Billy Douglas (One Life to Live): Difference between revisions

| years = 1992–19941992–93

| last = {{end date|JuneMay 22, 19941993}}

| image1 = File:Ryan Phillippe as Billy Douglas OLTL.png

| introducer = [[Linda Gottlieb]]

'''Billy Douglas''' is a [[character (arts)|fictional character]] on the American soap opera ''[[One Life to Live]]''. Newcomer actor [[Ryan Phillippe]] played the role from April 1992 until JuneMay 19941993. The character is the first [[coming out|openly]] [[gay]] teenager featured in a [[serial (radio and television)|television series]],<ref name="Gray2009">{{cite book|last=Gray|first=Jonathan|title=Television Entertainment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dsWNAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA121|date=2 June 2009|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-25349-3|pages=121–}}</ref><ref name="Brown2007">{{cite book|last=Brown|first=Lauren|title=Reese Witherspoon: The Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n7JGMfc_oJ0C|year=2007|publisher=Thunder's Mouth Press|isbn=978-1-56025-988-6}}</ref><ref name="Pohlen2015">{{cite book|last=Pohlen|first=Jerome|title=Gay & Lesbian History for Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights, with 21 Activities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yKaBCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT433|date=1 October 2015|publisher=Chicago Review Press|isbn=978-1-61373-085-0|pages=433–}}</ref><ref name="PullenCooper2010">{{cite book|last1=Pullen|first1=Christopher|last2=Cooper|first2=Margaret|title=LGBT Identity and Online New Media|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qCLJBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT211|date=4 June 2010|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-99753-2|pages=211–}}</ref> and Phillippe's [[breakthrough role]]<ref name="Gross2012"/> is considered groundbreaking in [[daytime television]].<ref name="EW Harris">{{cite magazine|last=Harris|first=Mark|title=''One Life'' Breaks One Taboo|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,310941,00.html|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|via=ew.com|access-date=December 14, 2012|date=June 26, 1992}}</ref><ref name="Advocate2002">{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Two degrees of separation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0GIEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22billy+douglas%22+%22ryan+phillippe%22&pg=PA22 |magazine=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]] |date=5 February 2002 |access-date=19 February 2017}}</ref><ref name="AndersenGray2007">{{cite book|last1=Andersen|first1=Robin|last2=Gray|first2=Jonathan|title=Battleground: The Media|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E9vSm3KokMcC&pg=PT168|date=30 December 2007|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-56720-746-0|pages=168–}}</ref><ref name="CurranLiebes2002"/>

==StorylinesStoryline==

At the [[pulpit]], Andrew delivers a stirring sermon on privacy and [[toleration|tolerance]], swaying all of his congregation but Billy's father, who encourages parishioners to [[rebuke]] the priest. Billy comes out to his father, who rejects him.<ref name="EW Harris"/><ref>{{Cite episode |series=One Life to Live |series-link=One Life to Live |network=[[American Broadcasting Company]] |date=June 26, 1992 |season=24 |language=en}}</ref> His mother Virginia espouses her support in spite of hatred from some townspeople, some of whom begin to accept him. The reputation of Reverend Carpenter is restored, as he succeeds in [[winning hearts and minds]], while Marty's reputation is tarnished even further..<ref name="OLTL92-6">{{cite web |url=http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/1992-93/19925.html |title=''One Life to Live'' recap (1992, Part 6) |publisher=[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] |access-date=19 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080423063341/http://abc.go.com/daytime/onelifetolive/episodes/1992-93/19925.html |archive-date=April 23, 2008}}</ref>

Billy is paired in a romantic relationship with [[waiter]] Rick Mitchell (Joe Fiske) in December 1992. The role is written out of the show as leaving Llanview to start college at [[Yale University]] in [[New Haven, Connecticut]] in the spring of 1993.<ref name="Gross2012">{{cite book|last=Gross|first=Larry|title=Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aF3x8sUB1bEC&pg=PA219|date=24 July 2012|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-52932-7|pages=219–}}</ref><ref name="JosephCortese2006">{{cite book|last1=Joseph|first1=Anthony|last2=Cortese|first2=Paul|title=Opposing Hate Speech|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z0_9MKrF8owC&pg=PA192|year=2006|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-275-98427-4|pages=192–}}</ref> TheBesides charactermaking isan rarely,appearance ifan everepisode aired in June 1994, the character never mentioned again.<ref name="Allen2002"/>