tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2673097919022475401.post5503391843512130886..comments2021-04-29T14:58:16.176-07:00Comments on MarkH's Soap Musings: GLBT on US soaps: A listingMarkHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14412341175849605973noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2673097919022475401.post-44707305528680366902008-09-18T07:34:00.000-07:002008-09-18T07:34:00.000-07:00Thanks for the great article, I make it a point to...Thanks for the great article, I make it a point to visit you often!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2673097919022475401.post-17716800801740708982008-06-23T17:54:00.000-07:002008-06-23T17:54:00.000-07:00Interesting rundown. I don't see anything substant...Interesting rundown. I don't see anything substantial that was left out, between your entry and DonnaB's comments. Some small corrections and minor addenda. The female lesbian-turned-swinger-turned-lesbian (Sharon was her name, I think) on Days actually made a pass at a shocked Julie ("I'm in love with you, Julie!"), but Julie's reaction was so decidedly negative that the woman tried to commit suicide. (Nice, huh?) On Another World, Harding Lemay wanted to make Michael Randolph gay, not Sandy Cory (who was introduced in the early 80s, between Lemay's two stints as HW), but Procter and Gamble reversed its initial approval of the storyline (this was late 1975). I don't know who the HW was at the time, but Sandy Cory *was* supposed to be gay as well, and that, too, got changed. (He was actually supposed to have been a male prostitute with male clients, and they ended up making him a male escort with a female clientele.) On The Doctors, 1976-77, the character of Tom Carroll (played by a breathtakingly beautiful young Jonathan Frakes) was supposed to be gay (storyline written by Douglas Marland), but again, the sponsor reversed its approval, and Tom became a child abuser instead. On One Life to Live in the 90s, there was a character who was transgendered--Wendi, the bartender at RJ's club. Also, on The City in the 90s, there was a transgendered Asian character (whose name escapes me at the moment). As the World Turns used to have an AIDS ball every year while Marland was writing it; it predated and was the precursor for the Nurses' Ball on GH/Port Charles.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11266939713745531861noreply@blogger.com