Tony Geary and his husband

Beautiful couple.

He’s been talking about it for a while now.

There’s an oral history of All In The Family called Those Were The Days that came out a few years ago, and Tony is quoted about the episode he was in, where he played MIke’s friend who Archie thought was gay. He talked about what it was like to do it as a gay man. I think that may have been the first time that he spoke about it publicly.

Plus, I think it’s basically an open secret that he and Ron Glass were a couple once upon a time.

OMG, I kissed that mouth!

Mouth has Herpes!

Luke is a homo!?

Wow, OP -- his partner sure is a pocket gay!

Didn't he (Geary) play a big stud heartthrob on the suds back in the day?

Anthony is a hobo?

He always was skeevy to me since I read that he insisted on being nude under the covers in his soap opera bedroom scenes.

Luke & Bore-a

R6- Pocket gays are cute.

I want a pocket gay.

If her were tinsy weensy he'd be a POCKETBOOK gay.

Tony's husband always posted Tony.

Ian Buchanan (Duke Lavery) always posts his partner.

[quote]Didn't he (Geary) play a big stud heartthrob on the suds back in the day?

Oh, yes. He was on General Hospital.

[quote]If you’re a longtime General Hospital fan, you likely remember one of the most-watched weddings in soap opera history. 30 million viewers tuned in to see Luke and Laura wed on November 16 and 17, 1981. After three years, Lucas Lorenzo Spencer (Anthony Geary) and Laura Webber Baldwin (Genie Francis) got married in a two-part episode on the ABC soap opera. The episode drew in lots of viewers in part because of Elizabeth Taylor, a self-proclaimed GH fan, played a guest role as a woman named Helena Cassadine, who cursed the newlyweds because she blamed Luke for the death of her husband.

They're verging on Jeb/Columba size disparity, but look happy.

R12, I’m with you. Maybe because I’m tall, not sure, but I love pocket gays.

R10 Why do you believe shit like that? Do you think shit like that is true?

I'm a pocket gay (5'4" 126 lbs) and back in my college whore days I was constantly amazed at how many big tall guys 6' and over loved getting worked over by us little ones.

I never knew Anthony Geary was gay. Weren't there rumors that Kin Shriner was gay?

I seem to remember around the time of the pandemic he was living in Amsterdam.

I never understood Tony Geary's appeal. I remember back during the "Luke and Laura" era and all the women swooning over that balding queen. I didn't get it.

I also remember him doing a cabaret show at the height of his fame, which was a total flop and more embarrassing than anything Countess Luann has ever done.

Never knew Geary was gay!

R21 - totally agree. This is how I remembered him. He had a fucking perm for crying out loud.

He actually looked more handsome 20 years later with white straight hair (probably a wig).

R23 Tony Geary, boner killer.

I never thought he was attractive. That hair helmet he used to sport was vile.

His head looks as big as his husband's entire body in OP's pic.

I think he was more handsome in his later years. Yeah, he still looks gay here, but so much better than the early 80s.

Me too! Didn’t know he was gay.Always thought he was unattractive and just never understood what women saw?

Rape me Luke

Two little old men, well, one very little, celebrating decades together into their old age. It’s quite sweet.

Geary married Claudio Gama in 2020, I believe.

[quote] I never understood Tony Geary's appeal. I remember back during the "Luke and Laura" era and all the women swooning over that balding queen. I didn't get it.

The whole "Luke and Laura" rape fantasy and bad boy image made him a hit with the ladies.

People forget that long, curly hair was popular at that time, for women AND men (e.g., Peter Frampton).

The rumors about Tony Geary being gay have been around for a long time here on DL.

Here he is in 1971 probably taped in late 1970 as Roger on a very early episode of All In The Family. I much prefer his straight ( ha ha) hair- much more attractive than his FRIZZY PERM of ten years later. I does not look like him at all. He was only 23 year old. He looks more like 33 year old in this episode.

Geary looks like Geppetto with Pinocchio in the OP pic.

Any pics of him (or anyone remember seeing him) from when he played a rapist on Y&R? I think his character raped one of the Brooks sisters.

Yes a perm had its day - but I don't remember them in the early 80's. That was a 70s thing.

His husband looks 20+ years younger than him.

[quote] The rumors about Tony Geary being gay have been around for a long time here on DL.

You could say that about basically any celebrity

Is that Jim Kerr & his beard Shelli

It seems my nana has found Datalounge (I had no idea Tony Geary is gay!)

He looks so much better with straight hair.

r33 Had no idea that was him. I remember that episode. He looked better in that picture. NO one looks good with a perm.

That hair was permed?!!!! I thought it was just bad frizzy to hair!

r20 He has been living in amsterdam for like 20 years or more.

R41- In general the clothing and hair aesthetics of 1971 were far superior to 1981.

