Yahoo News EastEnders wins Gay Times Honour for LGBT storylines
EastEnders has won a Gay Times Honour award in recognition of its LGBT storylines.
The soap – which included the first gay kiss in a British soap in 1987 – has frequently set the bar for LGBTQ storytelling.
It regularly features a fair amount of LGBTQ characters and the series has pioneered representation of gay characters on British television as a whole.
To celebrate, they were honoured with the Jackie Forster Gay Times Honour: Impact in Media, TV and Entertainment during the inaugural Gay Times Honours ceremony on Saturday evening (November 18).
Speaking about one of the soap's most recent coming out storylines, writer Daran Little explained the message of acceptance he wanted to promote.
[Mick supported his son Johnny (then played by Sam Strike) when he revealed that he is gay]
"A few years ago I wrote a coming out scene between Johnny Carter telling his dad Mick, played by Danny Dyer, that he was gay," he said (via Gay Times).
"I didn't want to do it as an ordinary coming out scene. I wanted to do it so the father knew and was telling them that it was okay if he was gay.
"I wrote it that way because it was a conversation that I'd never had with my parents – especially not my father – and it's a conversation that I could have wanted to have had."
Congrats, guys!
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