I’m a bit tired of the same-sex love stories in these shows. I have no beef with gay people, but these shows are overdoing it.
Coronation Street features a gay male couple, a lesbian couple who are engaged to be married (one of whom is pestered by a long-lost fiance, also lesbian) a gay man who has no mate and a man who was once married to a transgender (the first trans character to appear in any British soap opera).
EastEnders has a gay male couple and a lesbian couple.
Emmerdale has a gay male couple, pestered by a sad gay man who wants to break up their marriage. One long-standing character is a transgendered man (played by a real-life transgender) who is married to a woman.
I’m no Puritan, but it’s a bit much, innit? All of these characters appear in virtually every episode of each show. I know this because I watch all of them, which is a bit of a problem in itself.
