Episode 15 - The Gays of Our Lives: Progress, Panic, and the Fight to Be Seen
“The Gays of Our Lives” is the kind of phrase bigots throw out when they think Days of Our Lives has suddenly gone too queer — which is funny, considering how long it took the show to get there in the first place.
Rachael and Jenn get into why Sonny mattered as the first openly gay legacy character, why Will’s coming-out story still works, and how characters like Paul, Andrew, Leo, Craig, Chanel, and Allie show both the progress Days made and the fear it never quite shook.
They talk later-in-life coming out, straight-coded queer men, women-loving-women stories that deserved better, and the…
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