LenochkaO
12-12-2003, 04:50
A Guardian article examining the change in British attitudes to homosexuality.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gayrights/story/0,12592,1105351,00.html
I can't help wondering where the tabloid Tatu-bashing fits in to this Brave New World of gay-friendliness. I suspect the key lies in the following sentence:
And, as Queen Victoria would doubtless have appreciated, lesbian visibility lags way behind - or when present, it's often used to up the sauce content.
Plus, of course there's the tabloid-fuelled hysteria over paedophilia. (Incidentally, are we all aware of the incident in which a paediatrician had her house daubed with the word "paedo" by two ignorant oiks? Am most embarrassed that it happened in South Wales.)
Someone was asking me a week or two ago about how accepted homosexuality was in the UK. At the risk of sounding like a complete snob (though speaking as someone with working class roots), I suggested that attitudes differed depending on people's social background as well. But I suspect I may have been led astray by stereotypes and also by the fact that I haven't lived in the UK for more than 5 years. Plus, I'm straight, so I'm hardly in a strong position to be discoursing on attitudes to sexuality, as I'm not at the sharp end.
Anyway, bit of a ramble, this. The article's interesting, though.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gayrights/story/0,12592,1105351,00.html
I can't help wondering where the tabloid Tatu-bashing fits in to this Brave New World of gay-friendliness. I suspect the key lies in the following sentence:
And, as Queen Victoria would doubtless have appreciated, lesbian visibility lags way behind - or when present, it's often used to up the sauce content.
Plus, of course there's the tabloid-fuelled hysteria over paedophilia. (Incidentally, are we all aware of the incident in which a paediatrician had her house daubed with the word "paedo" by two ignorant oiks? Am most embarrassed that it happened in South Wales.)
Someone was asking me a week or two ago about how accepted homosexuality was in the UK. At the risk of sounding like a complete snob (though speaking as someone with working class roots), I suggested that attitudes differed depending on people's social background as well. But I suspect I may have been led astray by stereotypes and also by the fact that I haven't lived in the UK for more than 5 years. Plus, I'm straight, so I'm hardly in a strong position to be discoursing on attitudes to sexuality, as I'm not at the sharp end.
Anyway, bit of a ramble, this. The article's interesting, though.