[Parmy]

Originally Posted by BBXX

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.



We don't do that.



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.

That's all very thought provoking, but we don't live in the past, we live in the here and now.

I don't buy this, "it's difficult speel"

Take Ali for instance, if took her 4 hours to say to 4 straight males on night one...."there will be lots of people watching who dont know I'm a lesbian"

Yeah, correct, and there will be lots watching who dont give 2 hoots what sexuality you are..BB isnt a knocking shop, it's a shop window for personalities, and sexuality isnt personality. So I dont know why she felt the need to share her sexuality to 4 strangers and millions watching


WELL I do know, but you know!