I like some of the fashions of 1971. The girl in the middle is especially pretty and I particularly like her dress- God, I am so gay.

David Soul appeared in an episode of All In The Family around the same time but his case was the opposite. He had straight hair on Starsky and Hutch a few years later but on his 1971 appearance on All In The Family as Szabo Daborda he had a frizzy perm which was very unusual for 1971. This was a funny episode by the way.

Tell me about it, stud.

Soul could pass for Art Garfunkel there.

R44 The girl on the right looks like Naomi Watts.

R46 Members Only...the perfect jacket to wear when you take your fag hag out to the bars with you.

All the macho studs had that hair back then!

To R21, I agree with you, Luke Spencer was "fucking ugly" in GH. I never understood why anyone found Luke Spencer attractive enough to FUCK. Scotty Baldwin, Joe Kelly, The Drs. Webber Bros, and of course The Evil Dr. Alan Quartermaine, all of them could have raped me to DEATH. Not ugly ass Luke, knew he was gay.

I don’t believe he’s gay. He slept with Liz Taylor.

R33 his Apache Scarf was boss

R52 don't forget his love affair with GH's Marlena Laird!!!

To the poster at r17: I didn't mean to impugn his reputation, and I never watched the soaps and couldn't care less about Mr. Anthony "Tony" Geary, but I did hear this tidbit about being nude on set as backed up by this discussion board from 15 years ago. He apparently had said as much in a TV interview in 1982, which is where I probably heard it as a 16 year old boy, and it's stuck in my mind. At the time it was probably considered "method" and semi-OK. Now it could be considered harassment by a male actor with a higher status over a female actor with lower status (I have no idea who his co-star "Emma" was but everyone knew "Luke and Laura" at that time).

Wait how did he rape Laura if he’s a homo?

I don’t believe he’s a fag, this is just hollyweird propaganda!!!

How many times Tony play either a rapist, mentally ill mute or killer before he got GH? I remember him as George, the rapist on Y&R. He was creepy, needy and threatening. On Bright Promise, I think he was mute. So he broke a bit out of type as Luke, and how people got the chemistry thing with Laura was weird. Laura had cute Scotty at home, and his dull law books. But then, vampire Barnabas Collins became a fan sensation on Dark Shadows, and he was in his 40's and hardly conventionally handsome.

But… but… he raped Laura!

Terry Gross and her dry pussy

Tony liked the chocolate stick back in the day.

I used to skip classes in school with my friends to watch Luke and Laura. Lol, we had no idea he was gay. What a storyline. Luke rapes Laura and she falls in love. We were just clueless, lol.

r57 Luke and Laura is before my time, but last year I watched a youtube channel that had clips of their entire love story. I now understand it. Even though Luke is ugly he does have chemistry with Laura-- or at least the writing was so good and taboo (he raped her) that it worked. I wish daytime soaps were so well written. I actually was at the edge of my seat. LOL. Also everything about the late 70 is just so gritty even when unintentional that it just worked.

I've known Geary was gay for years. Not exactly a secret.

There was an essay in an academic book about soaps where the writer went to a few days of filming on the GH set somewhere in the early 00s I think, at a time where both Tony and Genie were still on GH (and before Genie's lengthy hiatus from the show).

The essay said that Genie was in charge of when and how to kiss Tony, and the reason was that Tony is gay and HIV positive, and Genie made her control of physical contact a part of her contract.

That's exactly right R62. He did have chemistry with her and we all thought he was unconventional in his looks. He had something that we all liked. The storyline was kind of dirty and sexy, too. It really grabbed me and my friends.

I was a young teen aged girl at the time of the whole “Campus Disco” era. They did a long slow burn with Luke and sister “Barbara Jean.” There was that whole Frank Smith and the Mob and the mob daughter he was supposed to marry. The whole story took a long time and as I recall he did the whole falling in love with Laura was full of adult yearning and hints of sex that had this 13 year old racing home from school and grabbing a tub of Friendly's Ice Cream. The whole world of GH was exciting then - the Floating Rib, Heather Steven Lars and the LSD, Tracy Q & Mitch. pre internet at 13, 14 life was Gopher on The Love Boat, Eight is Enough, Happy Days. All of the tv guys were clean cut and preppy. There was something about Tony Geary telling Laura that he was in love with her and couldn’t sleep and couldn’t eat and would be dead by the next day - with Rise in the background. it was sort of thrilling. And stupid me - I didn’t know that he taped her. They cut to a commercial - it was a Friday afternoon. I remember my little friend Beverly called at the commercial and we both said WHAT JUST HAPPENED? It was very exciting back then.

r65 Wait?? Did they imply incest with luke and barbara jean??

