Society’s view of homosexuality
has changed so radically in the last 25 years, it’s almost impossible to credit the seismic shock of TV’s first lesbian kiss on Brookside or the outrage triggered by the brazen Queer as Folk. Where once Channel 4 was alone in urging its audience to be Out on Tuesday
! now every soap has its gay story line. There is still debate about negative stereotyping of gay men and women on television – witness the response to Kevin Elyot’s film, Clapham Junction, or the row about the use of the word ‘poof’ in Big Brother – but it is conducted within a supportive mainstream consensus which television, and Channel 4 in particular, has been instrumental in informing.
In This Chapter
- Introduction
- A Box at the Opera by Patrick Gale
- It Started With a Kiss by Bidisha
- Notes on the New Camp by Nicky Haslam
- Modern Homophobia by Kevin Elyot
- Gallery
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