ALL: Would you accept a "straight" character coming out late in life?

[Cheap21]

I always thought Henry was Katie's gay sidekick. Big WTF when they showed him having romantic feelings for her.

lol...its true. I thought Ethan was more into JR than he was into Kendall. JR definetly seemed to enjoy hanging out with the tall Brit

[bellcurve]

It's never too late. A lot of times, the gays(before they actually come out) do have romantic feelings for their hags/fruitflies.

[R Sinclair]

GH's Alexis Davis is totally a lesbian.

[stenbeck212]

Make Brad gay and I'm moving to Genoa City.

As for more characters turning gay:

Janet, AMC

Clarke, B&B

David, OLTL

[DeeeDee]

Beware The Thighs Of Doom!

[Vee]

I remember the gay Holden rumors. Plausible to me.

I agree that later in life GLBT stories can and should be told. Certainly on OLTL nobody would blink if Rex realized he was deeply closeted and self-loathing, though he's not that much "later in life" (and the story I had in mind for him and C.J. Roberts cast none of them as saints). When I was thinking about GL I tinkered with a couple ideas for GLBT stories. One was the obvious meet cute young gay story, with "James" Chamberlain (Quint and Nola's son) and Shayne Lewis, but the other was with the previously-str8 Vicky Spaulding and Marah Lewis (as played by Kimberly Brown). And on DOOL, I thought a story with Kate Roberts (who's fucked just about everything else and worked as a jetsetting escort, so of course she'd have experience) would work. Same with Reva on GL. With some characters, as with some people in real life, you can tell that sex is not simply a form of expression, nor simply a weapon or currency, but something ingrained, an engine in them; gender is secondary.

[TC]

I always thought Jeremy from AMC/Loving would discover his gay self.

[JackPeyton]

hummm... brad's thighs... brad as gay.. humm.. i need to stop..

Mrs C on Y&R finding a female friend that she falls in love with would be great, IMHO. Paul & JT haveing a secret affair is so obvious its painful, IMHO.

on B&B they cant affor dnay men o be gay. there are not enough of them. however Felicia a les? yes.

ATWT could work it with henry & brad. GL's Bill lewis sure does leabe enough for it to work as well.

over on ABC daytime the fact that rex on OLTL isnt gay is just idiotic. Im sure Tess coulda had a few same sex flings. but they are both young and this is about later in life so... but the obvious on OLTL would be David.Jr on AMC sure seems to be all angry and stuff maybe due to all his pint up man love? again, hes not "later in life" but whatever. and on GH i could see Monica feeling all alone and hurt and all that god stuff and a female coems along and they become friends.. and then more. Mac could work it as well.

and on days.. i could see Lucas just not wanting a woman after sami. and he finds some guy. max so swings both ways.

[JamesF]

Of course she would. It's really amusing how the shows thing they are being so daring and cutting edge at times like Jessica Buchanan turning into a slutty alter ego. They don't even scratch the surface of what is normal life for young people today. I'm not saying everybody is sleeping with anything that moves but most people at least have friends in their orbit who swing both ways and do drugs and live otherwise perfectly 'normal' lives.

[JackPeyton]

i agree. but esp for a char like Tess. she was a drunken whore who went clubbin for a living. really? the girl never hooked up with a girl? please. im not saying Jessica should be gay or bi, but i do think it would be awsome if jessica ran into a girl who slapped her and called her a bitch and it comes out that when she was tess she had an affair with her.

[Vanguardian]

DAYS Max Brady is clearly one of those guys you can accept playing for both teams. While I think he's very cute with women, I can also see him being equally cute with guys. There's just something about him that oozes a bit of bisexuality I think.

[Vanguardian]

Natasha does give off a certain vibe, doesn't she?

[Vanguardian]

And even more characters: Jill Abbott, Y&R (Jess Walton's version has always given off a lesbian vibe IMO, and that almost deep smokey voice of hers just does it for her). Noah Bennett, PSSNS (He has no business playing a straight character, and a boring one at that)! Jack Abbott, Y&R (Somehow I'd buy it if it ever came up that Jack had a fling (or several flings) with some guy(s) in his distant past).

[Faulkner]

Meredith Baxter-Birney's late-in-life coming-out made me want to revisit this.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/34228231/ns/today-today_people/

[YRBB]

Brad (if he were alive) and J.T. as gay.... and Paul... lol I would buy any of them!

And Holden as well. For some reason.