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• NEIGHBOURS STAR TAKAYA HONDA HS BACK AT CLICHéD QUTNS ABOUT PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER
• GAY CHARACTERS NEIGHBOURS & HOME AND AWAY.
• NEIGHBOURS PRAISED FOR ‘SAVG GAY LIV’ BY EMOTNAL ACTOR AS SOAP’S FUTURE HANGS THE BALANCE
• VIEWERS EMBRACE NEIGHBOURS' GAY CHARACTER PLAYED BY NEWER JAM MASON
• NEIGHBOURS GETS RNCHY WH NUDY AND FIRST GAY SEX SCENE LATE NIGHT SPECIAL
• FIRST REGULAR GAY CHARACTER FOR NEIGHBOURS
• WHY DAVE FRAN'S NEIGHBORS 2 CHARACTER WILL BE GAY
• NEIGHBOURS STAR TAKAYA HONDA HAS ‘NO DIFFICULTY’ PLAYG GAY CHARACTER

NEIGHBOURS STAR TAKAYA HONDA HS BACK AT CLICHéD QUTNS ABOUT PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER

Neighbours star Takaya Honda has h back at clichéd qutns about playg a gay straight actor, who portrays David Tanaka the Channel 5 soap, appeared at Sydney's Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras alongsi his on-screen hband Matt Wilson (Aaron Brennan), when he ma the impassned Instagram post. "We get asked, more often than I thk we should, 'What's like to play a gay character as a straight actor, do you fd difficult? "Firstly, who uld fd hard to play gay oppose this credible man?

The task we are given is to evoke wh the dience that feelg of love and have them believe that we are love, and that would go whether our characters were gay, straight or other. "There is no gree of difficulty add bee the characters are gay.

You would be fiven for thkg that stralia dont have ANY gay people livg there:rolley:. what is the al wh the plete lack of any gay characters eher of the soaps, or any talk of homosexualy what-so-ever!

GAY CHARACTERS NEIGHBOURS & HOME AND AWAY.

Charlie had a girliend Home and Away, although she has a boyiend aga now, and there is a gay boy Neighbours but I n't remember his name. Chris has jt e out as gay on Neighbours, problem is that he isn't a ma character and acrdg to reports, they don't know what to do wh the character. Home and Away had a uple of gay characters.

NEIGHBOURS PRAISED FOR ‘SAVG GAY LIV’ BY EMOTNAL ACTOR AS SOAP’S FUTURE HANGS THE BALANCE

Chris, Pippa's son, is gay.

The producers of H&A have always said there was no pot tryg to have gay characters G rated shows as the l regardg what n't be shown ma impossible anyway. This has been discsed many tim on this fom, Atralia is a backward and nservative untry that don't like seeg gay people on tv. I don't thk that gay people should appear any programme jt to tick a box.

VIEWERS EMBRACE NEIGHBOURS' GAY CHARACTER PLAYED BY NEWER JAM MASON

I thk there has to be a fair repersentatn of gay/lbian people soaps as there is real life. Atralia is very backward lookg when to portrayg gay people on screen.

I have heard that Atralians don't like gay people their soaps as is a very nservative untry and I thk I am right sayg that some stat homosexualy is still banned. I'm que suprised that homosexualy uld still be banned certa really bad!!!

NEIGHBOURS GETS RNCHY WH NUDY AND FIRST GAY SEX SCENE LATE NIGHT SPECIAL

I agree that gay/lbian people need to be reprented on tv, but not necsarily soaps. The people that are voved soaps seem to lack creativy or are unwillg to e up wh proper storyl for gay/lbian people.

I would like to see a storyle that volv a gay person, but is not about their sexualy, personally I'm sick of the syoryl where g out "is" the storyle. Methodyguy, be sure to let know which Atralian stat ban homosexualy. The actor’s character, David Tanaka, was part of Atralia’s first televised gay weddg, and Honda reflected on how the long-nng show has helped to tell the stori of those often unrreprented media.

“I have been one half of, not only the first on screen gay weddg Atralian history but, I’m pretty sure, also one of the longt nng on screen gay relatnships too.

FIRST REGULAR GAY CHARACTER FOR NEIGHBOURS

Neighbours st durg the 2019 Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para (El Pics/ Getty Imag). Honda and his -star Matt Wilson saw their characters take part one of Atralian TV’s first gay weddgs 2018, wh the uple’s relatnship ntug to feature on the soap until the prent day. WHEN Neighbours announced was troducg s first regular male gay character late last year, executive producer San Bower feared the Pappas, played by newer Jam Mason, was a fairly new addn to the show when the cisn was ma to reveal he was was a brave move bee me the year after Home and Away's ntroversial lbian storyle.

Conservative groups were outraged when Home and Away police officer Charlie Buckton (Esther Anrson) romanced and kissed ckhand Joey Colls (Katie Bell) cisn to create Neighbours' first regular gay character was bound to e a storm. "I do believe homophobia is alive and well, and I have no doubt that we will get plats about , " Bower told the Herald Sun last is a cred to Atralian TV viewers that a year later there has been prec ltle prott about Chris.

WHY DAVE FRAN'S NEIGHBORS 2 CHARACTER WILL BE GAY

Instead, Neighbours' fans have embraced the young mechanic who has had to pe wh g knows the revelatn about his sexualy has disappoted his father Gee (Lliam Amor) but has liberated him as an everyone Ersborough week, Chris was verbally threatened by homophobic ctomer Warren Burrell (Tony Rickards) then, Chris has been btally bashed and events this week's Neighbours fale will put his life on the le. "Chris is embarrassed that he thks he was gay bashed and he don't want to tell anyone, " Mason says. "He is tryg to build a relatnship (wh his father) but this cint happeng, if revolv around him beg gay, jt more chaos around the fact that he is gay.

The offer to play Chris me three days, who has a girliend, Amy, says he had no qualms about playg a gay character. "The good thg about Chris is that he is an ordary person who is a mechanic and happens to be gay, " Mason says.

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NEIGHBOURS STAR TAKAYA HONDA HAS ‘NO DIFFICULTY’ PLAYG GAY CHARACTER

Neighbours has got s first gay regular gay character.