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Originally Posted by Beso

In all honesty, it's rather sad that people allow their sexuality to define them. To define all their choices in life, to define who they must support on tv.

They don't, but it's nice to see representation and therefore nice to support if you wish to. It's a bit like supporting the Football club of where you're from, I guess.

Tragically sad that if you are LGBT you must follow the latest thing like sheep.

We don't do that.

Ali, you are the 1st lesbian to win BB...who bloody cares!!!

What's peoples sexuality got to do with anything, how di they know none of the other winners were lesbian!! What bloody business is it of theirs what sexuality you are!!

Theres more to life, and more to Ali than where she wants to poke her fingers,

Its just irrelevant to me what sexuality people are, not all of us feel the need to shout it from rooftops

That's really easy for people to say who have had their sexuality represented throughout their life as the norm.

As a boy, I knew I had an attraction to males from very early on. Yet that kind of relationship was never shown on TV or books and never talked about positively. I was young and the fact I only ever saw love between a men and a woman made me feel like I was broken.

When I finally started hearing more about 'being gay' was when I went to secondary school where gay was used as an insult only. The only out gay guy in my year was bullied for being so.

Rewind further back in history and it's even more horrifying.

I thinks straight people underestimate just how scary and isolating this can be for gay people growing up. It's not their fault they don't understand because they take it for granted, they're represented, understandably, at every turn. Straight people don't need to shout about their sexuality because it will affect nobody.

Gay people should celebrate representation on mainstream TV and in books and in movies because someone who is confused and scared will see it as normal and fine.

For many LGBT people, their sexuality is important because it's shaped them as a person throughout growing up. From hiding it, to accepting it, to coming out. From dealing with rejection from family or friends because you're gay and dealing with homophobia. From assessing a situation to know whether it's safe to say "boyfriend/husband" or whether you should just say "partner". Years of pretending only to not pretend anymore is a unique and defining experience and so often the relationship a gay person has with their sexuality is so intrinsic and personal in a way that it isn't when you are straight.