Mum paying £700 a month to live in tent because she can't get house.Satisfyingly, it was screened live to 76 countries where same-sex relationships were still illegal and where loving your own gender can mean imprisonment, assault and torture.Ī decade on from the Olympic moment and Pixar’s animation Lightyear has been banned in 14 countries over a fleeting same-sex kiss scene between two female characters. The kiss was later screened to a TV audience of billions when a clip of it was included in the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. That one kiss between the soap’s Beth Jordache and Margaret Clemence seems so tame now but it was a historic moment, both celebrated and condemned. If you are old enough, you were possibly one of the nine million people who tuned in to watch British TV’s first pre-watershed lesbian kiss in Brookside.
