Faulkner
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Gay men are stereotypical soap viewers, and there is certainly a preponderance of gay men on this board, but has there ever been a reliable study on how much of the daytime soap audience is LGBTQ or specifically gay men? Google is turning up nada...
Speaking of which, the LGBTQ community has a lot of shared experiences and cultural spaces, yet there are a lot of different communities represented in that acronym. Sort of like “Asian-American” has a connotation, yet could mean everything from Chinese- and Korean-American to Indian-, Pakistani-, Filipino-, Malay-, or Vietnamese-American. There are so many different experiences within LGBTQIA+, that it’s hard to imagine a daytime soap having the scope to truly represent all of it with more than mere lip service. That’s not to say they couldn’t have done a much better job...after all, they’ve have years to do it (in reality about 40 since portrayals of LGBTQ have been reasonably mainstream).
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From the United Kingdom
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Political commentator and gamer Hasan Piker
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This season has been draaaaagging, no pun intended.
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An interesting link I stumbled upon that I haven’t explored in its entirety—a resource for writers on how to be responsibly inclusive and “authentic” in their portrayals of various marginalized communities:
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1 minute ago, FrenchBug82 said:
Is that Ty Treadway at 3:06:25???????
Yes, it appears so! How did you scroll to that so quickly?
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The full Michael Delaney story on AMC, which is an amazing resource:
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31 minutes ago, FrenchBug82 said:
Yep. 1982-1983 Dr. Lynn Carson played by Donna Pescow who you might remember if you grew up in the late 80s as the mom from "Out of This World"
Clip of her at 4:49:
Hank Eliot coming out on ATWT (not allowed to embed this clip):
Billy Douglas comes out to his parents on OLTL. (I loved Wortham Krimmer as Andrew so much.)
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Tragic. Anorexia.
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3 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:
Last time I checked he had a d!ck!! Just sayin
Oh you checked now?
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9 minutes ago, AbcNbc247 said:
I've seen worse, but yeah, he definitely lost his way as time went on.
Chandler needs to step his p*ssy up too. Way too checked out on his most recent returns.
Again, I’d love to see some gay men and women with a few gray hairs. I suppose there’s a feeling that women only like gay men when they are cuddly and cute. (Plus, I’m assuming that the reason why these soaps even attempt to do gay stories is to appeal to a younger demo. Hence all the gays are 30-ish or younger.)0 -
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21 minutes ago, AbcNbc247 said:
The looks on his face in that clip said it all.
Well, tbf, Youtube did also flag Abby and EJ's shower scene and Ben and Ciara's first time too
I wonder if some of that is down to vengeful fans. There are so many far more envelope-pushing scenes that have been up on YouTube for years with millions of views.
Paul/Will/Sonny could have gone for years with better writing (and some cases, better acting). They are an interesting triangle because, unlike straight triangles, they’ve all fücked each other, yet they all play on each other’s insecurities. In a more progressive world, I would’ve loved to see them eventually try to be a throuple, which would be DISASTROUS (and therefore ripe for drama).
Still, Christopher Sean would be hard to replace as Paul.
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19 minutes ago, Vee said:
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'll never believe Guy Wilson is str8 after seeing those scenes. I have rarely seen a hetero love scene on a soap get that intensely horny between the two actors. There were a few scenes in the GL Conboy era that came close, where stuff with David Andrew Macdonald and Laura Wright felt almost uncomfortable to watch.
I never thought GW’s Will worked until they did the Paul story. But he took to those sex scenes like the proverbial fish to water.
1 minute ago, Soapsuds said:Paul is such a tease.. Lol
YouTube took down their love scene. It was flagged as inappropriate.. Sigh
How is that even possible? I see a lot more risqué stuff on YouTube all the time.
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14 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:
“You just WHAT?”
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23 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:
You mean when Will was riding Paul?
Lol. That, and just Paul’s seduction of Will and how unapologetically horny that scene is. Then the sex scene where the camera pans up from the clothes strewn on the floor to Paul and Will rolling around under the covers. And then the afterglow scene with Will going in for Round 2 when Sonny comes knocking on Paul’s hotel room door.
It was treated the same way a sexy infidelity scene would be treated for a straight couple.0 -
Pow!
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From Spain
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6 minutes ago, AbcNbc247 said:
Helloooo Daddy
I know, right? He and another guy I posted, Trevor LaPaglia, are doing a web series called “The Disappointments,” which is about an intergenerational gay couple. They are both so hot that I could almost overlook that it’s a “gay web series.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGa328uB-tS/?igshid=hazmqj388vv5
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LMAO
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This show is so incompetently written. It just throws story away. Like Sally coming clean about the Wyatt/Flo ordeal to Jack in the least dramatic way possible...
So Sally tells Jack she faked a deadly disease and held a woman hostage, and his response is, “I think we have to slow things down now.” Dafuq?!?!?This show is GHASTLY.
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Now news sites are confirming DMX’s passing via a press statement from his family:
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From USA
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LGBTQ Representation on Daytime Soaps
in Discuss The Soaps: Archive (2021 - 2023)
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I wonder if that’s part of the problem: how do you cater to a “hidden” audience that can’t (or won’t) be measured?
I also wonder, re: LGBTQIA, if soaps simply pick one letter of that acronym and then say, ok, we’ve got it covered? AMC may have said we have Bianca as a lesbian, why do we need a gay male character? (I know they briefly brought on transgender Zarf, who was tied to Bianca.) Or conversely, why would ATWT need a contract lesbian character when they had Luke and Noah? Which seems crazy but often happens when you see a broad, diverse community as one thing.