HomoQuotable - Wesley Eure

"After nine years, my [Days Of Our Lives] contract was up, but I was hosting the number one show for Nickelodeon, Finders Keepers. It was on cable, but this was before everybody had Nickelodeon. Mark Summers was doing Double Dare. I was getting bigger ratings than Mark. I became the number one host for kids for two seasons, and then we heard the show was being sold to Fox. Everybody else was celebrating and I went, "Oh, no. I'm out of a job." Sure enough. I waited, I kept calling, "Am I hosting the show?" They wouldn't answer the question, and then I got the call they went with somebody younger.

"I knew Fox and NBC were run by gay men at the time, but what was odd about the industry at the time, it was amazing how the gay men were perpetuating the damage. I remember Earl Greenburg — who was a big philanthropist here in Palm Springs, and had the Desert AIDS Project, he did some wonderful work, he's passed away now this last year — but the first time I saw him in Palm Springs, he said, "Didn't I fire you?" He was head of NBC Daytime at the time." - 70's sci-fi campfest Land Of The Lost star (and Tiger Beat pinup) Wesley Eure, coming out to After Elton.

Eure, who was once the lover of Richard Chamberlain, says that gay men were once instrumental in keeping gay actors out of work. Like many of you, I had a ferocious crush on him. He was the only thing on Land Of The Lost that made the ridiculous Sleezstak and Chaka worth enduring. Oh, and the dad. Yeah, definitely the dad.