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<blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 99446" data-attributes="member: 673">It&#039;s quite OTT when you seem them all listed together like that. I suppose on Melrose, they all had multiple divorces while on 90210, there were multiple addictions. Kelly&#039;s coke addiction is the one that I remember best whereas I&#039;d completely forgotten about Dylan&#039;s heroin use. I don&#039;t know if it was just an easy arc to throw at a character on a long running soap or if they were trying to make it like a kind of PG version of Bret Easton Ellis&#039; Less Than Zero.Gay characters on Beverly Hills 90210 were few and far between. I remember Kelly getting trapped in a burning building with a lesbian who subsequently fell in love with her. But from what I recall, LGBT characters only stuck around for a couple of episodes before moving on. You could take all the drugs you wanted on a FOX soap in the 90&#039;s but you couldn&#039;t really be gay. And if you were gay, you just weren&#039;t seen that often.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Carrie Fairchild, post: 99446, member: 673"] It's quite OTT when you seem them all listed together like that. I suppose on Melrose, they all had multiple divorces while on 90210, there were multiple addictions. Kelly's coke addiction is the one that I remember best whereas I'd completely forgotten about Dylan's heroin use. I don't know if it was just an easy arc to throw at a character on a long running soap or if they were trying to make it like a kind of PG version of Bret Easton Ellis' [I]Less Than Zero[/I]. Gay characters on Beverly Hills 90210 were few and far between. I remember Kelly getting trapped in a burning building with a lesbian who subsequently fell in love with her. But from what I recall, LGBT characters only stuck around for a couple of episodes before moving on. You could take all the drugs you wanted on a FOX soap in the 90's but you couldn't really be gay. And if you were gay, you just weren't seen that often. [/QUOTE]

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