^^^ Yes. It was just a kiss! Or maybe two! But who cares?


Double standards are ok. Did anyone moan when the lovely Sian and Sophie were snogging?

Just a theory - but with current SLS, Billy and Todd have had a lot of screen time. As with all characters when they have been on screen continually maybe some viewers get tired of seeing them and seeing them doing the same things over and over again. It would only be natural in a relationship to kiss but maybe seeing them kissing again and again has become boring.

No it's not. It all smacks of voyeurism. It's certainly not entertainment.

Steve and Michelle have become very lovey dovey and kissy kissy of late. Is that voyeurism?

When Eva drapes herself all over Aidan, sits on his knee and kisses him; is that voyeurism?

Corrie's continual attempts to sexualise Michelle and Eva - especially Eva is far more offensive than any gay kiss.

Like I said in myprevious post, people might get tired of seeing people do the same things. But gay kisses are not voyeurism.

would you sit and watch it with the same obvious enjoyment in your front room? Not on television. Family, guests, casual visitors, tradespeople, sales reps ~ anyone you might invite in?
If you had read my post you would have seen that I did not specify gay kissing, nor did the poster I was replying to.

I'd argue that a lot of people watch soaps and reality TV precisely to be voyeuristic. Getting an insight into how people live 'behind closed doors' has always been a central premise for these types of shows.

Nice to see a debatibg thread on this topic that hasn't immediately descended into name calling!!

My own personal view is Corrie have pushed the kissing scenes with Todd & Billy more than they do with the average couple, gay or straight, not that it bothers me in the slightest but I am interested to know whether it has been done to get a reaction or whether it has been done purely to show that Todd & Billy's relationship was very much based on spur of the moment passion rather than a slow burning romance built to last!!

Your prediction was wrong!

You only have to spend 30 seconds on this forum to see its frequented by a lot of gay men. Threads like these are just to provoke a reaction and are best ignored.

See you've just passed 30K Scrabbler

Happy Milestone to you
(and all of your crew!!)

I know! I don't know why I'm surprised though - I didn't win the Lottery on Saturday either.

This has to be a Poe surely... Or maybe by the lack of response by th OP a drive by posting.

*giggles*

He couldn't have done it without us 😂😂. Well done scrabbler!

Agree with Scrabbler tho it seems these recent threads are targeting fms on purpose.

In response to the thread. Would a gay soap not be voyeuristic? Like queer as folk but a little more soapified

I wouldn't mind that actually cos queer as folk was very good.

But Corrie, yeah maybe the proportions are all wrong but what does it matter. Its not like there are more gay couples than straight ones and so it still reflects that gay people are in the minority. So what if its not 1 in ten or whatever the stat is!

Just like the forum has more gay fms than straight ones (or at least that I interact with) so corrie at representing the demographics of their viewers rather than the overall general public of which i assume most dont give a flying fig about corrie or its characters

Well someone been complain about gay scene in Eastenders, Corrie and Hollyoaks, my family and me watch soap and shrug it off when we all see gay scene and kissy stuff.

Complain about them like make a mountain out of a molehill! I have no problem with gay, straight or bisexual.

What makes you think it's with - obvious enjoyment? What a turn of phrase. It's just part of a TV soap.

What's that got to do with anything? That doesn't happen in Corrie. Billy and Todd might have had the odd kiss in the pub or in the Grimshaws' front room but that is nothing to get so bothered about.

Who the hell would put up with casual visitors, tradespeople or sales reps carrying on in a personal manner in their home? What a ridiculous suggestion.

Do you jump on lots of threads and make a point about kissing in all TV progs then?

If you can tell me what basics are, and they meet the same understanding i have about them I'll be only too happy to get back to basics. In the meantime I'll enjoy the benefits of this century. I must admit I used to laugh at Ken and his higher education, but on reflection there's more going on in his head than I gave him credit for.

What a lovely thread topic.

Said no-one ever.

The majority of the characters on the show are straight, dear OP, so chill out that there's at least more than one gay male character on the show at best.

As someone who lives in Manchester, I would have to disagree.

And to give you a personal example, where I used to live in a row of 6 houses in a suburban area of South Manchester we had -

House 1 - Straight Couple
House 2- 3 housemates - 1 Straight female, 1 gay male and 1 Bi Male (myself)
House 3- Lesbian Couple with Child
House 4 - Male housemates - 1 Straight Male and 1 Gay Male
House 5 - One straight Man
House 6 - Female housemates - 1 straight and 1 bi

So.....taking my street as an example of modern Manchester, which Corrie is supposed to reflect...your 1.5% is some way off....

Gosh, you were a very close-knit row of houses weren't you? I live on a small close of 13 houses in equally modern South Manchester and only know the first names of three of the residents and the second name of one of them, (only because of occasional postie slip ups). I have no idea of the sexual orientation of any of them, other than on a prima facie basis, (2 straight couples with kids, one pair of widowed sisters).
The last article I read on the subject suggested that around 80% of people have a similar non-relationship with their neighbours.

Though the three lesbian characters (Sophie, Kate and that army girl) would certainly bump up the percentage over 10% along with the three gay men - I don't think there are 60 characters in Corrie?

I think this is it.

Or to try and normalise passionate kissing between gay people, whereas before they only showed brief pecks between the gay characters which is not true to life.

Either way - they will be well pleased with the reaction.

Why should a soap be forced to have only 2 LGBT characters at a time. The extras make up the soaps population room for the area so they can make up for the straight population.

Thanks Lea and NDD, i hadnt noticed.

30k posts of absolute drivel is my greatest acomplishment

Homophobic? I wouldn't put it that far but still if OP doesn't want gay characters on screen it's easy to see why. I just think OP in uncomfortable and insecure?

It usually has over 60 main characters. The percentage is nonsense anyway. EE has a higher percentage of murderers living in the sq than your usual British street im sure.