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As the World Turns ... and the towel drops!

Who woulda thunk that one of the most satisfying and well-rendered stories of young gay love would be coming to us through a summer soap opera storyline? But that's just what's happening over at As the World Turns, as Luke continues building his relationship with intern Noah.

On yesterday's episode Luke officially came out to Noah, but not before Noah accidentally dropped his towel in front of Luke, who was already mortified to walk in on his co-workers and friends in bed together (although we're still not clear on exactly what went down between the sheets). The moment was cute and unexpectedly racy, in a very sweet way -- and nothing about the budding romance smacks of any of the opportunism we're seeing on one of the summer's other high-profile gay stories.

Check out the towel-dropping and coming-out after the jump, as well as a supermix of the entire relationship up until today.

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  • you_will's picture

    interesting.....

    It's gonna be interesting how noah comes out....and luke's reaction.

    I like how when noah said "you never said anything" (about being gay) and luke said he doesn't go around announcing it, but that doesn't mean he is ashamed. My mom has this bad habit of introducing me as "this is my daughter liz....she's gay" and when i b-tch at her about it, she assumes i am ashamed. "this is my mom...she's straight. just letting you know..." PFT.

    ..i also got a laugh of luke's "don't say it....some of my best friends are gay" - - haha, it was so true. why do people feel the need to say that? ah, good times.

    also, i feel like van hansis may need a haircut soon. ok, that's all. :-P

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    jai's picture

    Story has been stop-and-start

    Yay for a mention of Luke, Noah, and ATWT, but I think the story has left much to be desired.  It has not been developed well, and only has good moments rather than a steady build.  Luke and Noah barely interacted until last week, even though Noah had been on for a month and interning at WOAK with him.  Luke was also only on about once a week from October of last year till June of this year.
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    hypertwink's picture

    He looks like...

    Now that I've seen Noah a few more times, he kinda reminds me of Eric Bana, sure without the big, tanned biceps of death, but still Bana-ish.
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    tjpeople's picture

    Noah gay

    How do we know noah is gay?

    (i only casually follow the show)

    Cylon's picture

    Various articles, including

    Various articles, including an interview with the actor who plays Noah, Jake Silbermann, have said he is.

     http://www.out.com/detail.asp?id=22601

    thommthomm's picture

    NO COMMENT...

    I decided to leave this topic alone, since everytime I say something about it, It seems like I am saying something wrong. I said how I felt and while I will keep reading what others post, I'll leave the comments I have in my head!!

    I did really like your post kinney fan, I gave you five(5) stars for it. Keep up the great posts.

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    you_will's picture

    :-P

    thank you thommthomm! :-)
    perrythaler's picture

    I don't follow this show

    I don't follow this show aside from what is posted on this website, but it's possible Noah is bisexual right?  That would be so great to have what appears to be a well rounded bisexual character on daytime.  But, knowing the cheesy "lets make them think that this is happening when really it's something totally different" that happens on soaps, I'm going to guess that their confusion and general non-post-coital bliss was the result of some definite nonperformance on Noah's part (which seems to be implied by this blog post anyway).  Maybe Noah has a tempestuous relationship with his father due to his sexuality and because of the argument, he was thinking that he could be attracted to Maddie, as it could possibly make things easier for him.

    Or maybe I'm reaching. :)

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