''One Life to Live'' breaks a taboo -- The daytime soap nonts prejudice agast gays
Contents:
- 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.
AFTER “LIFE”: AFTER BEG FIRED OM “ONE LIFE TO LIVE” OVER A GAY DIALOGUE DISPUTE, PATRICIA MCERI FDS A NEW PATH
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.
ONE LIFE TO LIVE'S RYAN PHILLIPPE SAYS PARENTS "SHUNNED" HIM OVER HIS GAY SOAP ROLE
Then they troduced a gay storyle 2009.
RYAN PHILLIPPE SAYS PARENTS 'SHUNNED' HIM OVER GAY 'ONE LIFE TO LIVE' ROLE
PM: Yeah, and wasn’t so much that they troduced a gay storyle.
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.