Gay actors in soap operas
Gay and Lesbian Soap Opera Actors and Actresses. Who Is Still Closeted? What’s The Scoop?
Okay, let's stop fussing about a dumb GIF and chat about this subject.
There are very few out soap stars. I'm trying to think of one that I know that has been out and been on their show at the same time and Greg Rikaart is the only one who comes to mind. Most of the ones who include come out have done so after their roles ended (Gregg Marx from DAYS and ATWT, Maureen Garrett from GL, Wesley Eure from DAYS).
Many of the others mentioned own had gossip about them for years.
Lady Geary is Hiding In Plain Sight, so to speak. An academic book published a decade or so ago disclosed he was homosexual and HIV positive, which was a reason why Genie and La Geary stopped kissing on the show (and may acquire led to their fallout).
Dee Dee Halls is another one oft-assumed to be a lesbian. All signs point to this one being true, although Jane Elliot, a good confidant of Dee's, is unbent but is hilariously often assumed to be gay.
There's long running rumors about Jacob Young (who supposedly fell in lust with Stephen Martines/Colton Scott, so much so that a serious brother-brother chat on screen led to an int
Living Out Loud: A Salute to Soaps’ LGBTQ+ All-Stars [PHOTOS]
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In honor of LGBTQ+ Pride month, Soaps.com is saluting the stars of The Young and the Restless, Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful, Beyond the Gates and General Hospital who are living their truth.
Greg Rikaart
In 2013, the Young & Restless and Days of Our Lives leading man (as Kevin Fisher and Leo Stark, respectively) came out monitoring the Supreme Court’s decisions in favor of same-sex marriage and equality. Since 2015, the Emmy winner has been married to writer/producer Robert Sudduth (Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies), with whom he has a son, Montgomery.
Joanna Johnson
Just before Bold & Beautiful revealed that Bill Spencer’s sister Karen is a lesbian, her portrayer toldTV Guide that she is, too. For years, “I was so worried I wouldn’t be employable as an actress if people knew,” she said, “or that I wouldn’t be believable in passion stories. I had to deal with a lot of self-loathing.” Now a TV producer, Johnson has been married since 2008 to club promoter Michelle Agnew, with whom she has two childre
Did anyone else expand up watching soap operas with your grandma in the late ’90s and early 2000s? There’s at least some part of me that believes this was a homosexual rite of corridor. The guilted lovers, the hidden twin, the murder victim who really went into hiding – soap operas were the best cheese on prime moment. Although I haven’t watched one in a very lengthy time, I can imagine that a portion of campy goodness still remains. And then… there was the studly male characters waiting in the shadows to save the damsel in distress from a murder plot from an evil step sibling.
At one point, there were a dozen soap operas on air. Now, in 2023, there are only four sole survivors – The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless and General Hospital. Growing up, though, I watched Passions with my grandma. The virginal girl sucked into Hell through her closet door, the long-lost brother, the murderous barren who ruled the town. I can still hear McKenzie Westmore screaming “LOUIS!” to this very diurnal. Passions is also responsible for kicking my love of Latin men into overdrive. Half the cast of Passions was certainly bang-
Soap Opera Stars and Producers Who Identify as LGBTQ
Soap operas are long-running television shows that portray the lives of many individuals through their daily, usually emotionally intense, interactions. They usually are shown during the daytime, though there are some notable evening soap operas. This genre of television show got its entitle from the sponsorship of soap companies in its early days. They are known as telenovas in Spanish-speaking countries. Soap operas attract millions of dedicated viewers.
There have been many prominent actors in soap operas that are LGBTQ. Producers and directors of these shows who are LGBTQ include the creators of Britain's most popular soap opera 'Coronation Street', Derek Granger and Tony Warren; the producer of 'Hollyoaks' and 'EastEnders' Bryan Kirkwood; and soap opera scriptwriters Jonathan Harvey and Jane Chambers.
In terms of the content of soap operas, it is only relatively recently that the story lines have included LGBTQ characters. The American soap opera 'Soap' was the first to comprise a gay character in 1977 (the character Jodie Dallas), while the first openly gay ethics in Great Britain's soaps was the show