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Gender and Popular Culture

I’m Out of the Closet: Gays and Lesbians Portrayed in Popular Culture

Stacy John

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Women Studies 2239

Dr D.A Dirks

June 20, 2013

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There are several ways in which gays and lesbians are portrayed in popular culture. In

order to analyze what each term means, would be a start. A homosexual is only on one sexual

identity, it is a clinical term, and is only one expression (Dirks, 2013b). The sexual preference is

that the choice for gay people is everyone has a sexual preference (Dirks, 2013b). As discussed

in lecture, a lesbian is defined as two women who engage in their sexual identity and have a

sexual attraction with one another (Dirks, 2013b). Gay is defined as two men who engage in their

sexual identity and have a sexual attraction with one another (Dirks, 2013b). Homosexuality is

not fully accepted in today’s society, but however there are different TV shows, movies,

magazines and music that depict gays and lesbians. In this essay, there will be an analysis made

on how identities such as race, class, sexual identity, socioeconomic status and (dis) ability

complicates gender as in the portrayal of gays and lesbians in film, TV shows, magazines, and

music.

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Homosexuality has been criticized and looked differently in the film. In the article, Gay

and Lesbian Criticism, Anneke Smelik argue that homosexual characters have been characterized

and coded as “taunted, ridiculed, silenced, pathologized, and more often than not killed off in the

last reel” (Smelik, n.d., p. 135). An example of the film that Smelik uses is The Celluloid Closet

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Gender and Popular Culture I'm Out of the Closet: Gays and Lesbians Portrayed in Popular Culture Stacy John http://ctlgbtlaw.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/gay-lesbian-hands1.jpg http://i.istockimg.com/file_thumbview_approve/3300047/2/stock-illustration-3300047-gay-lesbian-couple-icon-button-set-in-6-colors.jpg Women Studies 2239 Dr D.A Dirks June 20, 2013 There are several ways in which gays and lesbians are portrayed in popular culture. In order to analyze what each term means, would be a start. A homosexual is only on one sexual identity, it is a clinical term, and is only one expression (Dirks, 2013b). The sexual preference is that the choice for gay people is everyone has a sexual preference (Dirks, 2013b). As discussed in lecture, a lesbian is defined as two women who engage in their sexual identity and have a sexual attraction with one another (Dirks, 2013b). Gay is defined as two men who engage in their sexual identity and have a sexual attraction with one another (Dirks, 2013b). Homosexuality is not fully accepted in today's society, but however there are different TV shows, movies, magazines and music that depict gays and lesbians. In this essay, there will be an analysis made on how identities such as race, class, sexual identity, socioeconomic status and (dis) ability complicates gender as in the portrayal of gays and lesbians in film, TV shows, magazines, and music. http://www.documentary.org/images/magazine/2012/CelluloidClosetLowRes.jpg Homos ...
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