One in five Brits don’t like the way LGBT characters are portrayed on television, according to a BBC study. And by “portrayed” we mean “seen”: “A survey found that 18% feel ‘uncomfortable’ or ‘very uncomfortable’ with it, even after the 9pm watershed. Just under half of respondents said they were either comfortable or ambivalent. Around a fifth of straight people said there was too much content relating to gay people on TV generally, although 46% said the volume was about right. Many lesbians felt there were not enough gay women on TV and most were portrayed either as ‘butch’ or ‘lipstick lesbians’.” Heh, remember when the activist group Stonewall found “gay people were portrayed positively and realistically for just 46 minutes in 126 hours of TV programmes”?
David
Tell the dumbasses to change the channel.
Jon B
Umm… am I think only one who wishes that ONLY 20% of straight respondents in America would be uncomfortable with gay characters? 30% of America thinks Sarah Palin is the Virgin Mary returned to earth, despite having 5 children and an unwed teenage mother as a daughter. So yeah… I’d love to have that result here in America.
tarxien
Umm…shouldn’t the headline be: “80% of straight Brits don’t care, or would be happy to see more gay characters on TV”?
ait10101
@Jon B:
Right on!
SB
Straight Brit here who loves my gay gossip.
Nobody ever asked me for this ‘survey’ and nobody asked anyone I know so…
I would have said, hell no, put more gays on TV!
Tommy
If the 20% mean they want less stereotypical “gay” people then I’m with them. I’ve been to London a couple of times and all I saw was people like Graham Norton and Alan Carr who are campy, queeny and gossipy. So boring. They don’t represent me. How about showing the diversity of gay people instead of the stereotype.