# A Daytime Today Beyond the Gates Aftershow Special: Gay Black Men and Soaps Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/daytime-today-1310112/a-daytime-today-beyond-the-gates-aftershow-special-gay-black-men-and-soaps Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/daytime-today-1310112/a-daytime-today-beyond-the-gates-aftershow-special-gay-black-men-and-soaps.md Podcast: [Daytime Today](https://stenobird.com/podcast/daytime-today-1310112) Published: 2025-12-20T17:52:51+00:00 Episode link: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-daytime-today-beyond-the-gates-aftershow-special-gay-black-men-and-soaps--69148826 Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/69148826/my_movie_7.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/daytime-today-1310112/episodes/a-daytime-today-beyond-the-gates-aftershow-special-gay-black-men-and-soaps Duration seconds: 1902 ## Resource Ex Beyond the Gates actor Maurice Johnson made some remarks in 2 seperate interviews that have divided fans on the internet. James Lott Jr talks about the soaps, gay black male portrayals, inequality of opportunties, perception of masculine roles, and the role of an actor. The situation and reality is it is a complex realm, still in 2025. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/daytime-today-1310112/episodes/a-daytime-today-beyond-the-gates-aftershow-special-gay-black-men-and-soaps/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/daytime-today-1310112/a-daytime-today-beyond-the-gates-aftershow-special-gay-black-men-and-soaps.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.