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all the intimacy between Sonny and Will on screen. I understand the show has a lot of gay viewers and they’d like to include something for them, but it makes me so uncomfortable watching them. If I knew the guys were gay in real life I could accept it so much better. (I guess these two are very good actors because they really show their love for each other.) I’ve never, ever, thought of myself as homophobic but maybe that’s what this is. At any rate, I wish they’d cut way down on the physical display and let that take place off camera.
I can completely accept their relationship and like that at least one couple on the show is happy (for the moment) but I just don’t like the kissing and bed scenes. BTW, don’t they wear an awfully lot of clothing to bed? Do real people do that? I guess living in FL distorts my view. While away for Christmas it was very cold where I was and I tried to sleep in flannel pjs but felt like I was glued to the sheets and couldn’t move. Besides, when people do what they are supposedly doing, don’t they take all their clothes off?
Heck, does Days even show this much demonstrative behavior (outside of the bedroom) with their heterosexuals? I can deduct no other motive than gay pandering and/or trying to lay down a push the barriers reputation.
by Adrienne, Justin, Sami, Kate, E.J., Rafe, Maggie, Victor, etc., etc., and on and on and on with everyone in Salem, family member or otherwise. I mean, come on, the only one who did not accept their relationship right off the bat was Lucas, but now he, too, seems to be all peachy-keen happy for his gay son, and even attends PFLAG meetings and is making donations in Sonny’s name. I’m sure that’s not how it happens in real life as far as acceptability is concerned. This storyline is fine, but it would have been intensely more believable if we had seen some real conflict on all sides before everyone was showering them with support. Sorry, but I know that it just doesn’t happen that way in the real world. They did a "soft-side" version of how a gay child comes out and how he is accepted by his friends and family. Even T. gave loving support once he started seeing a girl whose brother just happened to be gay. I’ve often read that this is the reason why gay men and women don’t like to see a coming out story on a soap, because they know it will truly be botched when it comes to a truthful portrayal of it. Now, they are out and proud of it, and that’s fine. But when I go to a coffee shop, I do NOT see two gay men or women sitting at a table, kissing or even "pecking" at one another; I do not see them touching or grabbing each other’s faces, or running their fingers through each other’s hair, or sitting on a sofa in a public town square practically on top of each other. It just is not seen or heard of unless it’s on a soap opera.
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