I was a little taken back and then countered that actually there's quite a bit of hetero bonding in the series as well, if anything there's much more hetero stuff, but cos that's our default we don't notice it. But the gay stuff isn't default, so we notice it. I then ventured that he's just positioning gay relationships into the same everyday context as hetero ones.
All the while thinking that he can't say everybody accepts gay is accepted if he reacts so badly to seeing two guys kiss affectionately. keep to the Fen Causeway
Not to say revealing and hilarious.
The gay stuff has been much less 'in your face' in this series than in previous. The 'deviance' was more overt before (probably why they wouldn't show it on BBC 1) but in this series the relationship with Jack and Ianto has been placed in a far more similar context to say Gwen and her bloke.
I love the fluidity of sexuality and the way it weaves in and out of the storylines through all the series. If people weren't such judgemental prudes about stuff, they could see this as a vision of a much better society all round. IMO. Ad astra per aspera
