Stereotypes - Homosexuals

The homosexual stereotype is quite far reaching, to display this I will be looking at a prime example from the popular TV show Skins, Maxxie, dispalyed in a picture tap dancing below.


However let's first look at the stereotypes that comes with homosexuality.

Appearance

• Highlight hair
• Tight clothing
• Physically fit
• A wrist deficiency
• Very good posture

Attitude / Behaviour

• Extremist of politeness as well as bitchiness'
• Prone to giggling like a pre-school girl
• Higher pitched voice

Social Activities

• Creative Arts - Dancing etc.
  
• Shopping
• Social Centre
  
• Hair Dresser
• Gossiping.

As you can see there is quite a lot to go along with being a homosexual, the most common 5 examples have been coloured in blue to allow you to picture a common homosexual in your head.

So if we then look to apply what has been discussed to Maxxie we can clearly see that he is the embodiment of an homosexual, he is everything that has been listed and if not more! If we just look at the opening scene of a Skins episode we have this enforced by having Maxxie tap dancing and talking about this "big gay night out".

If we then looked at my other work of homosexuals with Torchwood you can see they all have a clear link between them, it's very unlikely that if you look at a drama that you do not find some sexuality storyline in it. However it is clear that Maxxie is a prime example of what it means to be a stereotypical homosexual.