9. Despite changing equality laws and a wider acceptance
of different sexualities within much of society, TV has
always remained quite conservative as they are scared of
offending their viewers.
Heterosexual (straight) characters are represented as the
“norm” and homosexual (gay) characters are often
represented as being different, strange, or separate from
mainstream society.
Some critics say that when TV does feature gay
characters, they are never just characters that “happen to
be gay.” Their sexuality always plays a key part in their
storylines and they don’t seem to have any issues outside
of their sexuality.
