Soap Star Comes Out

Greg Rikaart plays a bad boy on the soap opera, The Young and the Restless and has come out via a tweet and a picture of his cute boyfriend.  

Not getting married anytime soon, but celebrating #equality tonight nonetheless.

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Chris Engen Would Rather be Unemployed than Kiss a Guy

Chris Engen from The Young and the Restless quit his job in the middle of his contract to avoid having to kiss a man for his script. TV Guide reports:

A few days after The Nelson Ratings finally bought Chris Engen’s uneven portrayal of Adam Newman, the newcomer shocked the entire Y&R cast by quitting his role in the middle of his contract two days ago! According to sources, Engen bolted because, “he [allegedly] refused to kiss [his same-sex] co-star Yani Gellman [Rafe]. ... Chris is still under contract — and Y&R is seriously thinking of taking legal action.”

What an idiot. He has a regular, paying acting position and he leaves in the middle of a contract because of a kiss? I mean, really, if he ever does manage to land a role again after proving so unreliable, what if he's scripted to kiss an ugly woman? Will he blow that off, too? I had never heard of Engen before this. Hopefully we'll never have to hear about him again. But kudos to Y&R for being the fourth soap opera to include us queers in the mix. (The others, if you really need to watch a new soap opera are All My Children, As The World Turns and Guiding Light.

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As the World Turns, Luke and Noah kiss again

For those of you like me who never ever watch soaps, As the World Turns was the first soap to have openly gay characters and the first to have men kissing. That's old news, but here's the latest gay kiss for you, just because.
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