Are We Ever Going To Get Away From Gay Tv

[FrillyPancake]

Sorry guys. Am quite traditional, but I accept everyone I do. As they are whatever they are they are whatever WE are.

But,

Why is TV full of non heterosexuals. Mainly gay people these days.

Is it only me that feels this?

Well me and my husband that is?

Why is hetrosexuallness not being celebrated the same way it's like tables have turned big time?

Just my opinion....

[-Talbot-]

Almost ever episode.

I think Amos had a little thing for Mr Wilkes.

[Arksided]

Never seen it since the plane episode so I guess he's not the only Amos in the village.

[baza]

Talbot, who was the 7th , surely he/she was just lonely.

[Togo]

Would I care to elaberate??? Surely anyone with a soupcon of literary knowledge, or web ability, could decipher a less than coded comment.

[kvalidir]

Blimey this thread is a cess pit of horror some of you have eagerly dived into. I can assure you that my partner and I are both quite open about our sexuality, he would never DREAM of trying to hide it (by growing a beard? REALLY?) or of unnecessarily yelling from the rooftops about it. I imagine some people we know don't even realise, but again I ask you WHAT does it matter? either someone is skilled to do the job they do or they aren't. Would you decline life saving surgery from a surgeon who is gay?

[jackthehat]

Crikey.....out of the thousands of TV presenters there have been, the fact that a few have been/are gay seems to cause some people an inordinate amount of botheration.

I'm not sure you'd be able to pick me out as being gay, if you didn't know me.......and frankly I don't care.

[anotheoldgit]

/// To be fair though there were 7 homosexuals in Emmerdale not long ago ... Out of a village of 12 I think that was a bit much. ///

I blame the name of the pub, perhaps they all think it is a place to get their knitting wool from.

[Khandro]

Jack, I don't care if you're homosexual either, but what I object to is when it affects how or what is or isn't reported, as Channel 4 does, as it's complete refusal to report on the Sochi winter Olympics other than in an occasional derogatory manner because they petulantly thought that President Putin was averse to homosexuality ! - which he wasn't, he was though, opposed to it being taught as part of the curriculum to schoolchildren.

[jackthehat]

Putin *is* anti-gay.

He is against the 'promotion' of homosexuality; 'promotion, in this instance to mean, mentioning it in any other circumstance than it being abhorrent, unnatural and Anti-Russian.....

[jno]

what's the Russian for "Section 28", I wonder?

[pastafreak]

//It would seem that one can make any number of negative remarks against Royalty, The Christian Church, Whites, Men, Heterosexuals, The Indigenous population of Britain or even the UK itself.

But dare to criticise, Islam, Blacks, Females, Homosexuals, Ethnic Minorities, and Foreigners, then one is in deep doo, doo//

That's probably because, until quite recently, group A habitually ridiculed, enslaved, punished, tortured, and generally prevented from being educated, or holding gainful employment those who fell into group B. Maybe it's payback time...

[albaqwerty]

I don't give a flying carpet about anyone's sexual preferences.
If they're good at their job, that's fine.
If they are a decent human being, again, that's fine.

[Khandro]

jno, I had forgotten what it was myself, so I looked it up and;

"The amendment [section 28] was enacted on 24 May 1988, and stated that a local authority "shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality" or "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship"."

It says nothing about it being "being abhorrent, unnatural and Anti-Russian".

So Vladimir and I are singing from the same hymn-sheet.

[Islay]

//So Vladimir and I are singing from the same hymn-sheet. //

[Islay]

//So Vladimir and I are singing from the same hymn-sheet. //
Bigoted little men?

[sandyRoe]

I don't want to appear pedantic, but isn't it 'sports a beard', rather than 'wears a beard'?

[kvalidir]

I was going with crass, prejeudiced loon myself Islay, but bigoted little man covers it I reckon ;-)

[anneasquith]

Indeed sandy , do you " sport" a beard ?

[sandyRoe]

I did once but was told it put years on me.
Being a chap who can't afford to look older than I actually am, I shaved it off.

[whiskeryron]

//Paul J Desailly • 4 months ago
When I'm mocked as an oldie for thinking 'gay' means 'happy' and when I take to song in reply in an English rendering of the Neapolitan favourite immortalized by Connie Francis and Mario Lanza the shocked audience at once realizes why I’m paid not to sing, to say nothing of my tin ear and its partner - van Gogh’s ear for music. You know - the lughole he lopped! My sense of humour is a work in progress so make up your own jokes I implore you; they’ll be an essential balm! “Oh, why should any heart be filled with sadness? We should be gay! And, how can anybody keep from prancing, [when songs they play] we should be gay!” (Funiculi, Funicula.) For many senior citizens in the west and for most generations in the east, eerie is the modern understanding of ‘gay’ and its acclamation today! //

My only objection is the misuse of the word GAY. Let's call a spade a spade. The word is HOMOSEXUAL live with it.