Gays of our Lives (September 15, 2009)

Welcome to another edition of Gays of Our Lives. We’ve got a lot for you this week, starting with plenty of clips for you in GOOL THEATER, including the debut of Welsh soap People of the Valley and its gay character Iolo. Plus, find out what makes All The Matters the Pick of the Week, how As The World Turns continues to find ways to be lame and why this week’s Coronation Street was a pleasant and welcome surprise.

GOOL SCOOPS AND SPOILERS has all the latest dish on what looks to be a great week in Llanview on One Life To Live, the latest spooky and silly happenings in The Lair, significant and surprising events between Syed and Christian on EastEnders and some comic mishaps on Greek.

In GOOL NEWSBEAT, one of my favorite gay characters of last year is making a return, check out what EastEnders Syed and Coronation Street’s Sean have to say about their characters and find out what’s coming up for One Live To Live’s Nick and Oliver, including some tasty behind the scenes dish. Plus, I’ve got some casting news from Ugly Betty.

All this and SNAPSHOTS and our SOAP STUD OF THE WEEK!

TABLE OF CONTENTS
GOOL THEATER
SCOOPS & SPOILERS
GOOL SNEAK PEEKS
GOOL NEWSBEAT
SNAPSHOTS
SOAP STUD OF THE WEEK
QUESTION OF THE WEEK

GOOL THEATER

PICK OF THE WEEK – All That Matters

It’s another week and another excellent series from episodes of ATM. This show just gets better and better with its mix of steamy sex, stormy romance and skating intrigue. Right now, it’s firing on all cylinders.

I really wish most other soaps would take a look at this show and see how they treat their gay characters. And by that I mean, just like everyone else on the show. Roman and Deniz have the same turmoil, the same angst, the same passions and the same desires as the straight folks. Nor are they desexualized, seldom seen or reduced to merely being everyone else’s friend. What. A. Concept.

Roman and Deniz have the same push-pull that the greatest love stories in soaps are made of. One minute they seem on the verge of getting together and making it work, and the next they couldn’t be further apart.

Their sexual tension, the longing and the love is right there on screen laid bare to provide pure soap entertainment. I realize that not every show can be as sexually explicit as this one, but they can be as emotionally fulfilling. It doesn’t take much, except commitment to the story and the characters.

Ricky solves the problem if whether to have sex with Roman
or Deniz by deciding to have sex with both of them.

The Marian and Jenny romance is a joy to watch. They were a couple you simply didn’t see coming, but that perfect sense now. I loved the twist of Axel finding out about the affair and how he and Jenny coming to an ‘understanding.’ But I’m truly looking forward to the relationship being exposed and watching these two struggle to have a real, day to day relationship with all the complications that come with it.

As for Roman and Deniz, I’ve given them enough love for this week. My only other comment is that I don’t get why everybody has to have sex in the public showers. The last time I looked that was a skating rink, not a bathhouse.