True...you can see it in the pointless and strained introduction of gay characters in their shows. Simply no point for them being there at all for the show to succeed if it were well done. Pointless, perverted pandering to a bunch of sickos that should be in shock treatment.
I’m a playwright. I contend that stories about married couples are more entertaining that stories about couple who are single or gay etc. At least there are more options in the story.
This is not to say that Sleepless in Seattle, Something’s Got to Give, REturn to Me, big Fat Greek Wedding and on and on and on about the chase...(boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl etc), are not entertaining. They are very entertaining, but one dimensional, but don’t you want to know what happens after? Wouldn’t you love to see the characters played by Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton in their marital years.
Family Man and Parenthood, Father of the Bride all those wonderful Sitcoms. Maybe I’m off base here. I only know, from a writer’s stand point, it’s easier for me to write a compelling story about married couples than single ones.
I’m sure there are great stories out there about the gays, but for me it’s one dimensional just as much as it is about heterosexual couples that are NOT married.
Maybe it’s more than that. Maybe it’s actually simpler, i.e. about the family of two, that becomes three then four etc. The Waltons don’t seems to go out of style, neither does Leave it to Beaver.
Teh most erotic experience I can recall as a young man occurred on the Island of Mykonos back in the 70s when I was in college. I was going to meet some friends, (not gay) there. The island was made famous because Jackie Kennedy loved it. I knew nothing before hand about the place. I was waiting to get on a bus to go to one of the beaches. I sensed something was amiss when I was getting eyed and oodled by other dudes standing next to me. When I boarded, I naturally sat down next to this cute blonde girl who was about my age. As other men came aboard they were eyeing me like I was fresh meat, and they were on a feeding frenzy. I turned to the girl next to me saying, “Are they making a pass at you or me?” She replied. “They are definitely eyeing you.” I stayed glued to her like a bad smell when we left the bus, and we boarded a little boat that ferried (excuse the pun) us all to one of three beaches. AS we started to come a shore I noticed that half the kids on the beach, (called Paradise) were naked. She wanted to go to the second beach, (Superparadise) the next stop. There everyone was naked. The gays went on to the last beach (Hell). I vividly recall young college age kids from all over the world, many from the US. Sweatshirts that said Cornell, Stanford, UCLA, Notre Dame, OSU, BAMA etc were getting being peeled off. Beautiful people stripping down and running around like they were two years old again in their back yard. Ten minutes after the girl I had met had stripped I did too. I figured, “when in Rome...” Two weeks later I was back in Chicago, and life as usual.
Mykonos then was highly affordable and emaculately clean. Largely due to the gay population on the beach. The beaches were closed down completely a few years later.
This is a whole different culture for gays. It’s a 24/7 sex party that never stops. The jealously, the heart break etc are ten fold what they are in heterosexual couples.