Contents:
- HOW ‘ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK’ HELPED ME REALIZE I WAS GAY (COLUMN)
- ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, WHE, STRAIGHT, GAY, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN
- ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK MA TV—AND ME—GAY
- DO ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK FALL INTO THE ‘BURY YOUR GAYS’ TROPE?
HOW ‘ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK’ HELPED ME REALIZE I WAS GAY (COLUMN)
As the first season gaed massive and mastream populary, I watched iends embrace gay culture and the unfiltered reprentatn of whout battg an eyelash. The years of anxiety I felt about beg gay melted away mut.
Case pot: In October, The CW will break ground wh Batwoman, the first live-actn drama seri revolvg entirely around a lbian superhero who also is played by an openly gay actrs (hello aga, Ruby Rose).
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, WHE, STRAIGHT, GAY, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN
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ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK MA TV—AND ME—GAY
— Gee Menz to Joe Caputo, rponse to him askg whether motach are regard a "gay thg".
DO ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK FALL INTO THE ‘BURY YOUR GAYS’ TROPE?
Not only is Orange is the New Black highly addictg— was released on Netflix all at once, so many viewers bge-watched all 13 episos—but on top of that, tackl several ntroversial issu like sexualy, homophobia, patriarchy, class, and race, often simultaneoly. Intersectnaly is the ia that thgs like racism, sexism, homophobia, and other typ of bigotry, do not act penntly of one another; stead, the forms of opprsn terrelate.