What a surprise that ATWT is rethinking their decision!

But I love TC's comments about the whole thing. I'm only glad I wasn't drinking someone when I read it otherwise I'd need a new computer screen cause I laughed so loud!

I gotta add though that all the kisses in the world won't mean much if Luke and Noah don't get an interesting story, at least to me. Yes, they do have a story, but whether it's interesting or not is up for grabs. But one battle at a time! Sadly, campagining for a better plot won't get you much press. But I suppose you have to start somewhere and use whatever tool you have at your disposal!

 

It would be better if they dump Nuke because what they're doing now is worse. At least we'll have the producer's homophobia out in the open and we can galvanize a boycott of CBS more effectively.

I had no idea that David Hernandez was a pole dancer, this is my first time getting this kind of information on him, Holy crap! I cant say that I had no idea that he was gay though.

Ending the story is not the answer. Treating them fairly is and maybe this will lead to that. Besides, CBS has made it clear this is not their doing. The show may air on their network, but they don't own it and don't make the final creative choices. That comes down to P&G. Therefore, boycotting the network would be pointless, especially if Luke and Noah are off the air because once they are gone, they are gone and wouldn't be coming back.

how shocking, except...NOT.

sad that pressure has led to a push for something as simple as a kiss. a kiss.

did they not know about the success of Brokeback Mountain or QAF?

TSK.

Nelson Branco, who wrote the article for Out, concludes by suggesting that maybe the producers will end the whole controversy by just getting rid of Nuke altogether.

I didn't see any mention of this in the article at all. Did I miss something?

Also, thanks, OUT for joining the party. God bless the gay press.

The OUT article ends with an exec at a rival network talking about creating a gay storyline to compete with ATWT:

One rival daytime executive suggests that another network should pen its own gay love story -- but unlike ATWT, tell it properly. “Clearly there's a demand out there,” the executive says. “And we wouldn't be shy about showing any kissing. We'd kill for this kind of publicity!”

Hopefully P&G is taking note. They have everything they need to tell a good gay story ALREADY, including two actors with phenomenal chemistry. All they lack is the resolve to do it. Maybe all this attention will convince them...

If Austin Peck who makes no bones about his Christianity thinks that they are in the wrong then the producers at P&G need to wise up. By trying to please everyone they will end up pleasing no one.

I'll bet it's LADY DRUMSTICK.

None of the the previous attempts to introduce gay characters into a soap has worked out from Ryan Phillipe as Billy Douglas on One Life To Live in 1992 to Jeffey Carlson as the transexual Zarf on ALL MY CHILDREN. No gay characters survive very long.  Those values groups are a well oiled machine that can swing into action all too quickly.  Soaps are a huge profit center for the networks so when their advertisers are threatened, they take tho lower road with the offenders.  It is interesting that there is no date to prove that these threatened boycotts actually take place, or that they work.

It is similar to the theory that gays in the military would commit treason to hide their sexuality.  In the whole of history there is one example of a gay man commiting treason because of his sexuality.  If you want to go to Netflix or Amazon to view the film, COLONEL REIDEL, with Klaus Maria Brandauer,  about this Hungarian officer.  That's right no American gay service member at any level has sold out to protect their own lives.  Eat that Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld!

Let's take a step back from Luke, Noah and the kiss. Is it just me or is what has been accomplished not important. Whatever happens the on-line community succeeded in bringing this to the mainstream media. They heard us. We have been demanding answers and coverage and we have gotten it. I hope that it doesn't have a negative impact on the storyline but I think it is great that we found a way to make ourselves heard. The CNN coverage was great. You've got a conservative talk show host saying what sounds to me like the gay story is okay but having them kiss would be "pushing our agenda". He then says that the site lukeandnoahfans.com was setup just to protest the lack of kissing. Obviously he has no idea what he is talking about. The silly CNN entertainment talking head makes it sound like all the soap fans are in an uproar over this. I think it's great that they don't pin it down to only gay fans. If you haven't checked it out on youtube yet you should do so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE4Czc75oH8&eurl=http://www.lukeandnoahfans.com/

Is that The Blonde Obstacle has revealed exactly how it is that she has ensnared Austin From Days.

Now I just have to find one of these "vagina" things that she speaks of and he's mine! 

If you take a good look at what's come to be known as "The McCarthy Era" you'll note that "anti-communism" takes the form of an anti-gay witchhunt - conducted largely by closet queens (ie. Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, J. Edgar Hoover.) Whittaker Chambers was gay, and Alger Hiss was a closet case. In his invaluable Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara, Joe Lesuer reveals that he (Le Seuer) once slept with Alger Hiss' boyfriend (!)

 

The British spies who defected to the Soviet Union were gay. Alan Bates gave the performance of his life as Guy Burgess in An Englishman Abroad, John Schlesinger's great telefilm scripted by the peerless Alan Bennett. And that's not to mention Another Country with Rupert Everett (back when he was actually interesting as an actor) as the young Guy Burgess, smooching the babe-a-licious Cary Elwes.