After Sunday night’s Call the Midwife there was a clear split between viewers: there were those that praised the strong (though crowded) storyline and viewers from the LGBT community (mainly the L) that were left reeling and feeling disappointed by yet another blow to a gay TV couple.
For a long time now gay viewers have complained by the lack of happy gay couples on TV, lesbians in particular have felt hard done by with several TV shows killing or “turning straight” lesbian characters. So with hardly any TV representation and coming hot on the heals of Last Tango in Halifax’ “lesbian hit by car” plot-line, repeating this on Midwife (More)
