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| RogerD | Mar 5 2008, 12:41 PM Post #1 |
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TELEVISION CNN Showbiz Tonight - March 3, 2008 Editie NL (Dutch TV) - March 4, 2008 CBS 11 Dallas - story on the evening news - March 4, 2008 (no video available) RADIO NPR - The Bryant Park Project - March 4, 2008 Buzzworthy Radio - March 4, 2008 Tom Joyner Morning Show - March 6, 2008 (no audio available yet) MAGAZINES/MAGAZINE WEBSITES Out Magazine - The Nuke Files: An exclusive peek behind the scenes of the As the World Turns controversy. - March 4, 2008 Media Life Magazine - Boy o boy, that kiss wasn't just a kiss - March 6, 2008 TV Guide - ATWT Heats Up, But Not Between the Sheets - March 3, 2008 The Advocate - ATWT Viewers Want to See More of Gay Story Line - March 3, 2008 (Will have article in NEXT MONTH'S ISSUE!) Forbes Newsweek NEWSPAPERS/NEWS WEBSITES Associated Press - Unexpected Protest at a Soap - March 2, 2008 Boston Globe - Their soap smooch made history. Fans ask: Will it happen again? - March 1, 2008 Page 1 and page 2 scans of the article (thanks closetcase_99 for the scans!) Globe and Mail (Canada) - Soap opera devotees longing for a gay smooch - March 6, 2008 LA Times - Soap fans claim bias against gay characters - February 22, 2008 Scanned in LA Times Article! -- thanks to kubick for the scan! NY Daily News - Gay kiss is missed on soap - February 22, 2008 USA Today (scanned in article) - March 3, 2008 Rocky Mountain News Scan of Rocky Mountain news AP Story The Oregonian "article" Yahoo (UK) Entertainment News Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (LA Times article) Columbus Dispatch (LA Times article) ------ Scanned in Columbus Dispatch article! -- thanks to meadowlion for the scan! Miami Herald (LA Times article) News Observer - NC paper (LA Times Article) Dutch Coverage! Bay Windows - New England's Largest GLBT newspaper Southern Voice - Atlanta Metro Newspaper - Will be covered in the March 7th issue. Human Rights Campaign Back Story (Blog) Mr. Sardonic (Advocate Blog) Edge Boston PR-Inside Contact Music IMDB News Angelscitydevils.com Starpulse.com Windy City Times Contained within every link below is the AP story by David Bauder - with contributions from Roger and Theresa (NICE WORK TEAM!) ABC News (story also made it on TV on ABC World News Tonight - video not available) Akron Beacon Journal of which I'll see if I can find a print copy locally Albany Times Union, NY Allentown Morning Call, PA Anchorage Daily News AOL Canada AP (update with photo!) Arizona Central Arizona Daily Star, AZ Arizona State University Web Devil Asbury Park Press Atlanta Journal Constitution Auburn Citizen Augusta Chronicle Belleville News Democrat Backstage - NY BBC News BGay.com Biloxi Sun Herald Bismarck Tribune Blue Ridge Now Times-News Brandon Sun - Canada Breitbart Carlisle Sentinel, PA Casper Star Tribune, WY CBC Canadal CBS News - TheShowBuzz CBS News - TheShowBuzz Centre Daily Times Charlotte Observer Chicago Sun Times (finally - lead story on entertainment page - with blog) Chicago Sun Times (blog) Cleveland's Examiner CNN CNN International The Columbian (Clark County, Washington) Comcast Contra Costa Times Dallas News (Great headline - Soap Fans Clamor