As a hetero man, I agree...
...raving queens give homosexuality a bad name. The screaming mincers, that seem to be the only gay role models anyone ever sees on TV, do nothing to dispel the stereotype. We still seem to be trapped in a 1970s view where gay = camp and, as you say you all know each other (possibly in the Biblical sense).
Question, though: does disliking the OTT flouncing antics of Graham Norton, Alan Carr, or Dale Winton make me a homophobe?
If so, sorry.
( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Fri 2 Apr 2010, 16:48, 1 reply)

Not sure
Hmmm, good question. I don't think it makes you a homophobe for disliking the screaming queens. I despise their being and do not like them at all, but I can't be a homophobe as I am 'a' gay.

If only there were straight acting, intelligent non-mincers on TV, but I don't see that happening anytime soon, as we are stuck in a time warp where gay does indeed equal camp and over the top funny characters, there for comedy value rather than anything else.

The fact that people reckon opinion has changed on gay life nowadays is full of bullshit. Yes, it is more open, but, again (broken record) everyone presumes that Graham Norton, Alan Carr, Dale Winton et all is what the rest of us are like. ha ha
(Eeevil You are losers, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 16:58, closed)

Plenty
"If only there were straight acting, intelligent non-mincers on TV"

Oh, but there are plenty of them. The thing is, because of the fact that they don't make a profession out of their sexuality, and camping it up, the public consequently don't know that they are gay.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 17:48, closed)

like Derren Brown
or the awesome Neil Patrick Harris
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 18:47, closed)

and
Stephen Fry
(razakel, Sat 3 Apr 2010, 16:34, closed)

and Russell Tovey

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 10:14, closed)