Sometimes called American soaps’ first gay super-couple, Luke Snyder and Noah Mayer were romantically linked on the since-canceled As the World Turns, but waited about two years between a first kiss in 2007 and finally doing the deed in 2009. The romance wouldn’t last, with Will controversially murdered on the show last year, but viewers at least got this moment. When the two consummated their relationship for the first time, sensuality took the spotlight in a tender and undeniably steamy moment in 2012. When Will Horton and Sonny Kiriakis, young gay members of two major families on the long-running soap Days of Our Lives, got together, it showed that commitment to the characters’ sexuality than was more than a sideshow. Will and Sonny’s First Time ( Days of Our Lives) Until then, here’s a list of some of daytime and prime-time soaps’ steamiest same-sex moments to date.ġ. With the push to crowdfund a fourth season of steamy gay soap Dante’s Cove, surely more heat is on the way.
Same-sex love scenes once proved too scandalous for much of mainstream TV, but in the sex-driven plots of soap operas, gay and lesbian characters have enjoyed some moments of intimacy worthy of a parental warning.
