Remember? What soap had 1st gay character? What soap had actress's face lift on camera?

[bobbieinok]

It was a big story about 1st gay character. Remember hoopla but not which show.

Stumbled across the surgery when channel surfing. The actress decided to have one, and they wrote it in to the script for the character she was playing.

Don't remember the show.

And how rare black regulars were?

And heaven forbid there was a poor family as a regular part of the show!

An didn't the actor who starred in the McGuyver series start on a soap? And the actress who played the employer on Who's the Boss?

[spooky3]

1. I think it was "Katherine Chancellor" on Y&R who did

The surgery on camera, wasn’t it?

[pnwest]

13. Yes it was.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

2. OLTL?

[hlthe2b]

3. A LOT of major actors started on soaps. It is a bit sad that there are only a few left

with talk and game shows pretty much taken over the day time canvas. I never watched any of them regularly, but if one were home sick, it was a forbidden pleasure.

From the standpoint of new actors, though, I think the loss of this invaluable training ground is a loss. They also give roles to older actors, which I think is really important.

But, yeah, the soaps pretty much broke all the social ground and norms for all those things.

[bobbieinok]

5. I think it was ABC that especially used soaps ss training ground for new sctors

[CurtEastPoint]

4. Soap, 1977, Billy Crystal was a gay character, Jodie.

[bobbieinok]

7. I think a regular daytime opera did it before that.

[CurtEastPoint]

9. Right...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LGBT_characters_in_soap_operas

[Loki Liesmith]

8. Was Soap really a soap though?

[Harker]

18. Good question...

As a sendup of the genre, it achieved verisimilitude.

So, yes and no. Maybe.

[Mike Nelson]

6. I didn't watch...

... daytime soap operas much (except "Dark Shadows&quot - but I do recall a show at night had a gay character. It was titled "Soap".

[bobbieinok]

10. Dark Shadows was really something else! One I stumbled across

[samnsara]

14. In 1969 I named my daughter Angelique after the witch Dark Shadows...

...i started watching the whole thing again on Netflix awhile back an boy was it boring.. can believe i ran home after school to watch it

[irisblue]

16. 4:01 pm, eastern. I loved Angelique and Barnabas and Josie

Julia Hoffman though...geez

[blm]

11. Another World had Linda Dano's facelift written in.

[MuseRider]

12. I believe the first male gay kiss

was on As The World Turns. My mother and grandmother were totally committed to that show. It was funny how they would call after the "story" was over. I don't think they had the first gay character but the kiss I believe was the first.

[samnsara]

15. lol my grandmother used to call them 'my stories'..i think they were 15 minutes long back then..

[MuseRider]

17. :-) n/t

[Tree-Hugger]

19. All My Children

They had a gay character in the early 80's, but no love storyline.

Then there was one on As The World Turns in the late 80's.

OLTL - the only soap I have ever watched - had a teenage gay character in the very early 90's. That one had a lot of buzz because he had a big storyline. That may be the hoopla?

There have been many gay characters since plus the first gay kids, first gay wedding, first gay love scene (OLTL), first trans character, etc.

I didn't watch any soaps other than OLTL, which I watched mainly in the 90's and early 2000's......esoecially during all the big Todd Manning storylines. OLTL had black characters, poor characters, Latino characyers, etc.