havg been “out” the Milwkee gay nightlife scene before his move to the Wt Coast, Bierdz was forced to go back to the closet when he beme famo, due to the prejudice agast openly gay actors at the time as well as somethg lled a “morals clse”.

Still, Bierdz had ntued to fd actg work wh gut rol on TV, pennt films, and on a web seri through the years– and when The Young and the Rtls brought his character “back to life” 2009, ma Bierdz the first openly gay actor a ntract role.

YOUNG, GAY, & RESTLESS:  AN INTERVIEW WH ACTOR/ARTIST THOM BIERDZ

”Bierdz’ send book is named Young, Gay, & Rtls: My Sndalo On-Screen & Off-Screen Sexual Liberatns. Some of the star’s famo iends, associat, and/or lovers are actually named (cludg Andy Cohen, David Geffen, Steve Ant, Farrah Fawcett, Grant Show, and Matt Bomer), while others are referred to cryptilly (“a very famo and attractive gay untry sger”, “a Baywatch actor”, “another famo olr actrs”, and “a flamboyant throaty Broadway star”). He wr about explorg his sexualy as a young gay man Wisns, to nocent Hollywood csh on fellow actors, to the qut for “Mr.

Right”, to navigatg the world of gay datg apps and hookup s as we approach 2019.

While very entertag to read, Young, Gay, & Rtls is also– at the risk of soundg too “clil”– one of the most accurate, hont portras of male sexualy that has e out a long time. Thom Bierdz took the time to speak to me about Young, Gay, & Rtls: My Sndalo On-Screen & Off-Screen Sexual Liberatns– andmuch more…. JR: What I like about Young, Gay, & Rtls is that ’s fearls, bold, and hont.

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It speaks volum about the male libido, which go beyond “gay” or “straight”– and even beyond race, ethnicy, and class.

What ma this the right time to e out wh Young, Gay, & Rtls? JR: How has the rponse to Young, Gay, & Rtls been so far for those who have read ? Your book really chronicl a piece of Amerin gay male history– through your ey.

So, given that you’ve seen and lived through all the s of gay life, what would you say has been the biggt or the most tertg change our culture? TB: When we were growg up gay, my generatn thought that we were the ONLY ONES– and that we were gog to Hell. Today, I don’t thk that any gay person uld thk that they were the only one.