HOME AND AWAY - LESBIAN KISS A BIG HO-HUM IN AUSTRALIA

LESBIAN KISS A BIG HO-HUM IN AUSTRALIA

Despite biting criticism of it by Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd. newspapers in Australia, an episode of the teen soap opera Home and Away that included a kiss by two lesbian girls, generated fewer than 30 telephone calls nationally, the Melbourne newspaper The Age reported Tuesday -- and half of those supported the decision to broadcast it. Last week, one Murdoch newspaper, the Melbourne Herald-Sun headlined a story about the episode "Gay TV for Kids" and reported over the weekend -- erroneously, as it turned out -- that Channel Seven had censored the kiss following complaints from viewers.

01/04/2009