Favourite fanvids ep.2

It's time. It's time for episode 2. It's really time for some nice fanvids. And it's definitely time for DeRo.

Deniz and Roman really are one of my absolute favourites. They are really cute and the actors Dennis Grabosch and Igor Dolgatschew really have good chemistry. It is really obvious that they like each other. The couples had three break ups and got together for a fourth time before Roman died. What a shame. But this is a couple with lots of on-and-off drama and lots of tears. But my favourite video is one where there are just happiness.

It's abit blurry but worth watching it anyway. More than three minutes snogging and pure DeRo happiness. You just have to love it! The music is Don't wake me up with Chris Brown.

There is also lots of love and happiness in this version on We found love, performed by Alex Goot. The version is really nice and the fanvid is quite steamy. Prepare yourself.

Another couple with lot's of on-and-offs are Chrolli, Christian and Oliver. A fanvid with a lot more pain is this version of Coldplays lovely song Fix you, performed by Boyce Avenue & Tyler Ward. Many of the scenes is from their first break up, between the first and the second wedding. it's even though a beautiful fanvid with beautiful music, and I really like it. And again, the chemistry between Thore Schölerman and Jo Weil playing Christian and Oliver is amazing. Those kisses!

But we really need som happy Chrolli to, so let's watch some early Chrolli with Shut up and sleep with me by Sin with Sebastian. Everything get's good with Sin with Sebastian. Especially German gays. Just so you know.

Just Kish

Kyle Lewis and Oliver Fish.

This is Kish. And they are awfully cute. Kish are Kyle Lewis and Oliver Fish from the american daytime soap One Life to Live. Unfortunately One Life to Live is not broadcasted anymore, but it was one of Americas longest broadcasted series with more than 43 years on the ABC. Oliver Fish first appeared in 2008 and Kyle Lewis appeared in 2009.

Scott Evans and Bret Claywell.

Oliver Fish, the policeman, were played by Scott Evans and the med student Kyle Lewis werw playd by Bret Claywell. When the character of Kyle Lewis stepped into the series in 2009 Oliver was deep into the closet. He dated his room mate, a girl, and no one but Kyle new the truth. And he knew that because he and Oliver used to be frat boys. And lovers. And Kyle comes with the dark secret and Oliver is very threatened by Kyle and denies his homosexuality very much. Classic.

Cozy Kish.

After some snogging in the alley and being discovered, lot's of deny from Oliver and a suffering Kyle, Kyle meets another guy, Nick, and almost marries him, he realizes that he only loves Oliver, and Oliver gives in. He is ready for some gay love.

The sex scene.

But unfortunately America was not ready. Well the couple hadn't made out since college and of course they wanted to have sex. But obviously America didn't want them to have sex. After the episode where Kyle and Oliver had sex for the first time, a delicate and beautiful scene where there are naked upper boddies, kissing and lying on the bed, with trousers on (and lots and lots of candles) the viewers raged. The raging viewers somehow got the writers to write out the characters from the series right away. After the sex scene was broadcasted Kyle and Oliver only got to shoot sex more episodes. And this came very inconvenient for the storyline. Because, of course, the episodes are broadcasted some time after it's being shooted, and when they had to write out the guys from the series they were involved in a very intriguing storyline.

Oliver, Kyle and Sierra Rose.

Oliver became a father you know. Before he and Kyle got it together and Oliver was in denial he was a little bit used by Stacy Morasco who wants to become pregnant to decieve another guy that it is his (normal in soaps) and then Stacy dies and Oliver realizes that Sierra Rose is his. And before the storyline ends Oliver gets the custody of Sierra Rose and he and Kyle desides to raise her together. Isn't that a storyline you would want to see? No wonder One Life to Live got cancelled. And to be honest, it is a quite crappy soap. I didn't really like any other character for real, or maybe it was the actors I didn't like, and the storylines were quite crappy. Like any other modern american soap to be honest. Or am I wrong? But I miss Kish because they were really cute and the actors were great. The interacted very well. Shame on you One Life to Live to let raging americans destroy such a beautiful couple. I will say it again, no wonder it got cancelled. But at least they got a happy ending.

