BBC Announce New Sitcom Starring Neil Morrissey As A Gay Dad

The BBC have announced they will be airing a pilot for a new series, The Inn Mates, featuring former Men Behaving Badly star Neil Morrissey as a gay parent. Written by stand up comedian John Warburton and featuring Joe Tracini, the son of comedian Joe Pasquale, as the son the story sees Morrissey as a [...]

Youth Television Accused Of Ignoring Gay Community And Treating Them As Jokes

New Stonewall research, Unseen on Screen, published today has discovered that ordinary gay people are almost invisible from the top 20 television programmes watched by Britain’s youth. Amounting up to to only 46 minutes out of 126 hours of television that represented the gay community in a positive and realistic way, the biggest percentage of [...]

My Family To Feature Coming Out Story As Son Michael Reveals He’s Gay

Gabriel Thompson who plays Michael Harper in the series My Family will reportedly reveal that his character is gay at the beginning of the tenth series of the hugely popular comedy sitcom. Speaking to the Daily Mail, a insider from the show said that the decision had been made by a new team of writers [...]

Emmerdale Deals With The Difficulties Of Coming Out With Sensitivity And Honesty

Once upon a time Emmerdale was a soap opera that was all about cows, tractors and how to get all the sheep into a pen. How far it has come. Not only does it now star actors like the rather gorgeous Amanda Donohoe, but it’s also doing an incredible job of dealing with issues like [...]

First Coronation Street Lesbian Kiss To Air In April

There’s been lots of rumours that we are soon going to see the first Coronation Street lesbian kiss with The Sun now claiming it will been seen on British screens in April. The two actresses who will share the kiss are Brooke Vincent and Sacha Parkinson, who play Sophie Webster and Sian Powers, with the [...]

Natalie Cassidy Reveals She Quit Eastenders Over Lesbian Storyline

Natalie Cassidy, who recently appeared in Strictly Come Dancing, has told Reveal magazine that one of the reasons that she left Eastenders was because she was uncomfortable with the lesbian affair storyline that developed between her and fellow nurse Naomi. Believing that it didn’t fit with the character of Sonia Jackson, Natalie said “One of [...]

Contestant Leaves German Big Brother After HIV Gay Couple Move In

The German version of the reality show Big Brother has seen the early exit of one contestant, Horst, a 41 year old tattoo artist from Otzberg after a gay couple, Carlos and Harald entered the house. Saying he didn’t want to have deal with living with people who had a serious medical condition (both Carlos [...]

Discover Why Kirstie Allsopp Is Our Hero (And Should Be Syed And Christian’s Too)

Here at Queeried we’ve always loved the rather splendifious Kirstie Allsopp of Location Location Location fame, but following Friday’s episode of Eastenders we have to say our love has been taken to a whole new level … and no don’t worry you didn’t somehow miss her skipping across the Albert Square, because the reason why [...]

Six Gay Storylines That Hit The UK Television Screens In 2009

1. Christian and Syed – Eastenders Poor Christian has had to be the only gay in the village Square for much longer than any normal gay man could ever stand so it was a nice move by the Eastenders script writers to give him a boyfriend this year. However being Eastenders it was never going [...]