Hello, I'm Frank McCormick. Some of you may know me as
Bourgeois Nerd on the
One Life To Live board on
Television Without Pity. A handful of you may know me from
the blog by the same name.
It is my distinct pleasure and delight to have been invited by the
scrumptiously divine Will Clark to contribute, however modestly, to
this website.
A long-time fan of Will and his ginger grin, his wonderful
We Love Soaps interviews revealed a whole new dimension to him as a longstanding and knowledgeable soap fan, specifically of
One Life To Live.
To say I was delighted would be an understatment. I took a chance with
an email to express my appreciation, and here we are! That we are now
acquaintances is one of those astonishing wonders that the Internet
allows.
During the course of our correspondence, having become
interested in soliciting outside content for Will Clark World, he
inquired if I had any ideas
for content I could write. Once I got my
metaphorical jaw off the floor that I would be asked to write for
someone else, only one thing leaped to mind: our mutual love of
One Life To Live. Specifically, it's inherent and open FLAMING GAYNESS.
Now, if you're plugged into the soap opera blogosphere/forum/gossip-
sphere
of the Internet, you probably know that the gay romance of Kyle and
Fish is the talk of the "town" as it were. You might also know that
the show's head writer and executive producer, Ron Carlivati and Frank
Valentini respectively, are big old (and very handsome, in my opinion)
'mos. Even if you did not know this facts, you would probably be able
to pick up rather quickly that this soap is gayer than a drag queen at
a glory hole.
The soap opera genre is inherently attractive to
gay men. I mean, it's all about DRAMA, and you know how we adore
that. Add in shirtless men running around and a predilection for
divas, and it's really no surprise we're fans. But, still,
One Life To Live
has a certain something that is really, really gay. And, honestly, the
gay romance is often the least gay thing about it. With that, each
week, I intend to reveal what the gayest thing on
One Life To Live is.
This
week, the gayest thing on One Life To Live was definitely Mr. Rex
Balsom. Now, even at the best of times, Rex comes off as a flaming
queen, despite the ostensible heterosexuality of both he and his
portrayer, John-Paul Lavoisier, but sometimes he's even gayer, and this
week was one of them. I mean, just look at some of the faces he was pulling.
He looks more like he's have a bitch-off with another queen over a
spilled Appletini than an enraged reaction to the news that he is not
the father of the baby he thought was his. Gayface for days! And then
he had a catfight with another man! In the snow! Incredibly,
incredibly gay!
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