We like German movies to

Any reader of thos blog would guess that I especially like German soap gays. It's quite obvious. And lately I've seen a couple of German movies with a gay theme starring the lovely Hanno Koffler. And they both were amazing.

Hanno Koffler and Max Riemelt.

Freier Fall (Free fall) 2013
This is a quite dark movie but oh so beautiful! It's quiet and a bit low, but in the same time brutal and passionate. Hanno Koffler and Max Riemelt is playing the policemen Marc and Kay who start one of those "can't live with, can't live without" relationships that just tear you apart. The actors are really good and the colours and the filming is divine. You really need to watch this!

Malte kissing Schorschi.

Sommersturm (Summer storm) 2004
This movie contents a younger hanno Koffler, but still gay. In Sommersturm though he plays a supporting roll in a rowing camp. This movie is about the teenager Tobi (Robert Stadlover) who is in love with his best friend Achim (Kostja Ullman). When they go to a rowing camp and meet a gay rowing team the tingle begins. Hanno Koffler plays the gay rower Malte who is both adorable and a bit of a player. Even though the story with Tobi and his love for Achim is nice, it is really Malte who is the star of the movie, according to me. But I love all the actors. You really need to see this to!

Gay movies

There are lots of beautiful gay love stories in form of movies as well. There are a lot of favourites out there and there might also be some movie reviews and such on this blog. But in the meantime I want to tell you about this compilation of gay movie kisses put together by sanne12993 on youtube. There are two dimensions of this clip which makes me watch it over and over again. Of course there is the beautiful kisses and then there is the music: The Days by Ludovico Einaudi. I love love love that tune! A small fun fact: the same tune were played in an episode in the late Måne storyline in the Norwegian soap Hotel Caesar. If you watch this clip and think: "Oh no, why did go over so fast?". No worries, there are 14 more clips with gay movie kisses, made by Sanne. Enjoy!

Gay weddings

Sonny Kiriakis and Will Horton at their wedding.

This week the first gay male wedding i a daytime soap in USA happened. There are a lot of daily, and long-running, soaps in USA so it was about time. The supercouple Will Horton (played by Guy Wilson, previously by Chandler Massey) and Sonny Kiriakis (played by Freddie Smith) from Days of our lives finally tied bands. The couple has been an item since 2012 and finally there was a wedding. It was just as sugery and sleazy as to expect from an american wedding. This with own wedding vows is nothing we are used to in Sweden. We are quite sparing with feelings. But it was cute and we do need lot's and lot's of same sex weddings in american TV.

Kevin Walker and Scotty Wandell in Brothers & Sisters.

It has happened before, but not in a daytime show. In 2008 Kevin Walker (Matthew Rhys) and Scotty Wandell (Luke Macfarlane) got married in the ABC series Bothers & Sisters. They even had Calista Flockhart (Kevin's sister Kitty) as a wedding officiant. The couple are cute as hell and they even got children. We need more of those role models in american TV.

There might be more gay weddings in american TV-shows but they are few. And we have some here and there in the world, but it is not naturally obvious that a same-sex couple can get married, not even in soaps. It is not for instance not allowed in Finland and Germany, the home of Larias, Chrolli and DeRo among others. But that didn't stop Christian and Oliver to get married - twice.

Jo Weil and Thore Schölermann as Olli and Christian.

In Germany it is allowed to enter into partnership since 2001, and that's what Christian Mann (Thore Schölermann) and Oliver Sabel (Jo Weil) did in 2010. And then again in 2012 after a divorse they regretted just a couple of days afterwards. But in Verbotene Liebe, Christian and Olli never talked about anything else than that they were going to get married. The first wedding was even in a church, with a homosexual priest. You can make a "real" church wedding, even though you are not allowed to. But it is really about time for Germany to institute same sex marriage while being such a modern and gay-friendly country.

