Going camp on Daily Mail’s asses

Just the other day Stonewall released a report damning the depiction of gay people in British media, and singled out BBC for particular excoriations. Picking up the slack, and sticking the knife further in, was Daily Mail’s  ANDREW PIERCE who declared that he abhorred the prancing queens depicted on television.

I have an urge to adopt a camp air and sashay down the street outside the Daily Mail offices, and it is hard to resist. Maybe I should bring a portable stereo and belt out showtunes as I do.

Admittedly, I’m not very camp, and I would end up making a fool of myself, but since that has never bothered me in the past I could live it down quite easily as long as I got the point across.

And what point is that? Well, the point is easy enough to understand, but hard to grasp in practice. It has to do with gay people that adopt heterosexism as an ideal, such as what Mr Pierce does in his article where he lambasts anyone that does not embrace the straight-acting stereotype of what a gay bloke should be.

Thus, while you get ten kinds of shiite beaten out of you in the locker rooms, schools and behind the nation’s pubs for being a woofter, by the people that wouldn’t care one bit about how straight you look – you are also required to act like them. Does this include beating the bollocks out of some poor gay man as well?

Therefore my urge to go camp, and spend some quality time outside the newspaper’s offices, even if we’re talking about just a tabloid that caters to the chavs of the realm rather than to people that have a more nuanced outlook on things.

Sherlock and Watson are gay again?

There’s nothing to get the box zinging like a hint of gayness. Last year when Sherlock Holmes was awaiting its debut in the theatres across the nation, the press titillated the moviegoers with speculations about what Sherlock and Watson did when no one was looking.

Now, when Sherlock and Watson gets zapped to their future, our current time, they get beset by the rumour mill again. People apparently want to see Sherlock shearing Watson’s clothes.

The Beeb I’m sure welcomes the attention, particularly in the light of that strange study from Stonewall about its portrayal of gay characters on screen.

However, after cancelling season three of the delightful Beautiful People I am sure the BBC deserves all misfortune it can get, rather than salivating viewers that are just waiting for the first steaming scene between the detective and his sidekick.

We who appreciate real, true shows can keep in mind a scene from Beautiful People, when young Simon Doonan laments in his staircase ‘Where is love?’