‘NYPD Blue’ Star Bill Brochtp on How Steven Boch Pneered Gay Characters on TV – The Hollywood Reporter

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• ‘NYPD BLUE’ STAR BILL BROCHTP ON HOW STEVEN BOCH PNEERED GAY CHARACTERS ON TV
• WITH AN EYE ON . . . : BEG GAY THE ‘NYPD’: BILL BROCHTP FDS THE RIGHT REALY CHECK
• BILL BROCHTP, ACTOR BEHD <EM>NYPD BLUE</EM>'S 'GAY TEMP' CHARACTER, STILL AT WORK HOLLYWOOD (AUDIO)

‘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.

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. 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.

WITH AN EYE ON . . . : BEG GAY THE ‘NYPD’: BILL BROCHTP FDS THE RIGHT REALY CHECK

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.

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

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 looks, won the role 1994 after playg a homosexual mol wh AIDS the L.