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28 TV Shows That Actually Reflect What It's Like To Be Queer Today
I mean. There is so much to say about Drag Race. This show has created an entire industry, raising the art of flamboyant from niche to mainstream and bringing hundreds of show artists, gay block viewing parties, queenly conventions, boozy brunches, merch lines, makeup brands, wig stylists, shoe designers, and terrible electronic harmony with it. To be gay (OK, yes, I realize this does NOT implement to every gay) is to hold a favorite flamboyant queen (Miz Cracker hive rise up), to know the catchphrases (“I’d like to keep it on, please”), and to constantly perform lip-sync routines alone in your bedroom (my dresser thinks I’m fire at “Stupid Love”). But often under-appreciated (and sometimes even maligned as contrived) parts of the show are when the queens share their stories. About coming out. About social media bullying. About organism assaulted. About prejudice and empowerment and their journey to drag. About their families, their loves, and their gender expression. Watching Drag Race for me emphasized the countless ways to be homosexual and the many paths to coming out, something you only get when you put a dozen gays in a room we
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Witty, sexy...well, hot
A rowdy romp through love and loving...and lusting. Immensely enjoyable, it put me in mind of Issa Rae's characters. Desiree is believable and vulnerable; acting all around was quite fine, production values met the challenges. Well-written and realized, the dialogue flowed smoothly.
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Missed the Mark
Somewhere, somehow, this show seemed to overlook the mark in exposing what it is enjoy to either explore feelings of bisexuality or what it is like when you identify yourself as bisexual. Leila simply comes off as an immature, insecure and awkward female who is struggling to find a place in the world, which the later episodes reveal she never had. This is less about being fluid and the questions and difficulties that come with it and more about a person who has no limits on needing and getting attention. There was so much potential, as Akhaven wrote some very complex supporting characters but none of them seem to be going anywhere.
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Better than I reflection, give it a try
It means a lot that they're tackling bisexual culture in the community. As someone who
For many LGBTQ+ people, advocacy can help them to come to terms with their gender/sexuality and so it is important that positive representation exists in media. However historically, Queer representation in film and TV has been lacking, with many characters conforming to stereotypes or enduring cruel fates.
With the introduction of the ‘Hays Code’ in the USA in 1934, LGBTQ+ characters were prohibited from appearing in film. Though homosexuality was never specifically mentioned, the law stated that movies must not “lower the moral standards of those who see [them]” – and at the period being LGBTQ+ was considered immoral. These were lifted in 1968, but this still left three decades with the only visibility being queer-coded villains.
Following the lifting of the ‘Hays Code’ and the Stonewall Riots of 1969, came the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1975. The musical featured an array of LGBTQ+ characters and introduced some much-needed positive inclusion. The 1980s unfortunately worsened the stigma around Gay people due to the AIDs crisis. Nevertheless, in 1985 Desert Hearts was released, which is regarded as the first mainstream woman-loving woman film w
Without being preachy, HBO’s “Looking” offers a fine lesson that being totally out of the closet, as are all the many characters, can lead to a cool cool (and also hot hot) existence.
A moment of togetherness in the HBO series “Looking.”
By Gerald Peary
You don’t possess to be gay, only queer-friendly, to be delighted by HBO’s new 8-part Sunday night series, Looking, which follows the stories of three gay men, the best of pals, as they negotiate their lives in the Mission Castro district of today’s San Francisco. In some ways, it may even be better being vertical (like me, for example) watching the series. My focus is on the easygoing drama, and I’m not cognizant of the tiny details of accuracy and verisimilitude which can drive a knowing lgbtq+ viewer to distraction. The Boston Globe featured a strident attack by staffer Christopher Muther, whose usual beat is metrosexual fashion and au courant harmony. Muther called Looking “infuriating” and replete with “outdated stereotypes of gay life.” He complained that the characters wore the false “undergarments,” what was “popular when Armistead Maupin wrote Tales of the City.” (That would be 1976
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Realising that they share frequent foes in Margaret Thatcher, the police and the conservative press, London-based same-sex attracted and lesbian activists lend their aid to striking miners in 1984 Wales.
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Harvey Milk, an American activist, faces several difficulties while fighting for homosexual rights and becomes California's first openly gay official to be elected to public office.
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Nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor, Colin Firth portrays George Falconer, a down homosexual British university professor living in Southern California in 1962. George wants to kill himself after his match of 16 years dies in a car accident. On his last daytime, his chance meetings with students, colleagues and his leading friend Charley assist him make a decision.
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