It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for; the moment we never thought would ever see the light of day. Yes, soap fans, Emmerdale’s loved up gay couple Paul Lambert (Mathew Bose) and Jonny Foster (Richard Grieve) have FINALLY done the deed and tied the knot! Not once but twice!

Of course, this being a gay soap wedding, the happy day was never going to go off without a hitch. With the bickering Blackstocks (that’s Paul’s proud parents, Rodney and Val) at loggerheads over the ceremony, Jonny and Paul decided to do a runner from their own wedding.

Have no fear though folks, the lovebirds simply decided to ditch being the star attraction at the Home Farm freak show in favour of a much simpler affair down at their local registry office.

But alas the newly married couple were far too chicken to break the news to either of their parents - not that anyone can blame them! So they decided to go ahead and get married again, this time in front of their family and friends, complete with Jonny’s best man Barry as a pretend registrar!

Despite being Emmerdale’s first gay wedding (sorry, civil partnership!) Paul and Jonny’s marriage was altogether something of a lacklustre affair. In fact, at times it felt like watching a Carry On film; I half expected to hear Kenneth Williams’s unmistakable laugh or one of Sid James’s classic filthy cackles! But at least Paul and Jonny got their happy ending. For now.

Highs: Paul and Jonny looking oh-so handsome in their snappy suits; and Jonny’s mum Patricia dolled up like a dog’s dinner – complete with a fashion accessory pooch tucked under her arm!

Lows: Bev the blubbering lesbian; Val’s tacky ice sculptures; and zero smooching between the lovebirds. Instead we had to make do with a brief peck on the cheek and a manly hug! What’s up with that?!

It's like this: we're losing. Bad.

I'm referring, of course, to the poll going on right now at hollywood.com's CBS Soaps site, where the whole queer Luke/Noah storyline is going down (sorry) to defeat.

Luke owns me for the best line ever in a soap, when he tells his female best friend Maddie, "Yes, Maddie, we're the perfect prom couple, except that I'm gay and your boyfriend is in jail." I hate when that happens.

But seriously (although it actually pains me to use that phrase), this storyline is a groundbreaking one. Luke is a character who has grown up on As the World Turns, and is a genuine part of the soap family. The introduction of Noah, an out gay teen who moves into town, has been creating a huge amount of buzz, and being treated like, well, the birth of a new soap uber-couple.

Right now, not so much with the deathless romance, though. In the poll, which asks "Should Luke pursue a relationship with Noah," here are over a thousand votes against, and only 122 for, their relationship. This is completely unacceptable. Go vote. Vote now. Vote often. Get your friends, family, and pets to vote.

Soap poll is here. And as your reward, under the jump is a little piece of the ongoing saga of Luke and Noah and best girlfriend Maddie.

I don't actually watch soap operas (no, shut up, I really don't!), but some of my best friends do, and one of them sent me this link the other day. She said, look, there was gay sex on Passions this week, you should write about it for that gay men's website you blog for.

And I thought, right, gay sex on television, like that's going to happen.

But it did, along with a sort of strange SM/retro-closeted/denial/coming out sort of vibe that kind of freaked me out.

This falls into a personal category of things I call res ipsa loquitur. And then my friends are all, oh Christie, stop trying to act all clever and speaking Latin and stuff, so I translate: this is one of those things that speaks for itself.

But then my editors go, ummm, Christie, we pay you to write, not point dumbly at a YouTube clip and say oh my god, they have the hot and somewhat kinky mansex on Passions.

But just watch this clip after the jump, and then you'll understand why I kind of thought it should speak for itself: