Soap Opera 'As the World Turns' gets criticism from BOTH sides over their gay couple

[LynneSin]

GLAAD claims they aren't portraying the couple realistically and of course our friends at American Family are freaking out because there is a gay couple on TV. No one wins.

http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2008-02-22/#tv3
Soap's Gay Characters Hit From Right and Left


CBS and Procter and Gamble have been caught in a pincers attack over a storyline involving a gay couple on the long-running As the World Turns, the Los Angeles Times indicated today (Friday). Gay activists have complained that two characters, a young gay couple named Luke and Noah (portrayed by Van Hansis and Jake Silbermann), have not been allowed to kiss or behave on camera the way heterosexual couples do. Damon Romine of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) told the newspaper that "while tremendous strides have been made on soaps, it's clear that we're not at a place where gay and transgender people are treated the same on daytime as they are on prime-time or cable." On the other hand, the American Family Assn. on Thursday urged members to contact Procter and Gamble to demand that it stop sponsoring "overtly pro-homosexual television programs." A spokeswoman for the company, which produces ATWT, said "We're trying to be sensitive to all the different audiences who watch our show. We do make our decision based on what we think is best for the show's diverse audience and what's best creatively."

[madinmaryland]

1. You watch that stuff? I thought you were a dork?

[TommyO]

2. Fuck the AFA! 'nuf said.

[Parche]

3. Young And Restless Is Better

Victor Rocks



:hi:

[terrya]

4. I've seen some of the young actors on those soaps.

Wouldn't bother me one damned bit to see them kissing.

[BOSSHOG]

5. Maybe they could be kidnapped, tortured and murdered

that would make the life lovers happy. Lordy they do share their values of hate and ignorance don't they?