Gay soap actors

There’s been chatter for years whether straight actors can play gay roles with the discussion picking up steam recently when British comedian Jack Whitehall was cast in a gay role for Disney's Jungle Cruise.

In this midst of this gay role hysteria, in which even out actress Ruby Rose was attacked by “fans” thinking she wasn’t gay enough for the role, a few actors have weighed in with their thoughts.

British actor Idris Elba shared his feelings on the controversy late last month saying:

“Artistic license is artistic license. If an actor has the attributes to do something, they should be able to do it,” Elba told TimeOut London via Attitude magazine. “They’re acting. You don’t necessarily have to be gay to play a gay character. Though you do own to be black to perform a black character.”

Now, openly gay actor Nathan Sussex, who is most known for his role in the British soap opera Hollyoaks, is shares his thoughts with Gay Star News.

“At first I was a bit disappoin

Celebrate Pride Month With a Salute to Soaps&#; Out and Confident LGBTQ+ Stars

There are those who question why there has to be an LGBTQ+ Pride Month. &#;We don&#;t get a Straight Pride Month,&#; they argue. But they don&#;t have to approach out as straight, it&#;s assumed that they are (and that, unless told otherwise, everyone is). They haven&#;t had to battle for &#;permission&#; to marry the person that they love, it was freely given to them. They haven&#;t had to inhabit in fear of what the world would think of them — or, worse, do to them — if their hetero status was revealed. And they don&#;t at this very moment verb what LGBTQ+ people do: more than proposed bills targeting their community in hopes of silencing it, stripping it of its hard-won rights and driving it back into the closet.

So there ya go. That&#;s why there has to be an LGBTQ+ Pride Month — and in as much, if not more, than ever.

On this occasion, Soaps wants to celebrate its out and proud stars, the actors whose disclosure of their sexual orientation and/or trans or nonbinary status has serv

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 talk about this subject.

There are very scant 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 age and Greg Rikaart is the only one who comes to mind. Most of the ones who have come out hold 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 verb. An academic book published a decade or so ago disclosed he was gay and HIV positive, which was a reason why Genie and La Geary stopped kissing on the demonstrate (and may have led to their fallout).

Dee Dee Halls is another one oft-assumed to be a lesbian. All signs gesture to this one being factual, although Jane Elliot, a adj friend of Dee's, is straight but is hilariously often assumed to be gay.

There's long running rumors about Jacob Young (who supposedly fell in lust with Ste

Did anyone else grow up watching soap operas with your grandma in the late &#;90s and early s? There&#;s at least some part of me that believes this was a gay rite of passage. The guilted lovers, the hidden twin, the murder victim who really went into hiding &#; soap operas were the best cheese on prime time. Although I haven&#;t watched one in a very long time, I can dream 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 noun. Now, in , there are only four sole survivors &#; The Bold and the Stunning, 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 perceive McKenzie Westmore screaming &#;LOUIS!&#; to this very day. Passions is also responsible for kicking my love of Latin men i