Overview
Today im going to be talking about Gay representation in Media. The good the bad the ugly and everything in between. I’ll be doing gay representation in games next.
I believe that we as a society have made great strides in diversifying and expanding people’s ideals through television and changing the way people think about racism, gay rights, trans people, sexism, fascism, capitalism, misogyny, corrupt police, family abuse, internalized homophobia and racism, and etc.
Good Representation
While most of our generation are more progressive than the other generations we still have very “interesting ” Queer characters that really diminishes the representation that was meant to be there so I’m going to cover the good Representation.
Marie Moreau (Gen V) Bi
Marie Moreau has to be one of the best representations of Bisexual characters especially as black queer women. The show actually dives into her relationship with their gender fluid partner while also sticking with the story and making the both of them interesting. it also doesn’t make it seem they added it to just add it.
Bad Representation
Kevin Keller (Riverdale) Gay
Kevin Keller has to be one of the poster children for stereotypical gay best friend the show even calls him that several times. This character has no growth in the show at all and every time he appears on screen, he is either talking about hooking up or being mad at the main character. There were 2 whole seasons where he did nothing but talk about cruising in the fox forest or whatever that place was called. Then towards the end of the show the only time he was ever useful was when they used him to get Betty’s not acutely brother and catch him video cam people and then her actual brother it was all very weird. But this is bad representation since the only interesting thing about him was that he was gay.
Good
Alec Lightwood (Shadow Hunters) Gay
Alec the man you are. It is wildly acclaimed that this man is one of the best representations of Gay characters in fiction. We knew from the very beginning that this man liked Jace his childhood best friend and was jealous that he liked a woman. Now what he dies in response to this is what makes it feels like this character is living and breathing. He represses it because for 1 he thinks it’s wrong mainly because of family reputation that his parents forced on to him and 2 because his feeling wouldn’t be reciprocated now mostly everyone in the Lgbqt+ community has been through this or have felt this, so it gives the viewers a chance to actually be in the characters shoes. Also, the first time he smiled in the show was when Magnus called him cute.
Ambiguous
Rue Bennet (Euphoria) ??
Uhh so Shes really weird like her characters is great. Her addiction is handled really well and in a professional way highlighting what it does to your family, friends and those close to you but they really pushed her intimate relationships to the side
Closing
That’s it for this blog please recommend me queer characters so i can review them
