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. Wh his sweet se and peppy attu, Bill Brochtp, the openly gay blond wh boy-next-door good...
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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
- DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL
‘NYPD BLUE’ STAR BILL BROCHTP ON HOW STEVEN BOCH PNEERED GAY CHARACTERS ON TV
"Steven me up wh this ia for a character who was openly and unapologetilly gay. * gay john nypd blue *
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?
BILL BROCHTP, ACTOR BEHD <EM>NYPD BLUE</EM>'S 'GAY TEMP' CHARACTER, STILL AT WORK HOLLYWOOD (AUDIO)
Don We Now Our Gay Apparel: Directed by Michael M. Rob. Wh Jimmy Sms, Dennis Franz, Jam McDaniel, Nicholas Turturro. Simone and Sipowicz vtigate the murr of a gay bar owner durg the Christmas holidays. Meanwhile, Fancy's wife go to labor to have her baby. 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 him." data-id="ma * gay john nypd blue *
There were no gay characters on TV at the time.
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.
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.
NYPD BLUE TRODUC NEW GAY CHARACTER
The iative, first suggted by the NYPD’s Gay Officers Actn League, is expected to help the natn’s largt police force more effectively rec members of the LGBTQ muny. * gay john nypd blue *
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DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL
Don We Now Our Gay Apparel is the nth episo of the send season of NYPD Blue. Simone and Sipowicz vtigate the murr of a gay bar owner durg the Christmas holidays. Meanwhile, Fancy's wife go to labor to have her baby. Breen breaks his promise to Sipowicz by checkg up on his son... * gay john nypd blue *
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.
DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL
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.