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Contents:
- EASTENRS' TONE GAY KISS TO BE REPEATED FOR BBC FOUR'S PRI SEASON
- EASTENRS SPARKS UPROAR WH GAY BEDROOM SCENE BEFORE THE WATERSHED
- EASTENRS GAY SEX SCENE WH BEN MCHELL AND PL COKER WILL NOT FACE OF PROBE
- EASTENRS VIEWERS PLA TO OF ABOUT GAY SEX ROMP ONT OF OPEN FF
- DO THE PLATS RECEIVED RPONSE TO GAY SCEN ON EASTENRS & HOLBY SIGNAL A LARGER PROBLEM FOR THE LGBT MUNY?
- EASTENRS' GAY FUNERAL PARLOUR SEX SCENE WILL NOT FACE OF
EASTENRS' TONE GAY KISS TO BE REPEATED FOR BBC FOUR'S PRI SEASON
Episo featured a hallmark moment when Col Rsell (Lord Michael Cashman) had the first mouth-to-mouth gay kiss on Brish televisn wh his boyiend Guido (Nicholas Donovan). BBCRelated: 50 groundbreakg soap characters Digal Spy magaze issue 12In the s sce this scene aired, EastEnrs has ntued to explore reprentatn Walford wh an episo takg place durg Pri and the openg of the Square's first gay bar, The Prce Michael Cashman was a part of many groundbreakg storyl on the soap as Col durg his three years as an EastEnrs st member. An EastEnrs episo that showed a gay uple apparently naked bed has sparked an dience backlash.
But the BBC revealed yterday had received 77 msag om members of the public praisg for showg the a statement, the rporatn said approached the portrayal of gay relatnships ‘exactly the same way’ as did heterosexual scen and the scen were suable for pre-watershed said uld not ‘discrimate’ by treatg gay characters differently to other people shown the programme.
On-screen kiss: Viewers said that the scene ma for 'unfortable' viewg and was guilty of 'nfg their kids' The mixed rponse om viewers to the scen nfirms the fdgs of a BBC survey last year, which showed that gay relatnships are still a divisive issue.
EASTENRS SPARKS UPROAR WH GAY BEDROOM SCENE BEFORE THE WATERSHED
Although 49 per cent of people were fortable wh homosexual scen, 18 per cent were unhappy wh them and a further 32 per cent were viewer, wrg on the BBC’s msage board, said of the EastEnrs episo, which aired two weeks ago: ‘I’m not a homophobe but really do not want to see gay men bed naked and kissg, pecially whilst my ten-year-old dghter is stg wh me, before the watershed.
’ Praise: The scene volvg Syed and Christian has also received msag of support for s portrayal by some fans of the show Another viewer said: ‘If I had a ten-year-old I don’t thk I’d be happy wh them seeg that particular scene whether was a gay uple or a straight uple. The viewer said the gay bed scene was a ‘big step towards equaly’.
EASTENRS GAY SEX SCENE WH BEN MCHELL AND PL COKER WILL NOT FACE OF PROBE
Another said: ‘It mak a rehg change to see a posive portrayal of a gay uple on primetime TV and I appld everyone volved for makg this storyle such a powerful, movg and pellg one. ’ The BBC’s statement said: ‘EastEnrs aims to reflect real life, and this means cludg and tellg stori about characters om many different backgrounds, fahs, religns and 1987, EastEnrs showed the first ever gay kiss on primetime televisn when Barry Clark kissed his partner Col rporatn’s verage of the Canadian Grand Prix also annoyed viewers by wreakg havoc wh Sunday night’s schl.
EastEnrs sparks uproar wh gay bedroom scene before the watershed.
EASTENRS VIEWERS PLA TO OF ABOUT GAY SEX ROMP ONT OF OPEN FF
EastEnrs gay sex scene wh Ben Mchell and Pl Coker will not face Of probeBen Mchell and Pl Coker's "implied sex scene" a funeral parlour received plats but Of will not vtigateThe ntroversial scene17:10, 17 Aug 2015Updated00:02, 18 Aug 2015An EastEnrs scene volvg secret uple Ben Mchell and Pl Coker will not be vtigated further by Of. EastEnrs fans were shocked when the BBC soap aired a gay sex scene a funeral parlour on watchdog Of received 48 plats om the public over the weekend after Ben Mchell (Harry Reid) was seen gettg isky wh Pl Coker (Jonny Labey) ont of an open ff ntag a ad woman's Of spokperson nfirmed to MailOnle: 'We will asss the plats before cidg whether to vtigate or not.
DO THE PLATS RECEIVED RPONSE TO GAY SCEN ON EASTENRS & HOLBY SIGNAL A LARGER PROBLEM FOR THE LGBT MUNY?
EastEnrs viewers pla to Of about gay sex romp ont of open ff. Last week the BBC received over 100 plats about a gay kiss on the popular TV show Holby Cy not long after they were prented wh 125 plats about a scene on Eastenrs which showed two gay characters lyg bed together but do the plats signal a larger problem for the LGBT muny? The numbers may not seem vast but is worth rememberg that the most plats any broadst but plats rarely exceed the low thoands for anythg so this figure actually reprents the views a substantial number of viewer mented on a BBC msage board about the episo of Eastenrs sayg “I’m not a homophobe but really do not want to see gay men bed naked and kissg, pecially whilst my ten-year-old dghter is stg wh me, before the watershed.
Viewers also plaed that the ntent of the Holby Cy episo sayg uld “nfe” we are forced to ask is whether this reprents a change attus towards the gay muny amongst the UKpopulatn. Hugely popular programm like Glee are nsistently phg the boundari of gay and lbian reprentatn and the wrers of HBO’s Te Blood (which we named one of our top 5 LGBT TV programm of 2010) are moured to be troducg yet more gay characters the show’s upg fourth is no secret that the appearance of gay characters televisn shows that are seen by children and parents do a great al to help young LGBT people “e-out”.
Posive portrayal on televisn is a great help for children who as ltle as a ago would have been ridiculed and ostracized but n now openly be themselv wh mimal fear of beg polil terms the world is still movg towards legal equaly for LGBT people, jt last week the UN passed a rolutn llg for universal rights for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans people.
EASTENRS' GAY FUNERAL PARLOUR SEX SCENE WILL NOT FACE OF
Naturally this provoked substantial backlash om the gay muny, particularly given the Conservative party’s history wh Sectn 28 and their recent attempts to garner the pk-vote. Ongog bat over gay marriage and gay members of the Clergy are solid remrs that although the UK offers somethg close to total legal equaly for LGBT people there are still a large number of people who, although a mory, are still opposed to gay rights bee of a seri of out-dated prejudic and is clear that although people are backg equal rights they are still thkg of homosexualy as somethg “different” om which they should protect their children.