In morn media, characters whose sexualy li outsi of bary genr and sexualy reprentatns are few and far between. Most queer characters mastream Amerin televisn are labeled as eher gay or lbian, and a few rare s bisexual. Bisexualy, while least visible among sexual mori that f wh the prcribed LGBT acronym, is most visible outsi of the gay/straight dichotomy. Meanwhile the spectm of non-bary sexuali is largely ignored. In this say I will exame one character that breaks this mold and forc the morn viewer to nsir non-bary sexualy, Dean Craig Pelton of NBC/Yahoo’s Communy. The an is known for his somewhat flamboyant personaly, and throughout the seri his sexualy is revealed slowly, through small piec of rmatn that seem to ht, pecially at first, that Dean Pelton is gay. At first glance this may seem like the tired trope of “dg” a character as gay orr to appeal to queer dienc whout alienatg ls acceptg viewers. However, Craig Pelton is not merely d gay. What mak the an different is the fact that while his sexualy go unlabeled, he is still addrsed outright as non-heterosexual. Over the urse of the show Pelton reveals sexual tert men and women, and mak several statements that place him somewhere outsi of bary sexualy. In this paper I will show how Dean Pelton breaks new ground for sexualy polics televisn by challengg viewers’ unrstandg of what means to be queer.
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- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- DEAN TRANTALIS MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR OF FORT LRDALE
- GAY DEAN
- JAMAIN GAY MAN FOUND MURRED, CONTUG A DISTURBG TREND
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
Voters Fort Lrdale elected the cy's first openly gay mayor Tuday. * dean mua gay *
Filmed for two years Vietnam and Thailand at a st of around VND2 billn ($86, 000), Nhan’s vio featur tchy mic, slick choreography and a ic story which a gay man threatens to crash his ex-boyiend’s weddg to a woman by revealg their prev homosexual relatnship. Vietname pop mic has addrsed homosexualy off and on over the years, not jt this year. Some earlier gay and lbian songs clu "Th Tuyet Vong" (Dperate Love) by well-known songwrer Thai Thh, who me out 2006, Phuong Uyen’s "Chiec Bong" (The Shadow) and sger Thien Dang’s "Tim Lai Chh Toi" (Fdg Myself).
In , a gay kg disvers that his queen has been cheatg on him wh his own lover, a bisexual Vietname two-chord fiddle artist who lov both of them. The same theme of separatn is featured Van Mai Huong’s song "Nghe Noi Anh Sap Ket Hon", released October, about two lbians and two gay men.
DEAN TRANTALIS MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR OF FORT LRDALE
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And as Tc Nhan’s song, Van Mai Huong’s mil vio, the heterosexual weddg serv as a kd of ccifix which tears homosexual lovers apart. To Huynh Tuan Anh, who has directed both movi and mil vios on LGBT them, the homosexual kiss is particularly tricky.
GAY DEAN
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Ined, when to the media, the reprentatn of homosexuals has been found to be prejudiced.
The Instute for Studi of Society, Enomy and Environment (iSEE) and the Amy of Journalism and Communitn Hanoi found that as many as 41 percent of 502 articl the prt and electronic media they studied showed prejudic agast homosexualy, while only 18 percent reprented objectively and posively. Media prejudic clu portrayg homosexual sex as abnormally excsive, unntrollable and vlent, homosexualy as ncentrated urban areas, among young people, among men, and among people workg the arts.
For stance, an onle survey of gay men by iSEE found that only 13. Homosexuals are also often stereotyped the media as fdg relatnships at unsafe plac associated wh an unwholome liftyle such as bars, night clubs, public parks, and the streets, havg multiple partners at the same time or nstantly changg partners, and volvg crim and social ills.
JAMAIN GAY MAN FOUND MURRED, CONTUG A DISTURBG TREND
As far as homosexual sex is ncerned, is not any way more abnormal than heterosexual sex and is often overemphasized relatively to other mon needs and rights such as love, marriage and, pecially, children. In Vietnam, which is que progrsive about LGBT issu by Asian standards, marriage and fay laws stop short of regnizg homosexual marriag and their attendant rights such as the right to adopt children together. Acrdg to the iSEE study, the media also often tri to fd the "" of homosexualy, intifyg eher as an unfortunate nate blogil illns or as a ntag, liftyle-fluenced social problem.
Commentg on the recent LGBT mil vios, some gay men terviewed for this article had diverse imprsns. One said Tc Nhan’s "Sang Mat Chua" is prejudiced bee the story do not differentiate between gay and bisexual people. “I’m not a homosexual, ” Jam Dean once told a reporter, “but I’m not gog through life wh one hand tied behd my back.