Claim: Joey Buchanan, a fictional character from the American daytime serial One Life to Live, supports his friend Billy after coming out as gay and Andrew helps bring the AIDS quilt to Llaniview to help the town tolerate the gay community.
Evidence: Joey Buchanan is a fictional character from the American daytime serial One Life to Live. In the summer of 1992, a teenage Joey befriends a closeted gay teen named Billy Douglas (Ryan Phillippe) who had a friendship with the Rev. Andrew later helps bring the AIDS quilt to Llanview to help the town to tolerate the gay community. Andrew is later found not to be sexually abusing Billy, which forces Billy to come out of the closet to his parents and to the citizens of Llanview.