Here’s a pretty interesting story today:
In a story unusual even for a soap opera and believed to be a television first, ABC’s “All My Children” this week will introduce a transgender character who is beginning to make the transition from a man into a woman.
The character, a flamboyant rock star known as Zarf, kisses the lesbian character Bianca and much drama ensues. The storyline begins with Thursday’s episode of the daytime drama.
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Damon Romine, a spokesman for GLAAD, said he hasn’t seen the show yet but feels people involved were genuinely interested in telling the story with dignity. Emotions are so close to the surface in soap operas, and this story can serve a purpose by showing what transgenders go through, he said.
“I think it’s groundbreaking and breakthrough television for daytime to put a spotlight on transgender people and tell their story,” he said.
I guess that’s cool, but sounds to me like they’ve got a Hedwig and the Angry Inch sort of character. It says “trans people are only strange folk, like rock stars”
I guess that’s cool, but sounds to me like they’ve got a Hedwig and the Angry Inch sort of character. It says “trans people are only strange folk, like rock stars”