R66

If I remember correctly, Barbara Jean was on the show well before Luke and she talked about him quite often ( even talked about her sister Pat) before he actually showed up

He still had the permed hair in the early 90s. Him and genie did a guest shot on Roseanne.

R65, I love you! You captured that all so well. The nod to Friendly’s ice cream is is great.

"I couldn't care less about Mr. Anthony "Tony" Geary"

very very very DL comment, I love it

The minute he said he had an affair with Liz, I KNEW he was gay.

[quote] The essay said that Genie was in charge of when and how to kiss Tony, and the reason was that Tony is gay and HIV positive, and Genie made her control of physical contact a part of her contract.

I find it a little hard to believe someone would have published that.

R72 It does seem surprising.

But as the kids would say, I have the receipts.

Book cover:

Page 282 of said book.

PS: if I remember right, the writer of this essay was invited to the set by none other than DL's favorite grammar expert, Nancy Lee Grahn.

R74 This doesn't say Geary was HIV positive. It just says Genie Francis was worried he might have AIDS.

R75 True enough.

Whatever it says, the writing is shit.

While he deserved accolades, his demands for control over how his character was written really set a shitty precedent that some other big names in daytime have followed.

Maurice Benard apparently has similar demands and it detracts from the quality of the show.

Tootsie had a lot of as then unveiled Tony Geary traits. The wild ad libs, going off script - and of course Doris Belack's lady producer was based on Gloria Monty, who encouraged a backstage environment with cocaine dealers.

The original photo linked at OP may have been deleted but it was posted elsewhere, I just saw this on an FB page called "Born Gay."

Good for Tony for still getting cock at his age!!

Thanks for the pic R80. I'm mesmerized by the junk of the shelving behind them. Is that a small nativity scene on the bottom shelf - a man standing with a staff and some lambs or something. So Mormon Tony, well he's from Coalsville Utah, had a nativity scene on display. Weird.

The husband is Italian so maybe it's for him, who knows.

r65, right on! I got hooked a couple of years before, during the David Hamilton storyline and then things really heated up when Scotty dumped Bobbie Spencer for Laura, who was 16 years old. Scotty was in law school so was at least 21 or 22. I was 11 years old, and it didn't faze me that they had her character in sexual relationships with much older (David, Luke) men. Just about my entire sixth grade class watched the show.

I remember the rape scene and honestly didn't realize it was rape until I watched it as an adult. I thought Laura kept saying no because she wanted to but didn't want to cheat on Scotty. Then when the police found her in the park crying and asked if she'd been raped she went with that as an excuse.

It wasn’t rape rape.

Luke Spencer is GAY?!!! If my mother wasn't already dead this would have killed her.

Tony Geary is GAY!?!?!?

Next thing you know, someone is going to reveal that super hunk Rock Hudson is gay as well.

I never watched the soap, but I remember being a senior in high school and all the girls were talking about 'the wedding' episode (they all stayed home that day to watch it). A few days later, they brought in all the magazines with photos of 'Luke and Laura' on their wedding day, and I found nothing attractive about him.

Then I remember reading that he was joining 'Dynasty' as Blake's nephew (Ben's son) in January, 1987 to help boost ratings for the season, but then they changed the character to Blake's niece (Ben's daughter). I always wondered why they did that. Terri Garber was dull as 'Leslie'.

R88 that would have been hilarious. I think Tony is OLDER than Chris Cazenove who played Ben. And yes, Terri Garber so good in North and South, was a big dud on Dynasty. They gave her a stupid haircut and no sl,

I suspect the heartbreak he endured with Elizabeht Taylor (who wound up marrying a Tony Geary lookalike in Larry Fortensky) might have caused him to turn to men.

Between his heart breaking romances with Liz Taylor and director Marlena Laird, Tony found comfort in men.

R89 Actually, Cazenove was 4 years older than his proposed son. Don't forget, Joan Collins was less than 12 years older to her 'son' Gordon Thomson (and complained about his being cast as her son!) but no one cared. I think the producers just wanted a cast of good looking people - age be damned ! I don't think ages were a major concern on that series.

Ron Glass of "Barney Miller" was Tony's partner.

[quote]I think it’s basically an open secret that he and Ron Glass were a couple once upon a time.

Would love to know about this.

To R93& R94- I never found Luke Spencer attractive at all, I figured he was GAY with that bad perm.

I didn't know he was LOVERS with Ron Glass.

The Ron Glass thing has to my knowledge never been substantiated but it's a rumor that has been around for many years.

Tony had Ron’s big chocolate stick up his butt.

MARY!

Taking roles playing a rapist was maybe a good “cover” for Geary in those days. Late actor Peter Coffield did that, too, back in the 70s, playing a rapist in “Cry Rape.” Coffield also played Nancy’s ex-boyfriend on an episode of “Family” wherein he got rapey with her while hopped up on amphetamines.