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Old 06-02-2016, 05:34 PM #1
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Default Do TV shows focusses more on male coming out stories?
Soaps don't seem to have any female teenagers/young adults in a coming out story, it always seems to be males?

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

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I don't really watch soaps, but Big Brother definitely has more gay men compared to lesbians. Would be interesting to know the ratio.
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In relation to LGBT characters, Coronation Street has a majority of gay females compared to other soaps.
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Aren't gay men more common than gay women? I know only one lesbian whereas I know about 40 gay guys
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Aren't gay men more common than gay women? I know only one lesbian whereas I know about 40 gay guys
they are very rare but on some websites I frequent there are tons of them
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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.
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Aren't gay men more common than gay women? I know only one lesbian whereas I know about 40 gay guys
I thought it was about the same... maybe you just attract all the gay men towards you for some reason

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

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