So it seems fans of CBS soap opera "As the World Turns" are getting up in arms because there's not enough gay kissing on their screens - and all power to them!
(My TV show of choice at the moment is Torchwood, which certainly doesn't stint on the man-on-man lip-locking, but even in a more mainstream show, it does seem somewhat strange that 'As The World Turns' is backing away from showing Luke and Noah kissing in the same way any of the heterosexual couples on the show are shown, in the context of writing them into a long term gay relationship.)
It also seems a little odd to my English eyes that it's still an issue for the makers of US TV, and in that context I guess maybe As the World Turns should get props for the existence of the storyline, but the last time I can remember a flurry of protest about gay kissing on tv in the UK was about six years back, when complaints about a gay screen kiss in a mainstream, early-evening soap/drama, broadcast on a commercial channel, were turned down by the regulators on the - extremely sane - grounds that the gender of the people kissing on screen has nothing to do with how appropriate or not it is to air the kiss when kids can be assumed to be watching.
As it should be!
We're not talking about that rimming scene from the first episode of Queer as Folk (although we can pause while we all think about it ...) we're talking about someone kissing their boyfriend. I'm all in favour of people kissing their boyfriends, or girlfriends, regardless of their genders. Kissing is fabulous! Bring on the kissing!
In fact, lets have a little first-kiss action right here, from the boys I wrote about in Favor: ( click for kisses )
(My TV show of choice at the moment is Torchwood, which certainly doesn't stint on the man-on-man lip-locking, but even in a more mainstream show, it does seem somewhat strange that 'As The World Turns' is backing away from showing Luke and Noah kissing in the same way any of the heterosexual couples on the show are shown, in the context of writing them into a long term gay relationship.)
It also seems a little odd to my English eyes that it's still an issue for the makers of US TV, and in that context I guess maybe As the World Turns should get props for the existence of the storyline, but the last time I can remember a flurry of protest about gay kissing on tv in the UK was about six years back, when complaints about a gay screen kiss in a mainstream, early-evening soap/drama, broadcast on a commercial channel, were turned down by the regulators on the - extremely sane - grounds that the gender of the people kissing on screen has nothing to do with how appropriate or not it is to air the kiss when kids can be assumed to be watching.
As it should be!
We're not talking about that rimming scene from the first episode of Queer as Folk (although we can pause while we all think about it ...) we're talking about someone kissing their boyfriend. I'm all in favour of people kissing their boyfriends, or girlfriends, regardless of their genders. Kissing is fabulous! Bring on the kissing!
In fact, lets have a little first-kiss action right here, from the boys I wrote about in Favor: ( click for kisses )
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