Do TV shows focusses more on male coming out stories?

[Will.]

Soaps don't seem to have any female teenagers/young adults in a coming out story, it always seems to be males?

Thoughts?

[Will.]

EastEnders:

2014 - Johnny
2015 - Paul introduced as a young gay male.
2016 - Focusing on Ben coming out (although I swear he came out ages ago)

[Shaun]

I think it's just hollyoaks that seems to be heavily tipped towards gay males (ste, JP, that scouse one, whatever parry glasspools character is called - versus Esther... and that's it). It seems fairly equal in emmerdale, coronation street and eastenders.

[Will.]

I think it's just hollyoaks that seems to be heavily tipped towards gay males. It seems fairly equal in emmerdale, coronation street and eastenders.

Yeah, there are a few bi/lesbian females in EastEnders but they never seem to have a young female involved in a coming out story.

Coronation Street had a couple if I remembering correctly.

[Crimson Dynamo]

i think there are only a few hundred lesbians in Britain so I guess as they are rare they dont feature so much?

Clare Balding is their leader

[Jamie89]

I don't really watch soaps, but Big Brother definitely has more gay men compared to lesbians. Would be interesting to know the ratio.

[Will.]

In relation to LGBT characters, Coronation Street has a majority of gay females compared to other soaps.

[Denver]

What's a lesbian? And where can I get one?

[Drew.]

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[Crimson Dynamo]

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[Vicky.]

Aren't gay men more common than gay women? I know only one lesbian whereas I know about 40 gay guys :laugh:

[Crimson Dynamo]

Aren't gay men more common than gay women? I know only one lesbian whereas I know about 40 gay guys :laugh:

they are very rare but on some websites I frequent there are tons of them

:omgno:

[Firewire]

TV has more lesbian characters than gay ones. They don't necessarily come out as they are already well-established. Being gay is still taboo and is why coming out scenes for males are shown more.

[Jamie89]

Aren't gay men more common than gay women? I know only one lesbian whereas I know about 40 gay guys :laugh:

I thought it was about the same... maybe you just attract all the gay men towards you for some reason :laugh:

And repel the lesbians :omgno:

[Crimson Dynamo]

we need to consult our own lesbian Ninastar about this and get the inside line

Calling Ninastar

[TomC]

Just in general, gay men seem to be much more prevalent in the media than gay women.

[Redway]

I think it's just hollyoaks that seems to be heavily tipped towards gay males (ste, JP, that scouse one, whatever parry glasspools character is called - versus Esther... and that's it). It seems fairly equal in emmerdale, coronation street and eastenders.

It does seem about equal on Corrie but I do think EastEnders heavily slants toward gay males. There's been the likes of Sonia, Tina, and Tosh in the past two years but they've all been fully-grown adults, who would've presumably accepted their sexuality. All the coming out stories in recent years have revolved around males (Ben, Johnny).

[Marsh.]

EastEnders:

2014 - Johnny
2015 - Paul introduced as a young gay male.
2016 - Focusing on Ben coming out (although I swear he came out ages ago)

Well focussing on one television show isn't really exploring the entire spectrum of television.

Also, Paul never had a coming out story. Like Tina, he came in as a gay character who was already out.

[Alf]

You're just watching the wrong programmes, there's loads of lessies in porn.

What I don't get with the male gays is why do they have to be camp?

[arista]

Soaps don't seem to have any female teenagers/young adults in a coming out story, it always seems to be males?

Thoughts?


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[arista]

we need to consult our own lesbian Ninastar about this and get the inside line

Calling Ninastar



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[Firewire]

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[arista]

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[Ammi]

..that's interesting as well, that it would be more males because the first one that I recall was Brookside and Anna Friel/Beth Jordache and Margaret, I think the other character was...Anna became a 'lesbian pin-up' with that storyline...

[arista]

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[Marsh.]

Where's the titties, man?

[Ninastar]

I think it totally depends on what shows you watch. I do think there are more 'male coming out scenes' on TV, but I think it's more so to get views than to help people out. I mean yeah, I do think the writers/directors want to help people out, but I think they do things to get these storylines ratings.

It sounds so confusing there, but I think that more females watch soaps/tv series than males. A lot of these females who watch these soaps are pretty young. A lot of young girls always say they want that 'gay bff' and love 'gay guys' because gay guys are pretty great, lol. Writers know that they can get gay people and straight fangirls to fall in love with the gay characters/ships. This tends to happen more with male/male couples, rather than female/female couples.

On the other hand, you get guys who are like **** yeah, lesbians!!!!! But I don't think you get as many straight guys watching a show/soap with gay characters as you do with straight women...

TL: DL, writers show gay male storylines coming out more than gay female coming out storylines because they get more attention/views

[Ninastar]

Bloody Lesbos
make you mind up!



Please Note: There is nothing at all wrong with being called
a Lesbo

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[Ninastar]

Although I suppose in the UK it's more about gay males coming out, whereas in the US it's more about gay females coming out... I think being a gay male is more taboo in the US, but being a gay female is more taboo in the UK.

Just my opinion of course tho

[Drew.]

I think it totally depends on what shows you watch. I do think there are more 'male coming out scenes' on TV, but I think it's more so to get views than to help people out. I mean yeah, I do think the writers/directors want to help people out, but I think they do things to get these storylines ratings.

It sounds so confusing there, but I think that more females watch soaps/tv series than males. A lot of these females who watch these soaps are pretty young. A lot of young girls always say they want that 'gay bff' and love 'gay guys' because gay guys are pretty great, lol. Writers know that they can get gay people and straight fangirls to fall in love with the gay characters/ships. This tends to happen more with male/male couples, rather than female/female couples.

On the other hand, you get guys who are like **** yeah, lesbians!!!!! But I don't think you get as many straight guys watching a show/soap with gay characters as you do with straight women...

TL: DL, writers show gay male storylines coming out more than gay female coming out storylines because they get more attention/views

This is a pretty good point. Aaron and Robert from Emmerdale have become a craze on social media to the younger viewers where it's become an obsession to a lot of people. It kinda feels like a lot of viewers almost see it as being real life and not acting. The producers know this and milk it for all its worth by giving them more screen time than most. I couldn't see a lesbian couple getting the same reaction and attention from viewers.