I don't see how VOOM would be catering to gays by adding this channel. Do they cater to racing fans by having a racing channel, or golfers by having a golf channel, or to the fashion conscious by having a fashion channel? If there is something I want to watch on that channel, then I will watch it. If there is not, I won't, just as I do on all the other channels.
I subscribe to the VOOM Yahoo group and this subject is burying it. I cannot believe the irrational and intolerant beliefs that some of these people have, hoping VOOM will fail because they have a "gay" channel. I am sure if gays were disappear then these same people would be after the next group on their probably long list of undesireables.
Maybe VOOM could cater to these people and add an Intolerant channel showing films and programs that promote the virtues of being a bigot and not having any respect for beliefs that differ from their own. Now THAT would truly be a degenerate channel and I hope it would be a premium channel, so I would not have to pay for it.