How Will Youngsters Notice If A Tv Presenter Is Gay Or Not?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2247981/BBC-told-gay-presenters-characters-childrens-TV-familiarise-young-people-different-sexualities.html

/// The study claimed that lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people are still 'relatively invisible' across the media. ///

/// The report commissioned by the broadcaster, which drew on audience surveys and nine 'LGB experts', concluded that all genres of programming should regularly feature non-heterosexual people, with news and drama currently the biggest problem
areas. ///

So if this materialises, will the presenter first introduce themselves by saying "Good Evening I am Jeremy your gay newscaster"?

[boxtops]

Oh for goodness sake. Why should everyone be so overt about their sexuality, why should a little kid even be bothered?

[Mattk]

The very fact that gay people have to 'out' themselves or be seen as underhanded for not doing so shows that things are not as advanced as people may like to think.
Heterosexual people aren't expected to announce their sexual preference.

[deggers316]

no need if your graham norton or alan carr

[jno]

I have no idea. I have no problem with gays being hired, even to present children's TV, but how this is supposed to "familiarise children with different sexualities" I don't know. Maybe they envisage And and Dec having a snog during Teletubbies or something.

[anotheoldgit]

deggers316

/// no need if your graham norton or alan carr ///

Yes these two are so 'camp' and they use their sexuality to set themselves up as persons of comedy, so is this taking homosexuality serious?

[deggers316]

who knows who is what? and why should we care. the two obvious i mentioned do make money out of overstating their sexuality and ,any more obvious ones on tv too numerous to mention

[deggers316]

many more (not any more ) sorry

[deggers316]

does anyone know of any other country (forget the middle east ) that has such bl***by stupid pc rules like this cos i dont

[emmie]

are they, don't see that with Alan Carr, Graham Norton, Dale Winton and a host of others.

[craft1948]

I had no idea until today that Kenneth Kendall was gay, and I'm sure it didn't affect how he read the news............

[emmie]

good grief was he, he died today or that is what i think i heard earlier

[ludwig]

// I had no idea until today that Kenneth Kendall was gay, and I'm sure it didn't affect how he read the news............ //

It did craft. He used to say things like ..

'Today in parliament Margaret Thatcher criticised Labour Leader Neil Kinnock's handling of the Militant element in the Labour rank and file. She referred to it as a lightweight approach to a heavyweight issue.
oooooooOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo ........get her'

..all the time.

[emmie]

aww leave him alone he was lovely... mind you i rather like Reginald Bosanquet, but he was something of a loose cannon.

[lcg]

why do we need to take homosexuality 'seriously'? nobody give a fig about being straight.....i just find this story utterly pathetic.

[craft1948]

lol @ Ludwig............naughty.

[pdq1]

Most of those on the BBC do seem to talk differently.

[whiskeryron]

Nothing new then I was always unsure about Bill & Ben in the potting shed.

WR.

[ludwig]

Tinky Winky had a handbag.

[whiskeryron]

surely it should have been a bucket

WR.

[ludwig]

Nope definately a handbag..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSj13sTSWGM