Gay activities on TV

[R1Geezer]

Why is it necessary to whow it? It can't be vital to the story? OK Sp points out below that there was an "uproar" over a gay bedroom scene. My question is, why must we have it on TV soaps at all. We all know about bandit bedroom activities, why is it vital to show it in TV before the watershed? come to that why are soaps exempt from normal watershed rules anyway?

[jackthehat]

I cannot see why 'disgusted of Tunbridge Wells' gives over so much time to thinking about, picturing and writing about things that disgust them...............

[DrFilth]

sp1814 i am not going to read it all but i think you are wrong

>>The Sexual Offences Act 1967 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom (citation 1967 c. 60). It decriminalised homosexual acts in private between two men, both of whom had to have attained the age of 21. The Act applied only to England and Wales and did not cover the Merchant Navy or the Armed Forces. Homosexuality was not decriminalised in Scotland until passage of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980 and in Northern Ireland by the Homosexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 1982.<<

[jackthehat]

But it *was* legal at the time this episode of Eastenders was broadcast...........yes ?

[sp1814]

Old_Geezer

I think the issue of legality shouldn't impact on what defines good drama, or taste.

If soap opera (or any drama for that matter) were constrained by what was legal at the time, it would make for incredibly dull plots.

[jackthehat]

Murdering people has been illegal for as long as I can recall but it's a well-used plot-line....

[sp1814]

DrFilth

I think that most people would view 1967 as being the key date. If I were writing from Scotland, Northern Ireland or a ship, maybe my outlook would be different.

[DrFilth]

go back over 43 years ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

[Old_Geezer]

Precisely, neither legality nor social taboos. Stick it all on, after a watershed. Nowt else worth tuning in to anyway, well not much. Could earmark a 'normal hour' into the schedule too.

[jackthehat]

I think you'll find that what *you* consider to be normal gets, by far, the majority of scheduled air-time, O_G.

[andy-hughes]

OG - the notion of a 'watershed' is an utter nonsense.

Does anyone seriously believe that in 2011, parents pack the kiddies off to be on the dot of 9:00 p.m. to shield their eyes from 'adult' content, and that anything shown before that should be as radical and progressive as The Wooden Tops.

With all the (constantly advertised by the BBC) 'view again' technology, re-runs and box sets of series, the idea that everyone watches TV at its broadcast time slot is simply ludicrous.

The fact that the government and media still use this stupid expression shows that thewy have patently failed to address the fact that media presentation and access is a universe away from where it was when the arbitrary '9:00 p.m.' rubicon was invented.

[sp1814]

DrFilth

Not sure of your point!

[DrFilth]

just pointing out that it was illegal once

>>
docspock They could become legal one day as homosexual activity has.


things change over the years
10:45 Wed 15th Jun 2011 <<

[DrFilth]

i added this

things change over the years

[ummmm]

Like I said earlier DrF....until dead people and animals can give their consent it will remain illegal.

[DrFilth]

have you ever heard a dead person complain

[jackthehat]

This thread is now verging on the surreal..........

Christian and Si weren't snuggling up to a dead goat.........so can this thread be either dragged kicking and screaming back onto topic, or be compassionately put out of its misery?

R1 won't be happy when he gets back and.............no, I think I can probably stop there!

[Manwithnoname]

Eric & Ernie used to go to bed together as did Laurel & Hardy years before them.

But to see men kissing& cuddling on TV is disgusting & not normal. No wonder the morals & fibre in this country are sinking to an all time low.
If they must show these freak scenes why dont they have their own channel (SLTV) & spare us these revolting unnatural scenes.

[Old_Geezer]

Laurel & Hardy, yes, I'd forgotten how disgusting they were. Should be banned.

[sp1814]

What has homosexuality got to do with morals???