Home and Away goes gay
March 11th, 2009 by Rosie
Australian soap opera Home and Away is to have a lesbian love story for the first time in its 22-year history.
Policewoman Charlie Buckton, played by Esther Anderson, will fall in love with trawler worker Joey Collins, played by Kate Bell.
Conservative groups in Australia have reacted angrily to the news.
“They (Home and Away) continue to market to kids and they continue to develop quite sexualised plot lines,” said Pro-Family Perspectives director Angela Conway.
“The plot lines that young kids and teenagers should be presented with should be about really authentic relationships that are not just sexualised.”
Actor Esther Anderson thinks the plot does present an authentic relationship.
“To me there’s no difference - love’s love,” she said. “The fact that your partner’s the same sex is no different. You just want to be loved.”
“You learn pretty much everything at school. I don’t think it’s like I’m lifting the lid on something they [viewers] don’t already know about.”
Anderson added that kissing another girl “wasn’t that big a deal”.
Home and Away is shown on Five in the UK. There is currently no news on when the lesbian storyline will air in the UK.
about time a daytime tv show did this. but i’m sure some people will be horrified and find a reason to moan. lol
monkeygirl ∼ March 11th, 2009 10:32 amWere Shannon and her lesbian writer mentor/friend not the show’s first lesbian storyline?.
It was years ago so I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure they left to be together.
elsie ∼ March 12th, 2009 7:15 pm