Daytime TV to Get First Lesbian Kiss

Reuters ^ | April 14, 2003

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Daytime television viewers -- considered to be among America's most conservative audiences -- will see their first on-screen lesbian kiss next week, ABC television said on Monday. The kiss will take place during the April 22 episode of the Emmy-award winning soap opera "All My Children," making what ABC said would be a first in the world of daytime television.

It comes in a scene featuring gay teen character Bianca Montgomery (Eden Riegel), who came out as a lesbian in 2000, and her new friend Lena (Olga Sosnovska) who "in a moment of truth and true love ... comes to terms with her feelings."

"All My Children" has tackled a number of controversial topics during its 33 years on the air including AIDS, abortion, drug abuse, racial bias and teenage alcoholism.

"The theme of 'All My Children' from the beginning is the belief that, as God's children, we are all bound to each other by our common humanity despite our many personal differences; that it is our failure to understand and respect those differences that causes most of life's pain and suffering," said the show's creator, Agnes Nixon, in a statement..

"The Bianca story is our latest effort to dramatize that belief," she added.

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"...in a moment of truth and true love ... comes to terms with her feelings."

Sheesh.

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[Clemenza]

"Lesbians equal ratings" bump

[goodnesswins]

Oh, puke. "gay teen" .....sheesh.

[Hatteras]

I thought for sure Bobbi Spencer was going to be the first. Did she ever find a husband?

[Phantom Lord]

I hope they are lipstick and not butch.

[Huck]

Eden Reigel

Olga Sosnovska

[new cruelty]

She had a brain transplant and move to Io.

[Tai_Chung]

Eden Riegel

[HAL9000]

Eden Riegel <-- Former Clinton White House Intern

[RAT Patrol]

that it is our failure to understand and respect those differences that causes most of life's pain and suffering," Mankind never HAS, never SHOULD, and never WILL respect all behavioral differences. They are not equal.

[HumanaeVitae]

Enough with the fruitcakes already! Oh wait, I forgot...we need to "break down more barriers".

Notice how leftists are always talking about "tearing down walls" and "breaking down barriers"? They never tell you that the objective is tearing the whole damn house down.

[secret garden]

And they wonder why they keep losing viewers.

[Mr. Mojo]

Lipstick would get big ratings; Butch would get big complaints.

[Redcloak]

...her new friend Lena (Olga Sosnovska) who "in a moment of truth and true love ... comes to terms with her feelings."

It reads like a porno set-up.

[Defiant]

Well, now that Homer Simpson got kissed by a homosexual, I guess that's nothing.

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er,... um... I wouldn't know anything about that. : )

[onehipdad]

it is our failure to understand and respect those differences that causes most of life's pain and suffering," said the show's creator, Agnes Nixon, in a statement..

I don't think this is what Buddha had in mind when he wrote The Four Noble Truths....

[CIBvet]

I wonder if they'll go on to tell the truth about the alcoholism, drug addiction, STD's, AID's and domestic violence that permeate the homosexual lifstyle ?

[secret garden]

More interesting dynamics since Lucci is a conservative Republican and some thought that was the reason she was denied the daytime Emmy for so many years.