Coronation St

Freiheit

With it's vast quantities of l.g.b.t.q. charachters I thought it might make an interesting discussion topic.

The creator Tony Warren was gay. How many gay relationships is there? Sean and his boyfriend, Sophie and Sian,there was Todd whose straight brother won a Mr gay competition.

There's Hayley a Transsexual (played by cisgenered woman Julie Hesmondhalgh. One of the current storylines involves a Transvestite and how his current girlfriend Audrey has overcome her phobia surrounding crossdressing and become very supportive. I suppose this helps to normalise such ? by bringing it to sitting rooms?.

What do people think of the portrayals and has it helped change attitudes?.

Can only recall one gay relationship in Fair City and none in Glenroe,was there more?.

For the record I'm not sure if there's such a thing as a Transvestite,a man wearing a dress isn't necessarily crossdressing. It can be a man's dress too. Don't the clergy wear skirt's?. And pants used to be the reserve of men but a woman wearing one in western society is no longer seen as a crossdresser, although in some parts of the world they are flogged for such.

Hope all are well!:)

Annasopra

There are also quite a lot of other gay scriptwriters

Prof Stephen Whittle was on that programme "the corrie years" the other day and he said that introducing Hayley into the show had a big impact on how the public viewed transgender people and really helped trans activists in terms of lobbying for the Gender recognition act

There was also a recent article slagging off the show for being ott with lgbt characters

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2011651/Coronation-Street-Wall-wall-gays-transsexuals-transvestites-lesbians.html

L.Jenkins

We may have argued this before in relation to Corrie. It seem a bit full on with all its LGBTness. I actually quite enjoyed Emmerdales approach to it, even if it was short lived.

What I would love to see some day, is a soap approach Transsexuality from start to finish, even though there is some serious potential to make a balls of it.

Killer_banana

I think Corrie is a bit hit and miss but at least they're trying.

I love how they handle Hayley's character though. I'm not a huge fan of her or Roy but I do like that she still got her happy ending with him. Corrie as far as I remember was where I first heard of transgender people (I was a kid at the time, not horribly sheltered) and I think their portrayal of it made it easy enough to understand and was a pretty good introduction to it.

@ITMA I believe Hollyoaks has a teenage FTM character. I'm not sure how it's handled though. I tried watching it but the acting is god awful...

L.Jenkins

Killer_banana wrote: »

@ITMA I believe Hollyoaks has a teenage FTM character. I'm not sure how it's handled though. I tried watching it but the acting is god awful...

Yeah thats why my soap watching is seriously limited to Corrie and Emmerdale, and that's when I do watch tv which is rare.

alexjk

I can't understand why some people might think that there's an unrealistic amount of gay characters on Corrie. It's set in Manchester!

L.Jenkins

alexjk wrote: »

I can't understand why some people might think that there's an unrealistic amount of gay characters on Corrie. It's set in Manchester!

Given the size of the cast, I just think it's a bit dispreportionate.

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ItsThatManAgain wrote: »

Given the size of the cast, I just think it's a bit dispreportionate.

Corrie has a cast of 70 and about 5 or 6 of the regular cast is lgbt. Seems grand to me. I thought we were at the point where someone's sexuality was irrelevant?

If anything Corrie has a lack of ethnic minorities in the soap, not a fair reflection of modern English cities.

teemm

Ah it's soap so virtually everyone has slept with, fought with or is related to someone else on the show. It shouldn't be taken too seriously.

Of course at the moment it is perpetrating the carefully nurtured myth of the truly straight transvestite. Not many of those exist in my opinion and experience. That's what they tell their wives to keep them onside.

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mango salsa wrote: »

There was also a recent article slagging off the show for being ott with lgbt characters

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2011651/Coronation-Street-Wall-wall-gays-transsexuals-transvestites-lesbians.html

That article is both hilarious and rage inducing!

TBH though the guy who wrote it is a complete berk at the best of times.

Freiheit

What did people think of how the Marcia story concluded?. She was going to be outed by Kylie how captured her on camera,who was hoping to blackmail Gail.

Anyway for those who don't know,rather than be subject to blackmail Mark walked into the Rovers as Marcia. Reaction while initially one of amusement and low scale laughter was eventually fairly humane. Audrey his girlfriend ended the relationship but did say that s/he shouldn't have to be anyone else,shouldn't have to hide who s/he is. That she hoped that society would catch up with him/her.

There's a lot of transvestites out there,some of who are share ground with Transsexuals,some of whom don't. While I don't consider myself one myself,I believe in the right of everyone to be themselves. I hope society can catch up and accept all of it's colours. I know of cases where it has ended relationships,which is sad. With more education and a more fluid society in the future,hopefuly this will happen less.

I'll attempt to post a pic,but knowing my luck,is unlikely to work:)