Daytime soap's gay kiss arouses boycott

The soap opera "As the World Turns" lifted its ban on gay kissing for the program's April 23 episode, during which characters Luke and Noah shared their first on-screen kiss following seven months of chastity. Proctor and Gamble Productions decided to reinstate the couple's kissing after hearing from both supporters and critics of the gay characters' daytime displays of affection. In response, the American Family Association has called for a boycott of Proctor and Gamble goods and has taken to referring to LGBT people as "g-ys" and same-sex relationships as "h-mos-xuality," as if these words were expletives.

The Advocate reports