Menno Kuiper and Lucas Sanders in white.

The Netherlands was the first country to institute same-sex weddings in 2001 and this year they even got a soap gay wedding. Lucas Sanders (ferry Doedens) finally got to keep a love and gets to marry Menno Kuiper (Dave Mantel) in white, in a church (it seems) with Lucas father as a wedding officiant. Beautiful!

Christian Clarke and Syed Masood.

And there finally was a wedding between Christian Clarke (John Partridge) and Syed Masood (Marc Elliott in the British long running show Eastenders. It almost didn't happen, but Syed appeared just in the last second before the wedding officiant left. This happened in 2012, but it was not until this year, 2014, the law about same-sex marriages has became reality for the citicens of England, Wales and Scotland. Northen Ireland still has som leaps to go. In the Christian and Syed wedding Christian said in his (yet again quite cheesy) vows to Syed that he loves him more than all the stars in the heaven. If that isn't love, I don't know what is.

David and Fer kissing, after David's been steeling one of the grooms.

There almost was a gay wedding in Spanish Física o Química in 2010 between Fer and Borja, but just as the couple was going to say yes, David entered the chapel and Fer got doubts. After kissing in the rain and becoming wet, fer decided to go for David instead (yay!) and the couple even asked the wedding officiant to marry them right there and then. But she didn't want to. Bummer. The home country of the actors Adrian Rodriguez and Javier Calvo has gender neutral marriage since 2005, so it could have become reality, right there and then. Unfortunately Fer dies in the next season. Bummer again.

Stefan Holmberg and Micki Sandell.

Exept for the wedding between Jens Erik and Thomas Wallin in Danish 2900 Happiness I am not aware of any gay marriages in a nordic soap opera or TV-series but the one between Micki Sandell and Stefan Holmberg in Rederiet in 2000. But, and there is a but, same-sex marriages was not instituted in Sweden until 2009, so this was actually a registered partnership. Why do we always have to be so slow in Sweden? We need more same-sex marriages on Swedish television, and in television in general. Love is beautiful and we really do need to teach our children that lova has multiple faces and why not on TV? I borrow the words from Tiamat and say that: It's about time we all get out and vote for love!

Rewatch

There are some favourite storylines that I can rewatch so many times. Fervid from season 3 I have to watch at least one time a year in whole, but I watch the fovourite clips every now and then. This Christmas I discovered the Cenny, or Lenny and Carsten, a storyline from the German soap Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten, and I fell in love! I did nothing but watch, live and breath these two boys for the whole Christmas break. There is so much to love! Now I have already rewatched it. I just had to.

Carsten Reimann and Lenny Cöster.

Leonard "Lenny" Cöster were played by Alexander Becht and Carsten Reimann by Felix Isenbügel. The characters Lenny and Carsten met in the army, Lenny were a conscript and Carsten some kind of officer or something. Lenny had a hard time in the army because he was bullied for being gay. At the time he didn't admit for himself that ha was gay, and I am not sure that the writers even had decided him to be, because he had a girlfriend, Emily, that he claimed to be in love with, and he also had a previous storyline where his father thought him to be gay, which Lenny used just to bugger him off. His father was a major homphobe back then.

Lenny and Carsten in the army.

When Lenny was bullied, beaten and even urinated on, Carsten was there to support him. It is so painful to see how Lenny suffers. But he gets to leave the army and starts boxing instead, just to be able to defend himself. And it proves that he has lot's of talent in boxing. One day he gets in a fight in the street and who shows up if not Carsten. He is impressed by Lennys fighting skills and asks him to join his "clique", the gang, that is some kind of fight club. And the gang meet up with other "cliques" and they beat eachother up until they bleed. Very romantic. But then Carsten realizes that Lenny is really cute and there is no return.

Carsten is touching Lenny stealthily.

