“One Life to Live” star David Fumero talks about the groundbreaking Oliver and Kyle storyline

Plenty of us gay guys have straight BFFs who help us navigate our way through life and vice-versa. But you don’t often see this portrasyed on television unless it’s in some kind of flamboyant gay sidekick way.

But leave it to ABC’s One Life to Live, which is doing so many things well with its gay storyline, to develop the straight-gay alliance between Oliver Fish (Scott Evans) and Cristian Vega (David Fumero).

An interview the hunky Fumero did with Brandon’s Buzz was previewed in this week’s terrific Gays of Our Lives column at AfterElton.com.

“I was glad they wrote Cristian the way they did, because that’s what I believe in,” Fumero says of his gay-friendly character. “We gotta grow up in this country, you know? I mean, we have way more important issues than … taking freedom away. What are we about? We’re a country about freedom. Let people live their lives, let them experience their free will… To forbid people that love each other to spend the rest of their lives [together] or to just have equality, just like straight people, is just ridiculous. It just makes no sense to me.”

The scenes between Fumero and Evans have an ease to them which is nio doubt helped by the fact that the two actors have become good friends off-screen and he’d like to see more of their humor injected into their scenes.

“Scott and I sometimes … we had one or two days there where it was just hard to keep a straight face. I don’t understand why they don’t write it more. I think it’s a different dynamic, and I think it’ll add to any story. You know … there’s a certain template that they use for soap operas that a lot of the time, I don’t know what it is … they’re afraid to go out of the box because [they’re afraid] it’s not gonna be received well. But most of the time, I think they underestimate the audience. People that watch daytime also watch prime time, and also watch films: it’s just entertainment! So I think it’d be cool if there was just no genre, if it just kinda broke, just simple storytelling.”