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• ‘NYPD BLUE’ STAR BILL BROCHTP ON HOW STEVEN BOCH PNEERED GAY CHARACTERS ON TV
• BILL BROCHTP, ACTOR BEHD <EM>NYPD BLUE</EM>'S 'GAY TEMP' CHARACTER, STILL AT WORK HOLLYWOOD (AUDIO)
• NYPD BLUE TRODUC NEW GAY CHARACTER
• DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL
• NEW YORK'S FT: AS NYPD BLUE FISH S N, BILL BROCHTP RELLS LIFE AS GAY POLICE SECRETARY JOHN IRV.
• NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN

‘NYPD BLUE’ STAR BILL BROCHTP ON HOW STEVEN BOCH PNEERED GAY CHARACTERS ON TV

John Irv joed the 15th Precct as a temporary replacement for Donna Abandando 1995; he was iends wh Bobby Simone om their prev work at 1 Police Plaza, but Andy Sipowicz's homophobia ially led him to be to John. I’m the one who said, “Is this OK to have a gay guy on televisn? There were no gay characters on TV at the time.

BILL BROCHTP, ACTOR BEHD <EM>NYPD BLUE</EM>'S 'GAY TEMP' CHARACTER, STILL AT WORK HOLLYWOOD (AUDIO)

He me up wh this ia for a character who was very openly gay and unapologetilly so, and he wanted to show that ntrast to Det. He gave me nfince that I uld do this and have a reer — not only as an openly gay guy but as an actor general.

I jt got an email om a guy sayg that he and his son are watchg , and the father ed my character as an example of what might be like to be iends wh a gay guy to help his son wh a iendship of his own.

NYPD BLUE TRODUC NEW GAY CHARACTER

Openly gay actor Bill BrochtpMost famo for his role as the "gay temp" and then a seri regular for 10 years on televisn's NYPD Blue, actor Bill Brochtp is still at work and n be seen on the WIGS seri Kendra and Showtime's Dexter and Shamels, and perdilly on stage. I ught up wh the pneerg openly gay actor on n listen to this episo on the BlogTalkRad Kendra:Download SnowbizNow podsts for ee om iTun.

Brochtp, who’s had several stts playg openly gay assistant John Irv on the ABC p drama, has been ked as a seri regular by “Blue” executive producer Steven Boch, acrdg tra prs reports. Then, 1997, Brochtp -starred as a gay office manager another Boch stker – ABC’s short-lived “Total Secury, ” which failed to attract much of an dience s Saturday-night timlot. Brochtp broke to the “NYPD Blue” lp as John Irv, a gay admistrative clerk known the precct hoe as “Upstairs John” bee his office was upstairs, although he liked to hang around the squad room.

Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz), who had a problem wh Irv’s homosexualy. Her lbianism is beg unrplayed, and, tertgly, John, the other gay character on the show, dont like her at all. He claims to know her om GOAL, the gay police officers associatn, and threatens to qu if sh put charge.

DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL

NYPD BlueCast & crewUser reviewsTriviaEpiso aired Jan 3, 1995TV-1447mSimone and Sipowicz vtigate the murr of a gay bar owner durg the Christmas holidays. Read allSimone and Sipowicz vtigate the murr of a gay bar owner durg the Christmas holidays. Breen breaks his promise to Sipowicz by checkg up on his son and cis to go back to him, which turns out to be fatal when Breen's son kills him and Sipowicz has to arrt productn, box office & pany PhotosReview Disfort 1995The owner of a gay bar is killed durg a robbery.

The openly gay character (Brochtp himself me out People magaze 1997) expand Sipowicz's limed horizons and offered a rare, non-stereotypil portrayal of a homosexual person on work televisn. There had been other gay characters on TV seri before public admistrative assistant John Irv on ABC's "NYPD Blue, " but perhaps none to whom the dience had so quickly and easily warmed.

NEW YORK'S FT: AS NYPD BLUE FISH S N, BILL BROCHTP RELLS LIFE AS GAY POLICE SECRETARY JOHN IRV.

Wh his sweet se and peppy attu, Bill Brochtp, the openly gay blond wh boy-next-door good looks, won the role 1994 after playg a homosexual mol wh AIDS the L. Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) fdg he uld relate to a gay male as a human beg and not as someone who ma him unfortable.

NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN

As a rult, the actor has bee one of the producers stock players, landg a role as yet another gay character the ensemble of "Total Secury" (ABC, 1997).

Sce his "NYPD Blue" exposure, Brochtp -starred "Man of the Year" (1995), the feature about secretly gay PLAYGIRL Centerfold Dirk Shafer, and played key rol the Showtime origal "Space Mar" (1996) and "Two Voic" (Lifetime, 1997).

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