Chandler Massey

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That sound you hear is a collective groan from fans of Days of Our Lives’ Will Horton. As part of the soap’s most recent reboot, the out gay coed will have sex with a woman next week — his diabolical, ex-girlfriend Gabi (Camila Banus)!
Poor Chandler Massey, who recently won a Daytime Emmy for his work in Will’s gay storyline, tried to make sense of the boneheaded plot twist in this week’s Soap Opera Digest. Said Massey: “Will is battling self-esteem issues,” Massey shares. “So when you get two people who have some sort of romantic history in a room together, and both are feeling insecure about themselves, they seek any comfort they can find.”
I really don’t want to start hammering Gary Tomlin and Chris Whitesell right off the bat, but seriously? Your first story for Will, post-taking over the writers’ room, is to have him bang a girl? Has gay soap opera storytelling really stayed on pause since flip-flopping Steven Carrington on Dynasty 30 years ago?
Okay, so Will is gonna be feeling a little low next week, after “T” comes home and starts gay bashing everyone. Then Lucas (Bryan Dattilo) dumps all over him for helping EJ (James Scott), which can’t be fun. I get how all of that would make the kid a little unsure of himself, but it certainly would not inspire a sudden craving for vagina in a gay man! So is Will bisexual now? Does he get turned on by anyone who hires stalkers — regardless of equipment?
I don’t see clearly-established heterosexual Bo (Peter Reckell) deciding to go snog Abe’s (James Reynolds) log when he’s feeling a bit blue. So why is it that gay soap characters always want some hetero lovin’ when they break a nail?
Chuck Pratt reportedly wanted to do similar madness to iconic lesbian character Bianca Montgomery on All My Children. Pratt wanted Binks to sleep with Ryan (Cameron Mathison), but Eden Riegel reportedly refused to do that to her gay fans. I say good for her!
That being said, DAYS has always been more concerned with campy shock than social relevance. Plus, it is a soap opera, and no one is supposed to make the right choices, gay or straight, all of the time.
Heck, even primetime potboiler Revenge is introducing a female love interest for previously homo Nolan (Gabriel Mann). Maybe I’m overreacting? Sigh. I really hope Tomlin and Whitesell know what they’re doing with this one…
from Daytime Confidential
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Chris Armstrong

DETROIT, MICHIGAN – A jury on Thursday awarded a gay University of Michigan student body president $4.5 million in his lawsuit against a former Michigan assistant attorney general who posted about him in an anti-gay blog.
The U.S. District Court jury ruled in favor of Christopher Armstrong, who claimed he suffered distress after a blog created by Andrew Shirvell accused him of enticing minors with alcohol and recruiting people to become homosexual.
“I’m just incredibly humbled by what happened today,” Armstrong told The Associated Press. “This is truly a victory – not just for myself, but for a lot of other kids out there.”
Shirvell, who was representing himself, said the jury award was “grossly excessive” for what was “clearly protected speech … and activity.”
“This should have been thrown out,” he said, adding that he plans to appeal. “Juries give short shrift to First Amendment rights.”
Armstrong accused Shirvell of defamation as well as emotional distress for his actions on the blog, in Facebook posts and during visits to the Ann Arbor campus.
Then-Attorney General Mike Cox fired Shirvell in 2010 after he criticized Armstrong, who graduated last year.
Shirvell has said he viewed his blog “as a movement to get” Armstrong to resign. Shirvell argued he was acting within his First Amendment rights and that his statements were either true or protected because of Armstrong’s role as a public figure.
Armstrong’s attorney, Deborah Gordon, had said she would drop the lawsuit if Shirvell apologized and retracted his comments. Shirvell said that was disingenuous, since it wasn’t until closing arguments that a multimillion-dollar award was brought up.
Shirvell said he’s unemployed and “there’s no way I could possibly ever pay such a judgment.”
Gordon said the jury couldn’t make him apologize, so the money was the only answer.
“We needed him to retract the flat-out fabrications he had come up with about Chris,” she said. “Once he refused to take responsibility, we put it in the hands of the jury.”
from The Associated Press
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