All my children gay
Overview
All My Children aired on ABC for 41 years, from January 5, 1970, to September 23, 2011. It was a quintessential daytime soap opera starring the legendary Erica Kane played by Susan Lucci.
Since Erica Kane is one of the most famous soap opera characters of all time, it was groundbreaking when her daughter Bianca Montgomery came out to her as a lesbian December 2000. In true soap opera form it took many episodes to get to that point.
From then on Bianca had many different relationships (each with committed fandoms), babies, a terrible rape plot line, a short relationship with a transgender lesbian rock star, a queer wedding, a homosexual divorce, a lgbtq+ remarriage and a dead girlfriend.
Queer Plotline Timeline
In 1983, Devon Shepherd befriend Dr. Lynn Carson accompanying being dumped. Lynn happened to be a lesbian, and for a short period of age, Devon wanted to date her. It turned out that Devon was misplacing her affections for an unattainable male onto Lynn, who gently turned her down and then vanished from the show.
The Eden Riegel version of Bianca returns to Pine Valley (the fictitious Philly Suburban town the show takes place in) in July 2000 and co
All My Children's Bianca is out -- and fans are reacting
Ever since Soap Central made its first hint that Bianca might be gay this past summer, fans have been hammering their keyboards, posting messages on our note boards, and rattling off email to weigh in with their thoughts. In the course of a one-hour time period last week, no less than 520 messages on the topic made their way to our mailboxes.
Here is sampling of the messages we've received. It should be noted that the majority of the mail received has been negative, or opposed, to the storyline.
"Homosexuality is wrong. And All My Children is wrong for promoting and condoning this type of behavior."
"I think a storyline with a 16-year vintage being gay is false. I know that it happens in the actual world but not All My Children and NOT [Bianca]. I say it again good-bye AMC if you do this. I thought I would always be watching but this [is] sick, sick, sick"
"I support [the homosexual] storyline because I am a mother of three children and understand that my children may experiment [with their sexuality] or be gay."
"The writers have done this [gay] stuff before. I don't approve and I don't like it. If Bianca really is g
On the 24th Anniversary of a Singularly Momentous All My Children Episode, Review the Crushing Scenes That Changed Everything Between Bianca and Erica
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For her entire career, mythical All My Children creator Agnes Nixon had believed in the importance of tackling social issues. She made Erica Kane’s right to an abortion must-see TV back at a time when people could barely bring themselves to whisper the synonyms. And when she returned to marker the ABC soap at the turn of the century, she revealed that Erica’s 16-year-old daughter, Bianca, was gay, and unflinchingly had the young woman show up out to her loved ones.
If Nixon was going to do this, she was going to go all in. She didn’t prefer just any ethics to tackle the issue, she chose a legacy nature. Not just that, she chose the daughter of Erica Kane. This wasn’t someone who would be swept under the rug months or even years later and forgotten. This was someone
EdenRiegelplayed Bianca Montgomery, Erica Kane's daughter, in the first "All My Children" on ABC and on "All My Children 2.0" by Prospect Park. You can reach out to her on Twitter: @EdenRiegel
I chatted with one of the most popular actresses who has portrayed a gay character: Eden Riegel (Bianca Montgomery) of soap opera "All My Children". Eden Riegel did not know her character Bianca was a lesbian when she won the role.
You started acting at the age of 7 years old on Broadway in Les Misérables. Please detail your audition and what you were feeling when you were told you got the part.
"I booked the part out of Washington, DC, close to where I was living in a Virginia suburb. It was a gigantic cattle call at the Kennedy Center that took all day with hundreds of kids auditioning. My mom read about it in the paper and we went, having no idea what we were doing. We didn't even really know what Les Mis was. My brother and I had done community theater and dinner theater, but nothing on this scale. All the other kids were more professional than us, more polished, more prepared. But our naturalism ended up working to our lead. I was very nervous which made me lo
10 Milestone Moments in Lgbtq+ TV History
July 28, 2013— -- intro: Univision made history this week when it aired a same-sex wedding on the telenovela "Amores Verdaderos" ("True Loves"). It's the first wedding of its compassionate (the, you know, homosexual kind) to be aired on the network. It was hella dramatic too, featuring lingering looks and straw hats and matching ties and a rotund pug in a tiny suit.
Buuuuut, it's not as if this exists in a vacuum -- a lot had to own happened to get Fusion's Papa network to this moment. So let's glare back on some of the many milestone moments in how gays and lesbians have been portrayed on television. (Stay tuned for part II of our Gay Milestone Moments in TV later this week -- there's a lot!)
We may have far to go, but we've come a long way, baby.
quicklist: 1title: First queer person on an American reality show text: Filmed in 1971 and first aired in early 1973, PBS' "An American Family" followed the lives of the Loud family, including eldest son Lance, who came out to his family during the show's run and, thus, became what is widely believed to be the first openly g