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My problem with the gay storyline on Days and on, what seems like, ALL tv shows is that the gay community isn’t the only "different" community out there. But because Hollywood is so overboard pushing the gay political correctness we all have to be subjected to gay storylines. What about Vegans? Aliens? People who have never killed anybody? People who are monogamous?
According to the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, 9 million (about 3.8%) of Americans identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (2011). So why does every tv show need to have a character who is gay?
what about people who are disabled, blind, deaf, etc. How many of those characters do we see on tv? I think that’s too “tame” when you compare to the controversy a gay character/story will conjure up. It’s gotten to be obligatory in the entertainment world today.
Another forgotten about minority is those that are celebate until marriage. How about having storylines on that topic. No, instead we have everyone bed hopping with every person they meet of the opposite sex. Chloe’s so upset she’s been turned into a prostitute but she’s no different than anyone else in Salem except she now gets paid for it.
remained celebate as attested to by the rings they gave each other. And as mentioned below, Benji was deaf, as was Kayla and ShawnD for awhile. Also, Abe had lost his sight for quite a while. You have to admit, it would be very difficult to try and include every minority mentioned (didn’t they say that Taylor was a vegan?) but, I think, in all fairness, Days has at least tried to do so.
I believe the reason homosexuality is more frequently portrayed as often as it is because there are many more gay people than the other minorities mentioned above AND because of all the controversy surrounding it. I think you could put it in the same category as abortion when it comes to beliefs. Most people feel very strongly either one way or the other and there doesn’t seem to be any simple or logical solution to either topic.
Wasn’t Belle living in the loft with Phillip before they got married? Then she had sex with Shawn D before her wedding though neither remembered it.
The problem with the way they handle minority storylines and I hope they don’t do that with the gay storyline is they talk about it then it’s either forgotten about and it’s like it never happened due to a different direction they’re going to take the characters or there’s a quick cure that doesn’t really exist.
Abe’s blindness they kept going for more than a week but he was on the waiting list for a transplant for such a short time. They used it twice to have conflict and problems between him and Lexie and to allow her to cheat.
Benji’s deafness they didn’t write out but they didn’t keep Benji around for long either. Kayla’s deafness was short lived and miraculously gone on her wedding day.
Look at Theo’s autism. He’s still autistic and mentioned once in a while but he got in therapy and his social interaction improved overnight.
Patch’s eye was the one thing that remained consistent but they tried to write that out at one point.
Sami’s the only one that’s suffered or shown signs of the trauma of her childhood with having her dad missing then having him return only to find out he wasn’t her dad then her mom disappears then returns then her real dad comes back and catching her mom on the conference table with another man then to have her father and her mother disappear then have her dad killed and her mother arrested for murder. Sami herself was in prison and on death row. All of her problems and revenge tendencies have been explained as due to her childhood. Eric had the same childhood except he didn’t see his mother on the conference table. Not to mention all the trauma caused by Kate. Chloe had a horrible childhood and except for the loss of confidence and brain she was fairly normal before she left for her opera career. All the characters who found their parents later in life have perfectly normal relationships with them or their siblings. Yeah, Billie had a drug problem due to her father but she got off of them quick. Bo has a strained relationship with Victor but other than that there’s no problem. Ciara has had some problems but 10:1 she’ll grow to be a normal adult. Johnny, Allie and Sydney will probably be normal healthy teens and adults. If I lived in Salem I’d be needing a room with rubber walls with all the drama and mind blowing events that happen there.
Will’s being gay should always remain there but not be front and center. It’s just a part of Will, his character and personality and it’s not something that has to be discussed constantly but they shouldn’t change that or have him suddenly straight just because they decide to pair him with a female down the line.
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