As The World Turns won a GLAAD media award this week for their Luke & Noah storyline. The only other nominee, of course, was All My Children for their Bianca & Reese story. Since the awards have less to do with the plot of the show than with raising LGBT awareness in the medium, I'd have to say that the show was deserving of this win. I do wish there were more competition driving the show to tell better stories, of course.
That may actually be the case next year, though, and I'm not just talking about Guiding Light's Olivia & Natalia. Soap reporter Nelson Branco (who, honestly, isn't always correct in his scoops) has revealed in his latest Suds Report that a character on the number one rated daytime soap, The Young and the Restless, will be coming out of the closet very soon!
Y&R is one of the soaps that have never even attempted a gay story before, so if this proves to be true it would be a step forward. I don't think we'd be seeing this happen if it wasn't for how popular Luke & Noah have proved to be with fans and how much attention their pairing has brought to ATWT.
Of course, Y&R could follow the more 'traditional' route, most recently depicted with General Hospital's long since vanished Lucas, by just writing a coming out story and then either dropping the character afterward or never giving them a love life. With Nuke, Rianca, and Otalia as recent examples, though, I hope they'd realize that telling a gay story these days means telling a love story.
Only time will tell.
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