Is Hollyoaks too ''gay''?
forgive me for starting this thread 
im just wanting to get some views on the subject as i only have facebook which is full of comments such as 'why are there so many gays in one tiny village'
even though its perfectly possible for there to be that many gays.
as in my street theres a couple of lesbians down the road, and about 3 gay students, and an older gay couple a few doors down. and this is all in one road. so its not that implausable that there would be so many 'gays' in one village.
im more interested in the thoughts on the gay focused storylines. is it 'too much' could it be alienating viewers, or does it not matter one jot?
i remember in Corrie a couple of years ago, there were stories in the press that it was too gay because they had like 3 gay characters :rolleyes:
im just wanting to get some views on the subject as i only have facebook which is full of comments such as 'why are there so many gays in one tiny village'
even though its perfectly possible for there to be that many gays.
as in my street theres a couple of lesbians down the road, and about 3 gay students, and an older gay couple a few doors down. and this is all in one road. so its not that implausable that there would be so many 'gays' in one village.
im more interested in the thoughts on the gay focused storylines. is it 'too much' could it be alienating viewers, or does it not matter one jot?
i remember in Corrie a couple of years ago, there were stories in the press that it was too gay because they had like 3 gay characters :rolleyes:
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JP and Ste are probably my favorites and I'm interest to see where this storyline with Danny goes.
I really like the JP and Danny storyline, it's probably the one I like best and find myself getting interested in at the moment.
I wonder how long till this thread gets deviated by Vaslav to complain about EE.
Does it really matter how many gay characters there are, Why don't you focus on the storylines and characters OP???
Hollyoaks did one of my all time favourite storylines and couples that is JP and Craig that was kind of the start of bring gay characters back to the forefront in 2007 after that a lot of soaps started taking noticed and introducing similar storylines.
This.
Who cares about peoples sexual orientation?
Maybe some of the plots have been contrived, but I think once you introduce gay characters you can either reduce them to token roles or you can naturally expand their world to include partners, lovers and friends.
Tilly was brought in to help Esther explore her sexuality. Vincent to provide drama between best friends Phoebe and George. The decision to make Danny bisexual at least provided some shock value to his arrival and has been John Paul's first love interest since he returned.
It's not an issue at all, but in any soap you would certainly expect a note of realism, perhaps 90% straight characters and 10% gay ones......clearly if there was a 50-50 split on a soap, it would be bordering on the ridiculous (and you could probably accuse the producers of pursuing an agenda in such a case).
i did expect some of the ''who cares brigaide'' to make an appearance
i was asking about others views.
going by the fact corrie has press stories, and the negative comments on facebook.
At least Hollyoaks and Coronation Street represents the LGBT community, EastEnders has failed to do since Chryed departed as Danny has no storyline of his own since he returned.
How do you know Danny was just gay at first?
That's fair enough then and answers the question posed by the OP
As long as they're not just repeating the same storylines over and over, or using it to make a character interesting, or for sensationalism, then it's fine.
I love how Esther and Tilly are a normal lesbian couple with no tags or hang-ups. George is a teen completely comfortable with being gay. John-Paul is a gay man who is a parent, has adult responsibilites, and isn't a stereotype. Ste had a large range of storylines that don't centre around his sexuality, he just happens to be gay, which is great to see now.
The only thing I would have qualms about is 'turning' after being in the show for years (Sarah, Texas, Ste, Doug). I'm fine with Ste now though, it just took some getting accustomed to at the time.
exactly 1 year ago today:eek::cool:
Gay characters have romantic relationships. Straight characters have romantic relationships. Neither are "shouting" about their sexuality, they are living life and the staple of soaps are relationships.
The reason why straight characters have no need to mention that they are straight is due to society! It's expected.