for more Luke & Noah) DeMorgen (Belgium newspaper) Denver Post Digital Spy, UK Earthlink Enterprise-Record (Chico) Fox News Fresno Bee Gawker Gay.com Hartford Courant Huffington Post IdahoStatesman.com, ID Times Daily (Alabama) The Ledger, FL New York Newsday Wichita Eagle Los Angeles Times Columbus Ledger-Enquirer Mid Columbia Tri City Herald, WA Metro Metro NYC Paper - Scan Monterey County Herald Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Herald-Journal (Spartanburg, SC) Topix -- excerpt and link to the full AP release Foster's Daily Democrat (with a typo in the title, but, oh, well) Norwalk Advocate International Business Times Palm Beach Post The Olympian preciseNews - Breaking News Every Few Minutes (24/7) MSNBC Palladium-Item (in Monday's print edition) - IN gaysocialites.com Penn Live - PA Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Longview Daily News, WA Central Florida News 13, FL mlive.com - MI Gaywired Herald Zeitung, TX Jackson Clarion Ledger, MS KATU, OR KLEW, ID KOMO, WA KPIC, OR KEPR 19, WA KCBY.com 11, OR KBCI CBS 2, ID KIDK, ID KSL KTAR.com, AZ KVAL, OR KVUE - TX KIMA CBS 29, WA Kentucky.com Macon Telegraph, GA Miami Herald Minneapolis Star Tribune Modesto Bee, CA Monticello.net, IL MSN MyFoxNY MyFoxKC MyFoxColorado Myrtle Beach Sun News, SC New York Times 9 News - Colorado News & Observer, NC TheNewsTribune (Tacoma, WA) Newsvine NPR PhillyBurbs.com San Jose Mercury News (update with photo!) Philadelphia Inquirer Sovo (Southern Voice - GA) WFAA - TX North County Times - CA Dutch Newspaper PlanetOut.com NewsOK.com (love the headline - Some fans of 'As the World Turns' feeling kissed-off) National Ledger SameSame(Australia) The Olympian, WA Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA Reading Eagle, PA South Bend Tribune, IN Cincinnati Enquirer Kingston Whig-Standard OneNewsNow San Diego Union-Tribune San Francisco Chronicle San Jose Mercury News San Luis Obispo Tribune Seattle Post Intelligence Seattle Post Intelligencer (TV GUIDE) Seattle Times Southtown Star StarNewsOnline (Southeastern North Carolina) StarNewsOnline.com, NC Syracuse Post-Standard Town Hall, DC Tampa Bay Times (Scans of AP article) Page 1 Page 2 Telegraaf (Dutch newspaper) The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA The Times - IN (Local paper represents!) Ventura County Star Washington Blade Washington Post Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier WFAA - ABC Dallas/Fort Worth WHEC - Rochester 10 WIBC.com, the site for an Indianapolis radio station WJLA - DC WRAL.com WSBradio.com, the site for an Atlanta radio station WTOP, DC Wyoming News York Daily Record There are numerous other newspapers that picked up the AP story as well. BLOGS PerezHilton - Don't Mess With The Gays! - March 3, 2008 TMZ - Angry Viewers Demand Gay Love - March 3, 2008 Towelroad - Fans Protest Bias Against Gay Affection on As the World Turns - February 22, 2008 Daytime Confidential - - February 21, 2008 TV Squad - Gay fans demand more love on As the World Turns - March 3, 2008 Marlena De Lacroix - As the World Turns’ Men in Love: The Controversy Rages! - February 25, 2008 Bloggers have published numerous versions of this story, but we are unable to keep track of them all. Edited by lukeandnoah, Mar 6 2008, 10:12 AM.
