I believe both Van and Meg ended up in New York briefly in the late 1950s. For some reason, I thought it was slightly longer. I know the parents stopped appearing in the mid 1950s, or at least according to the soap books.
I'm very curious on how Bruce entered the story. I imagine that he married Van and brought her home to Rosehill, but that has always been my assumption. I am unsure if the marriage took place in Rosehill, New York, or even Barrowsville.
I believe Jean McBride, Bonnie Bartlett, and writer John Hess all leave within a year of the show expanding to a half hour. The shift to Rosehill would be within the year of the transition as Bruce is introduced in January, 1959 and the wedding of Bruce and Van is in April, 1959, when Audrey Peters assumes the role.
Original headwriter John Hess' script collections is stored at Darmouth. The scripts run through July, 1958. So some of that would be covered.
I don't think the modern soap community considers this as gay content, but I do think that this content in film is often considered in films of the time as having a queer interest. I think there are probably a lot of lost "gay adjacent" storylines that have fallen by the wayside. Brad Vernon was actually assaulted in prison around the same time (I can't remember if it was before or after). Also, wasn't Bill Horton "attacked" in prison in a way that suggested he may have been sexually assaulted or was that a completely aborted story? Then, there was the "Sympathy and Tea" storyline on "How to Survive a Marriage" with Brad Davis' Alex Kronos who was attracted to Rosemary Prinz even though his father suggested he was too weak or something along those lines.
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