It took them an unrealistically long time even by modern heterosexual standards, but Will & Sonny, Days of Our Lives' controversial gay characters, have finally covered all their bases. The action happened off camera, but according to a post coital assessment by the pair, it was "great." 

Check out a SFW video of the consummation after the jump. 

The big gay moment Days of Our Lives fans have been waiting for has finally happened: Will Horton has come out to his parents. But, in typical daytime fashion, not all goes as expected and is met with a bit of a twist.

How dare Days go all soap on us?!

The coming out scene that's worth watching regardless of your fanboy status, after the jump!

Bold & The Beautiful's Joanna Johnson (who plays Karen Spencer) becomes the only openly gay actor currently found on a daytime soap after publicly coming out of the closet. 

We have to say, Days Of Our Lives is giving us EVERYTHING right now with Will’s coming out storyline!

And interestingly, it’s his interaction with his grandmothers that we’re enjoying most.

He’s got his paternal grandmother, Kate, the sassy and let’s say it—bitchy—fashionista businesswoman, who’s basically saying, “You’re gay. I know it. I’ve always known it, now let’s get fabulous!”

Then he’s got Marlena, mother to Will’s mom (the devious Sami—yes she may have “reformed” but Sami Brady will always be a bad girl at heart), who’s all gentle goodness, light, and understanding. It doesn’t hurt that she’s a psychiatrist. 

Both women are tackling Will’s sexuality issues in different ways, but...

Days Of Our Lives has finally caught up with the new millennium and aired its first gay kiss on Thursday's episode. Better late than never, right? (We'll cut the show some slack because it gave us that smoldering shirtless stud slideshow yesterday. And no, we did not lisp any "s" in that sequence, thankyouverymuch.) Follow the jump for a picture of the first same-sex smooch to grace Days of our Lives!

NBC understands that the quickest way to get us all lathered up for its soap is by way of its able-bodied stable of Days Of Our Lives studs. To reinvigorate our interest in the daytime drama, the soap has launched an online (mostly) shirtless slideshow featuring "Salem's Hottest Hunks." We did the dirty work to cut through the bull and bring you the slideshow's hottest picks, available after the jump.

Afternoons are about to get a lot less-delightful starting in September...

Current Instinct cover stud Scott Evans put his daytime character to good use yesterday on One Life to Live, in what many are referring to as the world's first same-sex soap opera sex scene. That's right, Officer Fish and boyfriend Kyle finally decided to get it on, romantic candles included. The scene is tasteful, arriving a month after head writer Ron Carlivati expressed interest in not treating gay sex any different than he and his team would treat hetero sex on the show.

What do you think of the first daytime gay lovin' scene?

(Obviously it's not too graphic, but if you're as excited as we are to scope it out, perhaps a prudish NSFW label will come in handy)

We love soaps. It might be obvious from One Life to Live's Scott Evans, our Dec/Jan cover guy, but there's also other reasons aside from great gay characters in daytime that our Tivos work extra hard after noon: great hot bodies. The Bold & The Beautiful's Brandon Beemer's got one, and he recently showed it off with nothing but a (large) green leaf covering his naughty spots. Brandon as Adam is very tempting, don't you think?

(via OhLALA)

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