''One Life to Live'' breaks a taboo -- The daytime soap nonts prejudice agast gays
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- TUC WATKS, ONE LIFE TO LIVE STAR, COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE’S A SGLE DAD TO TWS
- AFTER “LIFE”: AFTER BEG FIRED OM “ONE LIFE TO LIVE” OVER A GAY DIALOGUE DISPUTE, PATRICIA MCERI FDS A NEW PATH
- ONE LIFE TO LIVE'S RYAN PHILLIPPE SAYS PARENTS "SHUNNED" HIM OVER HIS GAY SOAP ROLE
- RYAN PHILLIPPE SAYS PARENTS 'SHUNNED' HIM OVER GAY 'ONE LIFE TO LIVE' ROLE
TUC WATKS, ONE LIFE TO LIVE STAR, COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE’S A SGLE DAD TO TWS
Ryan Phillippe says his parents were ready to disown him for playg One Life to Live teen Billy Douglas, the genre's first openly gay character. * gay one life to live *
As San Delfo's neighbor Bob Hunter, Watks played one-half of a gay uple (wh Kev Rahm) who wanted to adopt a baby. Speakg wh Marie Osmond a new terview airg Monday, April 29, on Osmond's Hallmark Channel talk show Marie, Watks reveals publicly for the first time that he's gay. "And when I was young, I knew three thgs: I knew I was gay, I knew one day I was gonna be a dad, and I knew that Gene Wilr's Willy Wonka and the Cholate Factory was gog to be the bt movie of all time.
In March of 2009, Patricia Mceri was fired om One Life to Live over a dispute wh the producers over a scene which her character — a rosary-prayg Catholic — would give full-throated endorsement to the gay liftyle. (Note: an earlier post of this paragraph ed the term “gay marriage” stead of “gay liftyle” but when I went back and read the terview I realized the word marriage wasn’t actually ed.
Then they troduced a gay storyle 2009. PM: Yeah, and wasn’t so much that they troduced a gay storyle.
AFTER “LIFE”: AFTER BEG FIRED OM “ONE LIFE TO LIVE” OVER A GAY DIALOGUE DISPUTE, PATRICIA MCERI FDS A NEW PATH
I gus they wanted to promote a…gay storyle and they cid to e my character a way that was a total 180 gree parture om what her strength and inty was. I got the script of out of the blue that said I was gog to make a joke — My character didn’t know was a joke at the time — (and) say “Oh, I see this book you have (about) how to tell your parents you’re gay.
Now, you’re gay. ” And she’s tryg to nvce him that he is gay and she lov him and that God created him that way.
” But to…try to nvce him that he was gay and that God created him that way. And then, further on the script, they had another scene where his (female) roommate — who knew that wasn’t his book, who knew that they bought for a iend of theirs and she was playg this game…to try to force his mom to prsure him to sayg that he was gay.
ONE LIFE TO LIVE'S RYAN PHILLIPPE SAYS PARENTS "SHUNNED" HIM OVER HIS GAY SOAP ROLE
Vega, I’m so surprised that you’re supportive of your son beg gay.
” And her son chim “But I’m not gay! They thought I was anti-gay. My spirual mom has a gay son.
RYAN PHILLIPPE SAYS PARENTS 'SHUNNED' HIM OVER GAY 'ONE LIFE TO LIVE' ROLE
They want a homogenized world view and, at the end of the day, they cut their nose to spe their face.
“I was a gay wboy mon hunter who was attracted to Jason Lewis’ character, ” he shared. Long before Ryan Phillippe beme famo for his rol films like Cel Intentns, Gosford Park, and Crash, the actor played the role of gay teenager Billy Douglas on the soap opera One Life to Live. I mean, this was 1992 and I was playg a gay teenager and I was a Christian school.