Christian & Olli

I was introduced to this series by one of my friends in the Front- runners, a lovely guy called David who is not-so-secretly in love with one of the actors. The soap opera is called "Verbotene Liebe" or "Forbidden Love" in English and is a long-running series on German telly. Mixed in amongst the storyline, however, is a rather sweet and very positive story of two men who meet and fall in love. Of course, this being a soap opera, the odds of the course of true love running smooth are next to nil, and at first they really hate each other. Olli, is a ship steward who is on shore leave, but who decides to stay in Düsseldorf with his aunt, whereupon he meets Christian, an initially gay-hating (we know where is this going) "straight" guy going out with a girl called Coco. Much of the excitement in this series is watching their relationship unfold, and Christian's own process of coming out.

Naturally, this being a German show we would never have seen it were it not for the wonders of YouTube and the generosity of a guy (I'm assuming a male here) called ichglotzutube who has devotedly and devotionally extracted the Christian und Olli storyline from every episode, translated and subititled them, and uploaded them to the internet. He has created a playlist of all the episodes in sequence, meaning you have, bar the 30 episode preamble, over 10 hours of homosexual love without any of the boring straight bits. Now if only British soaps didn't have gay men who weren't also psychopaths. I'm looking at you Hollyoaks!

Edit: OMG! Someone actually reads these posts, and leaves comments! I stand corrected - it turns out that ichglotzutube is actually a straight woman. Geil!