One day at the beach Carsten is touching Lenny when he thinks Lenny is asleep, and Lenny enjoys it, even though he try not to. And then the ball is rolling. After a fight between Lenny and Carsten and two other guys Lenny and Carsten end up half naked in the bathroom and yet again there is some touching. And this is a really strong and kind of violent scene. I love it!

Felix Isenbügel and Alexander Becht half naked.

After that there is a quite classical scenario for a gay guy in denial. Lenny tries as hard as he can to resist Carsten, and Carsten is suffering badly. These kind of classical stories almost always contains a certain amount of abuse and violence, like pushing and shouting: "I am not gay", you know what I mean. But this story, contains a lot of abuse actually. Lenny and Carsten gets in more than one fight and at last, Lenny even betrays Carsten and asks Carsten to meet him, just to bring the gang to beat him up. But in the last moment he gets in to the fight and tries to stop it. The result is that both Lenny and Carsten ends up in hospital.

Lenny feels remorse.

After that, Carsten believes that it was Lenny who beat him up, and of course he thinks that he is not a suitable boyfriend so he leaves Berlin for Barcelona and poor Lenny goes after him, very wounded, but can't find him. But Carsten returns for a short visit to his granny in hospital, and of course he bumps into Lenny. Tumult occurs, Lenny tries to convince Carsten that he loves him and finally, after a real talk, Carsten forgives Lenny, just like that, and they can finally start their relationship.

A lovely kiss in the street.

But. There is no sun without clouds, and Lenny just accidently threatened a liqour shop owner with a broken bottle and robbed him back when he felt the most shitty (before the Carsten beat-up) and now he has to pay. One year in jail is his punishment and the whole family is devastated. The most annoying thing is that after waiting more than a year for anything real to happen between the guys, it takes less than two months before Lenny leaves for prison. Some kind of an anti-climax. But Carsten stays in the series, moves out and moves in to the Cöster's, becomes Lenny's little sisters love interest (bizarre), and he even nearly dies when a ceiling falls down. Of course we enjoy watching the great character Carsten in GZSZ, but it is just not the same without Lenny. But four months later, Lenny gets furlough for a couple of days and the couple can be reunited.

Lenny and Carsten being cuter than ever.

With longer hair and more optimism Lenny returns for a couple of lovely days with Carsten and his family. A few days after returning to jail he gets to leave prison to serve the rest of his sentence by working in a social project that Carsten arrange for him. Finally, Lenny is out from jail, in freedom, but unfortunately the social project is in Rosenheim, a small whistle-stop in Bavaria, that is in the south of Germany. That is very far from Berlin! Bugger. When we finally gets the Lenny and Carsten reunion they have to move away. Of course Carsten is leaving Berlin with his love. And since then, in august 2010, we haven't really heard from them. Bugger again.

The happy and the long-haired Lenny and Carsten.

I really love love love this storyline. I have realized that the storys that I fall for the most are the ones with lot's of denial and with lots of fighting against the feelings, a certain amount of abuse, and with a an ending. All storys have to have an ending, but some of them, like Christian and Oliver, is harrowing on forever it seems (even though even Chrolli now seems to have come to an end). I can't really explain why I like these sort of storylines, but I do. And this storyline continues everything. GZSZ is told to be a darker soap, with darker colours and settings than Unter Uns, Verbotene Liebe and Alles was zählt. Maybe that's why I like it. And it really seems that every character in GZSZ has some sort of agony.

Another thing that makes me really like the Lenny and Carsten storyline is the acting. Alexander Becht and Felix Isenbügel is really doing a good job with their role interpretations, especially when they are crying. They are really believable when showing emotions, and there are lots of emotions. Just saying.

Alexander Becht.

Felix Isenbügel.

Felix Isenbügel actually said to RTL that he could imagine coming back to GZSZ. But not without Lenny, I am telling you! And now I guess you all think: "Was that a happy ending?". Yes it was. They are rare, but they do exist.