Brian Sewell complains about gay characters in soaps

http://www.atvtoday.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1458:brian-sewell-complains-about-gay-characters-in-soaps&catid=5:lgbt&Itemid=11

Brian Sewell has complained about the number of LGBT characters in soaps and has questioned whether gay relationships are suitable for young children to view.



The art-critic attacked the number of LGBT characters in Coronation Street - and soaps in general - in an article for the Daily Mail. In recent months there has been criticism, from some quarters, over the number of gay characters in Coronation Street. The criticisms come as the ITV soap features one gay couple and one lesbian couple while a cross-dressing character was recently introduced. These criticisms has been picked up by Sewell but he also attacks other soaps such as EastEnders.



“There’s too much, not only of gay men – who are estimated to make up just six per cent of the population, but who dominate the storylines in the soap – but also of lesbians, bisexuals, the trans-gender community, cross-dressers and everyone else with some sexual quirk or fetish.....Is it true that the lives of heterosexual Mancunians are haplessly intertwined with transvestites, transsexuals, teenage lesbians and a horde of homosexuals across the age range? Is Manchester now the Sodom of the North?” - Brian Sewell writing for the Daily Mail

It is not just Coronation Street — EastEnders is at it, too, with, last month, boys in bed together, apparently naked....The dear old egalitarian BBC protested that its policy is to portray gay and hetero- sexual relationships in exactly the same way, both equally suitable for pre-watershed viewing. But are they equally suitable? Are soaps, watched by pre-pubescent children — who may still have some tattered remnant of innocence that we should cherish — really a proper platform for sexual propaganda and special pleading?” ” - Brian Sewell writing for the Daily Mail

Until they go to church, and hear about an invisible man who died a bloody, horrible, violent death at the hands of conservatives, and then about him and his daddy and virgin momma ("what's a 'virgin', Mommy?") and Casper the Friendly Ghost, and about how god "loves" them, but if they do ANYTHING to piss him off he won't hesitate to THROW THEM INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE, WHERE THEY'LL BURN FOREVER AND EVER, AMEN, but he LOVES them unconditionally as long as they do EXACTLY WHAT HE SAYS. Which includes DRINKING HIS BLOOD AND EATING THE FLESH OF HIS BODY. AND NOT EVER, EVER SPITTING IT OUT OR THROWING UP, CUZ THAT WOULD PISS HIM OFF SUPER, SUPER BAD!!!

They'll also learn about Sainty Claws, who wears a red suit (like the DEVIL!) and has magic reindeer to pull his magic cart fulla name-brand gifts and visits every home on Earth on xmas day--UNLESS YOU'VE BEEN BAD, AND YOU GET A LUMP OF COAL!! But, hey, that's about the full extent of his punishment powers, which, compared to the other guy, may be disappointing, but you don't get killed and TORTURED FOREVER AND EVER TILL FOREVER AND EVER.

Then the Easter Bunny comes along, he's a giant rabbit, he doesn't need a chimney to come down, and he brings candy and eggs and sometimes, children–if you've been very, very good–more name-brand™ shit made in China by Communist slaves, which are now America's friends, because they make the crap we buy, and it breaks, and so we buy it again, and buy more and more of it, FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER, AMEN.

No, far better to learn who to hate this week, so if you find one you can taunt and bully "it" and get away with it, and maybe even get a gold star in church.

Here's a tip...if you don't want your kids watching something because you feel it will destroy the bubble you've raised them in, be a frigging parent and change the channel or turn the TV off. Or is that expecting too much of that "personal responsibility" RRRW types are always preaching?


Edited for clarity

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/07/coronation-street-gay-brian-sewell

Sewell is an art critic; known for being a caricature of a snob (as John Humphrys says ,quoted in the Sewell Wikipedia page: "Brian Sewell, the only man I have ever met who makes the Queen sound common".

The Wikipedia page says he is bisexual; the link for the quote is dead, but "I never came out ... I have slowly emerged was also quoted in The Guardian 3 years ago, so I think it's genuine.

On a chat show, to see how snobbish he is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBt0ER43trc

Boring! I hated soaps...until "The Days" in the early 80s...when I was a twenty something.

Beau and Hope...lol

There are some that are aimed just at teenagers; and some, like Coronation Street, are aimed at all ages - and have some of the highest viewing figures of any TV programmes.