I have to ask.....does anyone else find being coy as annoying as I do?Like celebrities who like to straddle the fence by playing the is he/she, or isn't he/she game.What bothers me the most though are people who work on TV shows, especially showrunners, that are coy about gay characters and storylines.It seems like everytime I read an interview with some producer, writer, actor, or whatever, and they're asked a direct, but non-spoilery question about a gay character, or storyline they dance around it......"maybe"..."it could be"...."you might see that".I remember a few years ago shortly after the CW formed the channel that used to be UPN had this primetime nightly soap opera(I can't remember the name) where Casper Van Dien played a gay hitman.

There was a two page spread about it in Out magazine where he was asked something along the lines of "can we expect a love interest for your character?" because it was a primetime soap, one of those shows where a lot of beautiful people are bed hopping a lot.Ofcourse His response is something like "Well, I can't give anything away, but there might be something."Surprise, surprise they never did a damn thing with his character.It's the same ol' song.He barely gets any screen time and no lovin'.This is always especially irksome on shows where everybody is sleeping with everybody because the double standard is just that much more obvious.

I bring this up because the latest example of this comes from Greek creator Patrick Sean Smith in a recent interview with AfterElton.Brian asks him flat out "Are we going to see Calvin kiss anyone?", and he goes "I hope so."I hope so?!!I hope so?!!It's his fuckin' show and he hopes so?!!There are so many things wrong with that, not the least of which is I can't stand when someone goes into how people are more accepting than we think they are meanwhile apparently we still have to ease them into the gay thing by cutting back on the sexual part of being homosexual.The fact that he's a gay man himself is doubly disappointing.

He's already starting to remind me of that fucking tool Max Mutchnick.Look, I don't like a tease, especially as someone who almost never gets to see what he wants on TV with respect to gay content.Don't string me along making me think there's a chance of seeing some real gay romance only to be disappointed........like I always am.Just be real.Tell the truth.Be up front about that shit like "I hope so."<translation>"probably not", or "no time soon....Maybe the third, or fourth season".I really wish for once someone would just come out and say "Sorry, but the gay characters are not going to be doing a, b, and c, for the following reasons.......the network won't allow this, or the execs say this."

Brian asked him if the network had a problem putting on a gay character, and he said "not for one second", but how do we ever really know what kind of politics go on behind the scenes?I mean the As the world turns people said the same thing about CBS and Procter & Gamble and we all know what happened to Nuke.So, when we have a show when everyone, but the gay character is hooking up with someone, how are we supposed to find out what the real reason behind it is when they'll barely, if ever, even acknowledge how blatant the double standard is?Playing the will they, or won't they game isn't fun, or cute.It's insulting and disrespectful.I would rather know up front if i'm wasting my time with a show instead of them just being coy.