SUNDAY 4 AUGUST 2019

The likes of Holby City will

continue to ‘bury its gays’ unless

we change the script

A tired storyline killed off lesbian surgeon Bernie Wolfe (right, with Serena Campbell) (BBC)

PAYAL DHAR

In a bizarre twist to a plot that didn’t exist, the hospital soap Holby City decided to

“bury a gay” it had already written out months ago. In the 30 July episode “Things

My Mother Told Me”, a group of mostly strangers bid farewell to the immensely

popular lesbian character, the ex-army trauma surgeon Bernie Wolfe, played by

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