After writing the watershed gay drama Queer as Folk in the late 1990s, the screenwriter Russell T. Davies followed this up with another television series called Bob and Rose (2001). It told the story of a gay man who falls in love with a woman. It was provoked, as Davies told the press at the time, by the recognition that gay men who went straight often received more resentment from their circle of friends than a straight man who came out as gay.8 Perhaps that is one reason why the whole direction of traffic is so little addressed.
