Argentina this week became the first country in South America to legalize gay marriage. In a post about the NBA’s Manu Ginobli supporting the law, I mentioned an Argentine soap opera that this spring introduced a storyline about two gay soccer players. Andrés Duque of the blog Blabbeando gave me some background about the episode and how an interview with one of the actors was aired before the crucial Senate vote on the gay marriage bill this week:
The press conference clip, in which [the character] “Flaco” talks about his support for the marriage equality law in Argentina supposedly came a few days after he “came out” publicly in terms of the soap’s storyline. That press conference clip actually aired for the first time this week only hours before the senate vote.
I guess the producers and writers wanted to send a message out to viewers as I believe the soap is one of the shows which pulls highest ratings on Argentine TV.
For those who missed the video on the Ginobli post, here is a scene from the soap opera where the characters first kiss:
You can watch followup scenes here and here. Alas, a steamy sex scene between the two characters was yanked from YouTube. Update: Duque found the scene and it is romantic and hot:
on Jul 17th, 2010 at 7:37 AM
Scroll down to the second video in this link:
http://rumorrat.com/2010/07/10/argentine-tvs-gay-soccer-storyline-creating-questions-about-pro-players/
I can’t imagine that Argentine tv showed anything more explicit than the last couple of minutes of that vid.
And it has some interesting commentary on soccer’s ramifications.
on Jul 17th, 2010 at 8:19 AM
Argentina huh. They speak Spanish there don’t they?
on Jul 18th, 2010 at 10:19 PM
Why were previous comments here removed?
on Jul 18th, 2010 at 10:55 PM
wow.. that’s just awesome! i love it!
on Jul 18th, 2010 at 11:36 PM
@TampaZeke: No comments were removed. You posted this on a related thread:
“The entire storyline of Manuel and Lalo from “Botineras” is on YouTube. The sex scene episode was NOT pulled. It is still there and it is VERY hot and very explicit.
on Jul 19th, 2010 at 9:12 AM
Pretty good scene, nice & tender. My question is what has the reaction been with normal viewers? How did they find the episode?