All My Children's Bianca Montgomery (Eden Riegel) and Guiding Light's Natalia Rivera (Jessica Leccia) and Olivia Spencer (Crystal Chappell) were recognized by After Ellen as part of their Top 50 Lesbian and Bisexual Characters list. After Ellen ranked them No. 31, No. 26 and No. 22 respectively.

I just finished watching the season finale of Venice, the groundbreaking, web soap opera from Guiding Light and Days of Our Lives' superstar Crystal Chappell, talented writer Kim Turrisi and sharp director Hope Royaltey, and all I can say is I hope a fly doesn't get a chance to head down my throat before I can pick my jaw up from the floor! If you are one of those people who opted not to subscribe to the web series, let me just say the season one cliffhanger featuring GL alum Jordan Clarke as Col. John Brogno— the homophobic father of Chappell's principle character Gina— alone was well worth the 10 bucks I paid, if only to make sure I know the backstory for what is sure to be a much stronger second season. But for now, let's talk about the season that was.
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Multimedia soap star Crystal Chappell is having a pretty good go of it. On the heels of returning to Days of Our Lives to critical acclaim and ratings success as Dr. Carly Manning, the actress/producer now finds herself being recognized for not one, but two turns as gritty, emotionally-raw sapphic heroines, Guiding Light's Olivia Spencer and Venice's Gina Brogno. I caught up with Chappell to find out what she made of being pre-nominated for Oustanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for GL and to get her reaction on her Streamy nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Web Drama.

"I am honored to represent Guiding Light." says Chappell. "This is my first Streamy nomination, and so I am very excited and flattered."

The Streamy Awards will be held April 11, 2010 in Hollywood.
 
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The 2010 Streamy nominations were announced today and many web projects with connections to the daytime soap community received recognition. Venice co-creator/star Crystal Chappell was nominated for Best Actress in a Web Drama, alongside Buppies lead Tatyana Ali. Chappell and Ali will face off against Zoe Bell (Angel of Death), Rachael Hip-Fores (Anyone But Me) and Sophie Tilson (OzGirl). May the best daytime-to-webtime diva win! READ MORE

Paging all Otalia, Venice and Carly Manning fans. Head to your local bookstores to pick up the latest copy of Curve, the nation's best selling lesbian magazine. A snippet of my interview with Crystal Chappell is featured in the magazine's March issue (the one with former As The World Turns star Ming Na on the cover)! While the print issue only includes a few questions from my chat with Chappell (see tearsheet after the jump), the full interview is still available at Curve's website, check it out here!  READ MORE

Advocate.com is reporting Procter and Gamble and their new production partner Wal-Mart will be guests at a Value Voters Summit  sponsored by the anti-gay Family Research Council. The meeting will be held at the late Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. You might remember, Falwell once thought one of the Teletubbies was gay, and encouraged parents to stop their children from watching the kid's show. 

 Reportedly,  the Family Research Council— which was a vocal supporter of Proposition 8— is just so gosh darned excited about P&G and Wal-Mart's upcoming remake of Deliverance NBC TV movie, Gays Are Wrong, Cousins Are Right Secrets of the Mountain, they invited them up for a discussion on "family values". Something tells me Guiding Light's last big supercouple, Otalia's (Crystal Chappell and Jessica Leccia) invitation got lost in the mail. 

Carly (Crystal Chappell) shoots, Vivian (Louise Sorel) scores this week on Days of our Lives! I can't believe I'm typing this, but poor Melanie (Molly Burnett). Watch the promo after the jump.

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Hope (Kristian Alfonso) is out to get answers and demands that Bo (Peter Reckell) and Carly (Crystal Chappell) come clean. Watch the clip after the jump.

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