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TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
One of the most glarg exampl is Rizzoli & Isl, the “gayt non-gay show on televisn, ” as BuzzFeed wrer Sarah Karlan scribed . But when Oh and Comer did an terview wh Gay Tim, Oh dismissed the ia of a relatnship, sayg, “You guys are tricky bee you want to make to somethg… but jt isn’t. Billboards for the show’s send season lerally said, “Have you seen my girliend, ” and for s star to make queer viewers feel like they imaged some homoerotic subtext feels very gaslight-y.
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If one was to look back even further, the term was ed to scribe “homophobic practic polics and law, ” Himberg says. ” The “Lavenr Sre” was a policy that was based on “unfound fear that gay men and lbians “posed a threat to natnal secury bee they were vulnerable to blackmail and were nsired to have weak moral characters, ” historian David K. ” Himberg says this strategy durg the McCarthy era was “about drawg out ‘spected homosexuals’ g var tactics cludg entrapment, blackmail, affiliatns wh var anizatns, and artistic tradns.