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lgbt stereotypes in the media

The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal.

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    As the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) pots out, bisexual people are often acced of beg more promiscuo than non-bisexual people bee they are attracted to both men and women. A 2017 survey for Attu magaze polled around 5, 000 gay, queer, or bisexual men—and a staggerg 69 percent of them admted that their sexual orientatn ma them feel ls mascule at some pot their liv. Many of those surveyed also poted to the fact that gay men are still not reprented fairly the media, which has only add to this one-note stereotype.

    In recent s, anti-gay protters have asserted that gay men pose a great danger to society, cg that sexual predators and pedophil are more likely to be gay men. The global rponnts said 30 percent of such visuals pict gay men as "feme"; 29 percent show LGBTQ+ people rryg the rabow flag; 29 percent portray lbians as "mascule"; and 28 percent such visuals pict gay men as "flamboyant. How gay men and lbians are reprented the media has been one of the most prolific areas of rearch and analysis wh gay and lbian studi as well as queer theory sce the 1970s.

    Although a relatively recent area of scholarship, this work is nsired val for a better unrstandg of how a morn gay and lbian inty was shaped, reflected, and at tim ignored by mastream media.

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    For gay men and lbians who prise a type of visible mory group that is rarely born to gay or lbian fai, muni, or support works, the importance of mastream media reprentatns is nsired paramount. Bee oftentim an dividual’s knowledge of gay life is formed almost exclively through lsons om the media, how gay men and lbians are portrayed has been an area of tense scty and cricism. Whereas early studi foced on the plete erasure of gay and lbian inty and the simple ritur and stereotyp that populated Hollywood films and to a lser extent televisn and other media, more recently rearch has expand.

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