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Loved the As The World Turns reference on Yesterday’s Beyond The Gates. Jessica Griffin.
#ATWT
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Billy Magnussen ("As The World Turns") has landed the lead role in the untitled Jonathan Glatzer Silicon Valley-set drama series for AMC and AMC+. #BillyMagnussen #AsTheWorldTurns #ATWT #SiliconValley

https://www.soapoperanetwork.com/2025/02/as-the-world-turns-billy-magnussen-untitled-jonathan-glatzer-series

TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY

AS THE WORLD TURNS - 1/23/1989, CBS

Eighties daytime soaps had very few queer regular characters or AIDS storylines, so this well-meant, likeable, underused, and kind of bland gay male regular, Hank Eliot (Brian Starcher), was a baby-step in the right direction.

Hank's partner was hospitalized, long term, with AIDS complications, which let the writers work in information about an epidemic that had the public terrified and panicked. In this episode, Hank is awaiting the results of a follow-up HIV test.

Hank was mostly there as a complication and learning opportunity for his presumably straight neighbors, and their conversations about him generally got more screen time than he did. I've written an essay about Hank in the Notes on the video's YouTube page.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSuFAqqodtM

#LGBTQ #gay #queer #HIV #AIDS #SoapOperas #soaps #atwt

The death of Bryant Montgomery was one of those soap deaths that was too soon. Todd Rotondi was brilliant as Bryant. He had great chemistry with everyone. It makes me wonder what could have been for the character of Bryant if he had only lived. A triangle between Bryant/Jennifer/Billy perhaps. So much story possibility.
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I should be packing for the long weekend. Instead, I'm watching #ATWT 's Dusty and Lucy clips again. I'm trying to channel that "I shouldn't want you but I do" vibe for a story. This "I love you" leading up to their first time together is so good.
#Lusty
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I just loved how Sierra would look after Celia. Sierra may have been the ruler of Montega, but she had her people in her heart and best interest.
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Dusty & Lucy :: "I didn't know I had it in me to be happy. Or to be accepting of myself. I never would've gotten here without you.”
#Lusty
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Justy vs. Lusty. Jennifer and Dusty were the more mature pairing, and I loved them, but there was just something about Lucy and Dusty. Lusty was that couple that you knew was so wrong, yet so right at the same time. They were like lightning in a bottle.
#Justy
#Lusty
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Today in 1975 — THE EDGE OF NIGHT and AS THE WORLD TURNS aired *live* for the last time.

They became the last soaps to switch to videotape — after nearly 20 years of live broadcasts.

#ClassicTV #SoapOpera #ATWT #EdgeOfNight

Kathryn Hays (1934-2022) would have been 89 today.

After early roles on shows like STAR TREK she played Kim on AS THE WORLD TURNS for 38 years.

“We were great friends,” co-star Don Hastings said.

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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY

AS THE WORLD TURNS - 5/20/2008, CBS

This daytime soap opera had, by this point, stopped being quite so damn prissy about showing physical affection between Noah (Jake Silbermann) and Luke (Van Hansis), aka "Nuke." The characters were a couple on the show from 2007 until the series' cancellation in 2010.

Here, Luke and Noah seem to finally be freed from the main problems in their relationship: 1) having to sneak and hide because of Noah's green-card marriage to a woman (so she could stay in the U.S.), and 2) threats and violence from Noah's homophobic father (who by this time was in prison).

https://youtu.be/656ixBCeDcw

#television #MediaStudies #gay #queer #LGBTQ #ATWT #AsTheWorldTurns #VanHansis #JakeSilberman #SoapOpera #daytime