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Why are there never any homosexuals in Home and Away?
if you compare it to british soaps, it seems to be a strictly gay free zone.
its abit of a shame, because i think a proper MALE gay love story would be brilliant for home and away, as long as they treat it like any other story and dont pander to bigots.
i am aware the joey and charlie storyline drew a huge number of complaints which is just bizarre!
have they decided to avoid gay characters since this?
imo the show is a damp squib these days. it needs somthing 'different' to liven things up. and i think a couple of gayboys would be different, because they never bloody seem to have any!
its abit of a shame, because i think a proper MALE gay love story would be brilliant for home and away, as long as they treat it like any other story and dont pander to bigots.
i am aware the joey and charlie storyline drew a huge number of complaints which is just bizarre!
have they decided to avoid gay characters since this?
imo the show is a damp squib these days. it needs somthing 'different' to liven things up. and i think a couple of gayboys would be different, because they never bloody seem to have any!
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I remember Seb telling Alf that someone was 'in love' with him and when he revealed that it was another guy, Alf was very supportive of Christopher which was quite surprising.
That said, nothing actually happened, there was no 'gay kiss' and Christopher left soon after.
I do agree that gay characters are very underrepresented in the Bay.
There was huuuge uproar over there during the storyline between Charlie Buckton and Joey (which was the last proper gay storyline H&A had). Parent groups were very anti-gay and I think the pressure from groups like that and the 'PG' rating of Home and Away (and G rating of Neighbours) makes it a lot harder for them to break these barriers in Australia. They're trying, but unless they have a character like Chris in Neighbours who doesn't have much of an open identity with his sexuality, then it might take a few more years for something to actually occur.
what are you whittering on about ?
i was never aware that australia was so backward :eek:
Most people probably weren't all that bothered. It was most likely just a very vocal minority of viewers.
H&A had to up its rating from G to PG with stories such as Sarah Lewis's murder rampage and Martha's pole dancing getting it into trouble.
my response to GAZ237 homosexuality is part of society, there is nothing PC about it...
I dont watch Home and Away but in should move into the 21st century.
It's not that difficult to show homosexual characters in Australian television shows. Another poster made a great list of many examples in a past thread on this subject. There were a few newspaper stories and some conservative family and religious groups got their fifteen minutes of fame on current affairs shows. It was not a huge uproar.
They maybe just haven't written a regular character in yet but might in the future.
Wasn't Shannon lesbian or bisexual years ago? Or was that just a phase?
Well i,d prefer to not see two blokes kissing while i,m eating my dinner.(EE)
Yes its part of society,I,d just rather not see it on screen. the aussies have it right,
Although I suspect Gaz237 wouldn't have an issue if it was two women... or maybe he would.
I,m not keen on the two ladies kissing on Emmerdale either. Although i dont turn the tv over which i do if the men do scenes of affection on any programme.
Ah, the 'I have friends who are gay' line. It didn't work when people used to say 'I have friends who are black', I don't think this is going to work now. The fact that you said you don't need to see it while eating your dinner suggests there's something off putting about it and that attitude is very wrong. There's no other way about it. Your attitude towards gay love scenes shouldn't be any different to straight love scenes if you are unprejudiced.
Home and Away doesn't have gay characters at the moment but maybe they will in the future. They have had previously.
If you have gay friends it sounds like you don't hate gay people or would go out gaybashing but you still have a bit of an issue with their sexuality.
Sounds bit homophobic.
Do you feel the same way about straight people kissing on TV? If you do then that's cool. if not that what you said is homophobic, you cannot paint it up any other way, you could try, but it would be pointless as your statement says it all.
into? lol
oh gawd. Bore off
The examples go on and on and stretch forward through the decades up to today. 'The Secret Life of Us' (also on Ten) was a more recent soap that had a lot of same sex attracted characters, storylines, and action.
Currently 'House Husbands', on the Nine Network, has a gay male couple as leads. The series has proved a huge hit, has just been renewed, and one of the gay male characters is on the front cover of this week's TV Week magazine.
Outside soaps and dramas, every series of 'Big Brother' in Australia (2001-2008, 2012) has featured at least one non-heterosexual housemate. They have often proved to be long lasting highly popular housemates. Note also that in Australia, 'Big Brother' has always run in an early evening slot (before 8.00 pm) and always on a mainstream network (Ten 2001-2008; Nine 2012).
As BadRomance said, there is no way possible that 'Home and Away' cut the story short because it was all in the can weeks before anyone heard of it. There is no way they could have gone back and rewritten/reshot/reedited all those episodes. The Network did not admit to censoring the scene. They said only that two versions of a kissing scene were shot. A moderate one and a more passionate one. In the end the director decided to go with the more moderate kiss, after which a single newspaper report claimed that that constituted censorship. The producers of the series denied it. If anyone actually googles news reports for this, you'll only find stories that say this.
As for claims that pressure groups complained about the story, well if they did, nothing very specific was said about this in the press. The original report claimed that the Network caved into complaints from pressure groups, but oddly enough, these supposed pressure groups remained strangely silent on the matter. I googled it a few months ago and in press reports found only generic 'file quotes' of complaints about the series. These quotes, I seem to recall, were generic and could have been made at any time. None of the critics quoted complained about lesbians in the show. If there were any press reports that actually qoute someone complaining specifically that lesbians were in the show I never found them.