Bentdog – I hate to break the news to you buddy but the sole purpose of sex is not to have babies. Yes it certainly helps but it is not the sole purpose. If you need any advice on what sex is really about I could give you some pointers but I’m sure you think you already know everything. What an ignorant thing to say.
citac – homosexuality has nothing to do with pornography. If you haven’t figured out that by now then I suggest you research a little more before making such silly statements.
I’m surprised at the ignorance of some people here…I shouldn’t be but I am. How sad.

Sorry I should have said primary, not sole. I know emotions/feelings are part of sex too, I am talking pure science, no morals, not emotions, not feelings.

If you want to bring emotions/feelings in we can. The reason sex feels so good physically and emotionality is so that we will want it, if sex did not feel so good a lot of us might not be here today.

Bentdog – I understand what you’re are saying and I think it is partly true for some people. But now we’re talking about sex and not the issues of a gay relationship on SGU. The fact is as you pnted out is that sex is a feel good thing…that’s bnot exclusive to those who want to procreate. And homosexuality isn’t something you go out and try like a new pair of boots. It’s the way they are. Exactly like the way you are or I am. We are who we are and I accept that it’s not something that everyone likes but I think our comments have to be a little more tolerable and less offensive. And before I get shot down for saying that…that means everyone…not just those who are intimidated by the idea of homosexuality on our screens but those who also support it.
Neep – you’re right. Gay relationships do show the diversity which exists in the real world. Ignoring it will not make it go away.
And just to clarify on emotions here…I’m actually quite calm. No agro coming from me. Simple statements made in the hope to curb the hostility and ignorance shown.

Terrible decision! I am not nearly as excited about it now.

Granted…I should have perhaps used the word “opposed” other than “intimidation”.But please don’t forget I said on our screens not just homosexuality in general. When you snipped that out of my quote, you took it out of context. Perhaps not deliberately but it certainly wasn’t the same as when I quoted it.
I still have yet to hear why this is so offensive. Why is it that people feel that by ignoring it or banishing it from our screens that it makes it go away and helps us escape from real life?? It is a part of real life as is a heterosexual relationship. And I don’t hear anyone complaining so loudly about that kind of relationship. Why???

Stargate franchise are fine without the gay characters. When did it came mandatory to have gay characters? It’s stargate not the L word or Queer as Folk. There are better things to do than making the character gay.

OMG, let’s really mix it up, and get people talking about this show. Let’s get some animals (wink, wink) involved too, and let the show go “where no one in their right minds had gone before – Sorry Gene Roddenberry). Let’s sensationalize the heck out of the show. Oh Stargate, my alltime favorite Scifi show, I shed a tear for you.

I just have to give kudos to Browncoat1984, the one single person posting here that seems to have a handle on his/her brain.

It’s pretty dispiriting to see that so many Stargate fans are horrible bigots. Nice going guys, you’re making us all look so good.

Well, I was looking forward to it. If a character is gay that’s fine. But like every other time a TV show adds a gay character we’ll get hit on over the head that the fact that their gay. To be honest I don’t give a crap of anyone’s sexuality on a tv show. I just want to be entertained. I loved SG-1. I liked Atlantis. But I don’t think that Universe will be my cup of tea. At least there’s the movies for me.

And if it is for ’social realism’, what a numbers ~LGBT~ demographics for today’s society? 5% or 7%? What a number of straight LGBT-sympathetic people in US? Or it just TV boys trends? Silence…

There is many ’special’ shows for G, L and other kinds of deviations. Personally I don’t want to watch old sad LGBT-s and it’s problems. BTW I can enjoy watching David Blue pretending and gay, like clown. :)

Just doing a bit of research, it seems that gay people make up somewhere between 4-10% of the US population. According to this article http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26853832/ 2.6% of characters in prime time this year were gay. That is not representative at all, so Stargate adding a gay character is not ’shoving it in your face’. And to the people who say it’s going to be all about sex now, or every week ‘who is having sex with who’, how did you possibly get that from the original article? It said there is one gay character and we get to meet her long-term partner in the 7th episode. How is that going to add more sex to the show? She’s in a committed relationship, which is more than I can say about Jack and the random women from other worlds he slept with (which, by the way, was he doing soley for procreation?)

Having gay people on these shows is important, since they are part of our society and deserve to be represented (just like people of other races or religions). Even if ‘all the shows are getting gay characters’ now, it’s only because they are becoming more enlightened and realize they need to be more inclusive. I hope everyone who is ‘disgusted’ by gay people do stop watching the show. Because I’m disgusted by you.

I think it is wise to focus on Rob’s comments: They are doing this in an attempt to represent the world as it actually is in SGU’s cast of characters. You can wish there weren’t gay characters on the show (for whatever reasons you have) and you can wish there weren’t gay people in the world (for whatever reasons). But they exist, so I think it’s fair (and yes, even wise) for the show to depict them. This is going to be a character drama about real human beings in extraordinary circumstances.

Also, they don’t appear to be after the “hawt” girl-on-girl action angle (e.g. the House episode “Lucky Thirteen”). The SGU characters we know of so far who are gay are a 40-something couple in a long-term, committed relationship, and there are no hints of any bedroom scenes.

As with all things SGU, let’s see how they handle it before passing judgment.

@retiredat44: As to the newsworthiness of this item, I think the 50 comments in under 12 hours speak for themselves. This is a topic many readers are concerned about.