Kiss me goodbye, I’m defying gravity.
Let’s see… I spy Jim and Dwight from The Office, Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory, Sherlock, the Eleventh Doctor, House, Buffy and Angel, whoever Patrick Dempsey plays on Scrubs, Spock, what looks like Ramona from Scott Pilgrim, Tina Fey’s character on 30 Rock, Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mother (Neil Patrick Harris is sexy), and that blonde cheerleader on Glee. How do I get invited to this party?!
Question:
Why, in a show, are gay characters allowed ONLY if their sexuality is, like, the main point of them being there? My perfect example here is either Blaine or Kurt on Glee: bullied, rejected, hated on for their love.
And then I look at, say Torchwood (and Doctor Who, to an extent) where no one gives a fuck if Jack Harkness is gay, straight, bi, or omnisexual, because impending doom and alien invasions are a BIT more important. (At least I’m guessing about Torchwood, I’ve never seen it, just clips and gifs, but the love song of Jack and Ianto will live on.)
Is this a thing where the British are just cooler about that sort of thing, or am I missing something? Someone help me, please, I’m lost.
*Edit: this applies to main or pretty-main (what would be the term?) characters. Not, like, the background gay guys in Futurama.
