Soap opera Soap opera A soap opera is an ongoing drama serial on television or radio, featuring the lives of many characters and their emotional relationships. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas being sponsored by soap manufacturers. BBC Radio's "The Archers", first broadcast in 1950, is the world’s longest-running radio soap opera; the world's longest-running television soap opera is "Coronation Street", first broadcast on ITV in 1960. The first serial considered to be a "soap opera" was "Painted Dreams", which debuted on October 20, 1930 on Chicago radio station WGN. Early radio series such as "Painted Dreams" were broadcast in
Homosexual transsexual distinct etiologies. The term "homosexual transsexual" has since been used in publications by a variety of academics, including Benjamin, Freund, Blanchard, and Anne Lawrence, as well as J. Michael Bailey and James Cantor, among others. The term "homosexual transsexual" has been criticized from a lexical standpoint by Benjamin, Bruce Bagemihl, and John Bancroft (though supported "conceptually" by the former two), as being confusing, as well as insensitive to the gender identities of those whom it is intended to describe. The alternatives "androphilic" and "gynephilic" have been proposed by Milton Diamond as descriptors for sexual orientation that do not make assumptions