“As the World Turns” Showcases Anti-Gay Discrimination

“As the World Turns” on CBS continues to keep LGBT issues in front of daytime television viewers through the story line of Luke and Noah, the young gay couple on the show. This time the show hit an issue that is all to real in many areas of the country - the lack of anti-discrimination laws in the area of housing. In states like Virginia, it is fully legal to refuse to rent to LGBT citizens. One can only hope that as time goes by more of the public will wake up to the fact that anti-gay discrimination in housing, employment and other areas is wide spread and legal in far more places that I suspect most people realize. Anti-discrimination laws are very greatly needed.

Here's what Greg In Hollywood had to say about the episode:

Things can move fast - or very slowly - on As the World Turns in the lives of our favorite young gay couple Luke (Van Hansis) and Noah (Jake Silbermann). They’re together, they’re apart, they’re kissing then they’re not then they are again. They’re not sleeping together more than a year into the relationship then suddenly do. Now, Luke is sobered up, Noah doesn’t want to join the Army or marry an Iraqi woman so they decide to move in together!

Noah finds the perfect place and all seems well until a homophobic landlord lies and tells them it is rented! Noah wants to just move on to another place but not feisty Luke: “We can’t let this landlord get away with breaking the law!” Luke’s mom Lily comes up with the idea of staging a protest and making it a part of Luke’s foundation which has been lacking a focus.

I must say, it is so refreshing to see ATWT writers give the boys this kind of storyline - reflecting real life - instead of cooking up some stupid murder plot we don’t care about.

As The World Turns Breaks New Ground

No doubt Don Wildmon and the fundies at American Family Association will be calling a boycott of CBS - after they get over their convulsions and hyperventilating - as a result of the afternoon soap opera, As the World Turns, showing a gay love scene that reveals love and romance rather than mere physical acts. It's about time that the USA entertainment networks acknowledge that gay relationships exist and that we feel love just like our heterosexual couples. A clip of the scene is set out below. Would that I had had a TV show that reflected my inner feelings and depicted gay relationships as normal when I was growing up. Kudos to CBS.