BBC 'worst for on-screen portrayal of gay people'

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/07/22/bbc-condemned-for-tv-portrayal-of-gay-people/

I'm not sure what they are objecting to, tbh.

Particularly the comments make me want to punch something. It's the usual 'why do they have to show gay men as limpwristed poofs all the time instead of quasi-heterosexual whose only claim to gaydom is that they don't only pee their wages up the wall, but aim the thing in the direction of a member of the same sex once in a half-year'.

I'm going to write my coming out-story as an outrageously camp thing, full of delicious stereotypes. I'm sure it will upset some gay man that in reality really want to be heterosexual, and who quivers under the bed every time someone thinks he's not a Real Man.

Sorry, pet peeve of mine.

Don't get me wrong. I'm sure TV in the UK is full of insensitive stuff about gays, and I'm sure they deserve criticism.

Tatchell is a disaster, really. What he does is destroy any kind of dialogue with people by making them assume a defensive position. You can't really convince people not to be a twat if you're screaming at them at the top of your loungues, using a loudspeaker.

Now when I'm reading my little outburst above, I'll go and try to find legal loopholes in the stickys...

Yeah. I think both Tatchell and those commenters, and the study itself, is an example of what they're talking about in the AyJay-thread. It's an insidious sort of thing, where you're going insular in your definitions. You are defining gaydom from heterosexism, either by reacting to it or by adopting it.

The result becomes that you're putting a definition straight jacket on people.