A journal of television and new media

Tag archive for ‘LGBTQ’

<p></p><p>Queering Justin

Queering Justin

by: Hector Amaya / Southwestern University
How does the Justin character on Ugly Betty factor into and complicate debates about queer representations on television?

<p></p><p>Sex, Media, Celebrity: A Queer Culture of Media Production

Sex, Media, Celebrity: A Queer Culture of Media Production

by: Adam Fish / UCLA
Subcultures become pop cultures and today’s underground emerges as tomorrow’s mainstream.

<p></p><p>When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Boy: <em>Transgeneration</em>’s Meditation on the “Real”

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Boy: Transgeneration’s Meditation on the “Real”

by: Shana Agid / Sarah Lawrence College
Thoughts on Transgeneration and TV’s quest to create a viable “normal” transgender person.

<p></p><p>Fans of Lesbians on TV: <em>The L Word’s </em>Generations

Fans of Lesbians on TV: The L Word’s Generations

by: Jill Dolan / University of Texas at Austin
What The L Word gets “right” about lesbian relationships.

Boy Soaps: Liberalism Without Women

by: Allison McCracken / DePaul University
What’s old is new again on television, as prime-time boy soap operas like Everwood, Jack and Bobby, Life As We Know It, Summerland, The Mountain, One Tree Hill, Smallville and The OC have come to replace girl-centered teen dramas like My So-Called Life, Popular, and Buffy.