Televisn: Dynasty’s dismal gay character - Gay the 80s

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It seemed like a good ia at the time. But the plan to put a posive gay character global TV h Dynasty soon fell short of s origal good tentns. Al Corley, who origally played the Carrgton dynasty’s homosexual son, left the show at the end of the send season. He plaed about “the

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DYNASTY’S JOURNEY OM GAY PANIC TO GAY PRI

The TV show Dynasty featured a gay in (and her son).

TELEVISN: DYNASTY’S DISMAL GAY CHARACTER

But for years, spe the show’s anythg-go nature, there was one thg that Dynasty uldn’t get away wh: showg a happy homosexual. Puttg a gay man on one of the most inic and popular shows of the was a long, multi-year fight — both on-screen and behd-the-scen — but was nothg pared to the battle took to keep him there.

The story of Dynasty’s ntroversial gay son starts back 1979 wh, of all thgs, the oil crisis.

And the son, Steven, who’s hidg his homosexualy om his nservative dad. ” There had seldom been any recurrg gay characters on primetime TV — there was Jody on Soap, a fotten barfly on The Corner Bar, and gut-player Lori Shannon as Beverly LaSalle on All the Fay.

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Dynasty’s pilot posns Steven ont and center, wh a climactic scene which Blake nonts his son about beg gay.

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