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| lukeandnoah | Mar 6 2008, 09:52 AM Post #2 |
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080306.LGAYTV06/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Television/ Soap opera devotees longing for a gay smooch The Globe and Mail (Canada) SIRI AGRELL March 6, 2008 Luke Snyder and Noah Mayer haven't kissed for 162 days. The same-sex couple are not fighting, or living in separate cities, or partaking in a self-imposed session of tantric restraint. Their romance is a storyline on the popular daytime soap opera As the World Turns - and its chaste nature is starting to get viewers all hot and bothered. "I don't know about anyone else; what I really wanted from them was a 'throw-his-back-up-against-the-wall-knock-his-hat-off-kiss-him-till-you-can't-breathe' kind of kiss ... à la Jack and Ennis in Brokeback Mountain," Jessica Wadleigh of London, Ont., wrote on a Facebook group dedicated to the duo. "Am I asking for too much?" The world of daytime soaps is not known for its restraint or rationality. Characters are married countless times, often to people who may or may not be a long-lost relative. Villains are killed off by falling chandeliers or aggressive brain tumours. Alcoholism, affairs and evil twins regularly fuel melodramatic showdowns. But the show has been timid about the couple's same-sex romance, even though As the World Turns was the first daytime drama to introduce a gay male character, in 1988. As the World Turns is not the only daytime drama to feature gay characters. In 1982, All My Children introduced Lynn Carson, the first gay soap opera character, and in 2003 the show aired the first lesbian kiss between the characters Bianca Montgomery and Lena Kundera. One Life to Live and General Hospital have also had gay characters. Last year's kiss between Luke and Noah, played by actors Van Hansis and Jake Silbermann, was the first smooch by gay men on a soap opera, and the relationship has been embraced by the show's largely female fan base, who lovingly refer to the duo as "Nuke." The relationship was slowly built within the show, and Noah was originally dating a female character. The pair became close after Luke was shot - by Noah's father, no less - and Noah helped Luke take the first steps of his recovery, while holding him gently by the hands. "There would have been a congratulatory kiss at the end of that scene if it had been any other couple on the show," Ms. Wadleigh said in an e-mail. "But they didn't do that for Nuke." So why has the pair's on-screen interaction been noticeably hands-off since their initial tongue play? The camera cut away when they were about to kiss under the mistletoe in a holiday episode. During a steamy Valentine's Day episode featuring fantasy sequences pegged to various couples, Luke and Noah just hugged. Fans of the show, both gay and straight, have started a campaign encouraging producers to ratchet up the romance. The website lukeandnoahfans.com keeps a "Nuke liplock clock," which counts the days, hours and minutes since the pair last kissed and encourages viewers to write letters to the show's producers. A photograph of Luke was the subject of a caption contest, with the winning entry reading: "I am crying because I am not allowed to kiss by the writers as that would be too offensive, but they do allow me to be gay-bashed, punched, and verbally abused." Representatives of Procter & Gamble Productions, the company that produces the CBS show, have said there is no ban on kissing. But Douglass St. Christian, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Western Ontario, said the show is abiding by pop-culture representations of same-sex couples as tame and domesticated. "They remain almost always completely non-erotic in their representation in popular culture," said Dr. St. Christian. "Lip-locking is not quite the same as writhing buttocks and sweaty breasts, the mainstay of straight sex scenes in mainstream media." Male couples on TV or in the movies are usually played for laughs, he said, as in last year's embarrassing Adam Sandler movie I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. Even Will and Grace, a long-running sitcom that features two gay men, involved almost no mentions of actual sex. Most fans of As the World Turns, Dr. St. Christian said, are really only asking for a watered-down interpretation of sexuality. "The fans don't want them to be sexual, just cute - 'Oh look, Luke and Noah are kissing again. How sweet,' " he said. "We will break out of this process of normalization when Luke and Noah will be portrayed in the same kind of soft-core sexual situations as their straight counterparts." Bart Testa, a film professor at the University of Toronto, said that "realistic" is not a word that comes to mind when he thinks of soap operas, but that prime-time TV is no better at representing same-sex romance. "The only recent show I can recall where this came to the centre of things was Six Feet Under, which tellingly has spawned no imitations," he said. "There are no overtly gay cultural figures, no leather men or dyke-lesbians [on television]. No gay subculture, in other words, because the thrust is to integration." For now, fans of As the World Turns will have to rely on replays of Luke and Noah's first kiss, a YouTube video of which has been viewed more than one million times. |
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