Chad Allen Going to 'Hospital'

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Chad Allen Going

            to Hospital
       The gay
            actor will play Eric Whitlow, the love interest to a
            male       doctor      
 Outtraveler Staff
          
          Aug 21, 2008
          
        
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       Actor Chad Allen
            has nabbed a three-episode arc on SOAPnet's General
                Hospital: NightShift, reports the Gay       and
            Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.     
       The gay
            actor will play Eric Whitlow, the love interest to a
            male       doctor who initiates Whitlow's liver
            transplant. Allen's first       appearance will air
            September 23. General       Hospital: Night Shift
            -- the highest-rated show on cable network       SOAPnet
            -- is a spin-off of ABC's long-running General Hospital.
       Allen is best
            known for his roles on Dr. Quinn:       Medicine Woman,
                Charmed, Our House, and here! network's Donald
            Strachey mysteries. (The Advocate)     

        
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Chad Allen Going to Hospital

The gay actor will play Eric Whitlow, the love interest to a male doctor

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Most Popular

The state legislature’s LGBTQ+ caucus called the move “weaponizing transphobia as an electoral tactic.”

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Chad Allen Going
to Hospital