as we already have had enough queer as folks, mediocre soaps, graham nortons, etc. all portraying gay men as either perverts or queens, can we now please move on to something different? If this is the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Homosexual Reform Act, why has it got to focus on the negative, depressing and generalizing -albeit real-fraction of the homosexual spectrum rather than highlighting what has been done in 40 years? Has nothing changed? Obviously not for your producers. And authors. Gay marriage has been a conquest, and you simply dismiss it with someone cheating on the wedding day? This is a real insult to what has been done so far. You should change your authors around, as it seems that Mr. Elyot is only interested in toilet sex anyway.
I must admit that the scene of the 14 year old with the older guy was touching and beautifully shot, but mainly depicting a paedophile and not necessarily gays.
So, what is the name 'Clapham Junction' got to do with this? Junction as in the "mixed experiences of several gay men whose lives interconnect over 36 hours" as you claim? Really? How creative. And what do they interconnect on exactly? Violence? Infidelity? It should have just been called Clapham Common, as sex and sensationalism is all you guys are after really.
I am not even upset about this, as I understand commercial TV needs to meet audience’s targets. I am just bored. Bored and Bored. Come up with something new. If you are keen to reflect gay life in London today in all its various aspects and are after a bit of excitement and your bourgeois authors -gay or straight- can't stretch their minds further you could have just travel to East London for example, where you would have encountered a different type of gay life: transvestites, bisexuals, punks, fashion victims, artists, clubbers, all sorts of hybrids and so on. Perhaps even as misleading and outrageous as what you are after, but at least different from the old bore. And guess what? All this comes in lesbian format too. Where are the ladies represented here? 40 years and still closeted?
Homosexuality is much more complex and sophisticated than your or your ghettoised gay authors' simplistic vision, and not so easily categorized. It is confusing for gay people, imagine for 'outsiders'. So perhaps, as an easier alternative, you could start portraying gays for what they Also are. Common people with common lives. And the 'Junction' can be the human feelings that we all have.
All this comes in lesbian format too. Where are the ladies represented here? 40 years and still closeted?
Lesbian sex was not illegal before the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, so it's hardly surprising that a season of programmes marking the decriminalisation of sex between consenting male adults should omit them. In fairness to Channel 4, they have covered lesbian issues in a number of their gay programmes. Most recently they commissioned two series of "Sugar Rush".
