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- PRI MONTH 2020: DYNASTY’S STEVEN CARRGTON CREASED GAY VISIBILY ON TV, SO WHY DID THE CW DROP HIM FOR THE REBOOT?
- 'DYNASTY' STAR GORDON THOMSON COM OUT AS GAY
- TELEVISN: DYNASTY’S DISMAL GAY CHARACTER
PRI MONTH 2020: DYNASTY’S STEVEN CARRGTON CREASED GAY VISIBILY ON TV, SO WHY DID THE CW DROP HIM FOR THE REBOOT?
After season three aired on The CW, fans have been wonrg where Steven Carrgton is. Hailg him as the first gay character, viewers want him back * dynasty gay character 2017 *
Soon, his character ma a transn to one of the first ma gay characters on TV and champned the e of LBGTQ muny those days. Irked that the shownners haven't mentned him at all, fans hailed him as the first gay character and want him back. Steven Carrgton was the first gay character on Amerin televisn.
Another said, "Steven Carrgton was my first tro to a gay character on televisn. One angry fan even went on to say: "Steven Carrgton is an inic TV character, one of the first gay leads on Amerin TV, and @TheCW threw him out like trash. #Dynasty, " and another posted, "Steven Carrgton and the first gay visibily on tv, I was so happy back time, to see some reprentatn, apart om that and tal of San Francis was very lame.
In a new terview wh the Daily Beast, the 72-year-old, who played the homophobic villa Adam Carrgton the ’80s soap opera, out as gay for the first time. I’m probably as homophobic as any gay man alive bee of my background.
'DYNASTY' STAR GORDON THOMSON COM OUT AS GAY
“When I was growg up [homosexualy] was a crime, and then classified as a mental illns... While the drama will rema tact, the homophobia will be erased.
The origal versn showsed homophobic sentiment when me to Adam’s gay brother Steven Carrgton (played by Al Corley), and patriarch Blake Carrgton’s attu toward him. I didn’t want to say, ‘Gus what everybody, the guy playg the father is gay.
TELEVISN: DYNASTY’S DISMAL GAY CHARACTER
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. His plat fell on af ears: by the end of the entire seri the so-lled homosexual son had been to bed wh more women than men.
This was far om seri -creator Esther Shapiro’s 1981 claratn that Steven, “was, is and always will be, gay. From that pot onwards, he would be “a well-round gay man.
” Given Dynasty’s huge global reach this would have sent out an important msage about homosexuals and homosexualy to untri wh antiquated views on this. For example, spe his repeated claratns that we was homosexual (see film clip below, for example) some of his sexual behavur wh women suggted very strongly that he was lookg for ‘a cure’. The notn of portrayg a gay man a posive light was still very ntroversial, particularly when the vehicle for dog so was the most popular, mastream soap.