h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Thanks to the proclivities of my flatmate, I am currently enduring Coro-bleedin'-nation Street. I really, really, really want to find someone bigger than I to give that irritating, camp, stereotyped gay character with the rabbit a slap.

Had to get that off my chest.

Feel better now?

The only queer TV character I've ever liked - apart from the Queer as Folk mob - was Helen from 'Drop the Dead Donkey'. Every other mainstream-TV gay character strikes me as either cardboard or parody.

Much, thankyou.

Irritatingly, the Coro-bleedin'-nation Street character in question is played by a chap from the UK version of Queer As Folk. I can't remember the character's name, but he arrived on a plane (from Australia, if I remember correctly) with an oriental chap (who later turned out to be a rent boy). Tall, thin, blonde chap.

The Corrie character is virtually the same, but the sterotype isn't tempered by other, less flamboyant gay characters as it was in QAF.

Who would have guessed that the most positive gay T.V. (as in Television, not, Tran... Never mind) has had in years would turn up in Dr Who?

Funny old world.

That bi guy in Dr Who was great, and sexy too

I think his name was Alexander. The one who saying he was a bit camp was like saying Hitler was a bit naughty?

That's him ... the actor's name is Antony Cotton (and he *is* gay, like you wouldn't have already guessed!). I do think that Todd and Karl should've stayed in Corrie for longer than they did, though - in spite of the nasty reactions due to Todd's coming-out, I think their presence would've tempered Sean's camp image.

Then again, campness is a fairly common trait among gay men (to varying degrees) and yet it is one that quite a lot of the gay community do not like. We can't deny that camp gay men exist and they *should* be on TV, although I do agree we need more "straight-acting" gay men on our screens to give better overall representation of our community. (Ditto more "feminine" lesbians, come to think of it.)

It would appear that 'Sean' is getting very friendly with a straight acting vet! (He may be a straight vet, of course. I don't watch Corrie if I can help it so may have missed some back story).

If it's true, it means that a gay relationship might be seen from the start, with no straight partners being adversely affected and no straight mates taking umbrage at their mate's sudden coming out. Let's hope it pans out like that!

All this should go to show however, that no one should ever be forced to watch Corination street Isn't the whole of Corination Street just a set of complete Stereotypes? A lot I guess (having not watched in year and years), are 'Northern stereotypes' etc., etc., The worse bit that gets me, is apparently* its ment to be somewhere near Manchester... So why havne't they got Manchester accents? Agreed about the 'overcampness' of mainy of the portrials of gay men, on the TV, and simularly, I guess, the 'over-butch stereotypes' of Lesbiens.... It dosn't fit with what I've seen of either group Though obviously within each ar ea mixture of each I guess... heck; I've known some really camp guys, who were as straight as ... a really straight thing