Do you ever get disgusted? [View All]

I was thinking on many things tonight. One of those things was, "where are all the gay people on TV?" I was watching "Will & Grace" tonight and thought...."have we really come all that far?" Although two of the main characters are gay, and one is bi-curious (?), do we ever get to be the "boring" people we really are?

Think about it: how many shows have gay characters? Of those shows, how many show us in relationships? Of those shows, how many show the real hate we face daily? Of those shows, how many ever show us being romantic, kissing, or in bed (outside of cable, like HBO or ShoTime)? How many shows still mock our sexuality?

What about movies? Are there any that show the "straight guy" experimenting? How many of "our" movies end on a "happy note?" How many show the complexity of our community? How many mainstream movies that have a gay character (who is not an escort, "questioning," AIDS-infected, pedophile, fop, comedic side-kick and/or criminal), actually show us as a complex human?

Sometimes, I get really disgusted. Why can't we have a character who happens to be gay be a title character, but is treated like all the rest of the title characters?

Is it just me?