Facebook Twitter Pinterest How the Sun covered the story of the EastEnders gay kiss in 1989When news broke that Cashman’s character would share the first gay kiss in a British soap (a peck on the forehead), the backlash only intensified. But the kiss went ahead (Cashman says Smith threatened to resign if it was edited out) and the furore died down. By comparison, his next on-screen kiss – British soap’s first gay kiss on the lips – passed unremarkably. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Michael Cashman, aged 12, in a publicity shot from 1963“I wanted my mother to rescue me,” Cashman says. Initially dismissive when Cashman came out to him, the more Cashman campaigned, the more supportive his father became.

Source: The Guardian January 29, 2020 10:02 UTC