Meet the new gay "Big Brother" housemate

I love reality TV, so when I stop watching Big Brother, I feel that the show has done something terribly wrong :).  And I have stopped watching it.  I'd rather fantasize about Merlin and Arthur than deal with the real-life Big Brother gays (who I never like very much). 

BTW, it's prolly been stated a hundred times, but isn't it odd that all of these shows constantly go for a gay man over a lesbian every year?  There is a gay guy on almost every Survivor, but there have only been 2 open lesbians on the show.  Same with Big Brother; always a gay guy (at least one), but only 1 lesbian that I can remember.  Kind of sad.

and whine.  I don't WANNA go back to high school!!!  Damn you big brother!!  Sigh.  I have to watch.  I just have to, it's not summer without big brother.  Plus, I've casually dropped a statement like "maybe we shouldn't watch this season" into a conversation, and the look my partner gave me let me know that wasn't an option...

I hate cliques.

I will be watching (Big Brother is my guiltiest pleasure..on TV anyway) but not for either of these lame-ohs, but for THIS guy...

This year's Big Brother in Britain has one self-identified gay man, Charlie (he's slept with 100 women and 69 men - no, don't ask me to explain), two bi men (Freddie/Halfwit the posh toff who used to be a rent boy and boyish Brazilian Rodrigo who is very cute but seems to be a fascist and has appeared in a sex tape), one agressively evangelising lesbian (Lisa), one bisexual (but basically lesbian) Russian artist, Angel, (who's already been ejected) and one mixed race Irish lass, Noreen (that's not the spelling of her name but I can't be bothered to look it up) who identifies as straight but was happy to tongue-kiss the Russian artist.

There's also an Indian virgin (Sree) who fell in love with the Irish beauty but squeals like a girl everytime Charlie touches him, a Wolverine impersonator called Marcus who makes such a point about complimenting the girls on their tits that I'm beginning to wonder about his sexuality, a twinkie straight stud called Chris and two pouting blondes (Dogface/Sophie and Carly) of whom one is a sweet-but-dim topless model and the other is a talented, intelligent and sharp woman who subverts the idea of the dumb blonde.

Every year on the British Big Brother there's a theme of some sort and this year I think they were looking for their first same-sex hump on a British reality TV show. But from current viewings, I think they'd be lucky if studly Chris and his paramour Dogface did  the dirty under the covers.

Despite having so many gay and bi men under the same roof there seems to be zero sexual chemistry between any of them. Thus far, the programme has effectively destroyed the stereotype of gay/bi men being insatiable sex machines. And I have to confess, I'm a little disappointed - I wanted at least one cliche about us to be true. Damn reality TV.

Funny to go back and read this after watching the show for a while.  Yes Kevin was the predictible bitchy gay guy with the sardonic wisecracks.  Is there some kind of Campiness Camp for these characters?  It's the same guy on every reality show.  (And I hate myself for even thinking that way.)

But Kevin is much worse.  He's also the meanest guy on Big Brother.  Meaner even than the racist and the homophobe who've already been evicted.  They were just plain ignorant.  Kevin is smart and crafty.  He's become best friends with a female sociopath... literally.  His sidekick has no conscience and no self-awareness.  Kevin knows better but he chooses to be cruel anyway.  They're doing fine in the game, so they spend their free time scheming against the most vunerable misfits.  They delight in making others cry.  It is so distasteful... I can't bear to think that one of them will be rewarded with a big cash prize at the end.

We all know plenty of gay role models, why aren't they on primetime???