In light of Jay Leno’s “gay face” scandal, The Sword put together a video history of actor Ryan Philllippe’s queer One Life To Live character, who definitely had his fair share of longing, oh-so-pained glances.

We’ve included young Billy coming out to his father. It’s epitome of homo histrionics.

Ryan Phillippe popped over to Ellen this morning for a good old chat. The handsome and somewhat hapless actor, whose movie Stop Loss coincidentally opens this weekend, gabbed about his high school fashion sense, getting into the business and, yes, playing gay on One Life To Live, which cast him as the first openly homo teen in sudster history. It’s the most rousing interview since Oriana Falluci took on Ayatollah Khomein.